China's humanoid robot industry is shifting from viral demonstrations to proving economic viability, with manufacturers like Unitree, UBTech, and Zhiyuan Robotics under pressure to show real-world job…
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree surged 460% in its Shanghai IPO on Wednesday, raising 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in the first mainland China robotics public debut. The Hangzhou-based firm, b…
Virtuals Protocol launched Eastworlds in late February 2026, a robotics accelerator and deployment lab that pairs humanoid robots with real-world teams to generate training data for its tokenized AI e…
Chinese robot developer Unitree surged 460% on its first day of trading on Wednesday, marking the first pure-play robotics company to go public in mainland China. The Hangzhou-based maker of AI-powere…
Samsung Foundry is raising chip manufacturing prices by up to 15% for new customers, targeting its 4nm, 5nm, and select 8nm nodes, as its division achieved monthly profitability for the first time in …
Chinese robotics maker Unitree surged 600% in a dramatic rally reported by Reuters' podcast 'Robot Rally,' which highlighted the move as a key market event amid high bond yields and delayed U.S. tarif…
Tesla began rolling out software update 2026.14.13 on July 31, embedding ByteDance's Doubao large language model into all Tesla vehicles sold in China, including Model 3, Model Y, Model S, and Model X…
Swedish journalist Niklas Ekdal criticizes the country's political focus on trivialities during the election campaign while ignoring the AI revolution, contrasting it with Elon Musk's vision of AI sur…
Xiaomi will publicly debut its robot at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, running from Aug. 19 to Aug. 23, confirmed by President Lu Weibing during an earnings call. The company will not sel…
Einride plans to deploy 500 Tesla Semis across North America, tripling its electric-truck fleet, with deployments starting in September 2026 and continuing over 24 months. The trucks will serve Amazon…
A Tesla Robotaxi operating without a safety monitor drove through a row of bollards in Austin, Texas, on Monday, less than a month after Tesla's head of AI claimed the program had an 'impeccable safet…
Tesla received its largest order yet for the all-electric Class 8 Semi: a 500-unit order from Swedish trucking company Einride AB, announced on August 18, 2026. Einride will deploy the Semis on its Sa…
Tesla capped employee AI spending at $200 per week after six months of ranking engineers on internal AI leaderboards by token usage, joining Uber, Meta, Amazon, and Walmart in reversing course on unli…
Unitree, a Chinese robotics firm set to go public at a $9 billion valuation on Wednesday, unveiled a new 'Superman' humanoid robot on Monday that it says can reach a top speed of 12.66 meters per seco…
Einride will deploy 500 Tesla Semi trucks on its Saga AI fleet management platform in North America, tripling its electric truck fleet to 750 units. The rollout, starting September 2026, will serve Am…
Einride AB plans to deploy 500 Tesla electric trucks across its North American operations over the next two years, starting in September 2026, in what would be the largest rollout of heavy-duty electr…
Grounded EVs, a Detroit-based startup founded by SpaceX alum Sam Shapiro, announced on August 18 that it secured $5 million in seed funding to expand beyond its electric RVs into electric box trucks, …
Australian electronics engineer Anthony has fully disconnected from the grid, using a 14 kW solar array, a GoodWe 29.9 kW three-phase inverter, and two Tesla Model 3 LFP 60 kWh batteries to power his …
Sunrun Inc. (Nasdaq: RUN) announced an agreement with Voltus to supply energy capacity from residential storage-plus-solar systems in the PJM and MISO grid regions to support Voltus's Bring Your Own C…
Neil Warner traded his Tesla Model Y Performance for a Polestar 4 Long Range Dual Motor in February 2025, citing the Polestar's quieter ride, refined interior, and one-pedal driving as key reasons. Wa…