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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…
Robotera, a Beijing-based humanoid robotics company founded in August 2023 and incubated by Tsinghua University, is reportedly considering a Hong Kong IPO to raise up to $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the…
Japan has become one of the world's most advanced climate-adaptation labs, with the government strengthening workplace heatstroke-prevention rules last year and companies like Obayashi Corp. shifting construction hours t…
AgiBot, a Chinese humanoid robotics company, is repositioning itself as an AI company, releasing the GO-2 embodied foundation model in April 2026 and Genie Sim 3.0, which provides over 10,000 hours of simulation data and…
LG Electronics began operating a new refrigerator plant in Parana state, Brazil, on Thursday, with an annual capacity of about 600,000 units, as part of its Global South expansion strategy. The facility, LG's second in B…
Madison Huang, a senior director at Nvidia and daughter of CEO Jensen Huang, will visit LG Electronics' robotics hub in Korea on Tuesday for closed-door talks on AI infrastructure and robotics partnerships. The meeting a…
San Mateo County's Board of Supervisors approved a resolution on August 11th directing county staff to draft a permitting ordinance for commercial humanoid robots, potentially requiring a trained human supervisor on-site…
Independent researcher Chance, founder of CharacterOS LLC, is seeking an arXiv endorser in cs.RO or cs.AI for a paper on social robot character safety certification under the RoboSafe standard, which involves a patent-pe…
Dmitry Grinberg's critique of RISC-V, published on Hacker News, argues the ISA's design is flawed but will still dominate cheap microcontrollers, while Armstrong Subero, an embedded engineer from Trinidad and Tobago, reb…
Foundation, a U.S. robotics company, has demonstrated its Phantom humanoid robot to Department of Homeland Security officials, with CEO Sankaet Pathak saying the robot could autonomously patrol the southern border, detec…
SwarmSim, a new open-source project posted on Hacker News, provides computational simulations of emergent flocking behavior. The project, available on GitHub, allows users to model and visualize how groups of agents form…
A new generation of robotic rehabilitation systems is revolutionizing stroke recovery by accelerating neuroplasticity, personalizing therapy, and extending care beyond clinical settings, according to The Robot Report. Th…
Goldman Sachs is steering investors toward mainland-listed Chinese stocks in power supply chains, hardware infrastructure, and humanoid robots, citing a 111% year-over-year surge in China's chip exports in May 2026. The …
Hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3, such as X25519MLKEM768, is being standardized by the IETF to protect against harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks. The change combines classical X25519 with the post-quantum ML-KEM-768 mech…
The TerraMow V1000 robot mower from TerraMow uses a triple camera system and AI to map and navigate lawns without boundary wires or RTK antennas, and in testing it mapped a lawn automatically with no manual edits and mow…
LG and Nvidia signed a memorandum of understanding on August 13 to build LG's first bipedal humanoid robot, with Nvidia supplying the AI brain and LG supplying its own actuators, sensors, and batteries. The robot will ru…
Bybit, a cryptocurrency exchange, has added pre-IPO perpetual contracts for Unitree Robotics and Moonshot AI to its TradFi perpetuals lineup, which now exceeds 200 products. The contracts, UNITREEUSDT and MOONSHOTUSDT, a…
World Labs, the AI startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, says its Real-to-Sim-to-Real (R2S2R) engine trained robot policies entirely in simulation that ran autonomously for one hour on RB-Y1, YAM, Flexiv, and xArm systems, with…
Treble, a company specializing in advanced audio and voice technologies, argues that humanoid robots will not be widely adopted until they can communicate naturally through voice in real-world, noisy environments, citing…