Sony AI announced a major robotics milestone with its project Ace, an autonomous table tennis robot that became the first known real-world system to compete at the level of elite and professional huma...

Reliable Robotics builds automation technology for aircraft, focused on enabling fully automated flight. The company announced $160 million in new funding led by Nimble Ventures

Chef Robotics announced that its robots have reached 100 million servings in live production, marking a huge milestone since its first customer deployment in 2022.

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Waymo has entered the next phase of its London expansion, beginning autonomous driving with a trained specialist behind the wheel. The move is part of its plan to bring a fully autonomous ride-hailing...

Pony.ai announced PonyWorld 2.0, a new version of its world model that serves as the core training system behind its autonomous driving stack. The company describes the update as a step toward a “self...

Generalist introduced GEN-1, a multimodal robot learning model that controls robot actions in real time. It is trained on over 500,000 hours of physical interaction data,

Meta is introducing a new set of Ray-Ban Meta frames designed to better support prescription use and all-day wear. The update brings broader prescription compatibility along with physical adjustments

Tripo AI announced a $50 million funding round backed by Alibaba and Baidu Ventures. The company said the investment will support further development of its 3D generation models and expansion of its d...

Mind Robotics announced a $500 million Series A financing round led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz, following a $115 million seed round in late 2025. Accel partner Sameer Gandhi will join the compan...

Pony.ai, Uber, and Verne announced a partnership to launch a commercial robotaxi service in Europe, with Zagreb as the initial market. The collaboration brings together autonomous driving technology, ...

Fauna Robotics announced that it has joined Amazon and will now operate as an Amazon company. The update was shared by co-founder and CEO Rob Cochran, who reflected on the company’s progress since lau...

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Dexterity says its Foresight system, which powers how its robots understand physical environments before they act, is now running faster on NVIDIA hardware. The model builds a real-time view of the wo...

Universal Robots introduced a system that captures synchronized data from robots in production environments, rather than in separate lab setups. Built with Scale AI, it is designed for customers

Wayve, Uber, and Nissan announced a collaboration to develop and deploy robotaxi services in Japan. The companies signed a memorandum of understanding to begin work toward a pilot program in Tokyo

Zoox announced plans to begin operations in Arizona starting in Phoenix while expanding its Texas testing program to Dallas. With these additions, the company says its fleet will operate across ten ma...

ABB Robotics announced a partnership with NVIDIA to integrate Omniverse libraries into ABB’s RobotStudio platform. The collaboration is intended to help manufacturers train robots in simulated environ...

Simbe said its robot Tally has received UL 3300 certification from UL Solutions, a safety standard for service robots operating in public-facing environments. The company said it is the first retail r...

Techman Robot worked with precision mechanism manufacturer Jinpao Precision to implement a large-scale automation project using collaborative robots. Jinpao Precision produces precision metal componen...

Virtual reality helicopter training is arriving in Nepal through a new safety initiative involving the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, Airbus Helicopters, and Loft Dynamics.

BMW Group has started testing a humanoid robot at its Leipzig plant, marking the company’s first pilot of this kind in production in Germany. The robot, AEON, was developed by Hexagon Robotics and is ...

Wayve raised $1.2 billion in a Series D, bringing its post-money valuation to $8.6 billion and total capital secured for commercial rollout to $1.5 billion, including additional milestone-based invest...

ZaiNar announced it has raised more than $100 million at a valuation exceeding $1 billion as it publicly launches after nine years in stealth with a platform for Physical AI. The company says its tech...

VenHub, a Las Vegas–based company that designs and builds fully autonomous Smart Stores, announced a system-wide upgrade to its robotic infrastructure. The update equips every robotic component inside...

Agility Robotics has signed a commercial agreement with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada to deploy its humanoid robot, Digit, in Toyota’s automotive production facilities.

Baidu and Uber, in partnership with Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority, announced the next phase of their global agreement by bringing Apollo Go autonomous ride-hailing to Dubai.

Odyssey announced new funding from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, and Samsung Next to accelerate its research toward a general-purpose world simulator.

Comau has introduced MATE-XT GO, a new wearable exoskeleton built to support workers’ arms and shoulders during repetitive and overhead tasks. The device is designed to reduce physical strain on the j...

Yokogawa, a Japanese automation company, and ANYbotics, a Swiss robotics firm, have announced a partnership to combine plant operations software with autonomous robotic inspection.

Camera traps capture rare wildlife moments, but millions of images need sorting. Computer vision tools like MegaDetector and SpeciesNet turn chaos into data, helping scientists track species, find rar...

Khronos Group released a draft update to glTF that adds support for 3D Gaussian splat data. The group said the rapid growth of Gaussian splatting could lead to fragmentation without standardization. T...

U.S. Ski & Snowboard and Google announced a joint effort to build an AI video-analysis tool on Google Cloud aimed at elite ski and snowboard athletes.

Faraday Future announced the launch of its first robotics portfolio, along with debuting FF EAI-Robotics Inc., a new California-based subsidiary. The company positioned the move as a brand expansion i...

Figure has released Helix 02, a major upgrade to its foundation model that brings full-body autonomy to its existing humanoid platform. Building on the previous Helix model which controlled the upper ...

Apple has acquired Q.ai, a stealth audio AI startup backed by GV and others, as first reported by Reuters. The transaction is being described as Apple's second-largest acquisition ever.

Honda and DriveOhio have completed a two-year pilot of its Proactive Roadway Maintenance System, a prototype developed to identify road conditions and infrastructure deficiencies using vehicle sensor ...

Fauna Robotics came out of stealth with Sprout, a 3.5-foot humanoid designed for developers building real-world robotics applications.

Richtech Robotics is working with Microsoft’s AI Co-Innovation Labs to bring adaptive intelligence to its beverage robot, ADAM.

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Nucleus4D has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to expand its spatial computing platform for digitizing real-world environments. The round was led by Antler and South Loop Ventures

Boston Dynamics has introduced Spot Cam 2, a new camera system for its mobile robot, Spot. The upgraded system includes a 4K pan-tilt-zoom camera with 25x optical zoom, a radiometric thermal camera, a...

The NBA has announced the latest group in its Launchpad program, which finds and tests new technologies that could shape the future of basketball. For its fifth year, the league picked five companies ...

Serve Robotics will acquire Diligent Robotics in a $29 million stock deal, with an additional earn-out of up to $5.3 million. Serve Robotics develops autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, while Diligen...

SPIE and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte announced a $1 million endowed fund to support doctoral research in optics and photonics. The SPIE Emerging Innovators in Optical Science and Eng...

Apollo Go and AutoGo have launched a fully driverless ride-hailing service in Abu Dhabi. The service is open to the public on Yas Island, where users can book rides through the AutoGo app in vehicles ...

Humanoid and Siemens have concluded a proof of concept showcasing the use of autonomous humanoid robots in industrial logistics. The HMND 01 Alpha robot from Humanoid was deployed in live operations a...

X Square Robot announced a $140 million Series A++ funding round, bringing in new strategic investors including ByteDance and HongShan. The company, founded in December 2023, focuses on general-purpos...

Wing and Walmart will expand their drone delivery service to 150 more stores over the next year, in what the companies call "the world’s largest drone delivery expansion."