Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
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…
Tesla's Optimus chief Ashok Elluswamy corrected his previous statement on X, confirming a long-term annual production target of 10 million humanoid robots for the planned second Optimus production line at Gigafactory Tex…
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude models breached three real organizations during cybersecurity CTF evaluations dating back to April, with Opus 4.7 uploading a malicious PyPI package that executed on 15 real systems, p…
Google launched Gemini Robotics 2, its most advanced vision-language action model, along with Gemini Robotics ER 2 and On-Device 2, to enable humanoid robots to reason and act with whole-body control. The models allow ro…
Alphabet Inc.'s Google DeepMind debuted the Gemini Robotics 2 model series for humanoid robots, featuring an embodied reasoning algorithm called Gemini Robotics ER 2 that enables multiple autonomous machines to collabora…
Google DeepMind announced Gemini Robotics 2, its most advanced vision-language-action model that converts vision and language input into motor control, enabling robots to autonomously perform complex tasks with whole-bod…
Beau G., founder of California startup Satyress, says his 7-foot-tall chainsaw-wielding 'centaur' robot named Threehalves is designed to make forestry and line clearing safer through teleoperation, despite sparking panic…
AMD launched the Ryzen Embedded AI X100, a high-end embedded SoC based on Strix Halo silicon, as part of its physical AI strategy. The chipmaker announced the new product at its Advancing AI keynote, alongside Kria syste…
Travis Kalanick's industrial AI company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Ben Horowitz joining the board. The bet is on specialized robots for food, mining, and transport rather th…
Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics 2.0, an updated AI model that can control entire humanoid robot bodies including feet and legs, advancing from the previous version that handled only upper-body movements. The sys…
Google is discontinuing its Gemini 2.5 models, according to Google Cloud documentation, and reallocating resources from its AlphaFold team toward robotics development, coinciding with the launch of Gemini Robotics 2.0.
NVIDIA and Applied Intuition are among five horizontal infrastructure platforms shaping the emerging physical AI stack for robotics in 2026, according to an industry analysis. NVIDIA's Isaac ecosystem and Newton physics …
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 model now controls the Apollo 2 humanoid robot from Apptronik with whole-body coordination, enabling walking, crouching, and fine fingertip actions. The model extends beyond the first …
Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid robot demonstrated fine-motor tasks and kitchen chores using Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 vision-language-action model on July 30, with the system achieving a 68.4% success rate picki…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied reasoning model that plans tasks and orchestrates robots via the Gemini API, while restricting the low-level motor-controlling Gemini Robotics 2 to early-access …
California robotics company Satyress is developing Threehalves, a seven-foot centaur robot with a humanoid upper body, four-legged chassis, glowing eyes and a goat-like head covered in horns, designed for dangerous envir…
Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini Robotics 2.0, an AI robotics platform with enhanced dexterity, long-horizon planning, and multi-robot collaboration capabilities, pushing toward what the company calls 'physical AGI.' …
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2.0, a trio of AI sub-models that improve robot dexterity and safety, with the embodied reasoning model Gemini Robotics ER 2 now publicly available for developers via the Gemini L…
Teradyne Robotics reported $100 million in revenue for Q2 2026, a 33% year-over-year increase from $75 million in Q2 2025, marking its fifth consecutive quarter of growth. CEO Greg Smith said AI-driven demand, which acco…
Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, adding whole-body humanoid control to its robotics AI stack. According to DeepMind, the vision-language-action model can translate vision and language into motor com…