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Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is developing a human-like, 42-inch tall robot that can interact with people, walk, grip items, and dance (www.bloomberg.com)
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Trapped! Inside a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack (tech.slashdot.org)
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Amazon Plans to Test Four-Legged Robots on Wheels for Deliveries (hardware.slashdot.org)
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Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture robotics, AI, and space data center chips for Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago AI Tesla Robot Elon Musk SpaceX

A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments (www.theguardian.com)
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Filing: Unitree, China's leading robot company, is aiming to raise ~$610M in its Shanghai IPO; it brought in ~$247M in revenue in 2025 and ~$41.6M in net profit (www.bloomberg.com)
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Amazon acquires Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup Rivr, formerly Swiss-Mile; PitchBook: the startup was valued at $110M in an August 2024 funding round (www.theinformation.com)
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Gecko Robotics secures a $71M US Navy contract to use robots to slash repair time for dated ships, as the US races to reindustrialize its aging defense systems (www.cnbc.com)
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How Disney Imagineering built an Olaf robot, set to arrive at Disneyland Paris this month, and taught it to move via reinforcement learning and simulation (www.techradar.com)
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RoboForce, which is developing robotics systems to perform physically demanding industrial work, raised $52M led by YZi Labs, bringing its total funding to $67M (siliconangle.com)
8 days ago Robot

'Pokemon Go' Players Unknowingly Trained Delivery Robots With 30 Billion Images (hardware.slashdot.org)
8 days ago Robot

Uber Co-founder Travis Kalanick's Newest Venture? 'Gainfully Employed Robots' (hardware.slashdot.org)
9 days ago Uber Robot

Tether, flush with cash, has been investing in diverse sectors ranging from sleep tech company Eight Sleep to humanoid robotics company Neura Robotics (pitchbook.com)
10 days ago Robot

Travis Kalanick renames CloudKitchens' parent company as Atoms, focused on creating “gainfully employed robots” for the food, mining, and transport industries (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Robot

STMicro plans to retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots in its older chip plants for repetitive and physically demanding tasks, aiming to avoid closures (www.reuters.com)
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Sunday, which is building autonomous home robots, raised a $165M Series B led by Coatue at a valuation of $1.15B, and aims to begin testing in homes this year (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Robot

Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K+ humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were education and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services each made up 19% (giftarticle.ft.com)
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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's Mind Robotics, which is building AI-powered factory robots, raised $500M led by Accel and a16z, source says at a $2B valuation (www.wsj.com)
14 days ago AI Robot

Niantic Spatial partners with Coco Robotics to integrate a visual positioning system trained on data from Pokemon Go and Ingress into a fleet of delivery robots (www.technologyreview.com)
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Rhoda AI, which is developing an AI model for industrial robots trained on public internet videos, raised $450M led by Premji Invest at a $1.7B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago AI Robot

How “dark factories”, powered by AI and robotics and requiring essentially no workers, are set to upend China's labor market, already stressed by tariffs (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago China AI Robot

Qualcomm's New Arduino Ventuno Q Is an AI-Focused Computer Designed For Robotics (hardware.slashdot.org)
15 days ago AI Robot

Qualcomm unveils the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer for AI and robotics applications, powered by Dragonwing IQ8 processor and 16GB of RAM (www.engadget.com)
15 days ago AI Robot

Nvidia and ABB partner to bring ABB's robot training software to Nvidia's Omniverse simulation platform to build autonomous robots, which Foxconn is trialling (www.ft.com)
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London-based Isembard, which helps hardware makers in defence, aerospace, and robotics make components, raised a $50M Series A to build “AI-powered factories” (resiliencemedia.co)
16 days ago AI Robot London

Could Home-Building Robots Help Fix the Housing Crisis? (hardware.slashdot.org)
16 days ago Real Estate Robot

Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away (science.slashdot.org)
16 days ago Robot

OpenAI's Head of Robotics Resigns, Says Pentagon Deal Was 'Rushed Without the Guardrails Defined' (hardware.slashdot.org)
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Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotic engineering, resigns citing concerns over domestic surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons systems (fortune.com)
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Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M+ seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating (www.theinformation.com)
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