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Xiaomi will publicly debut its robot at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, running from Aug. 19 to Aug. 23, confirmed by President Lu Weibing during an earnings call. The company will not sell the robot as a sta…
Unitree Robotics' initial public offering surged 629% from its IPO price, closing up 487% on its first day, making Agility Robotics' SPAC-backed public launch appear undervalued, according to Forbes senior contributor Jo…
Unitree Robotics' founder and CEO Wang Xingxing's net worth surged nearly sevenfold to $16 billion after the company's blockbuster stock market debut, making him one of China's richest tech moguls. The surge reflects inv…
Galbot is preparing to debut a new humanoid robot at the World Robot Conference 2026 (WRC26) in August, aiming to demonstrate real-time capabilities in competitive tasks. The company's reveal will test whether its large …
Researchers introduced PROBE, a framework for benchmarking and finetuning vision-language model (VLM) agents on Manipulation-Grounded Visual Question Answering (MG-VQA), where robots must physically move objects to answe…
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree is set to surge more than 600% in its Shanghai trading debut on Wednesday, with shares opening at around 1,100 yuan ($163.14) versus its IPO price of 150.8 yuan. The listing on Shangh…
Chinese robotics company Unitree's stock surged 629% at its market debut, with the introduction price of 150.8 yuan climbing to 1,100 yuan, giving a market value of nearly 630 billion kronor. Analysts at JP Morgan Chase …
Shares in Unitree Robotics, the world's biggest humanoid robot maker, soared on their debut on Shanghai's Star market on Wednesday, with the stock surging 200% to 128 yuan per share, giving the company a market value of …
Genesis AI is hiring a Core Physics Engineer for its open-source simulation platform Genesis-World, which runs simulations two orders of magnitude faster than real hardware and correlates with on-hardware rollouts at 89%…
Unitree Robotics, officially Yushu Technology, will begin trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Aug 19 after raising 6.1 billion yuan (US$904 million) in an IPO, making it the first publicly traded humanoid robot mak…
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) warned in a report published Tuesday that the United States risks ceding global leadership in setting data standards to China, urging Washington to develop a na…
Hugo award-winning author James Patrick Kelly has released a new short story collection, The Book of Bots, featuring twelve robot and AI stories, including the Locus Award-winning "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and the new "Je Ne R…
Forbes reports that San Francisco-based company Nori has launched the L3 humanoid robot for $1,688, with pre-orders now open and delivery scheduled for this fall. The robot is manufactured in the United States, marking a…
Robotics and lidar stocks fell sharply Tuesday as the AI trade cooled, with Ouster down 10% to $43, Aeva Technologies down 12% to $21, and Symbotic down 4% to $41. The sell-off followed reports that Anthropic's annualize…
1872, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers, has opened a prototype steel-fabrication factory in Cincinnati's Camp Washington neighborhood after raising $15 million in seed funding. The company aims to autom…
Xaira Therapeutics, an AI-driven biotech startup headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and London, is hiring a Robotics Engineer for Lab Automation in South San Francisco, California, with a salary of $15…
Humanoid robots from Figure, Agility Robotics, and UBTech are progressing in real-world deployments, but a new Techstrong Special Report warns that impressive demonstrations do not yet translate into reliable, commercial…
Sebastian Thrun revealed Dulo, a small stealth robotics startup, during an August 18 keynote at the Actuate robotics conference in San Francisco. Dulo's first-party Stanford-hosted page says the team is building foundati…
Helsing, a defense technology company developing AI-enabled capabilities, is hiring a Software Engineer, Rust for its Washington, DC office to work on Altra, its AI-powered drone software platform. The role involves desi…
The Department of Homeland Security has held at least one presentation with humanoid robotics company Foundation about deploying its Phantom Mk-I robots to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border, Fox News reported. Foundation fou…