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Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories (hardware.slashdot.org)
24 days ago 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)
25 days ago 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)
26 days ago India AI Robot

Swarms of Tiny Robots Remove Microplastics From Soil and Water (hardware.slashdot.org)
26 days ago 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)
27 days ago 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)
28 days ago China Robot

'Asimov Was Right' About Rules For Robots, Says Ex-US Cyber Director (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-8 Robot

Filing: DeepSeek has invested ~$20.8M in Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for humanoid machines (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-7 IPO AI Robot Shanghai

Filing: Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics prices its Shanghai IPO at ~$22/share, aiming to sell 40.4M shares to raise $904M; Unitree shipped 5,500+ robots in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 IPO Robot Shanghai

Ukraine aims to have 50,000 combat robots built this year - as Zelensky pleads for allies to provide missile shield (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-8-6 Robot Ukraine

Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors (www.ft.com)
2026-8-2 China AI Robot

Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-31 Google Robot

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (www.wired.com)
2026-7-31 Google AI Robot

The US FCC's ban on foreign “advanced robotic devices” covers any new ground-based, software-controlled wireless robot over 4.4 pounds, including robot vacuums (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-30 Robot Ban

The FCC's ban on foreign “advanced robotic devices” includes any new ground-based, software-controlled wireless robot over 4.4 pounds, including robot vacuums (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-30 Robot Ban

Who Wins and Who Loses After US Bans Foreign Robots? (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-30 Robot

Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-29 Trump China Robot

The US FCC bans the import of new Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, seeking to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-28 China AI Robot

Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more (www.youtube.com)
2026-7-28 Robot

Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a “noindex” tag (www.wired.com)
2026-7-27 Google Robot

Enigma, which runs large-scale experiments exploring how humans interact with robots, emerges from stealth with a $70M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-27 Robot

Hyundai Claims Humanoid Robot Plan Is Not Part of Talks With Striking Workers (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-26 Robot

A profile of Hangzhou-based Unitree, which shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, accounting for 25%+ of the global market, as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO (time.com)
2026-7-25 IPO Robot Shanghai

Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-24 Robot

Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around $500M in a new funding round at a $3B pre-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-24 Startup AI Robot

Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-24 Germany AI Robot

Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, partners with AMD to develop autonomous humanoid robots using the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series chips (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-24 Trump AI Robot AMD

Tesla reports a negative Q2 free cash flow of $1.1B, its first in over two years, partly due to increased AI and robotic investments, amid diminishing profits (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-23 AI Tesla Robot

Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber and others participating; Ben Horowitz will join the startup's board (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-23 Uber Startup Robot

London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M (www.forbes.com)
2026-7-22 Startup Robot London

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