Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
The World Economic Forum named Hello Robot Inc. as a 2026 Technology Pioneer for its Stretch mobile manipulator, which aids older adults and people with disabilities. The recognition highlights the company's focus on pra…
Austrian researchers at Graz University of Technology have developed a four-legged robot dog that enters hazardous chemical zones before firefighters, carrying gas detection equipment to measure pollutant concentrations …
BMW Group has launched a production pilot deploying humanoid robots at its Plant Leipzig facility, using the AEON platform developed by Hexagon Robotics. The 1.65-meter-tall, 60-kilogram robots can carry up to 15 kilogra…
Chinese robotics company UBTech has begun presales for its U1 humanoid robot, marketed as the world's first full-size, ultra-bionic emotional companion, with approximately 3,000 units sold since the June 2 announcement. …
Barcelona-based AI robotics company THEKER raised €73 million in a Series A funding round led by CRV, with participation from Samsung, LVMH, Cathay Innovation, 20VC, Henkel Ventures, Korelya, and Bright Pixel Capital. Th…
Barcelona-based robotics startup Theker raised an €85m Series A led by US investor CRV, with participation from Samsung and LVMH. The company, founded in 2022, develops AI-powered robots that use deep learning and comput…
Elon Musk will deliver a virtual keynote at ASML's Technology Conference on June 12, 2026, to pitch his $55 billion Terafab semiconductor megafactory project. The appearance comes as SpaceX prepares for an IPO valued bet…
Roborock's Q10 S5 Plus robot vacuum and mop is available for $269.99 at Wellbots, a $280 discount that matches its all-time low price using promo code NEW10. The robovac features AI-powered obstacle avoidance, automatic …
Amazon, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Bosch, and Tether invested up to $1.4 billion in German robotics startup Neura Robotics, marking one of the largest funding rounds in humanoid robotics history. The company plans to deploy its c…
A robot's intelligence faces an unavoidable trade-off between being smart, fast, and free, with only two of the three achievable on a single piece of compute. This "embodied trilemma" forces robotics teams to choose betw…
X Square Robot open-sourced XRZero-G0, a hardware-software framework that reduces real-robot training data requirements by up to 20×, and released the G0-Dataset, a 2,000-hour multimodal repository for robotics research.…
Json Zhou, a researcher specializing in robotics and artificial intelligence, has published work spanning algorithms, computer vision, generative AI, and world simulation. His primary focus is on advancing robotics throu…
Intel partnered with Hitachi to advance physical AI technology, aiming to integrate artificial intelligence into real-world industrial applications. The collaboration requires Intel to address its stock valuation concern…
Instawork CEO Sumir Meghani launched Instacore, a wearable camera system that allows hourly workers to record commercial tasks for robotics companies to train AI models, Business Insider reported June 9. The initiative f…
NVIDIA Isaac Lab on Amazon SageMaker AI now enables robotics teams to train reinforcement learning policies for humanoid robots at scale, using either SageMaker HyperPod for persistent cluster training or SageMaker Train…
Google DeepMind launched a three-month accelerator program for early-stage robotics startups across Europe, providing access to its AI stack, technical expertise, and Gemini robotics models. The selected cohort, meeting …
Amazon's 2026 Project Eluna deploys agentic AI models in fulfillment centers to autonomously plan, use tools, and execute multistep operational tasks, moving AI beyond digital applications into physical environments. The…
Chinese robotics firm Unitree is on track to ship its 10,000th humanoid robot in the coming weeks, tripling revenues year-over-year on 60% gross margins while pricing its flagship G1 humanoid at $27,300 — down from over …
Organizations are adopting mathematical optimization, a prescriptive AI subfield, to make complex operational decisions that human intuition and machine learning alone cannot reliably solve. The AWS Generative AI Innovat…
NVIDIA and LG Group are building an AI factory to accelerate LG's AI-driven businesses in robotics, autonomous driving, and data center technologies. The collaboration integrates NVIDIA's full-stack AI factory platform w…