China's 59% robot-install share forces a two-speed automation economy
The International Federation of Robotics' World Robotics 2026 report does more than mark a milestone; it quantifies a structural tilt in global manufacturing. China installed 354,000 industrial robots in 2025, accounting for 59% of worldwi…
Skydio's F10 Lightrunner extends autonomous drone fleet into fixed-wing territory
Skydio used its annual Ascend conference on September 23 to unveil the F10 Lightrunner, the company's first fixed-wing drone, alongside a robotic ground station called MegaDock and two new software platforms . CEO Adam Bry introduced the a…
Waymo safety data covers 271M miles, claims 82% fewer injury crashes
Waymo's latest self-reported safety data, covering 271 million driverless miles through the end of June across Atlanta, Austin, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, claims an 82% reduction in crashes causing injury and a 95% reduction i…
Zoox robotaxi crash on Las Vegas Strip hospitalizes Nissan driver
A collision between an autonomous Zoox robotaxi and a silver Nissan Murano on Las Vegas Boulevard sent the Nissan's driver to a hospital on Friday, September 25 . The crash occurred on the southbound Strip near Four Seasons Drive, close to…
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RANKED · 5 THIS DAYBlack Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Action tops robotics benchmark at half the size of rivals
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Action, a 7-billion-parameter open-weights World Action Model for robot control that ranks first on the RoboLab-120 leaderboard with a 42.92% task success rate . The model is less than half the size of…