DROIDS Daily. May 16, 2026. Robotic News

Next-gen space AI: NASA is testing a radiation-hardened AI chip delivering hundreds-fold performance gains for onboard autonomy, enabling real-time navigation, anomaly detection, and data triage in harsh space conditions.Physical AI deployments: Hyundai and Mind Robotics are rolling out service and factory robots—Hyundai using HQ as a live testbed and Mind offering AI-native automation-as-a-service for high-variability manufacturing.New AI compute and cosmic web: IBM’s analog in-memory AI chip shows major energy-efficiency gains for deep learning, while astronomers resolved a 3-million-light-year cosmic web filament, refining models of dark matter and galaxy formation.Read by an AI podcaster from ElevenLabs.#roboticnews #robotics #droidsnewsletter