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Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-22 Amazon Startup Robot

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (www.physicalintelligence.company)
2025-12-20 Startup AI Robot Intelligence

VW plans to end vehicle production at its Dresden plant, which opened in 2001, and convert it into a research hub focused on AI, robotics, and chip design (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-16 AI Robot

Penn and UMich create world's smallest programmable, autonomous robots (www.eurekalert.org)
2025-12-16 Robot

Despite talk of an existential US-China AI race, the Chinese state and its major companies are spending more to dominate other domains, such as EVs and robotics (www.ft.com)
2025-12-14 China AI Robot

Medra, which programs robots with AI to conduct and improve biological experiments, raised $52M led by Human Capital, taking its total funding to $63M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-11 AI Robot

RoboCrop: Teaching Robots How To Pick Tomatoes (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-10 Robot

DEEP Robotics, a Hangzhou-based startup that builds quadruped and humanoid robots, raised a $70M Series C to expand R&D and production capacity (www.scmp.com)
2025-12-10 Startup Robot

AI browsers, still far from making legacy browsers obsolete, are forcing web developers to rethink whether they are designing websites for humans or for robots (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-9 AI Robot

Italy-based humanoid robotics startup Generative Bionics raised €70M led by CDP Venture Capital, with participation from Tether, AMD Ventures, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-9 Italy Startup Robot Venture Capital AMD

Sources: Skild AI, which develops a foundational model for robots, is in talks to raise $1B+ from SoftBank and Nvidia at a $14B valuation, up from $4.7B in July (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-9 AI Robot Nvidia

Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (cen.acs.org)
2025-12-7 AI Robot

A review of LinkedIn profiles shows dozens of Apple staffers with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and more have joined OpenAI in recent months (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-5 LinkedIn Apple Robot

Development of 'OCTOID,' a soft robot that changes color and moves like an octopus (www.eurekalert.org)
2025-12-5 Robot

After AI Push, Trump Administration Is Now Looking To Robots (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-4 Trump AI Robot

Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered warehouse robots, raised a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (siliconangle.com)
2025-12-2 AI Robot Intelligence

Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot on Nov. 19, hired at least 10 former Tesla employees, including engineers who worked on Autopilot and Optimus (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-11-29 Tesla Robot

Chinese authorities sound alarm over humanoid robots (www.rt.com)
2025-11-29 China Robot

Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-11-29 China AI Robot

Gravis Robotics, which adds cameras, sensors, and AI to heavyweight construction machines so they can operate autonomously, raised $23M led by IQ and Zacua (fortune.com)
2025-11-28 AI Robot

China's top economic planning agency warns about the risk of a bubble forming in the booming humanoid robotics industry; 150+ manufacturers operate in China (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-28 China Robot

PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B+ so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B+, up from $9.24B in 2023 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-26 China AI Robot

China is aggressively deploying AI and robotics to maintain its status as the world's manufacturing hub, and major companies are pioneering AI “dark factories” (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-25 China AI Robot Manufacturing

Figure AI's former head of product safety sues the humanoid robot startup, alleging he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-24 Startup AI Robot

Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M+ seed (news.crunchbase.com)
2025-11-24 Robot

An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies heavily on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom (harpers.org)
2025-11-24 AI Robot

Sources: AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence raised $600M led by CapitalG at a $5.6B valuation, with participation from Jeff Bezos, Lux, Thrive, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-21 Startup AI Robot Intelligence Jeff Bezos

Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, a fully autonomous home robot capable of tasks like making espresso and loading dishwashers, set to launch in beta in 2026 (www.wired.com)
2025-11-21 Robot

Uber plans to launch sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe via a partnership with Starship, starting in UK cities Leeds and Sheffield in December (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-20 Europe Uber Robot

Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini to become a sort of robot OS (www.wired.com)
2025-11-20 Google Robot Boston Dynamics

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