Robot

Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google; it will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-26 Google AI Robot Alphabet

Researchers Develop Detachable Crawling Robotic Hand (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-23 Robot

Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-23 Robot

How can you rescue a “kidnapped” robot? A new AI system helps the robot regain its sense of location in dynamic, ever-changing environments (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-2-20 AI Robot

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from a16z, Nvidia, AMD, and others to advance its world models focused on robotics and scientific discovery (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Robot Nvidia AMD

India Tells University To Leave AI Summit After Presenting Chinese Robot as Its Own (slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 China India AI Robot

Sources: Amazon shut down Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system launched in October 2025 for same-day delivery warehouses, to focus on small modular warehouses (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-19 Amazon Robot

Moment Ukrainian robot takes on Russian soldier in close combat gunfight on frontline (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-18 Russia Robot Ukraine

Small Crowd Pays to Watch a Boxing Match Between 80-Pound Chinese Robots (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-15 China Robot British Pound

Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B valuation, up 3x from when it raised $350M in February 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-12 Google Startup Robot

Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-10 Alibaba Robot

How China boosts its humanoid robot industry, giving companies land, favorable bank loan terms, and sometimes subsidizing the robots' purchase price by ~10% (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-9 China Robot

Overland AI, which develops off-road robots and autonomous vehicles for military purposes, raised $100M led by 8VC, bringing its total funding to $142M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-4 AI Robot Autonomous Car

Starbucks Bets on Robots To Brew a Turnaround in Customers (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-3 Robot Starbucks

Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Robot

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-2 Startup Robot Intelligence

Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (restofworld.org)
2026-2-1 China AI Robot

Moment terrified Russian soldiers surrender to Ukrainian machine gun-mounted combat robot on meatgrinder front line (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-1-30 Russia Robot Ukraine

'Hundreds' of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For US Roads (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-30 Robot

Munich-based RobCo, which makes robotic arms and factory automation software, raised $100M led by Lingotto and Lightspeed, a source says at a $500M+ valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-29 Robot Munich

Tesla plans to scrap its premium S and X models and convert its California factory into an Optimus manufacturing hub, as Elon Musk refocuses on robotics and AI (www.ft.com)
2026-1-29 AI Tesla Robot Manufacturing Elon Musk California

Q&A with James Wu on leaving his role as DJI's chief scientist to found FJDynamics to build robots for labor intensive sectors like agriculture and construction (www.ft.com)
2026-1-28 Robot

Misleading text in the physical world can hijack AI-enabled robots (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-1-28 AI Robot

Documents: China's military is focused on harnessing AI to deploy swarms of drones, robot dogs, and other autonomous systems, learning from hawks and coyotes (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-26 China AI Robot Drone

Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-1-23 Startup Robot Intelligence Paris

Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds (inc42.com)
2026-1-20 Startup Robot

Q&A with FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, only the second CEO in the company's history, on humanoid robots, automation, AI, drones, US-China trade tensions, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-19 China AI Robot Drone

Shenzhen-based UBTech signed deals to supply its Walker S2 humanoid robots to Airbus and Texas Instruments, and says it aims to produce 10,000+ units in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-19 Airbus Robot Shenzhen Texas

Ukrainian robot soldier holds off Russian forces by itself in six-week battle (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-1-16 Russia Robot Ukraine

Mytra, which is building autonomous robots for warehouses that can move loads up to 3,000 pounds, raised a $120M Series C led by Avenir Growth (fortune.com)
2026-1-16 Robot

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