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'Asimov Was Right' About Rules For Robots, Says Ex-US Cyber Director (it.slashdot.org)
20 hours ago Robot

Filing: DeepSeek has invested ~$20.8M in Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for humanoid machines (www.reuters.com)
2 days ago IPO AI Robot Shanghai

Filing: Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics prices its Shanghai IPO at ~$22/share, aiming to sell 40.4M shares to raise $904M; Unitree shipped 5,500+ robots in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago IPO Robot Shanghai

Ukraine aims to have 50,000 combat robots built this year - as Zelensky pleads for allies to provide missile shield (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2 days ago Robot Ukraine

Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors (www.ft.com)
6 days ago China AI Robot

Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot (tech.slashdot.org)
8 days ago Google Robot

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (www.wired.com)
9 days ago Google AI Robot

The US FCC's ban on foreign “advanced robotic devices” covers any new ground-based, software-controlled wireless robot over 4.4 pounds, including robot vacuums (www.theverge.com)
9 days ago Robot Ban

The FCC's ban on foreign “advanced robotic devices” includes any new ground-based, software-controlled wireless robot over 4.4 pounds, including robot vacuums (www.theverge.com)
10 days ago Robot Ban

Who Wins and Who Loses After US Bans Foreign Robots? (hardware.slashdot.org)
10 days ago Robot

Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots (hardware.slashdot.org)
10 days ago Trump China Robot

The US FCC bans the import of new Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, seeking to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats (www.reuters.com)
11 days ago China AI Robot

Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more (www.youtube.com)
11 days ago Robot

Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a “noindex” tag (www.wired.com)
12 days ago Google Robot

Enigma, which runs large-scale experiments exploring how humans interact with robots, emerges from stealth with a $70M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Robot

Hyundai Claims Humanoid Robot Plan Is Not Part of Talks With Striking Workers (hardware.slashdot.org)
13 days ago Robot

A profile of Hangzhou-based Unitree, which shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, accounting for 25%+ of the global market, as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO (time.com)
14 days ago IPO Robot Shanghai

Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago Robot

Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around $500M in a new funding round at a $3B pre-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Startup AI Robot

Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Germany AI Robot

Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, partners with AMD to develop autonomous humanoid robots using the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series chips (www.reuters.com)
15 days ago Trump AI Robot AMD

Tesla reports a negative Q2 free cash flow of $1.1B, its first in over two years, partly due to increased AI and robotic investments, amid diminishing profits (www.reuters.com)
16 days ago AI Tesla Robot

Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber and others participating; Ben Horowitz will join the startup's board (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Uber Startup Robot

London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M (www.forbes.com)
17 days ago Startup Robot London

Blackstone agrees to invest an undisclosed sum in South Korea-based Futronic, which makes actuators used in industrial robots, sources say at a ~$675M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Korea Robot

Robot 'Decapitated' in World's First-Ever Humanoid UFC Fight (hardware.slashdot.org)
19 days ago Robot

Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC (www.bloomberg.com)
21 days ago Japan AI Robot Sony Nvidia

China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated “brain-to-robot” platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset (www.scmp.com)
21 days ago China Robot

Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September (www.theinformation.com)
22 days ago Startup Robot

A New York State school district is piloting a humanoid robot teacher by the company Realbotix to help students with summer school classes (mashable.com)
22 days ago Robot New York

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