Humanoid robotics companies have raised billions of dollars in the past 18 months, but a majority of that funding is quietly paying humans to operate robots via teleoperation, creating a data problem …
Palm Garden AI has developed Coherence Guard, a platform-agnostic relational decision layer for human-facing robots that evaluates whether an action is relationally coherent before execution, accordin…
Deise Yumi Asami, founder of AI-enabled robotics startup Maximo, discussed on The Robot Report Podcast how her company's robotic platform is accelerating utility-scale solar construction by automating…
Walden Robotics emerged from stealth with $300 million in funding at a $1.1 billion valuation to build general-purpose robots that continuously learn and improve. The startup, spun out of Toyota Resea…
Icarus Robotics has selected KULR Technology Group to supply KULR ONE Space (K1S) battery systems for JOY, its autonomous free-flying platform scheduled to travel to the International Space Station in…
Robotics teams are increasingly using high-fidelity simulation environments, or 'virtual gyms,' to train and validate robots before real-world deployment, addressing the high cost, risk, and limited v…
Path Robotics CEO Andy Lonsberry discussed on The Robot Report Podcast how the company uses AI and real-time vision guidance to optimize robotic welding, including deploying Boston Dynamics' Spot robo…
XTEND Reality Inc., a provider of AI-powered robots for hazardous environments, secured a U.S. patent for autonomous navigation technology that enables drones to continuously navigate toward operator-…
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…
NVIDIA and Hugging Face are collaborating to bring the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T 1.7 model and Isaac Teleop framework to LeRobot, Hugging Face's open-source robotics library, aiming to provide developers wit…
ENCY Software Ltd. partnered with Stäubli International AG to integrate its ENCY Robot software with Stäubli's industrial robots, aiming to simplify robot programming for tasks like milling and polish…
HIVE, a London-based physical AI startup, raised $15 million in pre-Series A funding to build an intelligence layer for industrial machines. The company retrofits vehicles with a silicon brain that en…
RoboBusiness 2026, scheduled for Oct. 20-21 in Santa Clara, Calif., has opened its call for speakers with a deadline of July 8, 2026. The event will feature tracks on Physical AI, humanoids, field rob…
London-based Humanoid introduced KinetIQ Ascend, a reinforcement learning approach that achieved up to 99% success rates and doubled throughput in industrial manipulation tasks. The company aims to be…
The Automate 2026 trade show highlighted the robotics industry's shift from humanoid hype to practical deployment of physical AI and edge computing, with companies like ABB, FANUC, and Siemens showcas…
Luxonis raised $14 million in Series A funding led by Denali Growth Partners to scale production of its OAK cameras and advance its physical AI perception layer. The company plans to expand commercial…
Humanoid robots and large funding rounds dominated robotics news in June 2026, with Agility Robotics announcing a SPAC merger to go public, NEURA Robotics raising up to $1.4B for physical AI, and Stan…
Apptronik unveiled Apollo 2, an updated humanoid robot available in bipedal and wheeled-base configurations, and opened Robot Park, a flagship data collection and training facility in Austin, Texas. T…
London-based robotics startup morph embeds sensing and adaptive control directly into reconfigurable deformable materials, creating soft robotic cells that can change shape and stiffness in real time.…
Bear Robotics acquired Kinisi Robotics to boost its physical AI capabilities, as announced on The Robot Report Podcast. Kinisi Robotics founder Bren Pierce, a humanoid robotics Ph.D. from TUM, has rai…