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Hilarious moment robot falls flat and smashes into pieces after tripping during humanoid half-marathon run before being carried off on a stretcher by medical team (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-4-20 Robot

At the Beijing half-marathon, several humanoid robots beat human winners by 10+ minutes; a robot made by Honor beat the human world record held by Jacob Kiplimo (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-19 Robot

Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an “early sign” of generalization, surprising researchers (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17 Robot Intelligence

Hangzhou-based Manycore shares rose 187% early in its Hong Kong debut after raising $156M in its IPO; it is pivoting to selling AI training data to robot makers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-17 Hong Kong IPO AI Robot

Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Can Now Read Gauges, Spot Spills, and Reason (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-16 Robot Boston Dynamics

Ukraine's death-dealing robots which have captured Russian positions and single-handedly defended key positions for more than a month while blasting Putin's forces with .50-calibre machine guns (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-4-15 Russia Putin Robot Ukraine

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 (deepmind.google)
2026-4-15 Google Robot

Robot Birds Deployed by Park to Attract Real Birds - Built By High School Students (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-13 Robot

Researchers Build a Talking Robot Guide Dog to Help Visually Impaired People Navigate (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-12 Robot

Learn IoT, robotics, and automation in one $49.99 course bundle (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-10 IoT Robot

Russia tests mortar drone with integrated robotic arm (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-4-10 Russia Robot Drone

Elorian, which builds visual AI models with better reasoning capabilities for industries like robotics, emerges from stealth with $55M at a $300M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-9 AI Robot

A profile of South Korea's Galaxy, which is trying to disrupt K-pop's traditional idol system by blending AI characters and life-size robots, as it plans an IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Korea IPO AI Robot

Kuka, one of the largest industrial robotics suppliers, says it is prioritizing US and Asia investments, as Europe's industrial companies are slow to adopt AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Europe Asia AI Robot

Niantic Spatial launches Scaniverse, a platform that lets companies and individuals create robot-ready 3D maps using phone, 360-degree camera, and drone data (www.fastcompany.com)
2026-4-8 Robot Drone Qihoo

South Korea is deploying thousands of ChatGPT-enabled social care robots to help elderly people; over-65s now account for ~20% of the country's 51M people (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 Korea Robot

MLB rolls out “robot umps”, or an Automated Ball-Strike System, using Sony-made advanced cameras to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Robot Sony

Russia unveils battle robot armed with rapid-fire mortar cannon (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-4-7 Russia Robot

OpenAI Calls For Robot Taxes, Public Wealth Fund, and 4-Day Workweek To Tackle AI Disruption (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 Tax AI Robot

Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-6 Japan Startup AI Robot

Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-4 China AI Robot

Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-4 AI Robot

Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-3 China Tesla Robot

How this robot could accelerate the search for life (www.universal-sci.com)
2026-4-2 Robot

Legged robot could accelerate resource prospecting on the Moon and the search for life on Mars (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-1 Robot

In Ukraine, ground robots are increasingly going on the offensive (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-3-31 Robot Ukraine

This Friendly Robot Just Installed 100 MW of Solar Power (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-30 Robot Solar

Sources: Physical Intelligence, which is developing AI models for robotics, is discussing a new funding round of about $1B that would value it at $11B+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-28 AI Robot Intelligence

Melania Trump appeared alongside Figure AI's Figure 3 humanoid robot at the White House to push integrating tech into US children's educational and social lives (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-27 Trump AI Robot

Melania Trump appeared alongside Figure AI's Figure 3 humanoid robot at the White House to promote integrating more tech and AI into US children's education (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-26 Trump AI Robot Education

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