#NIST

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Rendering of a proposed apparatus for standardized testing of humanoid robot capabilities.

NIST proposes baseline benchmark for humanoid robots as investment race accelerates

NIST has proposed a standardized, low-footprint benchmark for humanoid locomotion and manipulation, aiming to create a common way to evaluate commercially relevant robot capabilities.

Key Takeaways

NIST says its proposal is the first standardized humanoid benchmark since the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge.
The benchmark focuses on low-footprint locomotion and manipulation tasks.

DT Editorial Team·May 30, 2026·via therobotreport.com

A New Big G Measurement Could Help Physics End One of Its Oldest Experimental Fights

Researchers have produced an unusually careful new measurement of the gravitational constant, offering a potential path toward resolving the long-running mismatch between experiments.

Key Takeaways

Researchers produced a highly controlled new measurement of the gravitational constant.
The work revisits the torsion-balance method with modern calibration and a decade of uncertainty analysis.

DT Editorial Team·Apr 25, 2026·via newscientist.com