Robotics News

Elon Musk, who became the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s IPO, told entrepreneur Peter Diamandis that money “will stop being relevant” in a future where AI and robots produce goods and services beyond human dem…

Jeff Bezos' startup Prometheus has raised $12 billion in new funding, bringing its valuation to $41 billion, as the company works to develop an "artificial general engineer" aimed at accelerating invention and wealth cre…

PepsiCo announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Gatik AI Inc. to deploy autonomous freight trucks across its North American supply chain. Gatik's autonomous trucks will operate in PepsiCo's regional transportat…

Volta now offers a subscription-based robot lawn mower service, allowing customers to lease the AI-driven mower for $79 to $89 per month over 24 months instead of paying $1,000 to $5,000 upfront. After the commitment per…

ROBOTIS has developed a method for its AI Sapiens humanoid robot to learn complex K-pop dance routines from ordinary smartphone footage, eliminating the need for expensive motion-capture studios. The robot practices the …

A developer released SharkClean MCP, an unofficial open-source server that lets AI agents like Claude control SharkNinja robot vacuums via plain language commands. The tool communicates with SharkNinja's skegox cloud bac…

Prometheus, a Jeff Bezos-backed startup, raised $12 billion in a funding round at a $41 billion valuation, with investors including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock. The company, which employs about 150 peopl…

Workers in Indian garment factories and homes are recording first-person "egocentric" footage of routine tasks while wearing head-mounted cameras, paid about 250 rupees ($2.6) per hour, according to reports from AFP, Daw…

SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and Nasdaq Texas under the ticker SPCX on Thursday, with its $75 billion IPO priced at $135 per share and valuing the company at $1.77 trillion, making it the large…

Jeff Bezos announced his new AI startup, Prometheus, will focus on creating an "artificial general engineer" to design physical products, following a $12 billion funding round that values the company at $41 billion. The …

Chinese humanoid robot maker EngineAI has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, working with China International Capital Corp and Citic Securities on the potential share sale. The three-year-o…

ROBOTIS demonstrated its open-source AI Sapiens humanoid robot learning a complex K-pop dance routine, the CORTIS REDRED Challenge, using only smartphone video instead of professional motion-capture equipment. The pipeli…

Lucky Robots launched Lucky Engine, the first game engine purpose-built for robotics, enabling infinite data generation for robotic AI training. The engine provides physically accurate simulation with MuJoCo physics, Vul…

Thousands of Indian homemakers and factory workers are recording first-person video of everyday tasks such as cooking and folding clothes using head-mounted cameras and motion sensors, with pay reported at about Rs 250 p…

NEURA Robotics closed a $1.4 billion Series C, the largest full-stack robotics funding round in history, as the race to control the Physical AI ecosystem intensifies. Sharpa integrated its Wave tactile gloves into the Un…

Indian housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra films herself slicing mangoes with a smartphone strapped to her head, earning just over two dollars an hour to train AI-powered robots for future household tasks. She is one of …

A new tutorial on world models and physical AI distinguishes between explicit world models, which use structured dynamics for planning, and implicit world models, which encode predictive structure in learned representati…

Researchers have developed MAMVI, a new test-time adaptation method for 3D point cloud models that replaces sequential multi-view optimization with a single-step adaptation process. The approach uses a hybrid masking str…

South Korea's Hanmi Semiconductor announced Friday it plans to acquire 50 billion won ($32.9 million) in SpaceX shares ahead of the U.S. space company's stock market debut. The investment, representing about 7.24 percent…

AI robotics startup Theker has raised $85 million in a Series A funding round, led by CRV and backed by Samsung and Aglaé Ventures, to build reconfigurable factory robots designed for multiple tasks rather than single-pu…