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Robotics is the field of designing, building and operating machines that sense, decide and act in the physical world. It combines mechanical engineering, electronics, computer science and control systems to create robots for industry, medicine, research, transport and homes. Modern robotics increasingly uses artificial intelligence to improve perception, navigation, manipulation and safe collaboration with people.
Meta’s reported data-centre robotics trials signal a move from automating logistics towards limited physical maintenance, but the technology remains far from replacing skilled technicians wholesale.
NASA’s cancelled effort to lift the Swift observatory illustrates both the scientific value of ageing spacecraft and the unforgiving limits of hurried in-orbit servicing.
Anthropic’s Model Hardware Standard is an early attempt to make AI-controlled laboratory and factory equipment more interoperable, but its real test will be whether technical guardrails can keep pace with physical risk.
NASA has ended the attempt to raise the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after faults on the commercial servicing spacecraft LINK made a capture unsafe, but the mission will still test selected rendezvous capabilities.
World models and embodied AI could make machines more capable in the physical world, but dependable deployment will depend on advances in data, testing and safety as much as model scale.
Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2 expands Gemini from digital reasoning into robot control, but its uneven task results show how far physical AI still has to travel.
