Robot

OpenAI Calls For Robot Taxes, Public Wealth Fund, and 4-Day Workweek To Tackle AI Disruption (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 Tax AI Robot

Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-6 Japan Startup AI Robot

Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-4 China AI Robot

Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-4 AI Robot

Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-3 China Tesla Robot

How this robot could accelerate the search for life (www.universal-sci.com)
2026-4-2 Robot

Legged robot could accelerate resource prospecting on the Moon and the search for life on Mars (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-1 Robot

In Ukraine, ground robots are increasingly going on the offensive (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-3-31 Robot Ukraine

This Friendly Robot Just Installed 100 MW of Solar Power (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-30 Robot Solar

Sources: Physical Intelligence, which is developing AI models for robotics, is discussing a new funding round of about $1B that would value it at $11B+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-28 AI Robot Intelligence

Melania Trump appeared alongside Figure AI's Figure 3 humanoid robot at the White House to push integrating tech into US children's educational and social lives (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-27 Trump AI Robot

Melania Trump appeared alongside Figure AI's Figure 3 humanoid robot at the White House to promote integrating more tech and AI into US children's education (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-26 Trump AI Robot Education

Melania Trump Welcomes Humanoid Robot At White House Summit (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-26 Trump Robot

Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is developing a human-like, 42-inch tall robot that can interact with people, walk, grip items, and dance (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-25 Amazon Robot New York

Trapped! Inside a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-23 Robot

Amazon Plans to Test Four-Legged Robots on Wheels for Deliveries (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-23 Amazon Robot

Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture robotics, AI, and space data center chips for Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-22 AI Tesla Robot Elon Musk SpaceX

A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-21 China Robot

Filing: Unitree, China's leading robot company, is aiming to raise ~$610M in its Shanghai IPO; it brought in ~$247M in revenue in 2025 and ~$41.6M in net profit (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20 China IPO Robot Shanghai

Amazon acquires Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup Rivr, formerly Swiss-Mile; PitchBook: the startup was valued at $110M in an August 2024 funding round (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-20 Amazon Startup Robot Switzerland

Gecko Robotics secures a $71M US Navy contract to use robots to slash repair time for dated ships, as the US races to reindustrialize its aging defense systems (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-17 Robot

How Disney Imagineering built an Olaf robot, set to arrive at Disneyland Paris this month, and taught it to move via reinforcement learning and simulation (www.techradar.com)
2026-3-17 Robot Paris

RoboForce, which is developing robotics systems to perform physically demanding industrial work, raised $52M led by YZi Labs, bringing its total funding to $67M (siliconangle.com)
2026-3-17 Robot

'Pokemon Go' Players Unknowingly Trained Delivery Robots With 30 Billion Images (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-17 Robot

Uber Co-founder Travis Kalanick's Newest Venture? 'Gainfully Employed Robots' (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-16 Uber Robot

Tether, flush with cash, has been investing in diverse sectors ranging from sleep tech company Eight Sleep to humanoid robotics company Neura Robotics (pitchbook.com)
2026-3-16 Robot

Travis Kalanick renames CloudKitchens' parent company as Atoms, focused on creating “gainfully employed robots” for the food, mining, and transport industries (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-14 Robot

STMicro plans to retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots in its older chip plants for repetitive and physically demanding tasks, aiming to avoid closures (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-13 Robot

Sunday, which is building autonomous home robots, raised a $165M Series B led by Coatue at a valuation of $1.15B, and aims to begin testing in homes this year (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-13 Robot

Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K+ humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were education and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services each made up 19% (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-3-12 China Robot Education

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