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London-based Isembard, which helps hardware makers in defence, aerospace, and robotics make components, raised a $50M Series A to build “AI-powered factories” (resiliencemedia.co)
19 minutes ago AI Robot London

Could Home-Building Robots Help Fix the Housing Crisis? (hardware.slashdot.org)
12 hours ago Real Estate Robot

Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away (science.slashdot.org)
15 hours ago Robot

OpenAI's Head of Robotics Resigns, Says Pentagon Deal Was 'Rushed Without the Guardrails Defined' (hardware.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Robot Pentagon

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotic engineering, resigns citing concerns over domestic surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons systems (fortune.com)
1 day ago Robot

Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M+ seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating (www.theinformation.com)
4 days ago Robot

Sources: Neura Robotics, which is building cognitive, humanoid robots for logistics, is raising ~€1B in a funding round backed by Tether at a ~€4B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Robot Logistics

The 19th Century Silent Film That First Captured a Robot Attack (hardware.slashdot.org)
6 days ago Robot

A look at Hyundai's Atlas humanoid robot, slated for assembly tasks in 2028; Hyundai has invested billions in robotics since acquiring Boston Dynamics in 2021 (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago Robot Boston Dynamics

Sources: crypto investment firm Paradigm is looking to raise up to $1.5B for a new fund to expand into AI, robotics, and other forms of frontier tech (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago AI Robot

Encord, whose software helps companies developing AI models manage training data for robots and other uses, raised $60M at a $500M pre-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
10 days ago AI Robot

Q&A with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak on building a general-purpose brain for robots, standing out among big tech's robotics efforts, the path to AGI, and more (sources.news)
11 days ago AI 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)
11 days ago Google AI Robot Alphabet

Researchers Develop Detachable Crawling Robotic Hand (hardware.slashdot.org)
14 days ago Robot

Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums (hardware.slashdot.org)
14 days ago 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)
17 days ago 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)
18 days ago Robot Nvidia AMD

India Tells University To Leave AI Summit After Presenting Chinese Robot as Its Own (slashdot.org)
18 days ago 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)
19 days ago Amazon Robot

Moment Ukrainian robot takes on Russian soldier in close combat gunfight on frontline (www.dailymail.co.uk)
19 days ago Russia Robot Ukraine

Small Crowd Pays to Watch a Boxing Match Between 80-Pound Chinese Robots (hardware.slashdot.org)
22 days ago 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)
25 days ago 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)
27 days ago 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)
28 days ago 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

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