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iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks details why humanoid robots won't learn human-level dexterity from current methods, how to make them safe for humans, and more (rodneybrooks.com)
28 days ago Robot

International Federation of Robotics: Chinese factories installed ~300K new robots in 2024, more than the rest of the world combined; US factories installed 34K (www.nytimes.com)
28 days ago China Robot

Humanoid Robots Are Meta's Next 'AR-Sized Bet' (hardware.slashdot.org)
29 days ago Robot AR

Andrew Bosworth says Meta is working on humanoid robots, internally called “Metabot”, as its next “AR size bet”, envisions licensing software to robot makers (sources.news)
29 days ago Robot AR

Andrew Bosworth says humanoid robots, internally called “Metabot”, are Meta's next “AR size bet” and envisions licensing software to other robot makers (www.theverge.com)
29 days ago Robot AR

Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-ER 1.5, enabling robots to perform multi-step tasks like sorting laundry, including by using web search (www.ft.com)
30 days ago Google Robot

MLB Approves Robot Umps In 2026 For Challenges (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-9-24 Robot

Sources: humanoid robotics startup 1X is seeking to raise up to $1B at a $10B+ valuation, more than 12x its previous valuation from a January financing (www.theinformation.com)
2025-9-23 Startup Robot

Nvidia and Abu Dhabi institute launch joint AI and robotics lab in the UAE (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-22 AI Robot Nvidia

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)
2025-9-17 AI Robot

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)
2025-9-17 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)
2025-9-16 AI Robot Algorithm

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)
2025-9-12 Robot Battery

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)
2025-9-11 China Robot Shanghai

Chinese robotics firm Unitree eyeing $7 billion IPO valuation (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-9 China IPO Robot

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)
2025-9-8 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)
2025-9-8 Startup Robot

How Close Are We to Humanoid Robots? (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-9-7 Robot

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)
2025-9-5 Robot Toyota Boston Dynamics

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)
2025-9-5 Google AI Robot

Robots learn to work together like a well-choreographed dance (www.eurekalert.org)
2025-9-5 Robot

Dyson unveils world's slimmest vacuum, AI robot cleaner, and new hair care range (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-5 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)
2025-9-4 AI Robot

US sues robot toy maker for exposing children's data to Chinese devs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-9-4 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)
2025-9-3 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)
2025-9-3 AI Apple Robot

Humanoid robots showcase skills at Ancient Olympia. But they're on a long road to catch up to AI (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-2 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)
2025-9-2 China Robot

Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 Robot

Nvidia's Jetson AGX Thor gives robots a brain boost as the robotics industry sees a surge (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-27 Robot Nvidia

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