2025 December

MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee

31 December 2025, by MIT News

Robohub highlights 2025

29 December 2025, by Lucy Smith

The science of human touch – and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots

24 December 2025, by The Conversation

Bio-hybrid robots turn food waste into functional machines

22 December 2025, by EPFL

Robot Talk Episode 138 – Robots in the environment, with Stefano Mintchev

19 December 2025, by Robot Talk

Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost

18 December 2025, by MIT News

Generations in Dialogue: Human-robot interactions and social robotics with Professor Marynel Vasquez

15 December 2025, by Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Robot Talk Episode 137 – Getting two-legged robots moving, with Oluwami Dosunmu-Ogunbi

12 December 2025, by Robot Talk

Radboud chemists are working with companies and robots on the transition from oil-based to bio-based materials

10 December 2025, by Radboud University

Generations in Dialogue: Embodied AI, robotics, perception, and action with Professor Roberto Martín-Martín

8 December 2025, by Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Robot Talk Episode 136 – Making driverless vehicles smarter, with Shimon Whiteson

5 December 2025, by Robot Talk

Teaching robot policies without new demonstrations: interview with Jiahui Zhang and Jesse Zhang

4 December 2025, by Lucy Smith

Why companies don’t share AV crash data – and how they could

1 December 2025, by Cornell University

2025 November

Robot Talk Episode 135 – Robot anatomy and design, with Chapa Sirithunge

28 November 2025, by Robot Talk

Learning robust controllers that work across many partially observable environments

27 November 2025, by Maris Galesloot

Human-robot interaction design retreat

25 November 2025, by Lucy Smith

Robot Talk Episode 134 – Robotics as a hobby, with Kevin McAleer

21 November 2025, by Robot Talk

ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Award 2026 open for nominations

19 November 2025, by ACM SIGAI

Generations in Dialogue: Multi-agent systems and human-AI interaction with Professor Manuela Veloso

18 November 2025, by Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Robot Talk Episode 133 – Creating sociable robot collaborators, with Heather Knight

14 November 2025, by Robot Talk

CoRL2025 – RobustDexGrasp: dexterous robot hand grasping of nearly any object

11 November 2025, by Hui Zhang

Generations in Dialogue: Bridging Perspectives in AI – a new podcast from AAAI

8 November 2025, by Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Robot Talk Episode 132 – Collaborating with industrial robots, with Anthony Jules

7 November 2025, by Robot Talk

Teaching robots to map large environments

5 November 2025, by MIT News

2025 October

Robot Talk Episode 131 – Empowering game-changing robotics research, with Edith-Clare Hall

31 October 2025, by Robot Talk

A flexible lens controlled by light-activated artificial muscles promises to let soft machines see

30 October 2025, by The Conversation

Social media round-up from #IROS2025

27 October 2025, by Lucy Smith

Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots

24 October 2025, by MIT News

Robot Talk Episode 130 – Robots learning from humans, with Chad Jenkins

24 October 2025, by Robot Talk

Robot Talk at the Smart City Robotics Competition

22 October 2025, by Robot Talk

Robot Talk Episode 129 – Automating museum experiments, with Yuen Ting Chan

17 October 2025, by Robot Talk

What’s coming up at #IROS2025?

15 October 2025, by Lucy Smith

From sea to space, this robot is on a roll

13 October 2025, by Texas A&M University

Robot Talk Episode 128 – Making microrobots move, with Ali K. Hoshiar

10 October 2025, by Robot Talk

Interview with Zahra Ghorrati: developing frameworks for human activity recognition using wearable sensors

8 October 2025, by Lucy Smith and AIhub

Women in robotics you need to know about 2025

6 October 2025, by Women In Robotics

Robot Talk Episode 127 – Robots exploring other planets, with Frances Zhu

3 October 2025, by Robot Talk

Mars rovers serve as scientists’ eyes and ears from millions of miles away – here are the tools Perseverance used to spot a potential sign of ancient life

2 October 2025, by The Conversation

Rethinking how robots move: Light and AI drive precise motion in soft robotic arm

1 October 2025, by Rice University

2025 September

RoboCup Logistics League: an interview with Alexander Ferrein, Till Hofmann and Wataru Uemura

25 September 2025, by AIhub and Lucy Smith

Drones and Droids: a co-operative strategy game

22 September 2025, by Phil Peterson

Call for AAAI educational AI videos

22 September 2025, by AIhub

Self-supervised learning for soccer ball detection and beyond: interview with winners of the RoboCup 2025 best paper award

19 September 2025, by Lucy Smith

#ICML2025 outstanding position paper: Interview with Jaeho Kim on addressing the problems with conference reviewing

15 September 2025, by AIhub

Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

11 September 2025, by EPFL

Robots to the rescue: miniature robots offer new hope for search and rescue operations

9 September 2025, by Horizon Magazine

#IJCAI2025 distinguished paper: Combining MORL with restraining bolts to learn normative behaviour

4 September 2025, by Agata Ciabattoni and Emery Neufeld

Researchers are teaching robots to walk on Mars from the sand of New Mexico

2 September 2025, by Oregon State University

2025 August

Engineering fantasy into reality

26 August 2025, by MIT News

RoboCup@Work League: Interview with Christoph Steup

22 August 2025, by AIhub and Lucy Smith

Interview with Haimin Hu: Game-theoretic integration of safety, interaction and learning for human-centered autonomy

21 August 2025, by AIhub and Lucy Smith

AIhub coffee corner: Agentic AI

15 August 2025, by AIhub

2025 July

Interview with Kate Candon: Leveraging explicit and implicit feedback in human-robot interactions

25 July 2025, by AIhub and Lucy Smith

#RoboCup2025: social media round-up part 2

24 July 2025, by AIhub

#RoboCup2025: social media round-up 1

21 July 2025, by AIhub

Livestream of RoboCup2025

18 July 2025, by AIhub

Tackling the 3D Simulation League: an interview with Klaus Dorer and Stefan Glaser

15 July 2025, by AIhub and Lucy Smith

An interview with Nicolai Ommer: the RoboCup Soccer Small Size League

1 July 2025, by AIhub and Lucy Smith

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