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Virtuals Protocol launched Eastworlds in late February 2026, a robotics accelerator and deployment lab that pairs humanoid robots with real-world teams to generate training data for its tokenized AI economy anchored to t…
US employers announced more than 1.1 million layoffs in 2025, one of the highest annual totals since 2020, with older workers over 50 facing growing pressure as job cuts spread beyond technology into government, warehous…
Chinese robot developer Unitree surged 460% on its first day of trading on Wednesday, marking the first pure-play robotics company to go public in mainland China. The Hangzhou-based maker of AI-powered humanoid robots an…
Chinese robotics maker Unitree surged 600% in a dramatic rally reported by Reuters' podcast 'Robot Rally,' which highlighted the move as a key market event amid high bond yields and delayed U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods…
IEEE Spectrum reports that visual and physical AI systems are being slowed by a data bottleneck, as detailed in an article by Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb, Erkin Karamemet, and Goran Soderstrom. The article highlights th…
IEEE Spectrum published a design profile of X Square Robot's open-source embodied AI stack, captured from spectrum.ieee.org, highlighting the use of fonts By Goran Soderstrom, Favorit-Mono, and IvarText. The profile was …
Kazakhstan has begun construction of its first humanoid robot factory, the QAZBOT Robotics & AI complex in Astana, following the QAZBOT ROBOTICS FORUM 2026 hosted by QAZBOT Technologies with support from the Ministry of …
Pudu Robotics launched the MP2000, an AI-powered autonomous pallet handler with pallet pickup cycles as fast as 20 seconds, designed for high-frequency, heavy-payload transport in manufacturing and logistics hubs. The MP…
Shares in Unitree, one of China's largest manufacturers of humanoid robots, surged by more than 460% on their first day of trading on Shanghai's STAR Market, lifting the company's valuation to around $66 billion, ahead o…
Unitree's upcoming Chinese IPO is reportedly 8,000X oversubscribed, signaling strong investor appetite for pure-play robotics exposure, according to 24/7 Wall St. analysts Austin Smith and Eric Bleeker on The AI Investor…
Beijing-based tech company 51World unveiled a suite of data-collection devices and platforms, including the AperEgo headset and AperOS platform, to address the shortage of high-quality training data for embodied AI, whic…
Y Combinator's Winter and Summer 2026 batches include 32 robotics/physical AI startups, matching the number of AI infrastructure companies, according to an analysis of 208 startups. Of the total, 145 are tagged AI, 24 ar…
ForSight Robotics announced that its JASPER Robotic Surgical Platform has completed 26 fully robotic-assisted cataract surgeries in human patients, with all procedures finished robotically without conversion to manual su…
Hexagon AB, the Swedish measurement technology company, saw its stake in Chinese robotics firm Unitree Robotics rise by approximately 4.8 billion Swedish kronor on the first trading day after Unitree's shares surged as m…
U.S. Treasury yields eased after a below-forecast industrial production report, but the 20-year bond auction and Fed minutes loom, with analysts attributing the recent rise to a decade-high term premium. Meanwhile, human…
Unitree Robotics, the Hangzhou-based maker of backflipping humanoid robots, surged 460% in its stock market debut on Shanghai's STAR Market on Wednesday, closing at 845 yuan ($125.40) per share and valuing the company at…
Chinese robotics company Unitree unveiled a new humanoid robot dubbed “Superman” on Aug. 19, 2026, which it says is “breaking the limits of humanity.” According to the company, the robot can perform a vertical jump of ov…
Shares in Unitree, the world's biggest humanoid robot maker, surged more than 600% on its Chinese stock market debut, according to The Guardian. The company's robots have gained global fame through viral videos of them p…
South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups reported that venture investments reached a record high of 8.87 trillion won ($6.34 billion) in the first half of 2026, up 54.3% from a year earlier, driven by large investment…
Xiaomi will publicly debut its robot at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, running from Aug. 19 to Aug. 23, confirmed by President Lu Weibing during an earnings call. The company will not sell the robot as a sta…