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Reçu — 16 février 2026 ⏭

« C’est vraiment bizarre d’avoir un micro sur un aspirateur », il bidouille son aspirateur robot et découvre une faille géante

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Par : Amine Baba Aissa
16 février 2026 à 16:29

Dans un article publié le 14 février 2026, le média américain The Verge revient sur la découverte involontaire d'une faille de sécurité affectant les appareils de la marque chinoise DJI. En bidouillant son aspirateur connecté pour le piloter avec une manette PlayStation, un utilisateur a pu accéder à des données de milliers d'appareils à travers le monde.

Reçu — 15 février 2026 ⏭

Small Crowd Pays to Watch a Boxing Match Between 80-Pound Chinese Robots

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Par : EditorDavid
14 février 2026 à 23:52
Recently a small crowd paid to watch robots boxing, reports Rest of World. (Almost 3,000 people have now watched the match's 83-minute webcast.) The match was organized by Rek, a San Francisco-based company, and drew hundreds of spectators who had paid about $60-$80 for a ticket to watch modified G1 robots go at each other. Made by Unitree, the dominant Chinese robot maker, they weighed in at around 80 pounds and stood 4.5 feet tall, with human-like hands and dozens of joint motors for flexibility. The match had all the bells and whistles of a regular boxing bout: pulsing music, cameras capturing all the angles, hyped-up introductions, a human referee, and even two commentators. The evening featured two bouts made up of five rounds, each lasting 60 seconds. The robots pranced around the cage, throwing jabs and punches, drawing ohs and ahs from the crowd. They fell sometimes, and needed human intervention to get them back on their feet. The robots were controlled by humans using VR interfaces, which led to some odd moments with robots hitting into the air, throwing multiple punches that failed to even connect with their opponents. One robot controller was a former UFC fighter, the article points out, but "The crowd cheered as a 13-year-old VR pilot named Dash beat his older competitor...." The company behind this event plans more boxing matches with their VR-controlled robots, and even wants to develop "a league of robot boxers, including full-height robots that weigh about 200 pounds and are nearly 6 feet tall."

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Reçu — 2 février 2026 ⏭

Starbucks Bets on Robots To Brew a Turnaround in Customers

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Par : msmash
2 février 2026 à 14:43
Starbucks has been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into AI and automation -- testing robots that take drive-through orders, virtual assistants that help baristas recall recipes and manage schedules, and scanning tools that count inventory -- as the 55-year-old coffee chain tries to reverse several years of struggling sales. The company last week reported its first same-store sales increase in two years in the U.S., where it earns roughly 70% of its revenue. Shares still slid 5% on concerns that heavy spending, including $500 million to boost staffing, had hurt profits. CEO Brian Niccol, who joined in 2024 after engineering Chipotle's turnaround, told the BBC he is confident consistent growth will address that; the company has pledged to find $2 billion in cost savings over three years.

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Reçu — 1 février 2026 ⏭

Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt

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Par : EditorDavid
1 février 2026 à 16:34
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan "have created the world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots," according to a recent announcement. The announcement calls them "microscopic swimming machines that can independently sense and respond to their surroundings, operate for months and cost just a penny each." Barely visible to the naked eye, each robot measures about 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers, smaller than a grain of salt. Operating at the scale of many biological microorganisms, the robots could advance medicine by monitoring the health of individual cells and manufacturing by helping construct microscale devices. Powered by light, the robots carry microscopic computers and can be programmed to move in complex patterns, sense local temperatures and adjust their paths accordingly... "We've made autonomous robots 10,000 times smaller," says Marc Miskin, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering at Penn Engineering and the papers' senior author. "That opens up an entirely new scale for programmable robots." The announcement describes them as "the first truly autonomous, programmable robots at this scale" (as described in two recent academic articles). The team had to design a new propulsion system that utilized the unique locomotion physics in the microscopic realm, according to the university's announcement. So the robots "generate an electrical field that nudges ions in the surrounding solution." Those ions, in turn, push on nearby water molecules, animating the water around the robot's body. "It's as if the robot is in a moving river," says Miskin, "but the robot is also causing the river to move." The robots can adjust the electrical field that causes the effect, allowing them to move in complex patterns and even travel in coordinated groups, much like a school of fish, at speeds of up to one body length per second... To be truly autonomous, a robot needs a computer to make decisions, electronics to sense its surroundings and control its propulsion, and tiny solar panels to power everything, and all that needs to fit on a chip that is a fraction of a millimeter in size. This is where David Blaauw's team at the University of Michigan came into action... The robots are programmed by pulses of light that also power them. Each robot has a unique address that allows the researchers to load different programs on each robot. "This opens up a host of possibilities," adds Blaauw, "with each robot potentially performing a different role in a larger, joint task." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot for sharing the news.

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Reçu — 27 janvier 2026 ⏭

Poussière sous les meubles, toiles d’araignées : l’aspirateur radical de Dreame est à prix réduit pour les soldes [Sponso]

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Par : humanoid xp
27 janvier 2026 à 06:32

Cet article a été réalisé en collaboration avec Dreame

Vous en avez assez de vous casser le dos et de vous contorsionner pour aspirer sous un lit ou prélever les toiles d’araignées ? Dreame a une solution pour vous, à prix réduit pendant encore quelques jours à l’occasion des soldes d’hiver.

Cet article a été réalisé en collaboration avec Dreame

Il s’agit d’un contenu créé par des rédacteurs indépendants au sein de l’entité Humanoid xp. L’équipe éditoriale de Numerama n’a pas participé à sa création. Nous nous engageons auprès de nos lecteurs pour que ces contenus soient intéressants, qualitatifs et correspondent à leurs intérêts.

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Reçu — 15 janvier 2026 ⏭

Thunderobot présente un MiniPC au look de Steam Machine

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Par : Pierre Lecourt
15 janvier 2026 à 14:05

Je pense que cela va être une tendance dans les mois à venir, des MiniPC au format de la Steam Machine de Valve vont être présentés. Thunderrobot annonce cette tendance sans beaucoup de détails techniques pour le moment. Il faut dire que la présentation de la solution de Valve est récente.

Thunderobot est une marque chinoise qui sort rarement de ses frontières. Débordant à peine sur les régions limitrophes. Son nouveau MiniPC présenté au CES 2026 dans un format cubique se rapprochant du Steam Deck semble pourtant faire partie des pistes envisagées par beaucoup de constructeurs pour 2026.

Equipé d’un processeur AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 très performant avec son circuit graphique Radeon 8060S, la machine a, semble t-il, beaucoup de points communs avec la Steam Machine. En particulier, l’emploi d’un énorme dissipateur sur sa partie supérieure et une évacuation de la chaleur qui fonctionne de la même manière que l’engin de Valve.

Thunderobot

La connectique est toutefois largement plus étoffée, on retrouve sur la station de Thunderobot l’ensemble des ports classiques d’un MiniPC haut de gamme. Double port USB 3.2 Type-A en façade, un USB 3.2 Type-C, un jack audio combo 3.5 mm et un lecteur de cartes SDXC.

A l’arrière, quatre ports USB 3.2 Type-A supplémentaires, deux sorties HDMI, un DisplayPort, deux ports Ethernet et un Antivol type Kensington Lock. 

Aucune autre information technique n’est disponible. Pas de détails sur la mémoire vive, le stockage ou la gestion des réseaux. Pas d’info précise sur les capacités des différents connecteurs non plus. 

Des similitudes et beaucoup de différences entre Valve et Thunderobot.

La face avant ne présente pas de système de LEDs identique à la trouvaille de Valve pour le Steam Deck. Mais il est possible que le bouton de démarrage, entouré d’une zone qui semble transparente, joue le même rôle. Reste à espérer que Thunderobot ne joue pas encore une fois au jeu de l’IA et présente des versions uniquement équipées des 128 Go de mémoire vive habituels. Non pas que le public soit contre le fait d’avoir beaucoup de mémoire vive, simplement que le prix de cet équipement est un peu prohibitif en ce moment.

Je ne serais vraiment pas surpris de voir une myriade de minimachines de ce type débarquer dans les trimestres à venir. Pas forcément équipées de puces Strix Halo mais reprenant ce design particulier. Difficile de savoir dans quelle mesure ce type d’engin pourrait avoir droit à une licence de Steam OS.

Valve annonce la Steam Machine, sa minimachine de jeu

Source : VideoCardz

Thunderobot présente un MiniPC au look de Steam Machine © MiniMachines.net. 2025

Reçu — 8 janvier 2026 ⏭

Bras robotisé, jambes sur roues : ces nouveaux aspirateurs robots n’ont (presque) plus aucun obstacle, même les escaliers

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Par : Lisa Imperatrice
8 janvier 2026 à 15:45

Les aspirateurs robots sont une nouvelle fois à l’honneur au CES 2026. Roborock et Dreame y ont notamment dévoilé leurs nouveaux modèles, capables aussi bien de monter les escaliers que de ramasser des chaussettes.

Reçu — 7 janvier 2026 ⏭

Samsung's Rolling Ballie Robot Indefinitely Shelved After Delays

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Par : msmash
7 janvier 2026 à 19:21
Samsung Electronics has once again sidelined Ballie, a long-anticipated robot that was first announced six years ago but never released. Bloomberg News: The device -- designed to roll and roam throughout the home -- is completely absent from this week's CES, the biggest electronics trade show. And though Samsung said last year that Ballie was nearly ready for a retail release, the product is now unlikely to resurface soon. In an emailed statement, Samsung referred to Ballie as an "active innovation platform" within the company, rather than a forthcoming consumer device. "After multiple years of real-world testing, it continues to inform how Samsung designs spatially aware, context-driven experiences, particularly in areas like smart home intelligence, ambient AI and privacy-by-design," a Samsung spokesperson said in the statement.

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Reçu — 6 janvier 2026 ⏭

Hyundai and Boston Dynamics Unveil Humanoid Robot Atlas At CES

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Par : BeauHD
6 janvier 2026 à 07:00
At CES 2026 today, Hyundai and Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas, showing off fluid movement and announcing plans to deploy a production version in Hyundai's EV factory by 2028. NBC News reports: "For the first time ever in public, please welcome Atlas to the stage," said Boston Dynamics' Zachary Jackowski as a life-sized robot with two arms and two legs picked itself up from the floor at a Las Vegas hotel ballroom. It then fluidly walked around the stage for several minutes, sometimes waving to the crowd and swiveling its head like an owl. An engineer remotely piloted the robot from nearby for the purpose of the demonstration, though in real life Atlas will move around on its own, said Jackowski, the company's general manager for humanoid robots. [...] Hyundai also announced a new partnership with Google's DeepMind, which will supply its artificial intelligence technology to Boston Dynamics robots. It's a return to a familiar partnership for Google, which bought Boston Dynamics in 2013 before selling it to Japanese tech giant SoftBank several years later. Hyundai acquired it from SoftBank in 2021. [...] At the end of Monday's live Atlas demonstration, which appeared flawless, the humanoid prototype swung its arms in a theatrical gesture to introduce a static model of the new product version of Atlas, which looked slightly different and was blue in color. "I think the question comes back to what are the use cases and where is the applicability of the technology," said Alex Panas, a partner at consultancy McKinsey who helped lead a CES robotics panel that attracted hundreds of people earlier in the day. "In some cases, it may look more humanoid. In some cases, it may not." Either way, Panas said, "the software, the chipsets, the communication, all the other pieces of the technology are coming together, and they will create new applications." You can watch a video of the demonstration on YouTube.

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Reçu — 30 décembre 2025 ⏭

Researchers Make 'Neuromorphic' Artificial Skin For Robots

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Par : BeauHD
30 décembre 2025 à 03:33
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream of activity spikes that may be transmitted to hundreds of additional neurons, where they are integrated with similar spike trains coming from still other neurons. Now, researchers have used spiking circuitry to build an artificial robotic skin, adopting some of the principles of how signals from our sensory neurons are transmitted and integrated. While the system relies on a few decidedly not-neural features, it has the advantage that we have chips that can run neural networks using spiking signals, which would allow this system to integrate smoothly with some energy-efficient hardware to run AI-based control software. [...] There are four ways that these trains of spikes can convey information: the shape of an individual pulse, through their magnitude, through the length of the spike, and through the frequency of the spikes. Spike frequency is the most commonly used means of conveying information in biological systems, and the researchers use that to convey the pressure experienced by a sensor. The remaining forms of information are used to create something akin to a bar code that helps identify which sensor the reading came from. In addition to registering the pressure, the researchers had each sensor send a "I'm still here" signal at regular time intervals. Failure to receive this would be an indication that something has gone wrong with a sensor. The spiking signals allow the next layer of the system to identify any pressure being experienced by the skin, as well as where it originated. This layer can also do basic evaluation of the sensory input: "Pressure-initiated raw pulses from the pulse generator accumulated in the signal cache center until a predefined pain threshold is surpassed, activating a pain signal." This can allow the equivalent of basic reflex reactions that don't involve higher-level control systems. For example, the researchers set up a robotic arm covered with their artificial skin, and got it to move the arm whenever it experiences pressure that can cause damage. The second layer also combines and filters signals from the skin before sending the information on to the arm's controller, which is the equivalent of the brain in this situation. So, the same system caused a robotic face to change expressions based on how much pressure its arm was sensing. [...] The skin is designed to be assembled from a collection of segments that can snap together using magnetic interlocks. These automatically link up any necessary wiring, and each segment of skin broadcasts a unique identity code. So, if the system identifies damage, it's relatively easy for an operator to pop out the damaged segment and replace it with fresh hardware, and then update any data that links the new segment's ID with its location. The researchers call their development a neuromorphic robotic e-skin, or NRE-skin. "Neuromorphic" as a term is a bit vague, with some people using it to mean a technology that directly follows the principles used by the nervous system. That's definitely not this skin. Instead, it uses "neuromorphic" far more loosely, with the operation of the nervous system acting as an inspiration for the system.The findings have been published in the journal PNAS.

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Reçu — 28 décembre 2025 ⏭

Researchers Show Some Robots Can Be Hijacked Just Through Spoken Commands

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Par : EditorDavid
27 décembre 2025 à 23:44
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this story from Interesting Engineering: Cybersecurity specialists from the research group DARKNAVY have demonstrated how modern humanoid robots can be compromised and weaponised through weaknesses in their AI-driven control systems. In a controlled test, the team demonstrated that a commercially available humanoid robot could be hijacked with nothing more than spoken commands, exposing how voice-based interaction can serve as an attack vector rather than a safeguard, reports Yicaiglobal... Using short-range wireless communication, the hijacked machine transmitted the exploit to another robot that was not connected to the network. Within minutes, this second robot was also taken over, demonstrating how a single breach could cascade through a group of machines. To underline the real-world implications, the researchers issued a hostile command during the demonstration. The robot advanced toward a mannequin on stage and struck it, illustrating the potential for physical harm.

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