The Robot Report's top 10 robotics stories of July 2026 highlight major funding rounds, new robot models, and a significant U.S. policy change on robotics imports. AI² Robotics raised about $735 milli…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, Gemini Robotics ER 2, and Gemini Robotics On-Device 2 on July 30, marking the first vision-language-action model to control a full humanoid end-to-end, demo…
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 model now controls the Apollo 2 humanoid robot from Apptronik with whole-body coordination, enabling walking, crouching, and fine fingertip actions. The model exten…
Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid robot demonstrated fine-motor tasks and kitchen chores using Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 vision-language-action model on July 30, with the system achieving a 68.4…
Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini Robotics 2.0, an AI robotics platform with enhanced dexterity, long-horizon planning, and multi-robot collaboration capabilities, pushing toward what the company ca…
Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, adding whole-body humanoid control to its robotics AI stack. According to DeepMind, the vision-language-action model can translate vision and lan…
Google DeepMind announced on Thursday that its Gemini Robotics 2 AI model can now control entire humanoid robots, enabling whole-body motions from feet to fingertips. The update allows robots like App…
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 system combines vision, language, and action models to control humanoid robots performing tasks like organizing shelves and replacing lightbulbs, marking a mileston…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a single model that unifies locomotion and manipulation for humanoid robots, eliminating the previous split between walking and arm-control systems. The mod…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of AI models that can control a humanoid robot from its feet to its fingertips, coordinate multiple machines, and adapt to a new robot body in a fe…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2, an AI robotics model that enables multi-robot collaboration and real-time planning through temporal intelligence, achieving 91.3% accuracy for moment fin…
Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, a three-model stack for planning, motor control and local inference across robot bodies including humanoids and dual-arm workstations, with the f…
Google launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied reasoning model that helps robots understand surroundings, communicate, and complete complex physical tasks in real time, available through the Gemini…
Google has launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model that serves as a robot's high-level planner while a separate model handles motors, available to developers through the Gemini API …
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a new AI model that can control a range of robots including humanoids capable of tasks like screwing in lightbulbs and tying trash bags. The system combines…
RoboStrategy's tokenized shares on Solana outtraded the underlying Nasdaq-listed stock on a Sunday, with the fund's CEO Andrew Kang calling it the 'MicroStrategy of robotics.' The closed-end fund, whi…
AI² Robotics, a Shenzhen-based company, secured $735 million in funding, boosting its valuation to $2.8 billion. The company focuses on wheeled humanoid robots, prioritizing durability and affordabili…
AI² Robotics raised $735 million at a $2.8 billion valuation for its wheeled humanoid robots, positioning the Shenzhen-based company among leaders in China's physical AI sector. The funding, backed by…
Google DeepMind announced on July 6 that real-world data from Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid robots will train its Gemini Robotics AI models. Apptronik's new 90,000-square-foot Robot Park in Austin col…
Apptronik unveiled Apollo 2, a humanoid robot designed for real-world industrial tasks, alongside the opening of its expanded Robot Park in Austin, Texas. The robot, available in bipedal and wheeled v…