The Federal Communications Commission added advanced robotic devices and connected power inverters to its Covered List on Tuesday, effectively banning new imports of foreign-made robots and inverters …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on advanced foreign-made robots, including humanoid and quadruped models, citing national security risks. The ban targets robots from China, …
The Trump administration will announce import bans on Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots and connected power inverters, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday, aiming to protect the U.S…
In Episode 254 of The Robot Report Podcast, Doug Pagnutti, developer advocate at Tiger Data, discussed how time series databases like TimescaleDB improve industrial automation, robotics, and AI applic…
Unitree Robotics founder and CEO Wang Xingxing unveiled the GD01, the world's first mass-produced, transformable mecha robot, standing 9 ft. tall and weighing half a ton, capable of carrying a human p…
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, is reportedly preparing a Hong Kong IPO within six months after closing a funding round valuing the startup at over $30 billion, while Dee…
Alibaba DAMO Academy released RynnBrain 1.1, a 122B-parameter embodied foundation model that beats closed-source models on three spatial reasoning leaderboards. Nvidia open-sourced Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4B…
Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said artificial intelligence can become a "game changer" for the country's economy, projecting Indonesia's digital economy pot…
A humanoid robot's cost breakdown shows precision reducers (21%), motors (19%), lead screws (19%), sensors (14%), controllers (12%), and structural parts (10%) account for 95% of its ¥350,000 ($51,707…
Nvidia's new Jetson AGX Thor module cuts the physical footprint of its robotics supercomputer roughly in half while delivering 7.5 times the AI performance of its predecessor, the Jetson AGX Orin, acc…
MIT researchers propose B-spline Policy (BSP), which parameterizes robot actions as continuous curves to speed up manipulation policy inference. The method reduces compute overhead by predicting B-spl…
NVIDIA's GR00T N1.6 introduces a reasoning-before-action architecture for robots, shifting from reactive to planning-based AI. Unitree's humanoid robot price dropped to $25,000 in 2026, down from $85,…
Ant Group's robotics unit Robbyant open-sourced an entire robot brain over four days, including the LingBot-World 2.0 world model that generates interactive 3D environments for an hour, and the LingBo…
Three humanoid robotics companies moved toward public markets in a single week: Agility Robotics filed to go public via SPAC at $2.5 billion, Unitree cleared its Shanghai IPO, and Tesla began converti…
The first Shanghai International Embodied Intelligence Expo (CIEI 2026) opened July 2, 2026, at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai, featuring nearly 200 robotics and AI companie…
Swiss startup Flexion Robotics, founded by ex-Nvidia researchers, has developed an AI system that trains humanoid robots to autonomously perform complex office tasks like retrieving packages and using…
Chinese AI and chip companies Moore Threads, MetaX, and Biren Technology have raised billions in IPOs on the Shanghai STAR Market and Hong Kong Exchange, with first-day gains exceeding 400% and oversu…
Chinese humanoid robots are competing in a penalty kick challenge at MWC Shanghai, testing autonomous perception, balance, and motion planning without human control. The event, timed with the 2026 FIF…
IO-AI Tech, a Shenzhen startup, lets workers remotely control humanoid robots using VR headsets and motion-tracking gear for tasks like stocking shelves, while also gathering training data for future …
On April 19, 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best robot time from 2025 by almost two hour…