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Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surged 629% in early trading in its Shanghai debut on Wednesday, after raising ~$904M in its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-19 China IPO Robot Shanghai

Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-19 AI Robot

ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, a retrofit autonomous control appliance that mounts on excavators (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-18 Robot ETH

A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500+ units in 2025 and readies its China IPO (www.wired.com)
2026-8-16 China IPO Robot

Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 Robot

US-based robot vacuum maker Matic rolls out a firmware update that lets users control its $1,245 vacuum with voice commands in more than 70 languages (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14 Robot

A look at workers in India who are paid extra to wear devices that capture first-person video of factory and other work tasks for use as AI robot training data (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-13 India AI Robot

Swarms of Tiny Robots Remove Microplastics From Soil and Water (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-12 Robot

Filings show Uber divested from long-time partner Serve Robotics in Q2, as the companies clash over how to deploy delivery robots; Serve has a DoorDash deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-12 Uber Robot

Smart Analytics: Chinese humanoid robot makers were 97%+ of global shipments in H1 2026, reaching ~19,100 unit shipments globally, up from 5,100 in H1 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-10 China Robot

'Asimov Was Right' About Rules For Robots, Says Ex-US Cyber Director (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-8 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)
2026-8-7 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)
2026-8-6 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)
2026-8-6 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)
2026-8-2 China AI Robot

Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-31 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)
2026-7-31 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)
2026-7-30 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)
2026-7-30 Robot Ban

Who Wins and Who Loses After US Bans Foreign Robots? (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-30 Robot

Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-29 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)
2026-7-28 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)
2026-7-28 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)
2026-7-27 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)
2026-7-27 Robot

Hyundai Claims Humanoid Robot Plan Is Not Part of Talks With Striking Workers (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-26 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)
2026-7-25 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)
2026-7-24 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)
2026-7-24 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)
2026-7-24 Germany AI Robot

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