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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…
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform, featuring the Arm-based Vera CPU, is moving into production with support from 300 global partners, and early results from CoreWeave show it delivering 10 times more throughput per megawatt t…
CAST AI's 2026 Kubernetes Efficiency Report found CPU overprovisioning jumped from 40% to 69% year over year, and Karpenter's disruption system—consolidation, drift, and expiration—can recover that waste but requires gua…
Xiaomi open-sourced its embodied-AI foundation model Xiaomi-Robotics-1 on Aug. 5, covering the full process from real-robot post-training to model deployment and including benchmark evaluation code. The model was pretrai…
China's state-run People's Daily on Wednesday condemned U.S. technology restrictions as 'unilateral bullying' and 'discriminatory suppression' against Chinese firms, urging Washington to expand cooperation instead of add…
Kaiwang Data, a Chinese provider of data infrastructure for embodied AI, has completed a strategic funding round of more than RMB100 million, led by Beijing E-Town Industrial Upgrade Fund, Huafang Capital, and Skyline Ca…
PCMag's 2026 best robot vacuum list names the Ecovacs Deebot X8 Pro Omni as the top 2-in-1 vacuum and mop hybrid, citing its strong suction, self-cleaning roller mop, AI obstacle avoidance, and self-maintenance features.…
A developer reverse-engineered the undocumented USB protocol of the OBSBOT Tiny 2 webcam to build an MCP server that lets AI models point the camera at objects. The developer used Ghidra to locate the packet format and C…
Waymo opened its Dallas robotaxi service to the general public on August 4, 2026, ending the invitation-only phase that began with the city's commercial launch in February. The company reported nearly 150,000 riders thro…
MagicLAG, a maker, developed a method to strengthen 3D-printed parts by embedding carbon-fiber cloth between a core and outer shell layers, more than tripling the yield strength of test hooks compared to standard prints.…
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2 and Gemini Robotics ER 2, a suite of models that decouple physical control from reasoning for general-purpose robots. The architecture splits tasks across three specialized mo…
Blue Water Autonomy, led by CEO Rylan Hamilton, was selected by the U.S. Navy to compete for open-ocean mapping work under a two-year contract with a shared ceiling of $40 million, covering international waters in the In…
Tesla's Q2 2026 earnings call on July 22 showcased CEO Elon Musk's pivot toward AI and robotics, with Musk declaring the Optimus humanoid robot could be 'the biggest product ever' for the company. Tesla has discontinued …
Elon Musk now spends nearly 50% of his speaking time on Tesla Inc. earnings calls discussing artificial intelligence, robotaxis, and Full Self-Driving software, up from 15%-20% in 2022, according to an analysis by TechCr…
Humanoid robots will not scale on factory floors until their costs drop, according to an analysis of the robotics industry. While the technology is mostly ready, the high price tag—one leading developer cited several hun…
Seeed Studio released the reComputer Mini J501, an Edge AI computer powered by the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64GB or 32GB module, delivering up to 275 TOPS of AI performance. Designed for robotics, it includes two FAKRA con…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, called New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani a 'thief and a liar' on X, mocking his proposal for city-owned grocery stores and asserting that AI and robots will deliver free goods and ser…
Google announced in July 2026 a series of AI updates, including three new Gemini models (Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber) for developers, the Gemini Robotics ER 2 embodied reasoning model, and the f…
The Federal Trade Commission issued a sweeping ban on foreign imports of advanced robots, including humanoids, quadrupeds, and wheeled robots, marking an expansion of the Trump administration's AI protectionism into the …
Ati Robotics, founded in 2017 by Saurabh Chandra, assembles robots in India with minimal Chinese parts, positioning itself to benefit from a recent US Federal Communications Commission ban on Chinese-made humanoid robots…