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Two engineers standing beside a white robot arm whose gripper hovers over a yellow ball on a cardboard box.
Evaluation· 9 min read · Oct 9, 2026

Robot Failure Analysis: How to Identify and Learn From Robot Policy Failures

From detecting failed rollouts to diagnosing root causes, failure analysis helps robotics teams understand what went wrong and improve robot policies.

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Apptronik's white Apollo humanoid robot, shown from the thighs up against a grey backdrop, raising its right hand.
Profiles· 7 min read · Oct 7, 2026

Apptronik: Building One Humanoid, Backed by NASA-Rooted Engineering

Apptronik has one robot, a handful of deep partnerships and a building where humanoids work all day to produce training data. Here's how Apollo works, how the company plans to sell it, and why the data matters as much as the hardware.

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The NEO humanoid robot standing in a sunlit sewing room beside a woman seated at a sewing machine, with a man walking through the doorway behind.
Profiles· 7 min read · Oct 5, 2026

1X Technologies: The Humanoid Built for the Living Room

1X sold a home humanoid to consumers before most rivals had left the factory floor. Here's how NEO works, how 1X plans to make money, and why the plan rests on data from real homes.

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The Flourish One home robot, white with a green hat-shaped head, wiping a coffee table while a father reads to his child on the sofa.
Radar· 6 min read · Oct 4, 2026

This Week in Robotics: Sep 28-Oct 4, 2026

A home robot you train with your phone, a startup betting on touch, a new five-finger hand, a shipyard trying autonomous welding, and NASA's open testbed.

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A two-armed robot reaching into bins of small boxes on a conveyor line.
Evaluation· 8 min read · Oct 2, 2026

Robot Evaluation and Benchmarking: How Do You Know a Robot Is Actually Getting Better?

Loss curves and simulation scores only tell part of the story. Here's how robot policy evaluation works, and what a trustworthy benchmark looks like.

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NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 announcement graphic for ROSCon 2026, a robot arm and sensor stack on a dark background.
Radar· 5 min read · Sep 28, 2026

This Week in Robotics: Sep 21-27, 2026

An open-source robotics stack learns to work with AI agents, a humanoid gets a real training floor inside a car plant, and the industry gets its first honest count of how many humanoids have shipped.

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Aerial view of seven agricultural sprayers moving through a vast green corn field.
Annotation· 7 min read · Sep 25, 2026

Agriculture Data Annotation: How AI and Robotics Are Transforming Modern Farming

From identifying weeds to harvesting crops, agricultural AI depends on accurately labeled images and real-world farming data.

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A white UBTECH Walker S humanoid crouching to lift a cardboard box in a bright warehouse, shelves of boxes behind it.
Radar· 6 min read · Sep 22, 2026

This Week in Robotics: Sep 14-20, 2026

A factory in China where robots build robots at a 10-minute pace, a robot brain trained on human hand data alone, a humanoid built to work without a safety cage, and Japan's robot ambulance.

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Four people working side by side at laptops and monitors in a shared office, seen from above.
Annotation· 9 min read · Sep 16, 2026

Dedicated Data Teams vs. Crowdsourced Labeling: What Robotics Teams Should Actually Weigh

Robotics annotation runs on judgment calls, not just labels. Here's why who does the labeling matters as much as how it's done.

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