Top story · Deployment

Bedrock’s empty-cab excavators move autonomy into live construction work

Three named U.S. sites are now operating without a person in the cab; the evidence still stops short of proving productivity, uptime or economics.

Bedrock Robotics crew member reviewing an excavator autonomy visualization at a construction site

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03:10Japan / Tokyo

Deployment · WHILL Inc. / Japan Airport Terminal Co., Ltd.

WHILL’s Haneda expansion turns airport autonomy into a fleet-control test

Deployment Desk3 min read

23:13United States / European Union

Research · International Federation of Robotics / U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics / Eurostat / National Bureau of Statistics of China / Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

The same modeled robot cell costs three times more per hour on one shift

Robotics & Power8 min read

04:34China / Hong Kong

Research · Astribot / Tsinghua University / The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Tool-using robot model posts 62 percent without a stated test count

Frontier Desk4 min read

03:09United States / Michigan

Deployment · Pentastar Aviation / Airtrek Robotics

Pentastar moves autonomous wingwalkers into aircraft towing

Deployment Desk2 min read

04:30China

Research · Xiaomi Robotics

ViTacPhys posts an 83.4% grasp result on only 36 OOD trials

Frontier Desk2 min read

03:10South Florida / United States

Deployment · U.S. Sugar / Autonomous Solutions, Inc. / Everglades Equipment Group

U.S. Sugar’s five-tractor autonomy fleet goes live

Deployment Desk3 min read

05:10United States / Middle East

Strategy · U.S. Central Command / U.S. Special Operations Command Central

CENTCOM's new drone task force is still seeking partners

Robotics & Power3 min read

08:30United States

Deployment · Zoox / Amazon / National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Zoox publishes its safety case as paid robotaxi service begins

Systems & Safety4 min read

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Robotics & Power · Regulation

Beijing’s robot-performance sandbox starts at entry, not exit

Beijing’s first three robot-performance sandbox entrants can test under defined supervision, but the governing plan still requires a trial plan, monitoring and a separate exit review before regular approval.

Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, China · 4 min read

Systems & Safety · Research

VLA safety tests expose a missing authorization gate for visual cues

A new benchmark finds vision-language-action models can follow visual cues in hazardous tasks, while a real-robot test shows why cue authorization must sit outside the model.

United States / Taiwan · 4 min read

Capital, policy, leadership and competitive position