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Dyna Robotics, which is building an AI foundation model for robotics, raised a $120M Series A led by Robostrategy, CRV, and First Round Capital (www.bloomberg.com)
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Humanoid robot startup Figure raised a $1B+ Series C led by Parkway Venture Capital at a post-money valuation of $39B, up from $2.6B in February 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Startup Robot Venture Capital

Sources: OpenAI is recruiting people to work on humanoid robots and is training AI algorithms that are better able to make sense of the physical world (www.wired.com)
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Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot industry faces hurdles, from battery life and design to limited demand for large-scale deployments (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Ant Group unit Robbyant showcases its first LLM-powered humanoid robot, the R1, at a conference in Shanghai, joining an intensifying effort by Chinese companies (www.bloomberg.com)
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Chinese robotics firm Unitree eyeing $7 billion IPO valuation (indianexpress.com)
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Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (www.cnbc.com)
9 days ago Alibaba Startup AI Robot Shenzhen

PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B+ in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy (www.washingtonpost.com)
10 days ago Startup Robot

How Close Are We to Humanoid Robots? (hardware.slashdot.org)
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Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute have developed a large behavior model that enables more natural movement and “emergent skills” in humanoid robots (www.wired.com)
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Researchers from UCL, Google DeepMind, and Intrinsic unveil RoboBallet, an AI system designed to help teams of industrial robots work together without colliding (t.co)
12 days ago Google AI Robot

Robots learn to work together like a well-choreographed dance (www.eurekalert.org)
12 days ago Robot

Dyson unveils world's slimmest vacuum, AI robot cleaner, and new hair care range (indianexpress.com)
13 days ago AI Robot

Orchard Robotics, which uses cameras and AI to help fruit growers manage crops more precisely, raised a $22M Series A led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago AI Robot

US sues robot toy maker for exposing children's data to Chinese devs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
14 days ago China Robot

IDC: in Q1 2025, the world's top four robot vacuum makers, all from China, together accounted for 54.1% of shipments, as iRobot fell from first to fifth place (asia.nikkei.com)
14 days ago China Robot

Apple's lead AI researcher for robotics, Jian Zhang, has left for Meta's Robotics Studio; sources: three more researchers left Apple's Foundation Models team (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago AI Apple Robot

Humanoid robots showcase skills at Ancient Olympia. But they're on a long road to catch up to AI (indianexpress.com)
15 days ago AI Robot

IFR: Chinese factories install ~280K industrial robots every year, or 50% of the global total, helping China boost its global exports; ~50% are locally made (t.co)
15 days ago China Robot

Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population (hardware.slashdot.org)
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Nvidia's Jetson AGX Thor gives robots a brain boost as the robotics industry sees a surge (indianexpress.com)
21 days ago Robot Nvidia

Nvidia's New 'Robot Brain' Goes On Sale (hardware.slashdot.org)
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Nvidia says the Jetson AGX Thor, its latest “robot brain” chip module, is now on sale for $3,499 as a developer kit; the module will ship next month (www.cnbc.com)
23 days ago Robot Nvidia

Self-morphing, wing-like feet enhance surface maneuverability of water striders and robots (www.eurekalert.org)
25 days ago Robot

Kiev to replace soldiers with robots – top general (www.rt.com)
27 days ago Robot

An interview with GM SVP of Software and Services Engineering David Richardson on GM's new AI team, developing “cobots”, or collaborative robots, and more (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago Interview AI Robot

FieldAI, which is developing robot “brains”, raised $405M at a $2B post-money valuation from Nvidia and others; FieldAI raised an initial $91M in late 2024 (www.axios.com)
28 days ago Robot Nvidia

Humanoid Robot Games highlighted robotics advancements but also limitations, with robots tripping over each other; one robot ran faster than many amateur humans (www.nytimes.com)
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Robots race, play football, crash and collapse at China's ‘robot Olympics' (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-17 China Robot

The World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off in Beijing on August 15, with robots across 280 teams from 16 countries competing in track and field and other sports (www.reuters.com)
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