Humanoids, industrial automation, and robots leaving the lab.
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Rya Jetha / Business Insider ·
Many self-driving truck companies are trying to teach existing trucks to drive themselves. Humble Robotics thinks the truck itself needs a rethink.
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg ·
Agility Robotics Inc. is set to become the first dedicated humanoid company to go public in the US, marking a major milestone for the emerging category that still has a lot to prove.
David Keohane / Financial Times ·
Swiss-Swedish company's unit is focused on Chinese market and has mega-factory in Pudong
Reuters ·
After years of building humanoid robots capable of running, dancing and performing backflips, Chinese companies are pouring resources into a different challenge …
John Werner / Forbes ·
This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … When you look at some of what robotics companies are doing today …
Aaron Tilley / The Information ·
Apple's new CEO John Ternus wants the company to get serious about robots, but judging by Apple's plodding progress …
Jyoti Mann / The Information ·
Meta Platforms has built a prototype humanoid with Chinese robotics company Fourier and is already working on a second version …
John Collison / Cheeky Pint ·
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, joins John to break down how models uncovered critical PHP vulnerabilities …
Rocket Drew / The Information ·
Large companies have learned over the past couple years that they can get more mileage out of AI agents by rethinking their processes from scratch …
Bloomberg ·
Physical Intelligence, a startup developing artificial intelligence software to power robots for real-world tasks …
Rya Jetha / Business Insider ·
A London-based robotics startup is betting it can teach robots new tricks without collecting the mountains of real-world data its much bigger rivals are chasing.
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg ·
Bedrock Robotics Inc., a startup making driverless excavators and other autonomous construction machines, hit a $4.1 billion valuation in its latest funding round.
Financial Times ·
Japanese group uses 20 years of research to commercialise intelligent robots
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune ·
In 2018, Andreessen Horowitz made a splash in the venture capital world by launching a spin-off dedicated to digital assets called a16z Crypto.
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios ·
Formic, a physical AI commercialization platform, raised $50 million in financing, CEO Saman Farid tells Axios exclusively.
John Koetsier / Forbes ·
This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … Investors put $47.4 billion into physical AI in the first half of 2026 …
John Reynolds / Tech.eu ·
Enact Intelligence is building the underlying tech for general purpose robots.
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch ·
Reliable Robotics has been working for nearly a decade to commercialize autonomous flying technology that can be installed on existing aircraft.
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch ·
Robots still aren't that good at picking things up, despite billions of dollars of investment and endless videos fed into deep learning models.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg ·
Amazon.com Inc. said it will invest more than €16 billion ($17.9 billion) next year in Germany for operations including data centers …
John Koetsier / Forbes ·
This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … Want to make your dumb robot smart? $3 an hour is all it costs.
Bloomberg ·
SoftBank Group Corp. is considering an acquisition of Allied Universal, the largest security services company in the US …
Bloomberg ·
Advanced humanoid hardware is one of the strategic high-tech fields where China has an early lead over the US.
Reuters ·
Banking regulators are stepping up efforts to contain growing AI risks, six people familiar with the matter said …
Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica ·
No organization in the world operates more robots than Amazon. The company already has more than 1 million robots working …
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times ·
'Physical AI' developers are putting cameras in homes, offices and factories to fill a gap in the training material of robotics
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune ·
Finance editor Jeff John Roberts here. The explosive growth of the robotics industry in recent years is reflected in new technology feats …
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch ·
Mecka AI, a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots …
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg ·
Boston Dynamics appointed former Amazon.com Inc. executive Rohit Prasad as chief executive officer to lead the Hyundai Motor Co …
Colin Demarest / Axios ·
The U.S. Army is creating a new autonomous systems command and appointing an acquisition executive to prioritize buying …
Rya Jetha / Business Insider ·
- FieldAI is raising $700 million at a $10 billion valuation, up from $2 billion last year.
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal ·
Company, which uses robots for sorting and moving packages inside warehouses, is among world's top manufacturers of them
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE ·
Intrinsic Innovation LLC, the intelligent robotics software company owned by Google LLC's parent Alphabet Inc. …
Sophie Shulman / CTech ·
The Haifa-based robotics company grew rapidly after its spinout 14 months ago, and its CEO says independence allowed it to pursue opportunities …
Toby Sterling / Reuters ·
Around 7,000 humanoid robots were sold worldwide last year for industrial and professional service use, figures compiled by the International Federation of Robotics showed.
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg ·
Agility Robotics Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new humanoid that is designed to safely work in close proximity to people …
SemiAnalysis ·
Robot Models, Silicon & DRAM Efficiency, Jetson Thor vs. B300 TCO, Deployments, The Network Wall
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch ·
In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing
The Information ·
Chinese regulators are tightening the approval for humanoid startups seeking to go public after a volatile debut …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch ·
Krafton, the South Korean gaming company behind titles including PUBG and Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) …
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg ·
Lyte, a fast-growing robotics and artificial intelligence startup from top members of Apple Inc.'s Face ID team …
Kai Williams / Understanding AI ·
A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.
Rocket Drew / The Information ·
For all the talk of robots that look like humans, the next robots to move into people's houses could look more like ducks.
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal ·
Business in 'physical AI' is growing, and Chinese companies rely on U.S. chips and software
Paresh Dave / Wired ·
The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians …
Will Knight / Wired ·
The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.
Bloomberg ·
Artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face Inc. unveiled a singing $400 bipedal robot that can be taught tricks …
The Information ·
SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X Technologies, an OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer …
Skild AI ·
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Reuters ·
A roughly 45% slump in the shares of Unitree, China's best-known humanoid robot maker, since a more than fivefold jump …
Dan Primack / Axios ·
Generalist has quietly raised around $200 million in new funding, just two months after the robotics AI startup raised $400 million.
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal ·
Engineers and investors pile into world models, aka 'large action models,' to do for robotics what ChatGPT did for writing and coding
Reuters ·
China's Xpeng said on Monday its robotics business raised over $900 million in its first funding round, led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures …
Telegraph ·
Chinese humanoid called Tiangong Ultra nearly five seconds faster than 2016 Rio Olympic time
Financial Times ·
Beijing policymakers have made robotics a 'strategic priority'
Reuters ·
It is not quite the "RoboCop" of the 1987 movie: no gun, no power to arrest and wheels rather than the Hollywood cyborg's mechanical stride.
William Langley / Financial Times ·
Companies are selling machines to government-backed centres that then sell training data back to robot makers.
Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters ·
Velaura AI was valued at more than $1 billion on Tuesday after raising $110 million in a Series A funding round …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE ·
Gravis Robotics AG said today it has bagged $200 million in funding from SoftBank Group Corp. in what is the largest-ever Series A round for a construction robotics startup.
Zeyi Yang / Wired ·
The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?