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Humanoid Robot Becomes Buddhist Monk In South Korea (hardware.slashdot.org)
15 hours ago Korea Robot

Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over $200M led by SF Group, after raising ~$146M in March at a ~$1.47B valuation (www.caixinglobal.com)
1 day ago Robot

Sony and TSMC announce a new JV to build next-gen image sensors for robots and cars, as Sony moves from in-house manufacturing to a more asset-light approach (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Robot Manufacturing Sony Asset

Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5, its first model, which can control robotic hands that it designed in-house to do tasks like cooking (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Startup AI Robot

Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI's robotics and consumer hardware divisions in late 2025 to give them more room to grow; the plan was rejected (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago Robot

Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like, “emotionally intelligent” robot that reacts to owner's feelings (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago Robot

China's Linkerbot, which holds 80%+ of global dexterous robotic hands market, raised a Series B+ at a $3B valuation and seeks a $6B valuation in its next round (www.reuters.com)
5 days ago China Robot

Robots Are Building Clay Homes In Texas Using Dirt From the Ground (hardware.slashdot.org)
6 days ago Robot Texas

Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup AI Robot Intelligence

Humanoid robotics startup 1X opens a new 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California, where it aims to build 100,000 robots by the end of 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Startup Robot California

A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a “vision-force-action model” incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation (www.wired.com)
9 days ago Robot

Sources: SoftBank plans to create an AI and robotics company called Roze in the US to build data centers and list it as early as 2026, seeking a $100B valuation (www.ft.com)
10 days ago AI Robot

Humanoid Robots Start Sorting Luggage In Tokyo Airport Test Amid Labor Shortage (hardware.slashdot.org)
10 days ago Robot Tokyo

'Grandma, hop on!' Robot rescues Ukrainian pensioner after she is spotted fleeing Russian shelling with her walking sticks (www.dailymail.co.uk)
11 days ago Russia Robot Ukraine

Paris-based SquareMind, whose Swan robot uses AI for full-body dermoscopic skin imaging, raised $18M, including a previously undisclosed pre-Series A (www.massdevice.com)
12 days ago AI Robot Paris

Stuttgart-based Sereact, which develops software for industrial robots to handle tasks they haven't been trained on, raised a $110M Series B led by Headline (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Robot

Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025 (www.axios.com)
13 days ago Startup Robot Tokyo

Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service robots, raised ~$150M, bringing its total funding to $300M+, and says its valuation exceeds $1.5B (www.therobotreport.com)
16 days ago Robot Shenzhen

Ping-Pong Robot Makes History By Beating Top-Level Human Players (hardware.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Robot

Sony AI says its autonomous ping pong robot is the first robot to attain expert-level performance in a physical sport after beating some top-level human players (www.reuters.com)
17 days ago AI Robot Sony

Reliable Robotics, which is developing autonomous aircraft systems for cargo flights, raised $160M led by Nimble Partners, pushing its valuation to ~$1B (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Robot

Robots Beat Human Records At Beijing Half-Marathon (hardware.slashdot.org)
19 days ago Robot

Chinese robot smashes human world half-marathon record (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
19 days ago China Robot

Hilarious moment robot falls flat and smashes into pieces after tripping during humanoid half-marathon run before being carried off on a stretcher by medical team (www.dailymail.co.uk)
19 days ago Robot

At the Beijing half-marathon, several humanoid robots beat human winners by 10+ minutes; a robot made by Honor beat the human world record held by Jacob Kiplimo (www.reuters.com)
20 days ago Robot

Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an “early sign” of generalization, surprising researchers (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago Robot Intelligence

Hangzhou-based Manycore shares rose 187% early in its Hong Kong debut after raising $156M in its IPO; it is pivoting to selling AI training data to robot makers (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago Hong Kong IPO AI Robot

Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Can Now Read Gauges, Spot Spills, and Reason (hardware.slashdot.org)
24 days ago Robot Boston Dynamics

Ukraine's death-dealing robots which have captured Russian positions and single-handedly defended key positions for more than a month while blasting Putin's forces with .50-calibre machine guns (www.dailymail.co.uk)
24 days ago Russia Putin Robot Ukraine

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 (deepmind.google)
24 days ago Google Robot

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