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China's Unitree Robotics launched its IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market, seeking to raise about 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) by pricing 40.45 million new shares at 150.80 yuan each, giving the company a…
Hanwha Group launched Hanwha Machinery and Service Holdings (M&S) on Aug. 3, placing Kim Dong-seon, president and head of future strategy, in charge of a holding company that includes seven key subsidiaries and 57 compan…
Chinese manufacturers captured over 97% of global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026, with total shipments reaching approximately 19,100 units, up from about 5,100 units a year earlier, according to IT Ho…
Kevin Kelly says the next step for AI is spatial intelligence, as current models fail in robot bodies due to a lack of gravity, distance, and three-dimensional space understanding. He identifies the primary bottleneck as…
Chinese robot maker Unitree, formally known as Yushu Technology, has triggered an unprecedented retail investor frenzy for its $900 million Shanghai IPO, which was oversubscribed by 8,000 times, according to an August 10…
Humanoid robotics is hard because robots must simultaneously perceive, decide, move, and adapt, with the long-term competitive edge hinging on building a strong loop between physical operation, data collection, analysis,…
TLabel, an open-source project, has released a CLI and adapter architecture through v0.18.x that unifies nine tactile dataset formats and three real-time sensor interfaces into a single semantic schema. The tool defines …
Researchers introduced LUCID, a hierarchical model-based reinforcement learning framework for long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation, which plans over reusable skills via imagined rollouts of a learned dynamics model. I…
A new AI Scientist research loop, built on Karpathy's autoresearch paradigm, prevents drift in quadruped robot navigation experiments by using an immutable experiment card, specialized subagents, and a preference oracle …
Unitree Robotics' Shanghai STAR Market IPO drew 9.8 million bids for just 9.7 million shares, with the company expected to list at a valuation of about $9 billion and an IPO price of $22.34 per share. The Hangzhou-based …
Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO was 5,526 times subscribed by retail buyers, with individual investors submitting 9.8 million orders, according to an exchange filing on Monday. The Hangzhou-based company sold 40.4 million…
Chinese companies are currently leading in humanoid robot sales, but the long-term competition for dominance is still in its early stages, according to a Forbes analysis by John Koetsier. The report highlights that while…
SolarAnywhere's satellite-derived irradiance data is being used by Piotr Lichota at Warsaw University of Technology to model flight duration probabilities for solar-assisted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), enabling risk…
CATL, the world's largest battery maker, announced that its aviation battery system for passenger eVTOL aircraft passed a key safety test, becoming the world's first aviation battery system using prismatic cells with an …
Hadrian Automation raised $1.37 billion in new equity financing to accelerate U.S. defense and aerospace manufacturing, bringing its valuation to $7.87 billion. The Torrance, Calif.-based company, founded in 2020, uses A…
OpenAI's AI policy advisor Dean Ball, who previously served in the Trump administration, is reportedly no longer trusted by White House officials, straining the company's relationship with the administration, according t…
TetraGen Robotics, a Winnipeg-based autonomous welding robotics company, has raised $1.8 million CAD in an oversubscribed seed round led by Calgary's StepChange Capital, with participation from Vancouver's Emend Vision F…
Archer Aviation's stock rose after agreeing to acquire Boeing's Wisk Aero, SkyGrid, and Insitu subsidiaries, with Boeing receiving newly issued Archer stock equal to 19.75% of shares outstanding and investing up to $55 m…
Chuck Brooks reports in Forbes that the convergence of AI with robotics, biotechnology, neuromorphic computing, and brain-computer interfaces is accelerating innovation, ushering in a 'cyborg horizon' that blurs the line…
Dyna Robotics introduced DYNA-2, a robot foundation model trained on more than 1 million hours of first-person human video, on August 10, 2026. The company reported that success rates on high-precision manufacturing task…