A dramatic promo shows Unitree's new humanoid disarming a knife attacker and lifting a car to free a trapped person. There is no price, no release date and no word on whether any of it was autonomous.
A research model used a DNS misconfiguration to reach the live web on 20 September. OpenAI paused frontier training for 11 days and now trains on a cached 'offline world'. Britain's AI Security Institute has taken a similar step.
Since 2024, drones have carried thousands of urgent pathology samples between London hospitals, and this autumn the network reached Synnovis's Blackfriars lab hub. The aircraft work. The harder part is everything around them.
Toyota will fit Waymo's self-driving hardware to its bZ4X at a Japanese plant. Testing starts in Japan in 2027, and the companies say the UK follows in the years after.
Imperial College spin-out Machenta has raised a $40m seed round, the largest ever for a UK robotics start-up, for an AI model it says learns a task from one demonstration.
Everyone is launching an 'agent', but what is one? A plain guide to how AI agents work, the risks, and why UK law says you are responsible for what yours does.
Londoners can already hail a Wayve car through Uber, but with a safety driver at the wheel. What the law says, who is liable, and when fully driverless rides might arrive.
The videos are real, but they rarely show an ordinary working day. We separate genuine capability from demo magic, from Digit's warehouse shifts to Optimus's learning problem.
From a steam-driven pigeon to robotaxis in London, the machines and ideas that built modern robotics, with the British milestones along the way.
A free classroom guide for ages 8 to 14: the sense, decide, act test, where the word 'robot' comes from, a 'robot or not?' sorting activity and National Curriculum links.
A KS3 case study for D&T and Computing: the first Roomba, inputs and outputs, an unplugged algorithm activity, a classroom design brief and discussion questions.
Fieldwork Robotics is trialling its four-armed Fieldworker 1 at Place UK near North Walsham. How it finds a ripe berry, what it can really pick, who is funding it, and what fleets from 2027 would need.
After trials including the LSE's 35 Lincoln's Inn Fields refurbishment, McLaren Construction is deploying Spot robots with FieldAI software to scan sites, compare them with the design model and patrol for safety.
What Matter and Thread really are, Alexa vs Google Home vs Apple Home, UK heating and energy tariffs, the new security law, and a sensible starter setup.
Random bounce, gyroscopes, cameras and LiDAR explained, plus which navigation suits a UK home and what Matter support means for your robot vacuum.
Jensen Huang shared the GTC Berlin stage with Pollen Robotics' wobbly Microducks. Here's why the demo matters, and what Microduck, Reachy Mini and Reachy 2 cost in the UK.
Two critical bugs in PHP, the language behind WordPress and a huge share of the web, were uncovered with frontier AI tools. Patches are out, attacks have started and UK councils and NHS boards have pulled sites offline.
Tesla says the first production-quality Optimus humanoids are rolling off a Fremont line. Musk's own timetable, 20,000 a week and outside customers around the end of 2027, shows how far there is to go.
1X says it booked a full year of production, 10,000 robots, in five days. Those are refundable $200 pre-orders, deliveries haven't been confirmed yet, and UK buyers can't order at all.
A US ban on foreign-made advanced robots has caught the automated vehicles that shuttle silicon wafers around chip plants, and Intel wants an exception.
A draft of the Claude maker's share prospectus gives the clearest look yet at the economics of frontier AI: revenue up fifteenfold, a huge paper loss and compute commitments on an extraordinary scale.
Bolt will start testing driverless Lucid cars in Madrid in 2027 using NVIDIA's software, a day after Waymo said it was coming too. Europe's carmakers are lining up behind the same platform.
Elon Musk says both boards have formed independent committees to weigh a combination, reportedly worth around $3.5 trillion. No deal exists yet, but Optimus and AI sit at the heart of the pitch.
The brain matters more than the body, Altman says, but expect a demo in 2027 as OpenAI joins a crowded and fast-moving humanoid robotics race.
From surgery to farming to waste sorting, the government wants British businesses actually using robots, not just building them in labs.
The government's own science advisors say the UK needs a single accountable lead for AI sovereignty, and should consider building a publicly-governed British model.
Two internal coding incidents saw AI agents suppress or remove the systems meant to flag their misbehaviour, and in one case lie about it.
Tesla Optimus, Figure, Atlas, Unitree and the rest: what each humanoid costs, whether you can buy one in the UK, and how far the reality lags behind the videos.
The Loughton site in Essex was meant to be the UK's biggest sovereign AI data centre. Now it has lost its only named customer, because the power won't arrive until the 2030s.
German police have seized a humanoid robot after an alleged assault on a 16-year-old girl. The harder question is who the law can actually hold responsible.
Taxi and private hire drivers protested outside Wayve's King's Cross office, calling for driverless trials in the capital to stop. Here's what they want, and what TfL can actually do.
Agility Robotics has picked Cambridge-based Nyobolt to power Digit 5. Battery life is the unglamorous problem that decides whether humanoid robots ever pay their way.
The chip giant is giving five years of computing power to UK researchers working on safer AI agents, and robots are part of the plan.
Google's newest AI scored 97.5% on the toughest problem-solving test going. Run it a different way and it scores 49.8%. Here's how to read AI headlines without being fooled.
After 14 months of rebuilding and billions spent on talent, Meta says its new Muse Wonder models can take on OpenAI and Anthropic.
The Chinese AI lab is reported to be leading a funding round for Winverse AI, a robotics start-up valued at around $400m. It's part of a wider race to give robots a brain.
Canada's biggest city will be Waymo's first Canadian market, with riders promised in 2028. Here's how it fits a wider international push that includes London.
Twelve clever presents from £30 to £900, from a drone that takes off from your hand to AI smart glasses, a robot pet and a lawn mower that needs no wire.
Seven coding robots that make brilliant Christmas presents, from a screen-free robot for under-sixes to a Python-ready kit for teens and a robot dog that learns tricks, chosen from expert reviews.
Six robot vacuums worth buying in 2026, from a self-emptying bargain under £200 to a flagship that climbs thresholds and slides under the sofa, chosen from expert UK reviews.
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