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The WEEDINATOR, an open-source autonomous weeding platform built by the GOAT INDUSTRIES team, has reached a milestone as an effective horticultural instrument after nearly a decade of development. Based on a modified Ise…
JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong announced at the 2026 APEC China CEO Forum that the company has launched an internal Nirvana Plan to retrain its 700,000 delivery workers for a future where robots handle all deliveries. JD.c…
Apple supplier Lingyi iTech is seeking up to HK$8.3 billion (US$1.1 billion) in a Hong Kong IPO to fund expansion into AI hardware and humanoid robotics. The Shenzhen-listed components maker plans to debut on Friday, off…
Humble Robotics emerged from stealth with a $24 million seed round and a prototype for a cabless, battery-electric autonomous freight hauler. The round was led by Eclipse with participation from Energy Impact Partners. T…
Renji John's second greenhouse robotics startup, Eternal.ag, has raised about $10 million to deploy autonomous tomato harvesters in high-tech greenhouses, targeting labor shortages in repetitive crop work. The Cologne-ba…
Shift, a startup founded by former Formula One engineer Bercan Kilic, sent camera-wearing cleaners and a chef into a New York apartment to record household tasks for free, testing whether first-person video data can offs…
Hong Kong opens its first convenience store operated entirely by a single humanoid robot, named Xiao Gai, built by Beijing-based AI and robotics firm Galbot. The 24-hour pop-up store, located on the Hung Hom waterfront, …
HanmiGlobal, South Korea's leading construction project management company, convened global industry leaders at its 30th anniversary AI summit to discuss how artificial intelligence will transform project management and …
A 30-person LG Group delegation, including LG CNS CEO Hyun Shin-gyoon and LG Electronics CTO Kim Byoung-hoon, will visit Nvidia headquarters on Monday to negotiate cooperation in physical AI and robotics. The visit follo…
Senior executives from LG Group affiliates will visit Nvidia's headquarters to discuss cooperation in physical AI and robotics, following a recent meeting between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and LG Chairman Koo Kwang-mo. The…
The Los Altos History Museum will host an Apricot STEM Fair on June 28, featuring activities on natural science and artificial intelligence, including robotics, DNA extraction from apricots, and binary code writing. The …
China's AI capabilities and mass production strengths position it to lead in agricultural robotics, similar to its success in electric vehicles, according to GrainCore Dynamics founder Zhao Feng. The nation's aging agric…
Robotics teams are rebuilding data infrastructure from scratch to support scaling laws for robot learning, as existing tools cannot handle the multi-rate, multimodal data required. This 'data layer tax' slows iteration, …
Seeed Studio's reCamera Gimbal has been upgraded with an AI agent that understands natural language, controls hardware, generates code, and plans multi-step tasks, transforming the passive camera into an intelligent assi…
Senior LG Group executives will meet Nvidia officials at Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, to discuss physical AI and robotics, following a recent meeting between LG Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and Nvidia CEO J…
Tests of AI-driven robot systems showed they rejected direct malicious commands but accepted dangerous instructions embedded in creative narrative language, revealing a safety gap in language-based planning. The vulnerab…
German startup MicroAGI is offering free apartment cleanings in New York City through its Shift app, with cleaners wearing head-mounted cameras to record first-person footage. The anonymized video is used as training dat…
A developer argues that the primary bottleneck for physical AI is not data but the lack of standardized forms and interfaces for robots to interact with the physical world. The post emphasizes that without a common frame…
Former Nvidia executives Greg Estes, Devang Sachdev, Vishal Lulla, and Jeff Brown launched EverGreen, a community of ex-Nvidia employees that advises and invests in AI startups, formally debuting in March. The network, n…
Sonar+D's 2026 exhibition at Barcelona's Llotja de Mar features 38 works combining AI, robotics, and immersive art, including Volvox Labs' Astral Twin robotic arms and Superbe's from0 sound installation. Google DeepMind'…