Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
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…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a set of three physical AI models for whole-body control, dexterous manipulation, and multi-robot collaboration, moving beyond table-top tasks to full humanoid control. The mod…
Google DeepMind announced on Thursday that its Gemini Robotics 2 AI model can now control entire humanoid robots, enabling whole-body motions from feet to fingertips. The update allows robots like Apptronik's Apollo 2 to…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of three models that gives humanoid robots full-body control and enables teamwork, moving beyond tabletop demos to tasks like walking, crouching, and multi-step chores…
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 system combines vision, language, and action models to control humanoid robots performing tasks like organizing shelves and replacing lightbulbs, marking a milestone toward physical AG…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a single model that unifies locomotion and manipulation for humanoid robots, eliminating the previous split between walking and arm-control systems. The model runs on Apptronik…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of AI models that can control a humanoid robot from its feet to its fingertips, coordinate multiple machines, and adapt to a new robot body in a few hours. The system …
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2, an AI robotics model that enables multi-robot collaboration and real-time planning through temporal intelligence, achieving 91.3% accuracy for moment finding with sub-second…
Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, a three-model stack for planning, motor control and local inference across robot bodies including humanoids and dual-arm workstations, with the flagship control mode…
Nvidia and Kawasaki Heavy Industries announced a joint effort to build a next-generation digital shipyard at Kawasaki's Sakaide Works in Japan, co-developing AI-powered robots for shipbuilding tasks such as welding, pain…
Google launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied reasoning model that helps robots understand surroundings, communicate, and complete complex physical tasks in real time, available through the Gemini API and Google AI S…
Google has launched Gemini Robotics 2, an advanced system under its DeepMind lab to enhance dexterity and multi-robot collaboration in humanoid robots. The launch signals Google's continued investment in AI and robotics …
Google has launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model that serves as a robot's high-level planner while a separate model handles motors, available to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a new AI model that can control a range of robots including humanoids capable of tasks like screwing in lightbulbs and tying trash bags. The system combines a vision language m…
The Salamanca City Central School District in New York has paused plans to install an AI-equipped humanoid robot teacher named "Sally" this fall after public outrage over privacy, cost, and concerns that the robot resemb…
Google launched Gemini Robotics ER 2 on July 30, making the embodied-reasoning model publicly available through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Google reports 57.4% accuracy on progress classification and 91.3% on m…
Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, its most capable embodied reasoning model for robotics, enabling robots to understand video feeds, orchestrate multi-step tasks, and collaborate in shared spaces. The model,…
Vicky Pan, a 46-year-old Moraga pharmacist and mother, became the first patient at a U.S. community hospital outside a clinical trial to undergo a newly cleared robotic double mastectomy at Sutter's Alta Bates Summit Med…
Nidec Drive Technology showcased its FLEXWAVE and KINEX precision gear reducers at Automate 2026 as complementary solutions for next-generation robotics, including humanoids and collaborative robots. The company's portfo…