Caterpillar taps Nvidia to bring AI to its construction equipment

Caterpillar is piloting Cat AI, a system of AI agents in one of its excavators built on Nvidia’s physical AI platform.

Your headphones just got two cameras, meet Project Motoko

Razer Project Motoko is a CES 2026 concept headset with two eye-level cameras and multi-mic audio, built for hands-free POV capture and computer vision. A Developer Kit is planned for Q2 2026.
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CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities 

CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from Sunday’s Unveiled event. 

Mobileye acquires humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics for $900M

Mentee Robotics was co-founded by Mobileye president Amnon Shashua.

The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026

From an AI panda pet to an anime girl hologram for your desk, here are the wildest products at CES 2026.

Nvidia wants to be the Android of generalist robotics 

Nvidia unveiled a full-stack robotics ecosystem at CES 2026, including foundation models, simulation tools, and hardware. It wants to be the default platform for robotics.

Boston Dynamics’s next-gen humanoid robot will have Google DeepMind DNA

Google’s AI research lab is working with Boston Dynamics to make Atlas act more like a human.

Meet the humanoid robot that plays tennis (almost) like a pro

If you’re ever short of a tennis partner to knock a ball with, UBTECH Robotics’ Walker S2 humanoid robot could change everything. A new video released by the Chinese tech company shows the Walker S2 humanoid robot wielding a tennis racket pretty much l…

Video Friday: Watch Scuttle Evolve
Video Friday: Watch Scuttle Evolve

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 20…

Teams of Robots Compete to Save Lives on the Battlefield
Teams of Robots Compete to Save Lives on the Battlefield

Last September, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) unleashed teams of robots on simulated mass-casualty scenarios, including an airplane crash and a night ambush. The robots’ job was to find victims and estimate the severity of thei…