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NVIDIA is expanding its robotics hiring in China, opening roles in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen across embodied AI, simulation, deployment, and solution architecture. The company aims to develop next-generation genera…
Autonomous pharmacy kiosks are gaining traction as the next major innovation in healthcare, offering automated prescription dispensing and reducing human error. These systems leverage AI and robotics to streamline pharma…
South Korea's National Growth Fund will scale up investment in the physical AI sector, with LS Cable & System Ltd. named as the first recipient, according to Financial Services Commission Chairman Lee Eog-weon. The fund,…
UBTech unveiled the U1 humanoid robot in Shenzhen on Tuesday, featuring silicone skin and emotional AI, priced from 119,800 yuan to 990,000 yuan. The robot is designed for domestic companionship, with 88 servo joints and…
A US congressional hearing on Tuesday urged the United States to accelerate innovation in AI, robotics, and chips to counter China's technological rise, as lawmakers criticized the Trump administration for research cuts …
China is challenging core American assumptions about innovation and technology, flipping the script on the US-led industrial revolution in AI and other cutting-edge fields. The shift inverts the historical 'Needham Quest…
BlackBerry reported Q1 revenue of $152.9 million, up 26% year-over-year, and EPS of 4 cents, beating estimates. The company's QNX operating system is now in 275 million cars and expanding into robotics, drones, and medic…
X Square Robot Technology Co. achieved a $2.8 billion valuation after four funding rounds, including a Series C, as the Shenzhen-based company develops embodied AI systems and foundation models for real-world application…
X Square Robot Technology Co. closed four consecutive financing rounds, including a Series C, bringing its valuation to over $2.8 billion. The Shenzhen-based embodied AI and foundation model developer plans to use the fu…
Amazon Robotics is close to signing a lease for 250,000 square feet at 650 Townsend Street in San Francisco's Design District, joining a growing hub of AI and tech firms. The Massachusetts-based division develops autonom…
Amazon Robotics is nearing a deal to lease 250,000 square feet at 650 Townsend Street in San Francisco's Design District, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The move signals the company's expansion into a dense ur…
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot facility in Austin called Robot Park to collect teleoperation data from its Apollo 2 humanoid robots for Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics AI models. The company has raised over $935…
A researcher questions the ethics of developing general-purpose robots due to the risk of cyberhacking enabling totalitarian regimes. The AI safety community has largely overlooked this risk, focusing instead on autonomo…
South Park Commons portfolio companies raised over $1.5 billion in June 2026, including Baseten's $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation for AI inference and Orb's $335M acquisition by Adyen. AXION launched a neural headband…
South Korea's government and top tech companies are committing $1 trillion to megaprojects that include $585 billion for new chip fabrication plants, $357 billion for AI data centers, and a push to commercialize humanoid…
NVIDIA used Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute to optimize its NuRec neural reconstruction pipeline, reducing reconstruction times from hours toward a goal of real-time performance for autonomous vehicle and robotics appl…
Flexion deployed Reflect v1.0, a robotics intelligence platform integrating mission control, motion planning, whole-body control, and runtime software with natural-language mission prompts. The platform improved humanoid…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a £15 billion Defence Investment Plan, including £5 billion for drones and autonomous systems, to modernize the British armed forces by 2030 and counter threats from Russia. The p…
Jaiveer Singh, a robotics software engineer at NVIDIA, leads the team behind Isaac ROS, an open-source framework that accelerates development of autonomous robots using CUDA-accelerated libraries and AI models. His work …
A developer built a drone-based security reconnaissance system that uses computer vision to detect restricted-zone breaches. The system relays PTZ camera and drone feeds through MediaMTX, samples frames every two seconds…