Robot

New flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-7-11 Robot

Humanoid Robots Controlled By Surgeons Did World-First Operation On Live Pigs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-10 Robot

1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give it 25 degrees of freedom of movement, nearly the same as a human hand (www.wired.com)
2026-7-10 Robot

Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that utilizes a single camera and language prompts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-9 Robot

Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its third fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, including AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-9 AI Robot

UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for autonomous “killer robots” to be “banned by international law”, a central issue in the US DOD-Anthropic clash (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-7 Robot

Paris-based UMA, founded by ex-Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadene and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Pierre Sermanet, demos its Northstar AI humanoid robot (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-7 Google AI Tesla Robot Paris

How camera-equipped homing pigeons could improve robotic vision in flight (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-7-7 Robot

Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-6 Startup Robot

How companies like Nvidia and Neura Robotics are building safety systems for humanoid robots to minimize risks like a bipedal robot losing stability (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-6 Robot Nvidia

Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics, which develops spatial tech to let autonomous robots operate in complex, GPS-denied environments, raised a $125M Series A (technode.global)
2026-7-4 Robot Singapore GPS

CarbonSix, which is developing AI automation and robotic intelligence tech for manufacturing, raised a $40M Series A co-led by DSC Investment and LB Investment (www.finsmes.com)
2026-7-2 AI Robot Manufacturing Intelligence

Chinese robot maker UBTech launches U1, a line of humanoid robots for personal companionship with lifelike silicone skin and emotional AI, priced from $17,650 (www.scmp.com)
2026-7-1 China AI Robot

South Korea To Spend $1 Trillion On More Memory Chip Production, Humanoid Robots (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-1 Korea Robot

Better to use (and lose) robots than soldiers: Ukraine's UGV drive (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-6-30 Robot Ukraine

Chinese robotics startup AI² Robotics raised ~$736M at a ~$2.9B valuation; Alibaba-backed X Square Robot raised an undisclosed amount at a ~$2.9B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-29 China Alibaba Startup AI Robot

Humanoid robot maker Apptronik raised ~$1B at a ~$5B valuation, including from Mercedes-Benz, which has a handful of Apptronik's Apollo robots in its factories (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-29 Robot

As China's working-age population shrinks, a consensus is emerging that it must deploy embodied AI robots into as many tasks as possible, as soon as possible (www.ft.com)
2026-6-25 China AI Robot

Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing it at ~$2.5B and listing under ticker symbol AGLT (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-24 Robot

Nvidia unveils Halos, a safety-focused OS developed from autonomous vehicle tech and designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-23 Robot Nvidia Autonomous Car

GM Installs Robots At Flagship EV Factory After Laying Off 1,300 Workers (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-23 Robot

Nvidia unveils Halos, a new safety-focused OS derived from autonomous vehicle tech, designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-23 Robot Nvidia Autonomous Car

JD.com founder Richard Liu says robots will replace the company's 700K delivery workers “sooner or later”, and it will help retrain them in robot maintenance (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 Robot

Shenzhen-listed Apple supplier Lingyi iTech seeks to raise $1.1B in a June 26 Hong Kong debut, as the electronic parts maker expands into AI hardware and robots (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-22 Hong Kong AI Apple Robot Shenzhen

Sources: Shanghai-based Coowa, which develops embodied AI robots, plans to file a Hong Kong IPO; Coowa was valued at $3B after raising $600M in its latest round (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-22 Hong Kong IPO AI Robot Shanghai

San Diego-based Aether AI, which is building “causal world models” to teach robots cause and effect instead of pattern-matching, raised a $20M seed led by MPCi (thenextweb.com)
2026-6-22 AI Robot

SF-based Humble Robotics, which is developing an electric, self-driving cabless freight truck with 200 miles range and 55 mph max speed, raised $24M (www.latimes.com)
2026-6-22 Robot

A look at “humanizer” and “autotyper” apps that help students evade AI-detection software by slowly auto-typing essays and making AI text sound less robotic (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-21 AI Robot

South Korean media: Hyundai plans to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M to make the US robotics company a wholly owned subsidiary (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-20 Korea Robot Boston Dynamics

Nvidia researchers unveil ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that develops robotic self-improvement strategies for physical tasks with minimal human supervision (arstechnica.com)
2026-6-18 Robot Nvidia

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