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The article discusses static application security testing (SAST) tools for Python and Java automation backends, noting that beyond robot controllers, Python services queuing tasks and Java backends responding to API requests can also harbor bugs, including weak validators within an API. The supplied context is limited and offers no further details.

According to Tech Xplore, Roomba-like robots that walk on magnetic feet are designed to scrub unwanted sea matter off giant ships. The article describes how Timothy Wong's dives off the coast of Rockport and his study of robotics mechanisms led to his mission of finding a way to clean large vessels.

The article argues that water is the utility most automation projects overlook: even plants that have instrumented every conveyor, robot cell and packaging line often send rinse water, cooling tower blowdown and process effluent to drain, then buy fresh water. Industrial water reuse changes this, with treated effluent returning as cooling tower makeup and washdown water.

This commentary describes how customs paperwork, rather than engineering, can delay warehouse robotics deployments: the author says a Skypod system that took eighteen months to engineer sat in a port warehouse for six weeks because a customs form listed the wrong harmonized tariff code, with the technical team blameless in both such cases the author observed.

Agility has selected Nyobolt to provide ultra-fast charging power technology for its Digit 5 humanoid robot. According to the report, the technology enables the humanoid to work up to 20 hours a day.

Robotics businesses reportedly need help keeping up with innovations as they scale. Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) is offering its Emerging Tech Hub to support robotics startups, according to The Robot Report.

AutoStore unveiled a series of new and upgraded hardware and software products in its Fall 2026 announcement, aimed at reducing manual intervention in warehouse operations and moving its automated storage systems closer to "lights-out" fulfillment. The lineup includes technology for handling different bin and case sizes, robotic picking for smaller businesses, and AI-assisted system design.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have developed an AI system that lets a racing drone navigate demanding courses at extreme speed using only a single camera and no GPS. In a race, it outperformed even former world champion human drone pilots.

The Robot Report says a RoboBusiness 2026 panel will examine how to promote reshoring of manufacturing with robots, a topic described as a high priority for policymakers and technologists. Specific panel details are not provided in the feed.

This article addresses how long a DUI stays on your record in the United States. Citing NHTSA, it says 11,904 people died in 2024 crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver, accounting for 30% of traffic deaths, while overall traffic deaths are trending downward with an early estimate of 36,640. The excerpt does not state the retention period.

Timken is combining the expertise of Cone Drive, SPINEA, CGI Motion and Timken Encoders to develop application-specific motion systems, with its Timken Precision Drives line prioritizing the motion challenge in humanoid robots.

Security robots are beginning to take on roles once held by people, from monitoring public spaces to responding to requests for help. As they gain authority, researchers are examining what it might take for the public to trust them.

Neura Robotics has launched Neuron AI, a multimodal foundation model for physical AI. Combining 3D vision, touch, audio, robot state and language with memory, it enables robots to act on information beyond cameras alone and retain context when objects leave view, using a Perception-Language-Action (PLA) architecture.

According to The Robot Report, Hello Robot and A&K Robotics will discuss how robots navigate crowded indoor spaces at RoboBusiness. Navigation is framed as a critical challenge as robots move beyond warehouses and controlled environments into everyday life.

Researchers at the Shenyang Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed an electrohydraulically actuated soft robotic fish that swims at high speed and performs agile 3D maneuvers. It combines a rigid-flexible coupled propulsion system with dynamic buoyancy regulation, enabling fast propulsion without sacrificing maneuverability.

Long-time technology analyst Josh Baylin argues that Elon Musk is quietly assembling the pieces of an AI phone project referred to as Starphone, and the article presents a purported supplier list. Baylin, who briefed Congress in 2004 about the coming smartphone revolution, is the source of these claims; the available text does not give further details.

Scan Computers has partnered with Sheffield-based OLO Robotics, combining Scan's robotics hardware, AI infrastructure and technical expertise with OLO's browser-based platform and specialist robotics engineering to make advanced robotics easier to access and deploy. OLO's platform brings teleoperation, simulation and autonomous navigation together in the browser.