Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
Ricoh showcased a multi-skilled humanoid robot moving from proof-of-concept to practical factory verification, as East Asia's AI ambitions collide with the global AI cold war. China's AI titans are investing heavily in t…
Amazon's 2026 Prime Day sale is live with record-low prices on Apple products including AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and AirTag 2, alongside discounts on roborock robotic cleaners and other …
Seoul is hosting the fourth annual Seoul Future Lab Festival on Saturday, turning its Magok Square plaza into a hands-on science playground with interactive stations on AI, robotics, and drones for children and families.…
Sony Group Corp. will stop sales of its aibo robot dog in Japan once current stocks are depleted, citing a business review to optimize future services. The company will continue support and repairs, and the AI-powered pe…
Researchers developed a framework linking partially observable Markov decision processes with biochemical reaction dynamics to model phototaxis in unicellular algae as an information-driven process. Using inverse reinfor…
Firefly launched the AIBOX-9075, an industrial Edge AI box powered by the Qualcomm DragonWing IQ-9075 SoC delivering up to 200 TOPS at INT8, with 36GB ECC memory and 8x GMSL2 camera inputs, priced at $1,239. The ruggediz…
A fully autonomous humanoid robot penalty shootout at MWC Shanghai 2026 drew over 10,000 spectators, with eight Chinese embodied AI teams competing across nearly 100 rounds. The event, which banned remote control and pre…
General Intuition, founded by Pim de Witte, raised $320 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the company at $2.3 billion. The startup uses gaming footage from de Witte's clip-sharing platform Medal to train…
Aurora Innovation, a publicly traded autonomous trucking company, commercialized its Aurora Driver self-driving system for Class 8 trucks in Texas in May 2025. Founded in 2017 by veterans from Google, Uber, and Tesla, th…
Figure AI's humanoid robot Figure 03 will begin a logistics sequencing job at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, moving parts from the body shop to final assembly. BMW's workforce has declined from a 2024 peak of 159,104 to 15…
Researchers from Anyscale and NVIDIA demonstrated a method to scale robot policy evaluation by disaggregating GPU-heavy simulation and policy inference workloads using Ray and Isaac Lab. The approach runs NVIDIA's GR00T-…
Robust.AI selected Aptiv PLC's intelligent perception systems, including the Aptiv PULSE sensor, for its Gen 3 Carter collaborative mobile robot. The sensor fuses radar and vision using machine learning to improve reliab…
Top AI developers are shifting focus from chatbots to 'world models' that teach AI systems to understand and navigate physical environments, aiming to create more intelligent and embodied AI. Researchers like Louis Castr…
BlackBerry stock surged 23% on June 25 after the company reported strong Q1 earnings and raised its full-year guidance, driven by growth in its QNX real-time operating system used in automotive, robotics, and edge AI. Th…
A parent from Pakistan, a CS/CE major, seeks advice on Hacker News for their 16-year-old son who excels in STEM but lacks consistency and spends time on social media. The parent discourages a CS career due to AI advancem…
General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to develop AI agents trained on video game footage that can operate in the real world. The startup uses action labels from hundreds of millions of hours o…
General Intuition, founded by Pim de Witte, raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to train AI agents on action-labeled gameplay data from Medal. The round was led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Gene…
Agility Robotics goes public at $2.5B via SPAC, raising $620M to fund Digit v5 production and a 30+ enterprise customer pipeline. OpenAI and Broadcom unveil the Jalapeño inference chip, reducing Nvidia dependency for LLM…
Chinese physical AI start-up Fysics AI launched Fysiverse, a physics-based world model that embeds real-world physical laws into its code, diverging from data-driven approaches used by OpenAI and Meta. Founded by former …
The ARM Institute expanded its RoboticsCareer.org website to focus on physical AI, aiming to demystify skills and training for working alongside AI-enabled robots in manufacturing. The platform now lists job opportunitie…