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A robotics startup wants to fix America's housing shortage with automated mini-factories
Reframe Systems has raised $40 million to build homes using robots and software instead of dozens of subcontractors. Its first proper factory opens in Massachusetts this October.
The 'Edge AI Wall': Why Putting Powerful AI Into a Robot Body Is Harder Than It Sounds
Robots and self-driving vehicles face a crunch that more batteries and bigger chips cannot fix. Here is the problem in plain English.
EXL Buys AI Training Firm iMerit to Close the Gap Between AI Demos and Real Business Results
The New York services giant completed its purchase of iMerit this month, gaining the human expertise and data preparation work that AI models need before they can function reliably in hospitals, factories, and financial firms.
Meta Is Quietly Testing Robots Inside Its Data Centers, and Workers Are Worried
Robotic arms, cable-swappers, and a finger-shaped button-presser are already running trials at Meta's biggest data center campus. The humans who work there are paying close attention.
Universal Robots Owner Sues Chinese Rival JAKA Over Copycat Cobot Claims
Teradyne Robotics has taken a second Chinese robotics firm to court in Europe this year, this time over patents covering hardware and software inside its collaborative robot arms.
NSF Commits $90 Million to Three New Research Centers, One Built Around Robots That Learn From People
The National Science Foundation is funding a new centre at the University of Texas at Austin where scientists will teach robots to adapt to the humans they work alongside.
Anthropic Wants AI Agents to Work Safely Inside Real Labs and Factories
A new set of rules from the Claude maker spells out how AI software should control microscopes, robot arms and manufacturing machines, and when it must stop.
BlackBerry Quietly Became a Robotics Software Company. Here Is How.
The phone maker turned automotive software firm says its QNX software is now one of its fastest-growing business lines, and robots are driving that growth.
Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200 million to expand driverless freight routes
The California company already runs dozens of autonomous trucks for customers like PepsiCo and Kroger. Now it has the cash to scale to thousands.
Two ex-Meta researchers want warehouse robots to finally understand what they're looking at
Perceptron's Isaac 0.5 is an open-weight vision model built to help industrial robots handle complex, multi-step tasks on their own. The startup raised $21 million and is targeting factories, warehouses and logistics hubs.
Robot brains are getting smarter, but they still can't do a real day's work
Investment is pouring into physical AI, the technology that teaches machines to move through the world. But developers admit their robots are stuck in an early, limited phase, similar to where chatbots were before ChatGPT changed everything.
Generalist Hits $3 Billion Valuation After Raising Nearly $200 Million More
The robotics AI startup, founded by ex-Google DeepMind researchers, now claims its software can teach a robot a new skill from a video clip as short as three seconds.
Sprinting robots break Bolt's record, then break themselves: inside China's humanoid robot games
Beijing hosted the second World Humanoid Robot Games, where machines ran faster than any human ever has, did kung fu, played table tennis, and occasionally caught fire.
NVIDIA's new Jetson Orin Nano 2 chip aims to put frontier AI inside drones and home robots
The tiny computer uses 40% less power than its predecessor while doubling AI processing speed, and NVIDIA says developers will be able to run frontier-grade intelligence directly inside physical machines.
Inside Shanghai's Robot Carnival: China's Push to Make Humanoids Everyday
Families queued, children cheered robot duels, and a humanoid performed drunken boxing. A day at a Shanghai robotics showcase reveals how China is betting on machines that walk, fold laundry, and brew coffee.