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The Autonomous Driving Mobility Expo 2026 (AME 2026) is scheduled for August 25-27 at Coex Hall B in Seoul, featuring more than 60 exhibitors and 150 booths across autonomous-driving systems, AI software, robots, and mob…
The 2026 Autonomous Mobility Expo (AME) will be held Tuesday through Thursday at Coex in Hall B, Seoul, co-hosted by Coex and the Korea Association of Autonomous Mobility Industry, organizers said Monday. The event will …
Unitree, the Hangzhou-based robotics company, priced its Shanghai IPO at 150.8 yuan per share, aiming to raise 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million), becoming the first mainland-listed humanoid robot maker. Founded in 2016 by …
Sony Semiconductor Solutions and TSMC signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding on May 8, 2026, to form a joint venture in Japan targeting next-generation image sensors for autonomous vehicles and robotics, with m…
Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai IPO at 150.80 yuan a share on August 6, valuing China's leading humanoid robot maker at roughly $9 billion, with DeepSeek and state oil giant CNPC buying in as strategic investors. Th…
NASA's decision to pause the Gateway lunar-orbit station is redirecting Northrop Grumman's HALO module and Canada's Canadarm3 robotic system toward potential lunar-surface base roles. NASA issued a stop-work order on Nor…
Developer Afrid Thenabanda has released EdgeAI Forge, an early-stage local-first agentic AI platform for physical AI, machine vision, robotics, ROS 2, PLC integration, and edge deployment. The platform routes frequent an…
Analog Devices Inc. has renewed its commitment as a strategic sponsor of MassRobotics, the Boston-based robotics startup accelerator, to support hardware and robotics startups. ADI, which reported revenue of more than $1…
Show Robotics founder Laurent Genoud revealed that his live-streaming robot Vita, which began as animatronic eyes in July 2023, is designed for entertainment and to study long-term human-robot interaction, with some view…
A 2024 study of nearly 9 million U.S. death certificates found that taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer's disease among 443 occupations, with about 1 in 100 dying from it compared with …
Beta Technologies unveiled the MV250, an autonomous hybrid-electric cargo aircraft, at the Farnborough Airshow in July, designed for military logistics. The MV250 can carry up to 2,000 pounds of cargo within a 250-nautic…
Billion-dollar robotics startups including Figure AI, Sunday Robotics, and Weave Robotics are focusing on laundry-folding robots as a first commercial home task, leveraging AI advances and cheaper hardware to overcome pa…
Hugging Face's LeRobot documentation recommends at least 50 demonstration episodes, roughly 10 per location, for training an ACT model, but the original ACT/ALOHA results show success rates ranging from 64% to 96% across…
Robot dogs with AI cameras are replacing human security guards in the US, cutting costs by $80,000 to $130,000 per year per 24/7 shift, according to Business Insider. Asylon CEO Damon Henry has deployed about 50 robots a…
Beatbot's AquaSense X, an AI-powered, self-cleaning pool robot with a self-cleaning charge base, is now available for $3,999, down from its $4,250 MSRP. The robot features a 13,400 mAh battery, up to 10 hours of surface …
At YC Paper Club's robotics edition, researchers presented findings on embodied memory, self-supervised reasoning, dexterous sim-to-real tool use, and world action models, while Francois Chaubard noted that despite a dec…
At RoboBusiness 2026, taking place Oct. 20 and 21 in Santa Clara, Calif., industry leaders will reflect on the past two decades of robotics and explore the technologies, markets, opportunities, and challenges shaping the…
Estonian startup Rollo Robotics has unveiled 1Rollo, a soccer-ball-shaped security robot with an AI-integrated 360-degree camera, which the company claims is the world's first mono wheel robot and can reduce labor costs …
Aternium, a startup, announced on August 4 that its first deuterium/green hydrogen facility will be built at Garrison Oak Technical Park in Dover, Delaware, pending property sale closure later this year. The facility wil…
Nomagic's general manager for North America, Josh Cloer, discussed the company's expansion into the region on The Robot Report Podcast, highlighting how physical AI systems are improving order-fulfillment operations. The…