Robotics · Page 11
humanoids, drones, self-driving vehicles and machines that move on their own
Zoox reveals its final robotaxi design as it gears up to build 100 vehicles a week
The Amazon-owned self-driving car company has locked in the look and feel of its driverless taxi, with plans to roll it out across six U.S. cities while chasing federal approval.
Elon Musk now spends half his Tesla earnings calls talking about AI and robots
A seven-year analysis of Tesla earnings transcripts shows Musk's words have drifted far from cars, and his executives are struggling to keep up.
Humanoid robots are nearly ready for the factory floor. The price tag is not.
The technology behind warehouse robots has come a long way. The business case still needs work, and here is why cost, not artificial intelligence, is the real obstacle.
Google's July drop: a new robotics brain, three faster Gemini models, and an AI code optimiser
Gemini Robotics ER 2 gives machines a physical-world brain, while three new Flash models chase cheaper, quicker AI agents and AlphaEvolve opens to all Cloud customers.
The Robot Startup That Accidentally Became America's China-Free Moment
A Bangalore-built robotics company spent years developing its own hardware to make better robots. When US regulators banned Chinese-made machines, it turned out Ati Robotics had already done the hard work.
igus Unveils Cable Chain That Lets Small Industrial Robots Spin More Than 600 Degrees Without Tangling
The German motion-plastics company says its new twisterchain solves a long-standing wiring headache on the first and fifth axes of compact industrial robots, and needs no guide troughs to work.
The US just banned foreign robots. That could backfire on American robotics research.
The FTC's sweeping import ban on Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots is meant to protect a US industry that barely exists yet. The problem: American researchers depend on those cheap Chinese machines to build the next generation of AI.
NASA Gives Pittsburgh Robotics Firm a Contract to Build Tinier, Tougher Robot Joints
HEBI Robotics just picked up a second NASA small-business contract. The goal: shrink the motors that move robot arms down to a size that fits inside a small satellite, without jacking up the price.
This London startup wants factory workers to train robots the same way they would train a new hire
Reimagine Robotics says its system cuts the time to teach a robot a new task from a full day down to ten minutes, and it needs no specialist programmers to do it.
Robots, brain control, and a US import ban: the biggest robotics stories of July 2026
From a $7,999 home helper that folds laundry to a US government order blocking certain foreign robots, here is what moved the needle in robotics last month.
A New York school district just hit pause on its robot teacher plan
One district wanted to put a humanoid android in front of students. Parents and researchers have questions.
China's Humanoid Robots Face Image Issues, Says Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley says a trust deficit is slowing China's humanoid robot sector, even as the hardware gets better.
AI Is Quietly Reshaping Warehouse Robotics, and One Founder Explains How
OSARO co-founder Derik Pridmore says the real breakthroughs in warehouse automation come from continuous learning, hardware flexibility, and safety you can actually trust, not from flashy demos.
KUKA plugs AI decision-making into a Jeep factory making 300 car bodies a day
The robotics company's new Automation Management Platform is now running inside a 335,000-square-foot Ohio plant that has built every Jeep Wrangler body sold worldwide since 2006.
Construction software giant Procore buys drone-and-robot inspection firm DroneDeploy for $845 million
The deal pairs Procore's project management platform with DroneDeploy's drones, ground robots and cameras to replace manual site inspections with AI that can spot problems and act on them automatically.