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Dopl Technologies raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by SpringTide Ventures to advance its telerobotic ultrasound platform, Traverse, toward FDA clearance. The system lets sonographers remotely operate a robotic arm…
Leaked photos and video of the DJI Matrice 5, shared by Russian drone watcher Igor Bogdanov on July 26, show a gray airframe with an integrated LiDAR sensor on the top deck and a five-window gimbal, suggesting DJI is fol…
Nvidia released Cosmos-H-Dreams, an interactive generative model that lets researchers operate a surgical robot inside a synthesized video environment, generating action-conditioned video rollouts at about 160 frames per…
Amazon hosted its annual Bring Your Kids to Work Day at its Seattle headquarters, featuring AI-powered video game creation at the Agentic Arcade and robot demonstrations with the Lo-Fi Robotics Club. The company also par…
Tether AI released QVAC SDK 0.16 on July 27, 2026, adding image generation via Ideogram 4, synchronized video with audio through LTX-2, local execution of NVIDIA's GR00T robotics model, and improvements to its OpenAI-com…
Enigma, a robotics research lab emerging from stealth on Monday, raised a $70 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital to study human-robot interactions and develop intuitive interfaces. The less-than-…
University of Minnesota researchers have developed an AI system that enables underwater robots to track diver stress levels by analyzing exhaled bubbles, a breakthrough that could improve safety for commercial and scient…
Teachers and Native American community members are opposing a $57,590 AI pilot program at Salamanca High School in New York that features a humanoid robot named 'Sally' from Toronto-based Realbotix, a company linked to s…
A developer built a probabilistic graph neural network (PGNN) inference system for bio-inspired soft robotics maintenance, integrating ethical auditability from the start. The system models soft robots as graphs with pro…
Generative Bionics unveiled Gene.01, a new humanoid robot with 'smart skin' embedded with touch and proximity sensors for enhanced environmental awareness.
A former NASA robotics chief, Dr. Robert Ambrose, now chairman of robotics and AI at Alliant, said space-based data centers could free AI processing from land-based energy grids by using solar arrays and ejecting heat in…
Craveworthy Brands CEO and founder Gregg Majewski said AI robots should not have a place in the restaurant business, arguing against their adoption in the industry during a Yahoo Finance interview on July 27, 2026.
Amardeep Singh, an IIT Bombay alumnus and entrepreneur, realized during a 2023 SaaSBoomi US Caravan trip to Silicon Valley that SaaS was not his true calling, despite nearly a decade of building software companies. The e…
Chinese humanoid robot maker AgiBot has initiated the process for a Hong Kong IPO, according to reports. The Shanghai-based company, founded in 2023, develops humanoid robots and embodied AI systems for industrial and co…
NVIDIA introduced Cosmos-H-Dreams, a real-time, action-conditioned generative simulator for surgical robotics that runs on a single NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPU. Built by distilling the Cosmos-H-Surgical-Simulator into a caus…
Canada risks missing a $40-trillion robotics opportunity, warns Clearpath Robotics CEO Ryan Gariepy, who chairs the Canadian Robotics Council. Gariepy told BetaKit that Canada has world-class robotics researchers but lac…
A new platform called Rohboter aims to simplify commercial robot adoption by offering a curated marketplace, deployment coordination, financing, and operational tracking in one place. The service targets facilities manag…
Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) created a virtual robot with a brain-inspired neural network that learns language faster when driven by curiosity, achieving genuine language understa…
Standard video datasets are insufficient for advancing physical AI, and integrating EEG and brain-computer interface (BCI) data into training loops could enable robots to achieve human-like fluidity by mapping neural int…
Encord is testing whether EEG brain-wave signals can improve robotics training data by capturing human intent during physical tasks, addressing the high cost of manufacturing real-world training examples. The company is …