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Pony.ai becomes the first company to receive a citywide robotaxi permit for Shenzhen, allowing self-driving taxis to operate beyond pilot zones (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/31/chinas-ponyai-gets-the-first-permit-fo…

Pony.ai becomes first to win citywide robotaxi permit in China's Silicon Valley
Pony.ai said it is the first company to get a permit to operate taxis across all of the Chinese city of Shenzhen on the border of Hong Kong.

Hierarchical Control Design for Space Robots with Application to In-Orbit Servicing Missions
Pietro Bruschi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22955 https://arxiv.…

Hierarchical Control Design for Space Robots with Application to In-Orbit Servicing Missions
In-Orbit Servicing and Active Debris Removal require advanced robotic capabilities for capturing and detumbling uncooperative targets. This work presents a hierarchical control framework for autonomous robotic capture of tumbling objects in space. A simulation environment is developed, incorporating sloshing dynamics of the chaser, a rarely studied effect in space robotics. The proposed controller combines an inner Lyapunov-based robust control loop for multi-body dynamics with an outer loop ad…

Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on three consecutive profitable quarters, cofounders leaving the board, Freenow acquisition, the economics of robotaxis, and more (J. Edward Moreno/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/lyfts-ceo-on-the-e…

Lyft’s CEO on the economics of robotaxis, how to end surge pricing, and reviving his company
Lyft wants to shed its “second-place, domestic-only, only a business-to-consumer company” reputation.

ARMimic: Learning Robotic Manipulation from Passive Human Demonstrations in Augmented Reality
Rohan Walia (Department of Computer Engineering, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence), Yusheng Wang (Department of Precision Engineering, Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering), Ralf R\"omer (Department of Computer Engineering, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence), Masahiro Nishio (Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan), Angela P. Schoellig (Departm…

ARMimic: Learning Robotic Manipulation from Passive Human Demonstrations in Augmented Reality
Imitation learning is a powerful paradigm for robot skill acquisition, yet conventional demonstration methods--such as kinesthetic teaching and teleoperation--are cumbersome, hardware-heavy, and disruptive to workflows. Recently, passive observation using extended reality (XR) headsets has shown promise for egocentric demonstration collection, yet current approaches require additional hardware, complex calibration, or constrained recording conditions that limit scalability and usability. We pre…

Observability-driven Assignment of Heterogeneous Sensors for Multi-Target Tracking
Seyed Ali Rakhshan, Mehdi Golestani, He Kong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21309 https://

Observability-driven Assignment of Heterogeneous Sensors for Multi-Target Tracking
This paper addresses the challenge of assigning heterogeneous sensors (i.e., robots with varying sensing capabilities) for multi-target tracking. We classify robots into two categories: (1) sufficient sensing robots, equipped with range and bearing sensors, capable of independently tracking targets, and (2) limited sensing robots, which are equipped with only range or bearing sensors and need to at least form a pair to collaboratively track a target. Our objective is to optimize tracking qualit…

Singapore-based Neptune Robotics, which makes robots to clean the underside of giant ships, raised $52M and aims to use AI to help clean ~150 ships per month (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-29…

Robot Learning from Any Images
Siheng Zhao, Jiageng Mao, Wei Chow, Zeyu Shangguan, Tianheng Shi, Rong Xue, Yuxi Zheng, Yijia Weng, Yang You, Daniel Seita, Leonidas Guibas, Sergey Zakharov, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22970

Robot Learning from Any Images
We introduce RoLA, a framework that transforms any in-the-wild image into an interactive, physics-enabled robotic environment. Unlike previous methods, RoLA operates directly on a single image without requiring additional hardware or digital assets. Our framework democratizes robotic data generation by producing massive visuomotor robotic demonstrations within minutes from a wide range of image sources, including camera captures, robotic datasets, and Internet images. At its core, our approach …

Uber plans to launch its first robotaxi in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 2026, built on Lucid's Gravity SUV, after testing 100 cars in the coming months (Dee-Ann Durbin/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/uber-robotaxi-…

Uber to deploy Lucid-powered robotaxi fleet in San Francisco
Uber said Wednesday that the San Francisco Bay Area will be the first market for its specially built autonomous taxi, which is expected to launch in late 2026. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company said in July it was developing a robotaxi with the electric car company Lucid and the self-driving technology company Nuro Inc. Uber said it plans to have 100 test vehicles on the road in the coming months. Within six years, Uber plans to deploy 20,000 or more Lucid-based autonomous taxis in m…

International Federation of Robotics: Chinese factories installed ~300K new robots in 2024, more than the rest of the world combined; US factories installed 34K (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/business/ch…

There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined
China has embarked on a campaign to use more robots in its factories, transforming its manufacturing industries and becoming the dominant maker.