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Google DeepMind's New Robot AI Can Now Control a Full Body, From Feet to Fingertips

Gemini Robotics 2 gives humanoid robots whole-body movement and five-fingered hand control. Here is what the upgrade actually means, and how close these machines are to working alongside people.

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Google's new robot brain can watch, plan, and tag-team with other robots

Gemini Robotics ER 2 gives machines a smarter high-level 'thinker' that tracks progress on video and hands the actual moves off to a lower-level controller.

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Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 Can Tidy Shelves, Screw in Lightbulbs, and Tie Trash Bags

A new AI system from Google teaches robots to handle fiddly, real-world tasks on their own. The company says it is a step toward machines that can do anything a human can.

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Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 teaches robots to walk, tie knots, and work in pairs

The new model controls humanoids from feet to fingertips, adapts to fresh robot bodies in hours, and lets machines team up on longer jobs.

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A Private Chef Cooked Me a Free Three-Course Meal. The Catch: Every Knife Stroke Was Filmed to Train Robots.

A startup called Shift is trading free home services for something more valuable than cash: first-person video of skilled human hands, captured inside real homes to teach the next generation of household robots.

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Australian Robot Maker Buys Stake in AI Firm That Teaches Machines to Read Social Cues

GMEX Robotics has signed a deal to acquire part of Singapore's MediaMeta, which builds AI that understands human behaviour, body language, and cultural context. The goal: robots that feel less like machines.

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The US just blocked most foreign robots from entering the country. Here's what that means.

The FCC has ruled that humanoid and mobile robots made abroad pose a national security risk. Experts say the ban could hurt American innovation as much as it protects it.

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Robots That Can Cook, Glasses That Creep, and the Emissions Bill Nobody Wants to Talk About

A roundup of the AI stories that made headlines for all the wrong reasons, plus the one group that genuinely came out ahead.

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RoboBusiness 2026 Opens Registration as the Conference Turns 20

The commercial robotics industry's main annual gathering returns to Santa Clara this October, with speakers from Amazon, Agility, Arm and more. Here is what to expect.

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Updating Robot Software Is Still a Nightmare. This Startup Wants to Fix That.

Agency Tool Company launches ATC Deploy, a tool that ships software updates to robot fleets over any connection, even sonar, so teams stop losing days to broken scripts and dropped signals.

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The Tiny Motors Powering Humanoid Robots to Walk, Reach, and Balance

Building a robot that moves like a person means solving a brutal puzzle: dozens of joints, limited space, and not a gram to spare. Here is how a new generation of compact actuators is changing that calculation.

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Kraken Technology hits $1 billion valuation after raising $175 million for autonomous naval drones

The UK startup builds unmanned boats and submarines for NATO and special-operations forces. Fresh funding will push production to four continents.

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NORD Drivesystems Stretches Its Motor-Control Drive Family Up to 200 Horsepower

Four new frame sizes bring the NORDAC PRO series to ten total, covering everything from small conveyor belts to heavy industrial machinery, all in a slim, side-by-side cabinet design.

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Enigma raises $70 million to make robots as easy to control as a volume knob

The Israeli-American startup is letting anyone in the world command its robots online, hoping the data will reveal what a truly intuitive human-robot interface looks like.

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Brain waves and borrowed muscles: the unusual data farms training tomorrow's robots

A startup is strapping brain-wave headsets onto warehouse workers to teach robots how to think on their feet. It turns out the real bottleneck in physical AI is not smarter software, it is raw data.

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