Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
China's AI and robotics firms face a reality check as they pursue IPOs on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's Star Market, where public market pricing will test the premiums built during private funding rounds. The exchange ha…
Hyundai factory workers in South Korea voted to strike over fears that humanoid robots could replace them, demanding a say in automation decisions and a performance bonus of about $27,000 per worker. The union cited Hyun…
Humanoid robots are now commercially available for $14,000 without standardized safety testing, as robotics intelligence outpaces validation frameworks. Researchers propose a five-level taxonomy for robot control archite…
Photon Matrix Lab, a Chinese startup, raised US$2.7 million on Indiegogo for its AI-powered laser mosquito zapper, far exceeding its US$20,000 goal. The device uses AI vision and lidar to detect and kill mosquitoes mid-f…
Hugging Face's top-voted papers on June 27, 2026, reveal key AI trends: smarter agents, more realistic image/video generation, and adaptive learning systems. Notable papers include a memory evaluation framework for LLM a…
Swiss filmmaker Antonin Niclass won the Young Audience Award at the Annecy Animation Festival for his stop-motion short 'Into the Forest,' which follows three handcrafted monkeys who transform a cold animation studio int…
Technologist Brett Alexander Hurt's book 'Love Conquers Fear' argues that humanity must overcome fear and scarcity mindsets to thrive alongside AI, quantum computing, robotics, and brain-computer interfaces. The book ble…
BlackBerry reported Q1 revenue of $152.9 million, up 26% year-over-year, and an EPS beat of 44%, marking its fourth net profit in five quarters. The company's QNX operating system now runs in 275 million cars and is expa…
Framework Ventures closed a $400 million fourth fund to invest in crypto, AI, robotics, and energy, with half already deployed. The fund, which managed $1.28 billion in assets as of December 2025, counts fund-of-funds, f…
Altus Schools, a San Diego charter school network, spent $500,000 on two ChatGPT-powered humanoid robots named Ameca for a pilot program exploring AI in education, despite experts warning of safety risks and lack of evid…
General Intuition US Inc. raised $320 million in Series A funding to build AI models trained on billions of video game clips from Medal, aiming to develop physical AI that can perceive and act in virtual and real environ…
Researchers at Japan's University of Electro-Communications created an edible gummy robot that can talk and cry, finding that participants perceived it as having a mind but were not significantly reluctant to eat it, acc…
Sanctuary AI appointed board chair Daniel Friedmann as CEO, replacing interim CEO James Wells, who announced his departure as the company shifts to scaling its existing humanoid robot technology. Friedmann, former MDA ex…
GNC deployed AI-powered drones from Corvus Robotics at its Whitestown, Indiana warehouse to automate inventory counting, reducing backorders and nonshipments from hundreds per day to about 98. The drones, which fly 25-30…
A16z's latest charts show that the current market cycle mirrors the post-GFC period with tech as the repeat winner, but other sectors have inverted—healthcare and consumer lag while energy and materials lead. The rotatio…
Orbbec showcased AI-powered 3D vision systems at Automate 2026 in Chicago, including the LingBot-Depth for Gemini 330 Series developed with Robbyant to enhance robotic spatial perception. The systems address industrial c…
KinetIQ announced Ascend, a reinforcement learning framework for industrial manipulation robots that aims to achieve 99.9% task success at superhuman speed. The system uses end-to-end deep learning with Vision-Language-A…
Framework Ventures closed a $400 million fourth fund to invest in AI, robotics, energy, and Web3, moving beyond its crypto and DeFi roots. The firm has already deployed roughly half of the fund, with stakes in Mecka AI a…
Framework Ventures raised $400 million for its fourth fund, expanding beyond crypto to invest in AI, robotics, and energy. The firm plans to deploy capital into frontier technology, following its founders' shifting inter…
Robotics startup FieldAI has reached $100 million in revenue and customer contracts, serving 30 clients across Europe, Asia, and the US. The company builds a universal software brain for robots operating in challenging e…