Physical AI, humanoid robots, autonomous systems, and the intersection of hardware and intelligence.
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US import ban on Chinese robots opens opportunity for startups using non-Chinese components, exemplified by Ati Robotics' India-assembled warehouse automation systems.
Google DeepMind expands its Gemini Robotics AI model to control entire humanoid robots, enabling complex locomotion and dexterous manipulation tasks.
Gemini Robotics ER 2 enables robots to reason about physical tasks, collaborate across multiple units, and adapt in real time using continuous video feeds.
Gemini Robotics 2 enables humanoids to perform dexterous tasks and coordinate with other robots, with on-device inference for rapid adaptation to new embodiments.
A German robotics startup is recruiting home cooks and chefs to film their hand movements for AI training, offering free meals and cleaning services in exchange for first-person video data.
New robotics startup prioritizes human-robot interaction design over raw model capability, launching public experiments with 100+ proprietary robots.
NVIDIA's new distilled model enables interactive surgical robot training on a single RTX PRO 6000 GPU, replacing expensive physical experiments with real-time generative simulation.
Startups are pairing neuroscience headsets with robot training to tag real-world manipulation data with cognitive signals, betting this could accelerate physical AI development.
Nvidia Jetson chips will power rovers and satellites on the lunar surface, marking a major shift in space robotics toward edge AI processing.
Lingverse's new pendant-shaped device aims to resurrect the beloved Jibo robot as a visual-monitoring AI wearable.
Carnegie Mellon roboticists launch Gritt with $26M Series A to automate solar panel installation, claiming 3–4x productivity gains over manual crews.
Hugging Face releases Grabette, a low-cost handheld gripper system that democratizes robot learning data collection without requiring expensive teleoperation rigs or lab infrastructure.
NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 Edge brings real-time world modeling to edge devices, enabling robots to reason about actions and predict outcomes without relying on data-center compute.
Agility Robotics is establishing a 60,000-sq-ft facility near Tesla's Fremont plant, betting on near-term revenue from its deployed Digit robots while the broader humanoid market accelerates.
A startup backed by Eric Trump is developing weaponized humanoids for military use, with plans to unveil lethal capabilities within months.
Jay Li's Proception raises $11M to commercialize sensor-glove training for robotic hands, after settling Tesla litigation.
A Swiss startup demonstrates how foundation models—not just robot hardware—are the key to autonomous humanoids handling complex workplace routines.
Oregon State spinoff Agility Robotics merges with Churchill Capital Corp XI, targeting public trading with $300M+ in customer orders for next-generation bipedal units.
IO-AI Tech pioneers teleoperated humanoid robots in China, using VR-equipped workers to gather autonomous-training data while performing real warehouse and retail tasks.
A new startup is positioning itself as the data backbone for physical AI, offering collection tools and annotation systems that frontier labs cannot easily build themselves.
A new French robotics startup backed by Eric Schmidt is building a task-agnostic robot that abandons the human silhouette in favor of modularity and dexterous hands.
AWS's open-source Strands Robots SDK now unifies robot simulation, policy training, and hardware deployment through a single agent interface, eliminating the need for five separate tools.
Barcelona-based robotics startup Theker closes Europe's largest robotics Series A, betting on reconfigurable machines over single-task humanoids.
Theker, an AI robotics company, closes $85M Series B round with backing from LVMH and other institutional investors, signaling corporate appetite for autonomous systems.
Robotics firms are scaling physical AI training data by paying consumers and gig workers to record everyday tasks, raising privacy and labor questions.
Waymo deploys its first vehicle designed from scratch for driverless operation across Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix, featuring upgraded AI perception systems and accessibility features.
Hugging Face enables fully on-device speech-to-speech for Reachy Mini robots using open-source models and cascaded AI pipelines.
Project Open Hand partners with Chef Robotics to automate plating for medically tailored meals, addressing volunteer shortages in the Tenderloin.
A Wired journalist paired OpenClaw with a LeRobot arm, showing how large language models can now configure, train, and control physical robots without specialized expertise.
iRobot founder Colin Angle debuts Familiar Machines & Magic with an AI-powered quadruped companion robot targeting eldercare and family markets.
Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), placing co-founders Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang inside Superintelligence Labs — marking Pinto's second Big Tech acquisition in thirty days.
San Francisco and Austin first responders told NHTSA in a private session that Waymo vehicles are freezing more, blocking fire stations, and ignoring hand signals.
Cambridge startup Eka has built a robot arm that does what no commercial arm can — and its founders say scaling is all that stands between here and a revolution.
Beijing suspends all new robotaxi licensing nationwide after dozens of Baidu Apollo Go vehicles came to a standstill in Wuhan traffic in March 2026.