Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
Hasbro unveiled its Ultimate Grogu animatronic at San Diego Comic-Con, a life-size collectible with over 250 animations and three interactive modes, priced at $599.99. The toy, which responds to touch and movement, is so…
Casio has launched Moflin, an AI-powered smart companion designed to provide emotional support through pet-like interactions, featuring a unique emotional spectrum that evolves over time. The device, priced at an undiscl…
Procore Technologies will acquire DroneDeploy for approximately $845 million in cash, the companies announced July 29, 2026. The deal aims to integrate DroneDeploy's aerial and ground reality capture and robotics into Pr…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's government has launched an ambitious industrial policy strategy to promote semiconductors, AI infrastructure, robotics and other frontier industries, with combined public-private in…
Elio, a sensor startup founded by former Meta AR/VR engineers Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, raised $21 million in Series A funding co-led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora, with participation from Kevin Weil and Scri…
Amazon hosted its annual Bring Your Kids to Work Day at HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia, on June 26, featuring 15 interactive stations where children explored AI, robotics, and sustainability, including building AI-powered vi…
Enigma, a physical AI startup founded by two former Unit 8200 officers, emerged from stealth on July 27 with $71 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, and opened 100 of its proprietary robots …
UC Berkeley robotics professor Ken Goldberg argued in a talk at MIT that data alone will not solve robotics, citing a 100,000-year data gap between robotics and language models and pointing to Tesla's 9 billion miles of …
Robotics startup Generalist AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $3 billion valuation, with venture firm 8VC expected to lead the round. The news comes one month after Generalist raised $400 million at a $2 b…
A comparison of GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 for physical AI tasks finds that Claude Fable 5 excels in spatial reasoning and error recovery, while GPT-5.6 leads in complex multi-step logic and latency. The analysis, based …
The Trump administration has banned imports of Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots, citing national security risks from data collection and cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The Federal Communications Commission listed th…
Walt Disney Imagineering is developing a Star Wars food cart with hovering droids that serve sodas using magnetic levitation, potentially debuting at Galaxy's Edge in Disneyland later this year. The cart, inspired by Hug…
GMEX Robotics Corp. has entered a definitive share-purchase agreement to acquire MediaMeta.ai, a Singapore-based developer of AI and human behavioral modeling technology, for a combination of cash and common shares. The …
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has restricted U.S. imports of foreign-made advanced robotic devices, including humanoids, mobile robots, and quadrupeds, citing national security and cybersecurity risks to cr…
Physical AI requires a systems architecture approach rather than simply scaling up models, according to a sponsored analysis in EE Times. The shift from cloud-based AI to edge computing demands closed-loop systems that i…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is banning imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters, citing national security risks, in a move that targets China, which dominates the global humanoid rob…
Bagel Labs released WorldDiT, a world model for robotics that jointly learns action prediction and scene evolution using shared parameters, achieving strong benchmark scores on LIBERO while staying below one billion para…
Bright Machines launched the Hybrid BRC, a human-in-the-loop robotic assembly cell for AI servers, to maintain digital traceability during manual assembly steps. The San Francisco-based manufacturer's system achieves up …
UNIT AI, founded by Guy Glass, raised $12 million from Prologis Ventures and Dynamo to modularize warehouse automation. The funding will accelerate the company's development of flexible robotics systems for logistics.
A developer built a robot named Bubbles controlled by Anthropic's Claude LLM using the model's computer use feature, which processes screenshots and outputs mouse coordinates. The robot, assembled from a SunFounder PiCar…