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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…
Tacta Systems launched TactaBot, a robotic hand system combining the Tacta Hand, Skill Capture system, and Dexterous Intelligence AI model, targeting high-skilled manufacturing work. The hand features five fingers with 1…
Wayve, a developer of Embodied AI technology founded in 2017, is hiring a Roboticist for its Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team in Sunnyvale, with a salary of $184k–240k/yr. The role involves building and oper…
Australian startups Breaker, Brumby, and Superstat have raised successful funding rounds by building moats beyond software, according to a report. Breaker, founded in 2023, raised A$9 million in seed funding in February …
OpenAI is developing a doughnut-shaped smart speaker priced over $300, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The device, which includes moving parts, lights, cameras, and sensors, is designed to learn from users over tim…
Physical AI, the integration of AI into autonomous systems that perceive and act in the physical world, is projected by PwC to grow from about $92 billion to surpass $489 billion by 2030, with use cases spanning manufact…
PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a pre-A funding round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners. The months-old company is developing household robots for tasks incl…
Cisco Systems Inc. is partnering with software providers including WaitTime, Proto Hologram, and Artly to deploy AI-powered retail solutions on Cisco infrastructure, enabling stores to observe, interact, and act in real …
ROSA, a robotics foundation model serving system for robot factories, improves factory productivity by up to 12.06x over conventional dedicated serving systems, according to a paper proposing the system. ROSA uses shared…
A 2026 comparison of Amazon Redshift alternatives finds ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks each optimized for different workloads, with ClickHouse leading in real-time, high-concurrency analytics and Snowfla…
Avnet and Weston Robot launched a real-time autonomous inspection platform for factory floors, powered by quadruped robots and Avnet's edge computing architecture with up to 50 TOPS of AI performance. The platform, based…
A SpaceX Falcon rocket's upper stage slammed into the moon on Wednesday as predicted, after drifting off course for a year, scientists reported. A telescope in Chile spotted the debris plume, and Boston University's Carl…
Xiaomi released the code and weights for Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a 5 billion-parameter vision-language-action model, on August 5th under the Apache 2.0 license, making it available for robotics teams to inspect and adapt. The…
Chinese startups raised over $16 billion in Q1 2026, with robotics startups alone pulling in $5.6 billion through 176 deals by mid-May, surpassing all of 2025, as investors shift focus to world models and robotics. Key r…
President Donald Trump's 'American Energy Dominance' plan, which supports biomass alongside fossil fuels, is benefiting sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects, including the Montana Renewables facility in Great Falls, …
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature a new Real World AI Stage, focusing on the intersection of AI with physical systems, including autonomous vehicles, defense technologies, and de-extinction efforts. The stage will inc…
Beatbot's AquaSense X AI robotic pool cleaner, priced at $4,250, offers hands-free maintenance with its AstroRinse station that automatically empties and rinses the filter, and features AI-powered mapping, 6,800 gallons …
Mitsubishi Motors and Tokyo startup Highlanders Inc. plan to mass-produce AI-powered humanoid robots at Mitsubishi's Kyoto plant, targeting 1,000 units per month by the end of 2027. The robots will be assembled on an unu…
SpaceX shares fell more than 5% after its first earnings report as a public company showed stronger-than-expected revenue of $7.8 billion but revealed $18.4 billion in capital expenditure, including nearly $16 billion on…