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humanoids, drones, self-driving vehicles and machines that move on their own

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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.

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Illustration: a large modern automotive factory floor
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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.

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General Intuition se acerca a una valoración de $6 mil millones mientras inversores apuestan por IA que comprende el espacio físico

La startup entrena agentes de IA para moverse en el mundo real, no solo para responder preguntas. Una nueva ronda de financiación podría valorarla en $6 mil millones antes de que llegue un solo dólar de capital externo.

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Illustration: A large orange industrial robotic arm on a modern automotive assembly line
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Antes de comprar un robot, construye uno virtual primero

El software de gemelo digital permite a los fabricantes probar células robóticas en una pantalla de computadora antes de gastar un centavo en hardware. Aquí se explica por qué esto es importante para cualquier empresa que piense en automatización por primera vez.

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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.

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Warehouse automation
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La mitad de los céspedes estadounidenses podrían ser cortados por robots en ocho años

La navegación por satélite y la planificación por IA finalmente están haciendo que los cortacéspedes robóticos sean lo suficientemente buenos para jardines reales. Aquí está lo que ha cambiado y qué podría significar para tu fin de semana.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Una Silla de Ruedas Motorizada Que Te Alimenta, Abre Puertas y Aprende de Otras Sillas

Una pequeña startup de California está reconstruyendo la silla de ruedas motorizada desde cero, añadiendo un brazo robótico y software de IA. El objetivo: devolver a millones de usuarios las tareas cotidianas que no pueden hacer solos.

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Robots agrícolas que pueden estacionarse solos: los tractores autónomos de Agtonomy ahora retroceden por filas estrechas de huertos sin conductor

Una startup de California ha enseñado a sus tractores autónomos a realizar giros en múltiples puntos en espacios reducidos de viñedos, y cada vehículo recopila más de dos terabytes de datos de campo por hora para mantener el sistema mejorando constantemente.

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Este Robot Vio un Video Corto y Descubrió el Resto por Sí Solo

La startup de Cambridge Generalist AI ha construido brazos robóticos que aprenden nuevas tareas físicas a partir de un único clip de video, sin necesidad de entrenamiento específico para cada tarea. Los resultados son imperfectos pero sorprendentes.

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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.

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Los robots de reparto en aceras llegan a Chicago, Washington DC y San Jose mientras Serve Robotics se asocia con Grubhub

Serve Robotics ha firmado a Grubhub como su segundo socio de plataforma importante e ingresó a cuatro nuevas ciudades. Los ingresos del Q2 saltaron un 404% interanual, pero la salida silenciosa de Uber es un recordatorio de que la empresa aún tiene mucho que demostrar.

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