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humanoids, drones, self-driving vehicles and machines that move on their own
XPeng's robot unit Dogotix raises $900 million and aims to put 1,000 humanoids a month on factory floors by 2027
The Chinese electric vehicle maker's robotics arm is now valued at over $6 billion and plans to start shipping its IRON humanoid robot to retail stores and industrial sites next year.
Talk to Your Self-Driving Car: Researchers Build a System That Lets You Ask for a Smoother Ride
A team in the Netherlands has wired a chatbot-style AI into an autonomous vehicle's driving software, so passengers can say 'I feel dizzy, slow down' and the car actually listens. It works in simulation. Real roads are a long way off.
General Intuition Nears $6 Billion Valuation as Investors Bet on AI That Understands Physical Space
The startup is training AI agents to move through the real world, not just answer questions. A fresh funding round could value it at $6 billion before a single dollar of outside money lands.
Before You Buy a Robot, Build a Virtual One First
Digital twin software lets manufacturers test robotic cells on a computer screen before spending a cent on hardware. Here is why that matters for any company thinking about automation for the first time.
Who keeps the robots running? The hidden workforce behind physical AI
Scaling robots past a handful of machines turns out to be an HR problem as much as an engineering one. Here's what that means for workers and the companies deploying them.
Half of American Lawns Could Be Mowed by a Robot Within Eight Years
Satellite navigation and AI planning are finally making robotic mowers good enough for real gardens. Here is what has changed, and what it might mean for your weekend.
Software-Defined Manufacturing: Can Old Factory Machines Learn New Tricks?
A Georgia startup says yes. R2 Labs plugs AI vision and robotics into equipment that factories already own, letting production lines change what they make without buying new hardware.
Amazon Plans Drone Deliveries in Nearly 500 US Cities by Year's End
The company says it has made hundreds of thousands of drone deliveries so far in 2025 and wants to reach 1 million by December. That would be six times its current coverage.
Women in Robotics Lunch at RoboBusiness 2026 to Feature Amazon and MassRobotics Leaders
Two veterans of warehouse AI and robotics policy will share a stage in Santa Clara this October, at an event designed to build community for women in a field where they hold just one in five jobs.
The clever gearbox trick that could make humanoid robots affordable by 2027
German engineering giant Schaeffler has cracked a manufacturing problem that has kept robot joints expensive and slow to produce. Its answer: stamp them out in seconds instead of machining them over minutes.
A Power Wheelchair That Feeds You, Opens Doors, and Learns From Other Chairs
A small California startup is rebuilding the powered wheelchair from scratch, adding a robotic arm and AI software. The goal: give millions of users back the daily tasks they cannot do alone.
Farm robots that can park themselves: Agtonomy's tractors now reverse through tight orchard rows with no driver
A California startup has taught its autonomous tractors to perform multi-point turns in cramped vineyard spaces, and each vehicle collects more than two terabytes of field data per hour to keep the system improving.
This Robot Watched a Short Video and Figured Out the Rest Itself
Cambridge startup Generalist AI has built robot arms that learn new physical tasks from a single video clip, no task-specific training required. The results are imperfect but striking.
A Chinese Robot Maker Just Had One of the Biggest Tech IPOs of the Year. Here's What It Means for You.
Unitree Robotics listed on a Shanghai stock exchange and its shares jumped 460% on day one. The company sells humanoid robots for as little as $13,500. But serious questions remain about whether these machines can do real work.
Sidewalk delivery robots are rolling into Chicago, Washington DC and San Jose as Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub
Serve Robotics has signed Grubhub as a second major platform partner and entered four new cities. Q2 revenue jumped 404% year on year, but Uber's quiet exit is a reminder the company still has ground to prove.