Robotics News

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.