Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
OpenAI plans to relaunch its robotics program, highlighting a race among AI labs to train physical-world machines. Startup XDOF, emerging from stealth with $70 million in funding, aims to solve the data bottleneck by bui…
Nvidia, Carnegie Mellon University, and UC Berkeley researchers developed ENPIRE, a system where AI coding agents autonomously train robots in dexterous grasping tasks. Using a fleet of eight robots that share results vi…
VisionWave Holdings (Nasdaq: VWAV) debuted the VARAN Autonomous Ground System at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris, showcasing live hardware demonstrations alongside its STRATUM AI platform and a stereo/thermal sensing collaborat…
Maker Sritabh Priyadarshi built MiniSoul, a pocket-sized desktop companion robot that uses an ESP32-S3 SuperMini and a 0.96-inch OLED to display evolving emotions. The device runs a custom behavior engine tracking six pe…
Autonomique, a Montreal- and Menlo Park-based startup, has deployed its physical AI software at a F&P Manufacturing production line in Tottenham, Ontario, directing semi-humanoid robots to assemble chassis and suspension…
Autonomique Inc. is deploying its physical AI platform at Tier 1 automotive supplier F&P Manufacturing Inc., using semi-humanoid robots to address labor shortages and production complexity. The hardware-agnostic software…
Autonomique, a Montreal- and Menlo Park-based startup, has moved its AI-powered robot control technology beyond the pilot phase and is now assembling car parts on a production line at F&P Manufacturing in Ontario. CEO Vi…
Nvidia demonstrated an agentic robotics system called ENPIRE that taught fleets of robots to perform dexterous tasks, including handing a GPU to another arm and positioning it over a motherboard. The system, which uses 8…
Global AI infrastructure buildout is driving a surge in capital spending, with semiconductor sales reaching $791.7 billion in 2025 and on track to near $1 trillion in 2026, according to a GlobeNewswire press release dist…
Sanctuary AI achieved a 99.5%+ task success rate at 2.54 seconds cycle time in a complex wire-plugging task for a global Tier 1 automotive supplier, validating its physical AI performance against live production benchmar…
BareMetal OS now runs inside Firecracker microVMs with a cold start time under 1 millisecond, achieving ~700µs with network and disk enabled on an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395. The project enables near-instant-on, hardware-isol…
On April 19, 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best robot time from 2025 by almost two hours. The robot's perfo…
A former OpenAI researcher is building an affordable desktop robotics research setup for under €5,000, using an industrial-grade arm, two cameras, and teleoperation, to test whether a single person can now do meaningful …
China announced support for IPOs by AI startups and large model companies as part of its 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to boost tech self-reliance. Firms like Zhipu AI, MiniMax, and Unitree Robotics are already advancing l…
AWS has released Strands Robots, an open-source SDK that integrates Hugging Face's LeRobot stack into a single agent loop, enabling users to go from a Hub dataset to a physical robot with minimal code changes. The SDK pr…
Genesis AI unveiled Eno, a general-purpose robot powered by its GENE foundation model, designed with a transparent cognitive interface. The company plans to begin production and customer deployments by the end of 2026, t…
Genesis AI, a French startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, unveiled Eno, a humanoid robot designed around human capability rather than human appearance. Eno may lack a head or legs, but features hands that ma…
Seres Group unveiled a humanoid robot named Xiaosai for factory use, featuring visual recognition, autonomous greeting, and voice interaction. The company already operates factory variants Xiaosai 01 and Xiaosai 02 for c…
Wireless connectivity, not artificial intelligence, is the primary bottleneck limiting the deployment of autonomous systems such as drones and robots in real-world environments, according to an analysis by EE Times. The …
Amazon has invested in Archetype AI, a startup developing a physical-world simulation model called Newton, through its Industrial Innovation Fund. The tech giant also partnered with NVIDIA and MassRobotics to launch the …