Robotics
humanoids, drones, self-driving vehicles and machines that move on their own
Anthropic and a Billion-Dollar Robot Startup Held Talks This Spring. Here Is What We Know.
A weekend rumour about Anthropic buying robotics firm Physical Intelligence turned out to be more grounded than the denial suggested. And OpenAI may already hold cards that complicate any deal.
London Robotics Startup Humanoid Raises $152 Million at a $1.35 Billion Valuation
The company, founded only last year, has Bosch as a manufacturing partner and Schaeffler as an investor. Its wheeled robot is already being tested at customer sites.
This humanoid robot can feel your touch, and it is coming to shipyards first
Generative Bionics built Gene.01 in six months. It has skin that senses temperature and force, and it is already being trained to weld ships.
Inside the Simulators Teaching Robots to Move, Grip and Learn
Training a real robot costs a fortune and breaks things. A new generation of GPU-powered physics simulators is changing that, one virtual arm at a time.
America's factories are booming. The problem is finding people to run them.
U.S. manufacturing hit a record $2.91 trillion in 2024, and foreign companies have poured trillions more into American plants. But nearly half the jobs the industry will need by 2033 could go unfilled.
Robots Need to Feel Friction to Truly Understand the Physical World
A new model class called VμA puts the physics of grip at the centre of robot thinking. Here is why that matters for every robot that picks things up.
Meet the robots being trained to build solar farms faster than any human crew
A startup called Gritt says its AI-controlled machines can help an eight-person crew install four times as many solar panels in a day. It just raised $34 million to prove it.
Anyone Can Now Help Teach Robots to Pick Things Up
A new open-source handheld gripper called Grabette lets ordinary people record robot training data at home, no robot required.
Firefighting Drones Are Being Tested Across the US Before Wildfires Get Out of Hand
California and Alaska trials show small autonomous drones can douse fires in minutes. They cannot replace big airtankers, but they may stop a spark from becoming an inferno.
The Gap Between a Robot Demo and a Robot That Actually Works
A co-founder of agricultural robotics firm Burro explains why the hardest part of building autonomous machines is not the lab work. It is Tuesday morning in the rain.
Think it, move it: BrainCo's headset lets a person control a robot arm with thought alone
At a major AI conference in Shanghai, a user wearing a lightweight brain-reading headset thought about grabbing a cup, and a robotic arm did exactly that, in under a fifth of a second.
Boston Dynamics Is Teaching Its Robot to Behave, Not Just Move
A free webinar on 22 July reveals how animation tricks and AI are making humanoid robots easier for real workers to trust.
NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 Edge Brings Robot Brains Down to Earth
A new, compact AI model lets robots and factory cameras think for themselves, without needing a data centre nearby.
AGIBOT launches four robots at WAIC 2026, including a humanoid built for eight-hour shifts
The Shanghai company says its newest machines are ready for factories, service desks, and classrooms, not just one-off demos. Here is what each one does and why that distinction matters.
Jensen Huang's Tokyo Trip Just Reshaped Japan's Robot Future
Nvidia's CEO spent two days in Tokyo and left with deals covering AI factories, robotics giants, and Toyota's next cars. Here is what it actually means.