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The Federal Communications Commission's ban on foreign-made mobile robots, including robot vacuums, will reduce consumer choice, slow innovation, and raise prices without improving security, according to The Verge's Jenn…
The United States has expanded its AI trade war to include Chinese humanoid robots and power systems for data centers, according to a Forbes report by Ron Schmelzer. The move targets Chinese robotics and energy infrastru…
Miso (YC S16), a Korean home services marketplace, announced it is hiring its first full-time employee in the Bay Area to lead U.S. expansion for Miso Motion, a new company supplying real-world robotics data to frontier …
Tau Robotics launched an invite-only humanoid home-cleaning service in San Francisco in late July 2026, priced at $30 per hour, with human operators assisting the robots. The service, which covers vacuuming, surface clea…
China holds a massive quantity lead in humanoid robot patents, while the United States has a quality edge, according to a Forbes analysis by Senior Contributor John Koetsier. The analysis highlights the competitive lands…
OpenAI slashed prices for its GPT-5.6 models by 80% just three weeks after launch, citing internal efficiency gains. DeepMind unveiled a whole-body robotics system with a single unified policy achieving 92% success on a …
FedEx Corp. is scaling up use of Dexterity Inc.'s AI-enabled trailer-loading robot at its Hagerstown, Maryland, hub after years of validation, aiming to improve worker safety and network efficiency. The robot, controlled…
Laid-off US workers are increasingly turning to TikTok and YouTube content creation as a precarious alternative to traditional jobs, with US employers adding only 57,000 non-farm jobs in June 2026 and 1.9 million people …
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, Gemini Robotics ER 2, and Gemini Robotics On-Device 2 on July 30, marking the first vision-language-action model to control a full humanoid end-to-end, demonstrated on Apptroni…
Procore Technologies Inc. will acquire DroneDeploy for approximately $845 million in cash, a deal that combines Procore's construction management software with DroneDeploy's robotics and visual intelligence platform used…
Google DeepMind released videos demonstrating Gemini Robotics 2, which uses the Apptronik Apollo 2 Humanoid Robot and the Franka F3 Duo Dual-Arm System robot to perform household chores, signaling a future where such tas…
Alan Murray, co-founder and CEO of Conceivable Life Sciences, said his previous company TMRW Life Sciences automated storage and tracking of frozen eggs and embryos but revealed that the real bottleneck in IVF is the man…
Google DeepMind has not announced a product called Gemini Robotics 2, according to an analysis of the company's published materials. The documented offerings include Gemini Robotics 1.5, Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, and On-De…
Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, an AI model that can control entire humanoid robots, enabling them to perform tasks such as screwing in light bulbs and tying bin bags. The system combines a vision languag…
July 2026 closed with $55.8 billion in robotics funding for H1, nearly double the prior annual record, signaling that Physical AI has moved from hype to operational reality. Neura Robotics confirmed a December 2026 deplo…
Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, an AI model that can control entire humanoid robots, enabling them to perform tasks like screwing in light bulbs and tying bin bags. The system combines a vision language m…
Adi Prasad, a 35-year-old MIT-trained manufacturing engineer who worked at Tesla, Apple, CloudKitchens, and Rivian, is applying lessons from Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick to Matter, an AI manufacturing startup running a …
On July 31, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin became the first to use a lunar rover on the moon, marking a milestone in lunar exploration. The event is highlighted in a historical recap that also not…
A user reports that a Logitech C270 USB webcam fails to work with the SO101 Arm kit through Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Ubuntu, with the `lerobot-find-cameras opencv` command returning errors including 'ioctl(VIDIO…
China's securities regulator approved Unitree Robotics' registration application on July 1, moving the Hangzhou-based quadruped and humanoid robot maker closer to an IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market. The company's prospectu…