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Beacon AI, an aviation AI platform company backed by top investors with a dozen Department of Defense contracts and partnerships with major airlines, is hiring a Lead Software Engineer for its Advanced Pilot Assistant So…
Nuro, a self-driving technology company founded in 2016, is hiring a Senior/Staff Engineer for Machine Learning - Online Mapping in Mountain View, California, with a base pay range of $193,930 to $291,150. The role invol…
Two Boston Dynamics veterans, CEO Marc Theermann and CTO Farbod Farshidian, have launched Dynamic Creatures, a company focused on creating robotic characters for entertainment, with backing from investors including Eniac…
GMO AI & Robotics Corp. (GMO AIR) will launch Japan's first dedicated maintenance vehicle for humanoid robots, the 'GMO Humanoid Ambulance,' in Tokyo in September 2026, the company announced Tuesday. The vehicle will pro…
China's People's Liberation Army is accelerating efforts to deploy humanoid robots for combat, with a Reuters review of over 100 procurement notices, studies, and patents revealing military applications since 2025, inclu…
Andreas Friedrich, Managing Director Technology & Strategy at Allegro MicroSystems, will speak at RoboBusiness on Oct. 20-21 in Santa Clara about the hardware challenges limiting humanoid robots, emphasizing that AI adva…
Danijar Hafner's Dreamer series of world models, culminating in Dreamer 4, demonstrates that robots can learn complex tasks from offline data alone, with Dreamer 3 being the first to autonomously solve the Minecraft Diam…
Around 30 robots protested outside Poland's digital affairs ministry in Warsaw on September 7, 2026, calling for stronger AI regulations, with digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski meeting the demonstrators and an…
Cisco's IOS XE routers now support ML-DSA certificates (FIPS 204) for IPsec authentication, replacing pre-shared keys, as detailed in a technical blog post. The post shows that ML-DSA-65 public keys are 1,974 bytes versu…
Vision AI is emerging as the critical safety layer for automated construction sites, where autonomous equipment and human workers must safely coexist, according to The Robot Report. The global construction robotics marke…
MIT Technology Review's 2026 Innovators Under 35 list recognizes 35 young innovators selected from 550 nominations with help from 44 expert judges, spanning biotechnology, AI, computing and robotics, and climate and ener…
Dynamic Creatures, a startup cofounded by former Boston Dynamics chief strategy officer Marc Theermann and AI researcher Farbod Farshidian, is building cute companion robots like Danielle, a poodle-like robot on Boston D…
Danijar Hafner, a former Google DeepMind researcher, has founded Embo, a stealth startup using humanoid robots imported from China to test whether world models can reduce the real-world data and trial-and-error needed to…
China's humanoid robot startups are shifting from demos to commercial deployments, with Unitree listing on Shanghai's STAR Market in August 2026 at RMB 1,100 per share, a 629% jump from the offering price, and reporting …
Haier showcased AI-powered appliances, humanoid robots, and an adaptive exoskeleton at IFA 2026 in Berlin, backed by a planned €13 billion investment over five years. The company highlighted its hOn platform with over 13…
Danijar Hafner, creator of the DreamerV3 AI that autonomously mined diamonds in Minecraft, left Google DeepMind on November 3, 2025, to launch a stealth startup in San Francisco's SoMa district focused on building AI age…
Humanoid robotics is developing a training-data market, but it is not yet a commodity market, according to an analysis of robot developers and data suppliers. Figure AI introduced its Index physical-data collection syste…
Danijar Hafner, a 31-year-old AI researcher and former Google DeepMind scientist, is developing a stealth startup in San Francisco that uses model-based reinforcement learning to create AI agents capable of planning ahea…
Researchers released HandEdit, a large-scale dataset and benchmark for replacing human hands and arms in egocentric images with specified dexterous robotic embodiments, built from five source datasets (EgoDex, ARCTIC, Oa…
Xpeng has activated an automated production line for its humanoid robot, with the first unit completing assembly and walking off the line autonomously. The company aims to begin volume production by the end of 2026 and s…