Ivan Hernandez Dalas - Mechatronics

Intel’s Robotics AI Suite is an open development platform for physical AI on Intel Core and Intel Core Ultra processors. | Source: Intel AI is moving from digital environments into the physical world, where robots and autonomous systems must sense, reason, and act in real time. For robotics developers, this shift creates a new challenge, according to Intel Corp. Now, success isn’t defined by model performance alone, but by the ability to deploy AI into systems that are responsive, reliable, safe, and scalable. At RoboBusiness 2026, Nagesh Puppala, general manager of physical AI and robotics at Intel, will give the talk, “From Models to Machines: Building the Open Infrastructure for Physical AI.” The event will take place on Oct. 20 and 21 in Santa Clara, Calif., and Puppala will present at 1:15 p.m. PT on the first day of the show. The session will explore the infrastructure required to move physical AI from prototype to production in real-world robotics sys...

Isaac ROS 5.0 is already being used by companies including Intrinsic, Mentee Robotics, EKUMEN, and Flexiv. | Source: NVIDIA NVIDIA Corp. today released Isaac ROS 5.0, its latest collection of GPU-accelerated packages built on the Robot Operating System open framework. The company announced the release at the ROSCon conference in Toronto. The release brings new agentic workflows and platform support to help developers build, customize, and deploy robotics applications faster. “The goal is to make everything from development to deployment easier. Whether you’re an individual developer or a full-blown enterprise, there are a lot of headaches that come in the robotics development process,” Katie Washabaugh, NVIDIA’s product marketing manager for robotics simulation, told  The Robot Report . In general, NVIDIA  said Isaac ROS brings  computing, physical AI models and production-ready libraries to the nearly 1.3 million ROS users. The company said this helps developers build high-p...

Intrinsic also released the Open Machine Tending Solution, an open reference design for CNC machine tending. | Source: Intrinsic Today, Intrinsic Innovation LLC released Intrinsic Core, an open-source set of Robot Operating System-compatible capabilities for building robotic applications. With the release, Intrinsic said more of the world’s developers will be able to build with foundational parts of the Intrinsic platform. Robotics teams currently spend hundreds of hours coding robotic capabilities or infrastructure from scratch, according to Intrinsic. The company said it took the capabilities it developed for real manufacturing deployments and turned them into a pre-configured software environment that runs on local hardware. The capabilities act like the building blocks of robot behavior. Users can quickly and easily combine them to achieve adaptive AI systems, it claimed. “From Intrinsic’s perspective, I can say this is something that we’re committing to,” Brian Ger...

The corkscrew turn at Laguna Seca Raceway was the site of multiple overtakes at this year’s autonomous race. | Credit: IAC The latest Indy Autonomous Challenge, or IAC, university race took place on Sept. 3, prior to the annual Grand Prix of Monterey weekend. This year’s event featured the first time in IAC history that the autonomous racecars overtook one another on a road course. The winning team was Unimore Racing from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The final heat featured a race between Unimore and Purdue AI Racing . Nine university teams from North America, Europe, and Asia competed in this event, with their AI driver software piloting AV-24s provided by IAC. The organization has held six passing competitions since 2022, all on oval tracks, including the historic Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway, and Indianapolis Motor Speedway. I attended the 2025 IAC event at Monterey , where the IAC demonstrated autonomous vehicle racing on a road tr...

Atlas is now in training in the Metaplant Application Center near Savannah, Ga. Source: Boston Dynamics On the path to general-purpose automation, developers are training humanoid robots on specific skill sets. Boston Dynamics Inc. today opened its Robotics Metaplant Application Center, or RMAC, at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America. The company said the Georgia facility is a testbed and training center for integrating its Atlas humanoids directly into parent Hyundai’s automotive manufacturing operations. “Together with Hyundai Motor Group, we are pioneering physical AI at enterprise scale,” stated Zack Jackowski , chief product and technology officer at Boston Dynamics. “We’re excited to be working with such a dedicated partner in the group, and we have established a clear strategy to optimize our supply chain, production, testing, and deployment capabilities for Atlas. RMAC reinforces our shared ambition to create a future where robots amplify human potential by making work...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used two cameras to create this selfie in front of Mont Mercou, a tall rock outcrop. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS By Ashwin R. Vasavada Lights blink on as I enter the Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, at 7:30 a.m. I’m the first to arrive, even though I already feel late. Sometime during the night on Earth, the Curiosity rover finished its day exploring on Mars and beamed its latest collection of images and measurements to a Mars orbiter zooming by overhead. The orbiter relayed the data to Earth, where it now waits on servers here and at partner institutions around the globe. Once our rover operations shift kicks off at 8:15 a.m., a few dozen engineers and scientists will have just three hours to check the health of the rover, analyze the new science data and agree on the next set of rover activities. Then we’ll spend another four hours turning those plans into rover commands for tomorrow, making sure they ...