The Best Articles, Videos, and Newsletters in Robotics
The most useful articles, videos, and newsletters in Robotics from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Robotics Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Robotics by Refind users in 2026 so far.
- Do You Love Me?
- future of life pavilion at expo 2025 osaka reimagines human existence through robotics & AI
- What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?
- Tiny robot tools powered by magnets could one day do brain surgery without cutting open the skull
- robots and AI help humans exist in future cities at the venice architecture biennale 2025
Videos
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Do You Love Me?
Our whole crew got together to celebrate the start of what we hope will be a happier year: Happy New Year from all of us at Boston Dynamics. www.BostonDyna...
Working on the Neuralink Robot
Advanced surgical automation is core to our approach.MB01FXCJIJR6PHX
ANYmal can do parkour and walk across rubble
The quadrupedal robot ANYmal went back to school and has learned a lot. ETH Zurich researchers used machine learning to teach it new skills: the robot can no...
Will robotaxis ever be commercially viable?
San Francisco has become ground zero for US testing of driverless taxis, but how close are we to truly embracing them? The FT’s Patrick McGee pays a visit to...
Bernt Børnich: Meet NEO, your robot butler in training
What if doing your chores were as easy as flipping a switch? In this talk and live demo, roboticist and founder of 1X Bernt Børnich introduces NEO, a humanoid robot designed to help you out around the…
Trending
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Inside China’s robotics revolution
The long read: How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out
BMW Group brings humanoid robots to Germany
BMW has deployed a humanoid robot at its Leipzig plant, using Hexagon Robotics’ AEON as it expands its physical AI factory strategy.
Amazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots
The acquisition of Fauna Robotics is the second robotics startup Amazon has purchased this month.
Humanoid robotics maker Sunday reaches $1.15B valuation to build household robots
Sunday is on a quest to build a household humanoid robot called Memo that helps with tasks like laundry and clearing the table. The company emerged from stealth late last year and already has 1,000…
Short Articles
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Allonic is rebuilding robotics from the inside out
Allonic’s $7.2m pre-seed signals a shift in Europe toward early investment in robotics hardware and deep industrial innovation.
For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them
AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement – and do tech CEOs care? says Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly Trained
«artificial general intelligence (AGI) – that is, AI that can perform essentially all cognitive tasks at human level»
Tiny robot tools powered by magnets could one day do brain surgery without cutting open the skull
Robotic tools are too big for ‘keyhole’ brain surgery – but a new miniature technology using magnets could change all that.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Robotics.
Vsim, founded by Nvidia alums, raises $24M for robotics simulation tech
Manchester-based Vsim is developing a new physics simulation framework, and has raised $21.5 million from EQT Ventures and a number of backers.
Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body
As the head of Alphabet’s AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can’t come soon enough. For another, they shouldn’t look like us.
The Age of the Drone Police Is Here
A WIRED investigation, based on more than 22 million flight coordinates, reveals the complicated truth about the first full-blown police drone program in the US—and why your city could be next.
What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?
First it was chess and Go. Now AI can beat us at Diplomacy, the most human of board games. The way it wins offers hope that maybe AI will be a delight.
Robot hand can detach from arm, crawl over to objects, and pick them up
The video debuted along with a research paper of the same name at IEEE’s International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Rotterdam this week.
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