Robot

That sucks! Husband catches wife cheating on robot vacuum cleaner's camera... and is jailed for invading her privacy (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-9-1 Robot

Reframe, which uses AI and industrial robot arms to make modular homes in a factory, raised a $40M Series A extension round led by Energy Impact Partners (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-1 Energy AI Robot

Industry insiders say Chinese robot makers currently rely on Nvidia silicon and software; Nvidia's physical AI business generates ~$10B in annual revenue (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-30 China AI Robot Nvidia

Sources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs (www.wired.com)
2026-8-28 Robot

Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms (www.wired.com)
2026-8-28 AI Robot Quantum

Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-27 Robot Shenzhen

Sources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a $6B valuation; 1X sought $1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50% (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-27 Robot

Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning (www.skild.ai)
2026-8-26 AI Robot

Robot-assisted surgery shows clinical advantages over laparoscopic surgery for gastric cancer (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-8-25 Robot

Unitree shares fell 45% after surging more than 5x in their August 19 Shanghai debut, cutting its valuation from $66B to $36B, raising robotics bubble concerns (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-25 Robot Shanghai

Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June (www.axios.com)
2026-8-25 Startup Robot

A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-25 Startup Robot

Humanoid Robots Run 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record Pace (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-25 Robot

Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures at a $6.3B valuation, with Tencent and Alibaba participating (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-24 China Alibaba Tencent Robot IDG

At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records (www.telegraph.co.uk)
2026-8-24 China Robot

Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come (www.ft.com)
2026-8-22 Robot

The Chinese city of Hangzhou deploys traffic-control robots that operate autonomously, using cameras and radar to signal traffic and flag violations (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-21 China Robot

China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns (www.ft.com)
2026-8-20 China Robot

How Unitree's Go series, which helped the company dominate the quadruped robot market, drew on openly published US university research funded by the US military (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-20 Robot

Chinese Robotics Giant Unitree Soars In Stock Market Debut (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20 China Robot

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

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