Young Martial Artists Perform a Spectacular Traditional Dance in Perfect Sync With Humanoid Robots

laughingsquid.com: During the 2026 CMG Spring Festival Gala in Beijing, a group of very talented young martial artists performed a spectacular dance in perfect synchronization with a group of elaborately costumed humanoid robots.

Update on robotics-related motion software, vision, and safety

www.motioncontroltips.com: Robot-related software today offers cross-compatibilities to take mechanical concepts into validated robotic motions and deployable control code. To begin work, robot-controller simulation and programming defines joint and cartesian trajectories, kinematics, motions, singularity handling, and the coordination of robotics with other workcell systems. Offline programming and CAD-to-path software converts process definitions into motion trajectories so reaches and orientations are feasible (and without collisions). It interfaces with robot motion kernels but doesn’t execute real motion.

How Industrial Robot Safety Was Written In Blood

Hackaday: It was January 25th of 1979, at an unassuming Michigan Ford Motor Company factory. Productivity over the past years had been skyrocketing due to increased automation, courtesy of Litton Industry’s industrial robots that among other things helped to pick parts from shelves. Unfortunately, on that day there was an issue with the automated inventory system, so Robert Williams was asked to retrieve parts manually.

The motors and gearing of different robotics

www.motioncontroltips.com: Industrial six-axis robotics often integrate frameless motors at their axes. Over the last decade, permanent-magnet brushless servomotors have come to dominate. Increasingly common in six-axis robotic assemblies are frameless and direct-drive variations.

AI-Powered Robots in the Art World: Applications in Contemporary Art and Museums

Arts Management and Technology Lab: From algorithmic computation to human-machine collaboration, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is reshaping how society produces knowledge and imagines the future. AI-powered robots are now appearing not only in factories but also in art studios, galleries, and museums, signaling a crucial cultural shift, transforming technology from a tool of production to an active participant in artistic creation and curatorial practice.

This Chicago bar is home to (probably) the world’s only robot dog house band—here’s how to see them

www.timeout.com/chicago: If you’ve strolled past Logan Arcade sometime in the past week, you’ve probably been swept up by a sea of strobing lights and the sound of Danzig’s unmistakable yawp billowing onto Fullerton Avenue. Peering through the bar’s window, you’ll catch gaggles of smiling pinball wizards head banging and waving their glasses to the hacksaw rhythm of “Skulls” by the Misfits.

Maker Faire Rome 2025 Turns Innovation Into a Contact Sport

Make:: The European Edition, promoted and organized by the Rome Chamber of Commerce (a public body in Italy), returns 17–19 October with a human-centered, hands-on program that turns the city into a living lab where technology is built, tested and rebuilt in public. The 2025 edition features more than 380 projects from over 30 countries across robotics, IoT, digital fabrication, accessibility, sustainability and next-gen computing. Attendance is expected to exceed 30,000.

This viral comedian's 'clanker' skit has ignited debate over robot slurs

Fast Company: A TikTok comedian has sparked debate after riffing on the viral term “clanker,” which in recent months has surfaced as an insult for robots, AI systems, and those who rely on them.

From Urban Bush Women to Robots: Meet Grisha Coleman

Dance Magazine: I first ran into Grisha Coleman in Dayton, Ohio, some 20 years ago, when she was touring with the Urban Bush Women. Even within a company of brilliant dancers, she was a technically inimitable, radiant performer.

How Choreography Can Help Robots Come Alive

WIRED: Consider this scene from the 2014 film, Ex Machina: A young nerd, Caleb, is in a dim room with a scantily clad femmebot, Kyoko. Nathan, a brilliant roboticist, drunkenly stumbles in and brusquely tells Caleb to dance with the Kyoko-bot. To kick things off, Nathan presses a wall-mounted panel and the room lights shift suddenly to an ominous red, while Oliver Cheatham’s disco classic “Get Down Saturday Night” starts to play. Kyoko—who seems to have done this before—wordlessly begins to dance, and Nathan joins his robotic creation in an intricately choreographed bit of pelvic thrusting. The scene suggests that Nathan imbued his robot creation with disco functionality, but how did he choreograph the dance on Kyoko, and why?

Catie Cuan on Why Robots Need Choreographers

Dance Magazine: Robots often get a bad rap. "There's an impression that they're much more capable than they really are," says Catie Cuan. Whether it's a fear that "robots are coming for my job" or "robots are coming to kill me," Cuan believes those ideas are largely driven by how robots are portrayed in fiction and storytelling.

Meet Trek, With Autonomous Scanning and Data Collection Super Powers

Digital Engineering 24/7: What do you get when you combine a laser scanner with a robot capable of remote data capture? You get Trek, a fully autonomous 3D mobile scanning device capable of remotely monitoring the progress and condition of commercial construction projects or creating digital twins of a manufacturing floor, among emerging use cases.

Carnegie Mellon's robotic painter is a step toward AI that can learn art techniques by watching people

Bestgamingpro: Can a robotic painter be taught from observing a human artist’s brushstrokes? That’s the query Carnegie Mellon College researchers got down to reply in a study lately revealed on the preprint server Arxiv.org. They report that 71% of individuals discovered the strategy the paper proposes efficiently captured traits of an unique artist’s fashion, together with hand-brush motions, and that solely 40% of that very same group might discern the brushstrokes drawn by the robotic.

Meet the 145-foot wide construction robot from Hampton that doesn't want to steal your job

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A driverless vehicle and a 145-foot-wide industrial construction robot have more in common than you’d think.

Jeremy Searock, co-founder of Advanced Construction Robotics, would know: He’s helped design both.

ETH Zurich builds a pavillion just using gravel and string

www.fastcompany.com: Rising in front of a museum in the historical heart of the Swiss city of Winterthur sits one of the strangest structures ever built: the Rock Print Pavilion. At first sight, its columns look to be made of rough reinforced concrete–or perhaps the gabions so popular among architects today. In fact, it’s made out of tiny loose stones tied with string.

Beyond Deep Fakes

Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have devised a way to automatically transform the content of one video into the style of another, making it possible to transfer the facial expressions of comedian John Oliver to those of a cartoon character, or to make a daffodil bloom in much the same way a hibiscus would.

Save Some Steps with this Arduino Rapid Design Board

Hackaday: We’re all familiar with the wide variety of Arduino development boards available these days, and we see project after project wired up on a Nano or an Uno. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course, but there comes a point where some hobbyists want to move beyond plugging wires into header sockets and build the microcontroller right into their project.

Video Quick-Bit: The Things That Move Robots

Hackaday: Magenta Strongheart returns for a look at some of the coolest robotic entries from this year’s Hackaday Prize. Each of these answered the challenge for modular designs that will help supercharge new robot projects.

Velocity Robotics brings advanced technology to the construction site

TribLIVE: The construction industry is ripe for technology — tools to be connected, tasks for robots, measurements to be remembered by machines, not humans.

But contractors and construction companies balked when Brad Kriel first started pitching his company's connected, robotic miter saw accessory, Autoset.