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The US just banned foreign robots. That could backfire on American robotics research.
The FTC's sweeping import ban on Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots is meant to protect a US industry that barely exists yet. The problem: American researchers depend on those cheap Chinese machines to build the next generation of AI.
NASA Gives Pittsburgh Robotics Firm a Contract to Build Tinier, Tougher Robot Joints
HEBI Robotics just picked up a second NASA small-business contract. The goal: shrink the motors that move robot arms down to a size that fits inside a small satellite, without jacking up the price.
This London startup wants factory workers to train robots the same way they would train a new hire
Reimagine Robotics says its system cuts the time to teach a robot a new task from a full day down to ten minutes, and it needs no specialist programmers to do it.
Robots, brain control, and a US import ban: the biggest robotics stories of July 2026
From a $7,999 home helper that folds laundry to a US government order blocking certain foreign robots, here is what moved the needle in robotics last month.
KUKA plugs AI decision-making into a Jeep factory making 300 car bodies a day
The robotics company's new Automation Management Platform is now running inside a 335,000-square-foot Ohio plant that has built every Jeep Wrangler body sold worldwide since 2006.
Construction software giant Procore buys drone-and-robot inspection firm DroneDeploy for $845 million
The deal pairs Procore's project management platform with DroneDeploy's drones, ground robots and cameras to replace manual site inspections with AI that can spot problems and act on them automatically.
Robots That Know When to Be Gentle: Apple's MoMo Teaches Machines to Adjust Their Own Movement Style
A new research framework lets a single robot learn to move quickly, carefully, or anywhere in between, without being reprogrammed each time.
Five Platforms Building the Backbone of Physical AI in 2026
From simulation to data factories, these are the infrastructure layers that turn a trained model into a robot that can actually do a job.
A German Startup Is Teaching Its AI Video Model to Build Cars, and Silicon Valley Is Nervous About Who Runs AI
Black Forest Labs says its Flux 3 model can guide robot hands on an Audi factory floor. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 AI workers have signed a petition asking the industry to slow down.
DoorDash becomes one of eight certified drone air carriers in the United States
The food delivery company has cleared a five-stage federal process and launched DoorDash Air, its own in-house drone delivery program.
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.
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.
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 the wrong reasons, plus the one group that genuinely came out ahead.
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.
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.