#autonomous-robotics

#autonomous-robotics

Finally, they've revealed the Mobile Eccentric Droid, a.k.a. MobED, a mobility robot platform tailored for a diverse range of industrial and everyday-use applications. The bot was shown off at the International Robot Exhibition 2025 (iREX 2025) in Tokyo. According to Dong Jin Hyun, Vice President and Head of Hyundai Motor Group Robotics LAB, the new robot will help "accelerate a future where humans and robots coexist." The most exciting bit, it'll be up for sale in the first half of 2026.

"If you're designing a space mission and trying to get a capability to space, you're constrained by two things," co-founder and President Joe Landon said in a recent interview. "One, you have to build something that can either fit or fold into a rocket, and you also have to constrain yourself by what satellite bus you're going to go on. We saw that increasingly, missions need more scale and more size ... larger antennas, higher power, and with higher power, the need for larger radiators."

Elon Musk's lofty vision for Tesla includes less attention on electric vehicles and a doubling-down on its autonomous robots, even as production for the bots have hit numerous snags. The Tesla CEO said on Monday 80% of Tesla's value would someday come from Optimus robots, the humanoid bot Musk's company introduced in 2021 intended to eliminate dangerous and menial factory tasks. Musk's forecast of the bots' success came shortly after Tesla revealed its " Master Plan Part IV " on Monday, outlining Tesla's goals for the future.