A developer launched a public index that scores weekly AI news activity, reporting that the week ending 5 Oct 2026 read near its recent baseline at 21 points below the prior week while the current bas…
Boston Dynamics announced a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot, built for mass production in the tens or hundreds of thousands rather than research use. The new hand increases degrees of freedom from…
Persona AI is partnering with HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, HD Hyundai Robotics and Posco to deploy bipedal humanoid robots in South Korean shipyards and steelmaking, with a prototype …
Hyundai Motor Group opened the Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) in Georgia, a training and testing facility for Boston Dynamics' Atlas huma…
LS Electric has deployed two of Boston Dynamics' four-legged Spot robots into regular operation at its Busan plant, its main production site for ultrahigh-voltage transformers, following a roughly two…
Boston Dynamics opened its Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Georgia, a permanent testbed and training facility for integrating Atlas humanoid ro…
IEEE Spectrum published a multi-part explainer examining when humanoid robots will reach homes, tracing the field from Honda's Asimo and iRobot's Roomba through modern machines such as Tesla's Optimus…
Tens of thousands of Indian gig workers are earning about $2.62 an hour to wear head-mounted cameras and film themselves performing tasks such as stripping labels, stitching shoes, and welding steel, …
Seoul Metropolitan Government will host Smart Life Week 2026 from Oct. 6 to 8 at COEX, expecting more than 70,000 visitors and participation from over 500 cities and companies. The event, themed 'Desi…
Two Boston Dynamics veterans, CEO Marc Theermann and CTO Farbod Farshidian, have launched Dynamic Creatures, a company focused on creating robotic characters for entertainment, with backing from inves…
Dynamic Creatures, a startup cofounded by former Boston Dynamics chief strategy officer Marc Theermann and AI researcher Farbod Farshidian, is building cute companion robots like Danielle, a poodle-li…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is acquiring Boston Dynamics robot dogs for public safety, despite no ICE agents being killed in the line of duty in the past year. Flock Safety's AI-pow…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to spend up to $2 million on Boston Dynamics' SPOT robots, four-legged machines equipped with cameras and Wi-Fi that can travel at speeds up to abo…
An AI engineer asked the Hacker News community for advice on learning robotics in depth in 2026/2027, citing basic hardware knowledge from 12-13 years ago and minimal experience with Boston Dynamics k…
A humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre, sprinted 100 metres in 8.86 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, surpassing Usain Bol…
Unitree, China's best-known humanoid robot maker, saw its shares slump 45% since its Aug 19 Shanghai debut after a more than fivefold surge, sparking concerns about bubble risk and flaws in the IPO sy…
Hyundai Motor and its labor union reached a tentative wage agreement on Tuesday, ending a dispute that disrupted production of about 55,200 vehicles and caused sales losses exceeding 2.3 trillion won.…
Unitree, China's best-known humanoid robot maker, has lost roughly 45% of its value since its Shanghai debut, wiping about $30 billion from its peak valuation of $66 billion and sparking fears of a bu…
Generalist AI, a San Mateo startup founded in 2024 by former DeepMind and Boston Dynamics alumni, has raised approximately $200 million in fresh funding led by 8VC, bringing its total capital to over …
ACE Robotics Chairman Wang Xiaogang predicts embodied AI could reach its 'ChatGPT moment' by the end of 2027, driven by world models and environmental data capture. The Chinese startup, founded in Jul…