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Two large industrial robot arms facing each other across a vertical sheet of gleaming titanium metal inside a vast modern factory, pressing and shaping the meta
Robotics

DAF Trucks and Einride team up to put self-driving electric lorries on Europe's roads

A Swedish autonomous driving startup and a Dutch truck giant are combining their technology to move heavy freight without a human at the wheel. Here is what they are building and when it could happen.

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Illustration: an industrial robotic arm performing a welding operation on a thick metal plate inside a large factory
Robotics

Humanoid robots could become a $370 billion market by 2040. Here is what is slowing them down

McKinsey puts the general-purpose robotics market on track for massive growth, but the software tools used to design these machines are still stuck in the past.

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Illustration: A modern industrial robot arm frozen mid-motion on a factory floor
Robotics

RoboStore Spins Up a U.S. Manufacturer Called Robo Inc. to Build and Deploy Robots on American Soil

The company behind more than 1,500 robot sales in North America is opening a Long Island factory and promising to assemble, integrate and service robots locally, partly to get ahead of trade restrictions on Chinese hardware.

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Illustration: orderly booth grids, and clusters of professionals in hard hats and lanyards examining equipment
Robotics

Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion to Build AI-Powered Defense Factories Across the US

The automated manufacturing startup, valued at $7.87 billion after the round, now controls nearly three million square feet of factory space and plans to expand into munitions and autonomous weapons production.

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Illustration: A large orange industrial robotic arm on a modern automotive assembly line
Robotics

A data-center parts maker replaced all hand welding with 58 robots. Here's what happened.

Tate Inc. says a 12-times jump in per-welder output and an end to costly rework followed its shift to cloud-connected robotic welding across three U.S. factories.

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AI Security

Hackers Already Cracked Robot AI at DEF CON. Now There's a Tool to Test Yours Before They Do.

Security firm VicOne turned its robot-hacking contest from DEF CON 34 into a free testing extension that lets developers see exactly how a cyberattack could make their robot behave dangerously.

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Illustration: a large modern automotive factory floor
Robotics

Meet the robots learning to survive real warehouse chaos

Nomagic's North America chief explains how AI-guided robot arms are moving from controlled demos to the messy reality of order fulfilment, and what that shift means for the warehouses that pack your online orders.

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Illustration: an industrial robotic arm performing a welding operation on a thick metal plate inside a large factory
Robotics

Avatar Robotics raises $6.5 million to put human operators inside warehouse robots

The San Francisco startup uses remote workers to control its robots today, then trains AI on what those workers do so the machines can gradually take over.

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A close-up overhead shot of a small wheeled robot built from standardised components sitting on a flat competition mat with coloured grid markings, surrounded b
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Meet Robin, the Kid-Sized Robot Helping Patients Stay Calm in Hospitals and Dental Clinics

A small, armless robot with a backstory about missing outer space is showing up in around 30 healthcare facilities and convincing children to eat, breathe, and sit still for the dentist.

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A modern urban street at dusk photographed from street level, showing a sleek electric vehicle with a sensor array on its roof waiting at a glowing crosswalk, s
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US Navy shipbuilder commits up to $900 million to robot welding and sanding firms

Huntington Ingalls Industries is betting nearly a billion dollars that AI-driven robots can build warships faster than human crews alone.

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Close-up editorial photograph of a pair of mechanical robotic gripper hands delicately holding a small household object such as a ceramic mug on a plain white t
Robotics

This Four-Legged Robot Inspects Factories Using AI, No Cloud Connection Needed

Avnet and Weston Robot have built a dog-like inspection robot that thinks for itself on-site, spots problems in real time, and works even when the internet is not available.

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Illustration: Two sleek matte-black unmanned patrol boats moving across a grey-green North Sea
Robotics

GAM Enterprises Buys Schaeffler's Precision Gearbox Technology to Make Its Own Parts

The Illinois motion-control company acquired the intellectual property behind the PSC gear reducer, a core part in its own flagship product, and set up a new German subsidiary to manufacture it.

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Illustration: a large modern automotive factory floor
Robotics

US Navy picks Boston startup's crewless ship to map the deep ocean

Blue Water Autonomy wins a share of a $40 million Navy contract to survey the Indian and Pacific ocean floors using a 190-foot autonomous vessel that can sail for months without a human aboard.

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Illustration: A compact quadcopter drone hovering low over broken concrete rubble and twisted metal debris in a dim
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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.

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A friendly, rounded white home robot with a soft fabric-covered body and a simple cartoon-like face display stands in a bright, tidy modern living room, its two
Robotics

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.

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