Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
Researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and the Robotics and AI Institute found that robots learn dexterous manipulation more effectively from consistent, structured demonstrations than from highly variable ones,…
Last.fm embedded Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics as URIs in its robots.txt file, a standard used to instruct web crawlers on which site sections to access. The inclusion of the fictional laws, which govern robot be…
TED2026 in Vancouver featured an interstitial program of short films and performances curated by producers CC Hutten and Grace Poppe that alternated between human connection themes and machine-centered humor. The lineup …
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed injectable nanorobots infused with stem cells that successfully repaired severed spinal cords in mice, with nerve cells reconnecting within 28 days and the animals showing improve…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a blueprint for a 6-foot, 150-pound humanoid robot called H2 Plus, combining a Chinese-made body from robotics startup Unitree with an American Nvidia Thor chip and advanced software. Th…
Nvidia announced that its Cosmos 3 model for physical AI ranks first on seven leaderboards for world generation, robot action policy, and industrial vision understanding. The company described Cosmos 3 as an "open omni m…
NVIDIA Research presented three papers at the CVPR conference addressing challenges in physical AI, including a foundation model for robotic grasping, a faster reasoning model for autonomous vehicles, and a scalable trai…
At CVPR, NVIDIA announced new physical AI agent skills designed to accelerate research and development for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and vision AI systems. The company introduced NVIDIA Cosmos 3, an open frontier mo…
Dreame's L20 Ultra robot vacuum and mop hybrid, originally priced at $1,400 at its 2023 launch, is now available for $279 from Wellbots with code L20VERGE. The device offers automated dustbin emptying, mop washing and dr…
Richtech Robotics Inc. completed the acquisition of a 79,325-square-foot warehouse in Las Vegas for approximately $21.2 million on May 29, 2026, to support GPU-enabled computing, robotics data collection, and World Actio…
OneRobotics, the parent company of SwitchBot, has acquired smart lighting company Nanoleaf for approximately $40 million. Nanoleaf CEO Gimmy Chu stated the company will remain independent and that the partnership will pr…
Pudu Robotics showcased its latest commercial service robots and embodied AI technologies at BEYOND Expo 2026 in Macao, where founder and CEO Felix Zhang spoke at the opening ceremony. The company introduced the PuduFM 1…
Pudu Robotics and Shenzhen Culture & Tourism Industry Development Co. Ltd signed a strategic cooperation agreement to develop what they describe as the world's first full-scenario robot-serviced hotel on the West Artific…
Sonar+D 2026 transformed Barcelona's Llotja de Mar into an exhibition and talk program highlighting robotic art, embodied AI personas, and ritualized interactions. Installations include Volvox Labs' robotic arm "Astral T…
Chinese tech companies are deploying humanoid robots into real homes and factories to collect training data, with residents in Suqian paid to film household chores and factory workers in Guangdong wearing head-mounted ca…
Nvidia has selected Chinese robot maker Unitree to supply the humanoid body for the chipmaker's first publicly available humanoid robotics research system. The package pairs Unitree's nearly 6-foot-tall H2 humanoid with …
NVIDIA released Cosmos 3, a family of open-source omnimodal world models that unify physical reasoning, world generation, and action generation within a single Mixture-of-Transformers architecture. The models, available …
Qianxun, a Hangzhou-based embodied AI startup, closed a RMB 1.5 billion ($205 million) A+ funding round, according to a report from Aligned News. The investment marks a significant bet on China's rapidly accelerating phy…
Nearly two-thirds of Dutch businesses are grappling with staff shortages, with 30% of all firms now turning to automation, including robotics and AI, as their primary solution, according to national statistics office CBS…
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council Minister Cheng-Wen Wu outlined a national strategy to sustain the country's semiconductor leadership by focusing on silicon photonics, wide-bandgap semiconductors, and qua…