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DoorDash partners with Serve Robotics to use its autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, starting in LA; Serve also partners with Uber; SERV jumps 20%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-10 Uber Robot

SoftBank Group agrees to acquire ABB's robotics business, which generated sales of $2.3B last year, for $5.38B in a deal expected to close in mid-to-late 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-8 Robot

Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands (www.theinformation.com)
2025-10-8 Tesla Robot Elon Musk

SoftBank Group consolidates 13 robotics-related companies from its main group and 7 from Vision Fund 2 into a new holding company called SoftBank Robotics Group (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-6 Robot

CNN Warns Food Delivery Robots 'Are Not Our Friends' (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-10-5 Robot

Q&A with iRobot founder Rodney Brooks on his startup Robust.AI, which builds warehouse robots, unrealistic expectations around humanoid robots and AI, and more (crazystupidtech.com)
2025-10-5 Startup AI Robot

Kremlin scientist close to Putin says the West is plotting to wipe out most of mankind with a virus, leaving a small elite who will be served by robots (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2025-10-3 Russia Putin Robot

A look at a growing number of medical startups that are using robots and AI to fertilize embryos through IVF, helping bring at least 20 babies to term (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-10-2 Startup AI Robot

China's Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou showcased robots, EVs, and a self-driving yacht, but questions remain over the US-China trade dispute and profits (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-1 China Robot

DoorDash unveils delivery robot Dot, standing 4-foot, 6-inches tall and able to carry up to 30lb of cargo at up to 20mph, and a smart scale for restaurants (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30 Robot

Google DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia, and others are racing to release world models, aiming to navigate the physical world by learning from videos and robotic data (t.co)
2025-9-29 Google Robot Nvidia

Singapore-based Neptune Robotics, which makes robots to clean the underside of giant ships, raised $52M and aims to use AI to help clean ~150 ships per month (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-29 AI Robot Singapore

There are more robots working in China than the rest of the world combined (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-28 China Robot

iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks details why humanoid robots won't learn human-level dexterity from current methods, how to make them safe for humans, and more (rodneybrooks.com)
2025-9-28 Robot

International Federation of Robotics: Chinese factories installed ~300K new robots in 2024, more than the rest of the world combined; US factories installed 34K (www.nytimes.com)
2025-9-28 China Robot

Humanoid Robots Are Meta's Next 'AR-Sized Bet' (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-9-27 Robot AR

Andrew Bosworth says Meta is working on humanoid robots, internally called “Metabot”, as its next “AR size bet”, envisions licensing software to robot makers (sources.news)
2025-9-27 Robot AR

Andrew Bosworth says humanoid robots, internally called “Metabot”, are Meta's next “AR size bet” and envisions licensing software to other robot makers (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-27 Robot AR

Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-ER 1.5, enabling robots to perform multi-step tasks like sorting laundry, including by using web search (www.ft.com)
2025-9-26 Google Robot

MLB Approves Robot Umps In 2026 For Challenges (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-9-24 Robot

Sources: humanoid robotics startup 1X is seeking to raise up to $1B at a $10B+ valuation, more than 12x its previous valuation from a January financing (www.theinformation.com)
2025-9-23 Startup Robot

Nvidia and Abu Dhabi institute launch joint AI and robotics lab in the UAE (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-22 AI Robot Nvidia

Dyna Robotics, which is building an AI foundation model for robotics, raised a $120M Series A led by Robostrategy, CRV, and First Round Capital (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-17 AI Robot

Humanoid robot startup Figure raised a $1B+ Series C led by Parkway Venture Capital at a post-money valuation of $39B, up from $2.6B in February 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-17 Startup Robot Venture Capital

Sources: OpenAI is recruiting people to work on humanoid robots and is training AI algorithms that are better able to make sense of the physical world (www.wired.com)
2025-9-16 AI Robot Algorithm

Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot industry faces hurdles, from battery life and design to limited demand for large-scale deployments (spectrum.ieee.org)
2025-9-12 Robot Battery

Ant Group unit Robbyant showcases its first LLM-powered humanoid robot, the R1, at a conference in Shanghai, joining an intensifying effort by Chinese companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-11 China Robot Shanghai

Chinese robotics firm Unitree eyeing $7 billion IPO valuation (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-9 China IPO Robot

Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (www.cnbc.com)
2025-9-8 Alibaba Startup AI Robot Shenzhen

PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B+ in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-9-8 Startup Robot

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