Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
Encord, a data tooling company, is testing brain wave-tracking headsets from German neuroscience startup Zander Labs to generate richer training data for physical AI, aiming to solve the scarcity of real-world robotics d…
Elon Musk predicted that artificial intelligence will exceed the sum of human intelligence within five years, leading to an "age of amazing abundance" where cash becomes meaningless and up to one billion humanoid robots …
A robot built by Qualcomm Inc collapsed mid-presentation on stage, dropping its tray and flailing before being covered with a cloth and carried out by four men, drawing laughter and applause from the audience. The incide…
A viral arXiv paper co-authored by 2026 Fields Medal recipient Jacob Tsimerman, titled "A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence," has drawn criticism for its speculative predictions about AI-dri…
Genesis AI, a Franco-American robotics startup, is in talks to raise $500 million at a $3 billion pre-money valuation, just a year after emerging from stealth with a $105 million seed round, Bloomberg reported on July 23…
AI safety researchers have formalized Physical Prompt Injection Attacks (PPIA), a new class of exploit where visual payloads presented to a Vision-Language Model's camera lens can hijack an autonomous robot's behavior wi…
Master's students pursuing RL research should focus on embodied AI, particularly Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, as the strongest bet, according to an analysis of current trends. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) off…
A plan to introduce a humanoid robot named Sally at Salamanca High School in New York has sparked protests from teachers and local residents, who call it inappropriate and culturally insensitive given the school's large …
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, predicts that money will become irrelevant by 2036 as artificial intelligence and robotics eliminate scarcity by producing more goods and services than humans can consume. In a s…
Mitsubishi Motors has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Highlanders, Inc., a University of Tokyo spinout, to jointly develop and mass-produce AI-powered humanoid robots at its Kyoto plant, targeting 1,000 units p…
KAIST announced a $300 million joint research program with Nvidia to develop next-generation agentic AI technology tailored to the Korean language and domestic industries, and will establish a physical AI research center…
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood named Tesla and SpaceX as her top AI stock picks on Fox Business on July 22, 2026, citing robotaxis, Optimus robots, and orbital data centers as key drivers. ARK Invest deployed approximately $…
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has allocated ¥1.23 trillion for AI and semiconductor support in fiscal 2026, including ¥387.3 billion for domestic foundation models and physical AI, and commissioned Noet…
Black Forest Labs (BFL) launched FLUX 3 on July 23, a single model that generates synchronized video and audio, edits images, and controls robot arms on Audi production lines, all from one training run. The model, built …
Deep learning has demonstrated that systems previously considered unsimulatable on classical computers, such as protein folding, can be accurately modeled even without deriving rules from microscopic physics. The current…
AMD announced an integrated platform for robotics and autonomous systems, targeting physical AI computing with standardized architectures and open ecosystems to simplify development and deployment across markets.
A developer compiled the top 10 most upvoted papers on Hugging Face, covering deep research agents, post-training large models on Ascend SuperPOD, embodied visual tracking, K-12 knowledge graphs, self-distillation for vi…
An exhibition titled 'Media Sullae: When Technique Follows,' organized by the Korea Disability Arts & Culture Center, opened July 16 at Modu Art Space in Seoul, featuring six artists and teams working in interactive inst…
Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung met with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on July 24 to formalize a 'Physical AI Alliance' focused on autonomous driving, humanoid robotics, and AI-powered manufacturing. The partn…
Foundation Future Industries announced on July 23 that its Phantom line of humanoid war robots will use AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series processors, with mass production slated for late 2026. The company claims the AMD …