Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
Dutch AI company General Intuition raised $320 million in a new funding round, bringing its total to $454 million since October 2025 and valuing the firm at $2.3 billion. Investors include Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Khosl…
Ford Motor Company hired back over 350 experienced engineers, including former employees, to correct errors made by its automated production and design systems, after realizing that relying solely on artificial intellige…
Employment expert James Reed, chairman of recruitment firm Reed, has called for a tax on robots and AI systems to protect human jobs and ensure fair taxation as automation increases. Reed argues that companies using AI s…
NVIDIA Isaac Lab has been extended to support the AgileX Dual-Arm Nero Manipulator, enabling developers to train dual-arm reinforcement learning policies for robotic manipulation. The open-source implementation provides …
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed concerns about an AI bubble, calling such talk an 'insult' to a revolution just beginning, and vowed to delay retirement by another 10-15 years to capitalize on the AI boom. Son reaff…
Hyundai Motor's labor union voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, using job security concerns over the planned deployment of Atlas humanoid robots as leverage in wage negotiations. The union gained legal strike rig…
A developer built a tabletop robot arm that understands spoken commands and picks up objects using only a MacBook Air, with no cloud dependency. The system runs three AI models locally—speech-to-text, a language model fo…
Visual Build launched Automation Skill Builder (ASB), a tool that records desktop workflows and packages them into AI-callable skills via the Model Context Protocol. The platform runs fully offline, deterministic, and lo…
Hyundai Motor Group is considering swapping its US AI research arm for SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics, which would give Hyundai full ownership of the robotics company ahead of its planned IPO. The de…
Researchers introduced the Swarm-Inspired Emergent Synchronizer (SIES), a graph-dynamical framework that learns local interaction rules for collective behaviors across graphs, dynamics, and tasks. SIES achieved synchroni…
A new survey on World Action Models (WAMs) clarifies the boundaries between broad world models, video generation models, and action-grounded video world models, organizing existing works by what they generate and their d…
M5Stack and its user community co-created StackChan, a kawaii AI desktop robot powered by an ESP32-S3 SoC with features including a 2.0-inch touch display, camera, servos, RGB LEDs, and NFC. The robot supports AI agent f…
Agility Robotics, a maker of humanoid robots for warehouses, announced a $2.5 billion merger with Churchill Capital Group to go public. The company's Digit robot is already deployed in warehouses, backed by Amazon, Nvidi…
Humanoid robot startup Agility Robotics plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $2.5 billion valuation, making it the first humanoid-focused company to list in the US. The deal, led by former Citigroup executive Michae…
Indian factory workers are being filmed by head-mounted cameras to generate training data for robotics systems that may automate their jobs, with footage collected for as little as $1 per hour and without direct worker c…
Roboflow and Standard Bots partnered to enable robots to run custom vision models trained in Roboflow, allowing manufacturers to deploy visual intelligence to industrial robots without engineering overhead. The integrati…
FAULHABER launched its new GPT gearhead family, designed for high torque, low noise, and flexibility in robotic and industrial applications. The gearheads offer power densities up to 25 Nm intermittent torque, noise redu…
Hyundai workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, partly over fears that robots will replace their jobs. The union demands a say in how AI and automation are deployed on the factory floor, marking the first tim…
Chinese humanoid robots are competing in a penalty kick challenge at MWC Shanghai, testing autonomous perception, balance, and motion planning without human control. The event, timed with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, showcas…
Clarion Partners paid $132.3 million for a Fremont industrial building leased to Tesla, signaling strong investor interest in industrial properties despite a downturn in other commercial real estate sectors. The 267,100-…