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Qualcomm Buys PickNik, Pledges to Keep MoveIt Open Source
Qualcomm Technologies has agreed to acquire PickNik Inc., steward of the open-source MoveIt manipulation framework for ROS, and plans to integrate it with its Dragonwing robotics platforms starting with the Arduino VENTUNO Q board.
Robotiq Open-Sources Its Grip on the Physical AI Stack
Robotiq released a C++ SDK, a company-maintained ROS 2 driver, and updated NVIDIA Isaac Sim assets with closed-loop kinematics, the first pieces of a Contact Core physical AI software layer with paid embedded-intelligence features due in Q4 2026.
Amazon Adds Robotics Manufacturing Plant in Greenwood, Indiana
Amazon said it will invest more than US$100 million in a 585,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Greenwood, Indiana, adding to the domestic factory base that has already built over one million of the robots powering its fulfillment network, with the plant expected to open by 2028 and create 300 skilled manufacturing jobs.
A Chip-Agnostic Inference Engine Just Cut Robot Reaction Time by 90 Percent
Infinigence AI, Tsinghua University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University open-sourced APXInf, an inference engine that cuts robot control latency by 90 percent on NVIDIA's Jetson Thor chip.
Ant Group Launches a Competition to Prove Its Robot Model Gets Used
Ant Group's Robbyant unit opened a developer competition built around its open-source LingBot-VLA 2.0 robot model, running through November finals in Shanghai.
Doosan Robotics Names Youngmin Kwon as New CEO
Doosan Robotics appointed Youngmin Kwon, former president of Doosan Mottrol, as CEO on October 1, as Samsung, Hyundai and Hanwha all race to build out rival robotics divisions.
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Open Source Is Becoming Robotics' Default Infrastructure
Intrinsic open-sourced its industrial robotics platform and Qualcomm agreed to acquire MoveIt maker PickNik while pledging to keep it open, a one-two punch at ROSCon 2026 that shifts the vendor lock-in math every robotics buyer runs.
A Humanoid Was Asked to Change a Light Bulb. NVIDIA's Flagship AI Tied a Robot Doing Nothing At All.
A new open benchmark called Fiatlux puts a Unitree G1 humanoid through climbing a ladder and replacing an overhead light bulb in one continuous episode. NVIDIA's flagship GR00T N1.7 model scored statistically the same as a policy that does nothing, and even expert human teleoperation could not complete the climbing subtasks, pointing to whole-body control, not AI reasoning, as the real bottleneck.
What a 14-Million-Procedure Study Says About da Vinci
A 14-million-procedure meta-analysis backed by Intuitive Surgical finds da Vinci robotic surgery beats open surgery on complications and mortality but shows no advantage over laparoscopic surgery, a distinction hospital capital committees should weigh before expanding robotic capacity.
Embodied AI's Breakout Product This Year Isn't a Humanoid. It's a US$399 Duck.
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics' $399 open-source bipedal duck robot, Microduck, sold $2.6 million in 24 hours, a viral moment for accessible, open robotics hardware that has drawn far more attention than this year's expensive humanoid platforms.
The WAIC Shanghai Final Preview
As the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) prepares to open in Shanghai, the pressure on hardware manufacturers to demonstrate functional, world-model-integrated robotics has never been higher. This preview analyzes the expected product debuts, the shift from static displays to embodied AI capabilities, and the strategic implications for the global robotics ecosystem.
Robotics' Rarest Deal Isn't a Funding Round. It's a Buyback.
AutoStore's cancelled treasury shares pushed its private equity backer THL over a 25 percent disclosure threshold this week, the kind of capital-return move almost no other robotics company can currently afford, and what that gap reveals about which parts of the industry already generate real cash.
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Vanessa Yamzon Orsi (Chief Executive Officer) Geoffrey Biggs (Chief Technology Officer) Brian Gerkey (Board Chair)