Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
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…
A 17-year-old Microsoft prodigy, Jonathan Jacobi, has raised $71 million to bring AI-powered robots into real-world applications. Jacobi, who began studying computer science at age 13, secured the funding for his startup…
InfiMaker, a startup founded in 2024, has launched the K1, a desktop 5-axis CNC platform that uses artificial intelligence to automate complex machining workflows. The K1's in-house CAM software, InfiStudio, uses AI to g…
InfiMaker, a startup founded in 2024, launched the K1, a desktop 5-axis CNC platform that uses AI to simplify industrial-grade precision machining for individual users. Founder and CEO Bowen Xie said the company aims to …
Chinese robot maker DexForce Technology Co. is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong that could raise a few hundred million dollars, according to people familiar with the matter. The Shenzhen-based company,…
LG Innotek is partnering with Japan's TDK to develop next-generation vision and tactile sensing modules for physical AI, with the first inertial sensor-equipped module targeted for 2027 and a tactile sensing module also …
Researchers introduced WorldDiT, a unified diffusion transformer architecture that couples action generation with visual world modeling and achieves strong robot control performance without a large pretrained VLM action …
Researchers propose a three-stage pipeline that turns motion-imitation skills into a reusable hybrid motion prior (HMP) for humanoid locomotion, enabling task-level policies to be trained by selecting discrete codebook e…
LG Innotek has formed a strategic partnership with Japan's TDK to jointly develop next-generation vision and tactile sensing modules for humanoid robots and physical AI applications, the companies said Monday. The partne…
Enigma Ltd., a provider of AI software for robots, launched today with $71 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital. The company is developing foundation models designed to make robots intelligent…
Hyundai's humanoid robot plans reveal confusion in the physical AI sector, as the company navigates global labor concerns with unions demanding AI safeguards while U.S. workers remain nonunionized, according to Forbes co…
Hyundai Motor Group's push into physical AI and robotics is failing to offset investor concerns, as weakening automotive earnings prompt brokerages to cut target prices for Hyundai Motor and Kia. Despite Executive Chair …
Singapore's hotel sector grew 4% in the first half of 2026, according to Far East Hospitality managing director Mark Rohner, who said agentic AI combined with robotic process automation will soon go live to handle reserv…
The Secret Service plans to spend up to $20 million on AI-powered robotic targets for training, awarding a contract in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026. The Department of Homeland Security unit, which has already spent …
The MOVA LiDAX Ultra 3000 robot mower is $800 off, dropping to an all-time low price of $2,199. This AI-enabled mower features four-motor AWD, LiDAR-and-camera mapping, and can handle slopes up to 80% without a perimeter…
Enigma emerged from stealth on July 27th with a $71 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, and opened 100 real robots to browser control via Robots.online. The company, founded by cybersecurity vete…
Waddle Labs launched an early-access API on July 27th that uses language-model agents to write control programs for robots, claiming it can produce a working policy from a natural-language prompt in 20 minutes. The two-p…
NVIDIA is the largest publisher of open AI models in the world, with models spanning reasoning, physical AI, and more, according to VP of Applied Deep Learning Research Bryan Catanzaro. The company releases models like t…
Enigma, a physical AI startup founded by Unit 8200 veterans Jonathan Jacobi and Gal Niv, emerged from stealth with a $71 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital to build an intelligence layer for any …
SAPPHIRE Technology unveiled the EDGE+ Apex SOM/Carrier Robotics Platform, a production-ready hardware platform powered by AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series processors, at AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco. The plat…