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The Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on imports of advanced robotic devices and power inverters from foreign countries, citing national security risks, in a move that will primarily impact Chinese manufa…
A developer built Physics-Augmented Diffusion Modeling (PADM), a hybrid framework that grounds diffusion models in physical reality by embedding differential equations of orbital mechanics and spacecraft dynamics into th…
The Trump administration, through the Federal Communications Commission, announced new restrictions on Tuesday banning imports of new Chinese-made humanoid and quadruped robots and connected power inverters used in renew…
Registration is open for RoboBusiness 2026, the leading event for commercial robotics developers, taking place Oct. 20-21 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The event, produced by The Robot Report and Arrowfly, will f…
The Salamanca City Central School District in upstate New York has paused plans to deploy a nearly $60,000 AI-powered humanoid robot named "Sally" from Realbotix after backlash from state education officials, teachers, a…
The Trump administration will announce import bans on Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots and connected power inverters, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday, aiming to protect the U.S. artificial intelli…
Proposed trade restrictions on Chinese humanoid robots could slow embodied AI development in the US by limiting access to affordable, high-performance hardware, according to an analysis of the hardware-software gap. Deve…
The Trump administration on Tuesday plans to unveil new bans targeting imports of the latest Chinese robots and power inverters to protect the U.S. AI buildout from national security threats, U.S. officials said. The Fed…
Queue, a Silicon Valley startup, has developed what it says is the world's first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy that can identify, verify and dispense prescriptions in about 60 seconds without human handling. The syst…
Generative Bionics debuted the Gene.01 humanoid robot at AMD's Advancing AI conference in San Francisco, featuring full-body multimodal smart skin that senses touch, proximity, force, and temperature for industrial safet…
World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup co-founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li in 2024, acquired SceniX on July 21 to bring high-fidelity simulation technology in-house for training robots in digital environments. The …
Siemens reported on June 24 that Jack Technology, a China-based industrial sewing-equipment maker, ordered 2,000 humanoid robots for apparel manufacturing in 2026, marking what Siemens described as the sector's first lar…
Humanoid robotics could grow to a $5 trillion market by 2050, Morgan Stanley predicts, with more than a billion robots expected worldwide. KraneShares launched the first US humanoid ETF, KOID, and Hightower CIO Stephanie…
NVIDIA Jetson, a platform for edge AI and robotics, is compact enough to fit in a handbag yet powerful enough to run frontier AI models, as demonstrated by venture capitalist Sarah Guo. The Jetson Orin Nano Super develop…
The next competitive advantage in physical AI will come from engineering systems, not model intelligence, argues Qasar Younis, co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition. Younis contends that as AI models commoditize, the a…
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2, an AI model that enables whole-body control, fine dexterity, and multi-robot collaboration for humanoid robots. The system includes three models: Gemini Robotics 2 VLA for mo…
Calibra, an open-source toolkit for robot dataset observability, has been released to help audit datasets, identify quality issues, and estimate training outcomes before training. The first public release includes a Robo…
University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers announced July 24 an AI vision system that estimates a scuba diver's respiration rate from exhaled bubbles captured by an underwater robot. The study, published in The Inte…
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Slovak President Peter Pellegrini that China and Slovakia should explore cooperation in clean energy, robotics and artificial intelligence, as the European nation navigates growing trade…
Agricultural manipulation data is fragmented into small, crop-specific projects with no standardized format, unlike robotics datasets such as DROID or Open X-Embodiment. The LeRobotDataset v3 can store synchronized video…