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Out-of-control robot karate kicks a child in the stomach while performing martial arts (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2 days ago Robot

Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Startup Robot

Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities to let workers assign tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 (www.theverge.com)
3 days ago Europe Amazon AI Robot

Thanks To Robots, Ukraine Is Now Talking About Winning, Not Just Surviving (tech.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Robot Ukraine

New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A (fortune.com)
6 days ago AI Robot New York

Nvidia unveils Isaac GR00T, an open humanoid reference design powered by its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands (www.reuters.com)
6 days ago Robot Nvidia

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (www.axios.com)
6 days ago AI Robot Nvidia Autonomous Car

LG shares jumped 300%+ this year, after largely sitting out South Korea's chip-rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses such as robots (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago Korea AI Robot

PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to $26B in 2025 from $4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago AI Robot

China's tech boom is creating a new kind of tech tourism where visitors pay for curated robotaxi rides and tours of EV factories and AI and robotics companies (restofworld.org)
8 days ago China AI Robot

BlackBerry's stock is up more than 160% over the past three months, as the company's QNX division positions its automotive software as an OS for robots (sherwood.news)
8 days ago Robot

AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (www.theverge.com)
9 days ago Startup AI Robot

Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000+ camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago India Robot

August Robotics, which makes autonomous robots for construction and industrial applications, raised $30M led by Big Pi Ventures (siliconangle.com)
17 days ago Robot

Japan Runs Out of Robot Wolves In Fight Against Bears (hardware.slashdot.org)
22 days ago Japan Robot

Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment (www.thelec.net)
23 days ago Robot Nvidia

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's Mind Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots for manufacturing tasks, raised $400M, source says at a $3.4B valuation (www.wsj.com)
25 days ago AI Robot Manufacturing

Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stack, launching Muse Spark, personal superintelligence, acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence, and more (www.corememory.com)
25 days ago AI Robot Intelligence

Config, which is building a data layer for robotics foundation models, raised a $27M seed at a $200M+ valuation led by Samsung Venture Investment (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago Samsung Robot

Humanoid Robot Becomes Buddhist Monk In South Korea (hardware.slashdot.org)
29 days ago Korea Robot

Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over $200M led by SF Group, after raising ~$146M in March at a ~$1.47B valuation (www.caixinglobal.com)
30 days ago Robot

Sony and TSMC announce a new JV to build next-gen image sensors for robots and cars, as Sony moves from in-house manufacturing to a more asset-light approach (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago Robot Manufacturing Sony Asset

Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5, its first model, which can control robotic hands that it designed in-house to do tasks like cooking (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-7 Startup AI Robot

Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI's robotics and consumer hardware divisions in late 2025 to give them more room to grow; the plan was rejected (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-5 Robot

Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like, “emotionally intelligent” robot that reacts to owner's feelings (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-5 Robot

China's Linkerbot, which holds 80%+ of global dexterous robotic hands market, raised a Series B+ at a $3B valuation and seeks a $6B valuation in its next round (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-4 China Robot

Robots Are Building Clay Homes In Texas Using Dirt From the Ground (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4 Robot Texas

Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-2 Startup AI Robot Intelligence

Humanoid robotics startup 1X opens a new 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California, where it aims to build 100,000 robots by the end of 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-1 Startup Robot California

A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a “vision-force-action model” incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation (www.wired.com)
2026-4-30 Robot

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