Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
Mecka AI, a physical AI startup based in Toronto and New York City, acquired Vancouver's Docula early this year to process petabytes of motion data for training robots. The acquisition brings Docula's three-person team t…
The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL) will make its international debut on September 5, 2026, at Imola, Italy, bringing up to five fully autonomous Dallara Super Formula SF23 racecars to the iconic track. Organiz…
Pudu Robotics and Shenzhen Culture & Tourism Industry Development will build a 44-room fully robot-run hotel on the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link's West Artificial Island, opening in 2027 with public trials in late 2026. The h…
DIT (Hunan Display Innovation Technology) launched the MST3588XB NANO, an industrial mini PC powered by the Rockchip RK3588 octa-core processor, targeting edge AI, robotics, and autonomous systems. The device features up…
Swiss startup Flexion Robotics, founded by ex-Nvidia researchers, has developed an AI system that trains humanoid robots to autonomously perform complex office tasks like retrieving packages and using elevators. The syst…
Agibot chief scientist Luo Jianlan rejected copying the large language model development path for robotics, arguing that embodied intelligence requires high-quality, multi-scenario interaction data that remains scarce. L…
Researchers introduced P3Sim, a physical world modeling system that simulates future scene states from partial observations and incomplete 3D transformation signals. The system combines a learned world model, geometric c…
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung will announce three national projects on June 29 targeting semiconductors, AI data centers, and robotics, with Samsung Group expected to commit up to 1,000 trillion won ($648 billion)…
Seoul's startup ecosystem value surged from $40 billion to $237 billion between 2020 and 2024, moving the city to 9th globally, as the city expands its global startup platform amid an AI-driven industry shift. The Seoul …
NIO's F2 electric vehicle plant in Hefei, China, operates with 98% automation, using 941 KUKA robots for body assembly and AI-driven systems to produce one car per minute. The factory employs a zero-inventory model, gene…
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics demonstrated a fully local conversational AI pipeline on the Reachy Mini desktop robot, using Silero VAD v5, Parakeet-TDT 0.6B v3, Gemma 4 or Qwen3-4B LLM, and Qwen3-TTS, with no cloud de…
An AI named Hana, running in a home for two months, is gradually acquiring a physical body through incremental additions of sensors and actuators, starting with cameras and a pulse oximeter, with plans to add relays for …
The League of Women Voters of Cupertino-Sunnyvale and Braver Angels Silicon Valley Alliance are hosting a July 11 community conversation on housing needs in Cupertino and Sunnyvale. Separately, Team JavaJuice, a robotics…
Framework Ventures closed a $400 million fourth fund, oversubscribed, with half already deployed into AI, robotics, and energy, including a $60 million Series A in Mecka AI and a stake in Better.com. Co-founder Michael A…
Hugging Face's top-voted AI papers for June 28, 2026, reveal a shift from models that 'know how to answer' to systems that 'know how to act, remember, adapt, and generate context-aware content.' The roundup covers 10 not…
AGIBOT Innovation Technology Co. announced the production of its 15,000th robot, a milestone in scaling embodied AI systems from batch production to larger-scale deployment. The company's G2 wheeled mobile manipulator, d…
A developer has created Orientator, an ultrasonic 3D motion capture system using three transducers and microphones for 6DOF tracking at low cost and computational load. The device achieves ±1 mm spatial accuracy and ±1° …
HD Hyundai Electric launched an automated power distribution campus in Cheongju, South Korea, boosting production capacity by 70% to meet surging global demand from AI data centers and power infrastructure. The 116.1 bil…
HD Hyundai Electric opened an automated circuit breaker plant in Cheongju, South Korea, investing 116.1 billion won to boost production for AI data centers. The facility consolidates operations and uses robotics to produ…
OpenAI released its strongest model, GPT-5.6 Sol, but restricted initial access to about 20 vetted partners under a June 2 executive order. DeepSeek open-sourced the training stack for speculative decoding, and a new pap…