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West Valley College in Saratoga introduces its first bachelor's degree program in land stewardship and sustainability, tuition-free, eliminating the need for students to transfer to a four-year university. The program bu…
Struggling robot security company Knightscope, whose stock has fallen over 99% since 2022 and whose K5 robots have been involved in multiple mishaps, is now publishing bizarre AI-generated fan fiction depicting its robot…
Two of Apple's biggest Chinese suppliers, Luxshare Precision and Lingyi iTech, are racing to raise billions in Hong Kong to pivot from smartphone parts to AI hardware and humanoid robots. Luxshare is seeking about $3bn i…
Defense-factory startup Hadrian Automation is in talks to raise up to $1 billion at a $7.5 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg, though the company denies the report. The potential round would more than quadruple it…
Mantis Robotics launched the MR-X, a biomimetic dual-arm robot designed to operate without safety fences, using embedded physical AI to work alongside humans. The robot, built on the company's SafetyCore platform, can li…
Altus Schools, a San Diego-area charter chain, purchased two Ameca humanoid robots from Engineered Arts for $500,000, deploying one at Altus Charter School of San Diego as an instructional aide. The robots integrate Chat…
Apple supplier Luxshare Precision Industry passed a hearing for a Hong Kong listing on Tuesday, moving closer to joining other mainland Chinese tech firms on the HKEX. The Shenzhen-based company, a key assembler of AirPo…
Hydrix has been engaged by US-based Quantanosis Ai to support the preliminary development of a next-generation robotic stroke treatment platform that combines advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and histotripsy u…
Anthropic used Claude Opus 4.7 to teach a quadruped robot to walk 37 times faster than a human team, while Nvidia shipped a spatial-reasoning framework for vision models, Tesla pushed modular data-center hardware, and Sa…
Greek robotics startup Acumino raised $11.7 million in seed funding to scale commercial deployments of its hardware-agnostic physical AI for dexterous industrial automation tasks. The company was selected by Google DeepM…
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03B at a $3.5B valuation to build world models using JEPA, signaling a shift from LLMs to physics-aware AI. NVIDIA's Cosmos platform, trained on 20 million hours of real-world data, provid…
Japan is racing to leverage its manufacturing expertise to lead in physical AI, systems that enable robots to autonomously support human workers. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced plans to use decades of operationa…
Computer scientist Louis Castricato left his PhD at Brown University to found Overworld, a startup building AI 'world models' that understand physical environments, as a growing number of researchers pivot from language …
Researchers propose ObsGraph, a hierarchical scene graph that unifies scene representation, retrieval, and exploration for embodied reasoning. The system organizes visual evidence into room-view-object layers and uses co…
Researchers introduced OmniPath, a multi-modal agentic framework that audits wheelchair accessibility by fusing OpenStreetMap data with aerial LiDAR to create high-fidelity 3D models. The system analyzes pedestrian surfa…
Hyundai Motor Group announced plans to buy SoftBank Group's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, making the robotics firm a wholly owned subsidiary. The acquisition follows SoftBank's exercise of a …
China's medical AI achieved two milestones: Shanghai MicroPort MedBot's Toumai Remote surgical robot received EU CE mark approval, and Baichuan-M4 clinical AI topped OpenAI's HealthBench benchmark. The Toumai robot, whic…
Arm Holdings PLC's executive vice president of Physical AI Business Unit, Drew Henry, discussed the company's strategies for physical AI and robotics on The Robot Report Podcast. Arm is focusing on safe, power-efficient …
Vention Inc. announced partnerships with FANUC America and Universal Robots at Automate 2025, expanding support for industrial and collaborative robots through its AI-powered software-defined automation platform. The com…
CreateMe Technologies partnered with Avalo and Laguna Fabrics to launch Seed to System, an initiative connecting climate-smart cotton, domestic textile manufacturing, and robotic garment assembly into an AI-assisted ecos…