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SoftBank Group invested $200 million in Gravis Robotics, a Zurich-based startup developing autonomous software for construction machinery, in a Series A round announced Monday. The investment follows SoftBank's broader p…
Vice President JD Vance told the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas on May 28 that the US government should lean into Bitcoin as a strategic asset against China, building on President Trump's March 6 executive order es…
1872, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers, launched on July 22 at its Factory One facility in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the goal of automating steel fabrication for infrastructure components, targeting a prot…
Diligent Robotics has begun rolling out Moxi 2.0 to U.S. health systems including Endeavor Health Edward Hospital, Providence Saint John’s Health Center, and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, following five years of opera…
A developer detailed a method for implementing object detection on Android devices to enable autonomous robots to recognize objects locally, reducing reliance on network connectivity. The approach uses CameraX for frame …
A developer detailed a tutorial on building a voice-controlled robot using Kotlin and large language models. The design captures speech on Android, parses it with an LLM into structured commands, and validates them throu…
A developer outlines an architecture for building AI robots that combines Android for the operator interface, NVIDIA Jetson for edge AI compute, and ROS 2 for robotics middleware. The design uses a secure gateway to deco…
A developer detailed how to build an Android application that performs real-time YOLO object detection for robotics, using CameraX for frame capture and a mobile inference runtime for local processing. The tutorial empha…
A developer demonstrates how to build an Android robot control app in Kotlin that communicates with a ROS 2 robot, using a bridge or gateway to expose only necessary topics. The app uses Jetpack Compose for the UI, Kotli…
Gecko Robotics CEO Jake Loosararian said the UAE leads the U.S. and China in practical AI and robotics deployment, citing ADNOC's use of Gecko's wall-climbing robots and AI Cantilever platform, which boosted asset covera…
Bedrock Robotics, founded by Boris Sofman, Kevin Peterson, Tom Eliaz and Ajay Gummalla, has deployed operatorless excavators at three commercial construction sites in Texas and Nevada, including a water treatment facilit…
China shipped almost 20,000 humanoid robots in 2025, fueling a new independent repair industry of 'robot doctors' who fix robots faster and cheaper, though they face challenges such as scarce custom components and low re…
Persona AI, founded by Nic Radford and Jerry Pratt, is targeting shipyard welding as the first economically viable job for its humanoid robots, aiming to address a skilled labor shortage in shipbuilding. The company has …
Gravis Robotics has raised $200 million in a Series A round led by SoftBank, marking the largest Series A in construction equipment history, to integrate AI into heavy machinery such as excavators. The funding will accel…
San Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics said Monday that excavators equipped with its autonomous AI system are now working without human operators on three commercial sites in Texas and Nevada, including a water treatment f…
Unitree, the Chinese humanoid robotics maker, is drawing more investor excitement than Shein's larger IPO, with its Shanghai STAR market debut expected this week after retail investors oversubscribed its offering by more…
OpenSSL 3.5+ now natively supports all three NIST post-quantum algorithms (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA), and a hands-on test shows that post-quantum certificates are dramatically larger than classical ones: a self-signed ML-…
Serve Robotics is partnering with Grubhub to deploy its sidewalk delivery robots in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alexandria, a move that comes days after its Uber Eats partnership collapsed. Serve CEO Ali Kashani said the c…
SoftBank is investing $200 million in Gravis Robotics' Series A round, the largest in construction robotics history, to scale its autonomous control kits for excavators and mixed fleets. The Zurich-based company, spun ou…
Robotics startups raised a record $16.3 billion across 492 deals in Q1 2026, according to PitchBook data, as Silicon Valley investors pivot from software to physical AI. Business Insider's inaugural list of the 25 most p…