Daily robotics news briefs in plain English, with sources.https://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/en-gbhttps://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-13-agibot-g2-convenience-store-trial/https://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-13-agibot-g2-convenience-store-trial/AGIBOT says six wheeled G2 humanoids completed 1,730 tasks over 24 hours in a working store, and that four of the six passed its final assessment. The account comes from the company.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTlegged-and-humanoidmanipulation-and-graspingmobile-robotshttps://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-11-mujoco-4-0/https://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-11-mujoco-4-0/Google DeepMind shipped MuJoCo 4.0.0 on 6 November with breaking changes to tendons, the Python packages and cable models. Version 4.0.1 followed on 11 November with a fix for wrong Newton solver results.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTsimulation-and-digital-twinsdynamicsmujocohttps://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-10-axon-invests-in-skydio/https://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-10-axon-invests-in-skydio/The deal values Skydio at $5.2 billion and makes Axon its exclusive public safety distributor in the US and Canada. It is expected to close across Q4 2026 and Q1 2027.Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTaerial-and-field-robotscareers-and-industrydroneshttps://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-10-gemini-robotics-2-5/https://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-10-gemini-robotics-2-5/DeepMind says its new vision-language-action model raises success rates by 30% to 100% over earlier baselines, and reports a 96% success rate for Apollo 2 humanoids kitting parts in two car plants.Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTrobot-learningmanipulation-and-graspinglegged-and-humanoidmujocofrankahttps://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-09-boston-dynamics-wheeled-atlas/https://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-09-boston-dynamics-wheeled-atlas/A Boston Dynamics video shows the Atlas humanoid with scooter wheels on its ankles, trained in simulation with a whole-body RL policy layered on classical control. The company calls it a research testbed, not a product.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTlegged-and-humanoidcontrolrobot-learningboston-dynamicshttps://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-09-nvidia-gr00t-2-isaac-lab-3/https://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-09-nvidia-gr00t-2-isaac-lab-3/NVIDIA introduced the GR00T 2 world action model and promoted Isaac Lab 3.0, which can run on the Newton physics engine as well as PhysX, at the Conference on Robot Learning in Austin.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTrobot-learningsimulation-and-digital-twinsnvidiahttps://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-05-lerobot-0-7-0/https://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-05-lerobot-0-7-0/Hugging Face's robot learning library rebuilds installation, training, inference and its motor bus layer in v0.7.0, with several breaking changes for anyone upgrading from v0.6.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTrobot-learningmanipulation-and-graspingopensourcehttps://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-02-intrinsic-core-open-source/https://www.roboticsfieldguide.com/news/2026-11-02-intrinsic-core-open-source/The Apache-2.0 release bundles a real-time control framework, motion and grasp planning, pose estimation and a digital twin, plus an open CNC machine-tending reference design. It targets ROS 2 Lyrical Luth.Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTros-and-middlewaremotion-planningmanipulation-and-graspingros