Ivan Hernandez Dalas - Mechatronics

Gecko is using NVIDIA’s new agentic AI security layer in its inspection robots. Source: Gecko Robotics NVIDIA Corp. today announced its Open Agent Safety Platform, which consists of the OpenShell open-source software and Sentry reference system design. They are intended to strengthen governance and control across hardware, compute, and software for robots that run AI agents. Among the more than 100 organizations working with NVIDIA’s technology is Gecko Robotics Inc. After recent incidents including AI agents from OpenAI going around application-level controls to attack   Hugging Face , AI and robotics developers have been working on traceability, accountability, and preventative measures. “As we continue to discover the frontier of AI capabilities, we must accelerate discovery at the frontier of AI safety,” stated Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA. “Safety and security require full-stack engineering. NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform brings together indust...

The Autonomous Mobile Fabricator operates as a ground-level AGV or mounts directly onto any Genie MEWP platform. | Source: Raise Robotics Most autonomous systems work in the lab and stall in the field. An early-stage construction robot reaches a customer at roughly 80% of the capability that the customer needs. Whether that program crosses to 120% is not a hardware problem; it’s a leadership decision. Where do you spend finite engineering capacity, and where do you build operator discipline instead? At RoboBusiness 2026, Kenrick Tjandra, who leads robotics deployment at Raise Robotics, will talk about “Closing the Capability Gap: A Leadership Framework for Scaling Field Robotics.” RoboBusiness takes place Oct. 20 and 21 in Santa Clara, Calif. The session will start at 1:15 p.m. ET on the first day of the show. Raise Robotics holds the U.S. commercial record for autonomous robots installing building envelopes at the leading edge of buildings under construction. The San Fr...

The scalable robot ScaFi. 2026 CREATE Lab EPFL. CC BY SA-4.0. Propeller-powered underwater vehicles have long helped scientists explore and monitor aquatic environments. But they’re limited by their own mechanics: spinning blades can snag on vegetation, stir up sediment, and startle the wildlife they’re often sent to study, making them poorly suited to shallow creeks, dense weeds, or close encounters with fish. That’s one reason roboticists have spent years building machines that swim like fish instead, bending their bodies rather than spinning a propeller. The catch is that most fish-inspired robots are built for one size and one job, so scaling them up or down usually means starting from scratch. A team of engineers at EPFL and New York University (NYU) says it has found a way to solve that problem. They’ve unveiled ScaFi (for Scalable Fish), a robot modeled on fish like cod and mackerel. These fish swim by concentrating most of their body bending toward ...

Some tech leaders and lawmakers are mirroring Asimov’s concern about threats that robotics and AI pose to society. Source: Rinaldo Brutoco, AI Most science fiction fans are aware that Isaac Asimov propounded his Three Laws of Robotics in the March 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine and later republished them in his famous 1950 collection, I, Robot . Since then, readers have been thinking through both the obvious and the not-so-obvious implications of his dicta. In an era when people fear that AI threatens all of human civilization, Asimov’s observations about robots’ dangers to humans feel even more prescient. Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics are as follows: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conf...

In the future, robotaxis will have cleaning and reset stations available throughout their operational territory. | Credit: Aseon Labs Robotaxis are proven. Waymo has logged more than 220 million autonomous miles and, by its own count, has more than 94% fewer serious injury crashes than human drivers. It gives around half a million paid rides a week and is expanding to more cities. So the question has moved from “Does this work?” to “How does this get everywhere?” Waymo is in 14 cities. Uber is in over 15,000. Uber did 3.9 billion trips last quarter. It processes Waymo’s entire weekly ride volume every 17 minutes. Driving software and vehicle supply have billions pointed at them. Almost nobody is funding the least glamorous problem: what happens to the cars between rides. The pit is across town No Formula 1 team drives back to the factory for new tires. The pit is at the track; the car is out in seconds. A robotaxi finishes a ride, discovers a spilled latte on the back seat...

This wheeled robot rendering appeared in Agility Robotics’ recent Digit 5 launch video. | Credit: Agility Robotics When Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 last week , one detail near the end of the launch video caught our attention: a humanoid robot on wheels. Why would a company that has spent so much time touting the benefits of legged robots choose to show a wheeled robot? We reached out to Agility Robotics CEO and chief robot officer Jonathan Hurst to ask why. His answer confirmed what we had speculated about on The Robot Report Podcast : Agility was planting a seed about what could come next. Hurst told The Robot Report that Agility is indeed exploring wheeled robots. “We’re exploring a range of robot designs and form factors, including wheels, to address different operating environments and customer needs,” Hurst said via email. “As the safety, reliability and capabilities of legged robots continue to advance, I expect they’ll become the rig...