Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
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…
Spirit AI's Spirit v1.6 model briefly topped the RoboArena robotics benchmark in early June, surpassing Nvidia, but was removed days later after the benchmark's creators found evidence of 'benchmark hacking' and overhaul…
Paradigm, the crypto-native venture firm co-founded by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, closed its fourth fund at $1.2 billion in July 2026, with a mandate expanded beyond crypto to include AI, robotics, and frontier technolo…
Chinese embodied-AI startup PaXini has raised RMB1 billion in a strategic funding round, bringing its total fundraising to RMB3.5 billion, to scale its tactile-sensing chips for robots. The round was led by an unnamed gl…
PaXini, an embodied-AI startup, has completed a RMB1 billion strategic funding round, bringing its cumulative fundraising to RMB3.5 billion, the company announced on Aug. 3. The round was co-led by an unnamed global cons…
AI² Robotics, a Shenzhen-based humanoid robot maker founded in April 2023, is considering a Hong Kong IPO after raising over $890 million in funding, with a valuation of roughly $3 billion. The company, led by CEO Yandon…
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Jul 28 added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots to its 'Covered List', effectively barring new import authorizations for these devices, a move targeting China, wh…
Procore will acquire DroneDeploy for approximately $845 million in cash, a deal announced on July 29th and expected to close in 2026, giving the construction software provider control of drones, robots, and cameras that …
1X Technologies, a robotics company founded in 2014, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Applied AI in San Carlos, CA, with a salary of $250k–300k/yr. The role involves building platform APIs for training data and in…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a sweeping ban on foreign imports of advanced robots, including humanoids, quadrupeds, and wheeled robots, citing national security risks from data collection and the need to pro…
Salamanca City Central School District in western New York has paused a planned fall 2026 pilot with Realbotix's humanoid robot Optio and M-Series unit, citing the need for enhanced student data privacy agreements with t…
Tangible, a robotics startup that originally built the Eggie humanoid robot, has pivoted to building an AI foundation model for robotics and is now scraping over 1 million hours of POV video from the internet, according …
Felicis, the Bay Area venture capital firm known for investments in Shopify, Notion, and Mercor, has hired Graham Littlehale as a partner to invest in aerospace, defense, energy, manufacturing, and robotics. Littlehale, …
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson balked at an estimated $1 billion cost to refurbish a Moon rover for reuse, according to a report. The rover, originally built for the canceled Resource Prospector mission, was proposed for…
Ant Group's embodied AI division Robbyant has begun seeking external funding, aiming to raise about 1.5 billion yuan (US$222 million) in its first round and complete a second round by the end of 2024, according to Chines…
The Trump administration has expanded its protectionist campaign against Chinese technology to include robot vacuums, lawnmowers, and other software-controlled ground robots, according to a report from The Verge. The ban…
Chinese robotics company AheadForm has unveiled the Origin-F1, a humanoid robot with AI-driven facial motion algorithms and 26 degrees of freedom, priced between $50,000 and $173,000. The robot's lifelike expressions and…
A developer highlights the top 10 papers on Hugging Face, covering GUI agents, LLM self-improvement via RL, parameterized long-term memory, RAG, multimodal robots, 3D generation, and role-play benchmarks. The post focuse…