Robotics & physical AI
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Financial Times TechEurope‘Unfinished business’: Kalanick revisits robotaxis with new start-up Atoms gears up for hiring spree and could link with Uber, the company he was ousted from almost a decade ago
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchCyborg Roaches Can Stab You With Needles Imagine you are trapped under rubble after an earthquake and you see an electronics-covered cockroach with a spring-loaded needle on its back scuttling toward you. Although the sight might be unnerving, to say the least,
The Robot ReportResearchEnovis to acquire surgical tech provider eCential Robotics for $180M Enovis said it plans to bring a robotic system targeting the knee within the next two years, followed by a system focusing on the shoulder.
SCMP TechAsiaTalk is growing of a Tesla-SpaceX merger. Will geopolitics throw a spanner in the works? One by one, Tesla Model Y Ls roll out of the company’s end-of-line inspection bays, gleaming in black, white and gold. They are a mix of left-hand and right-hand drive – one of many signs the electric vehicles (EVs) prod
The Robot ReportResearchHow FPGAs become the gatekeepers of physical AI security Eric Sivertson, vice president of security business at Lattice Semiconductor, explains how FPGAs can act as deterministic guardrails for robotic systems.
AWS Machine LearningLabsBuild a Physical AI model factory with NVIDIA Cosmos 3 on SageMaker HyperPod Building a Physical AI system takes a continuous pipeline, not a single training job. This post shows how to run that model factory (synthetic data generation, post-training, and closed-loop evaluation with NVIDIA Cosmos
Understanding AIVoices19 robotics companies to watch I talked with nine of these companies.
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: Digit Redecorates Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us yo
PandailyAsiaShenzhen Startup Yuejia Dynamics Pushes Quadruped Robots Into the Metro, Targets 10,000-Unit Capacity Yuejia Dynamics, a Shenzhen quadruped-robot startup founded in 2025, has deployed inspection robots in Shenzhen Metro and targets annual capacity of 10,000 units by the end of October.
Understanding AIVoicesRobot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data Free apartment cleanings, exoskeletons, 100 robots in a warehouse...
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchProtecting Dynamic Industrial Robot Cable Carriers This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp . In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles. However, as robot
Understanding AIVoicesHow Google taught LLMs to control robots and started a robotics boom Vision-language-action models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon.
MIT News AIResearchSystem helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes A new method, called CW-Net, translates the reasoning process of an autonomous vehicle’s AI system into understandable concepts that explain its behavior.
Arm Newsroom
Arm NewsroomSiliconBuilding the systems behind the next generation of intelligent robots As robots expand capabilities and intelligence, the next challenge is integrating AI inference, sensing, control, safety, and orchestration into systems that can operate reliably at scale in the real world.
Tom's HardwareSiliconTrump slaps up to 100% tariffs on imported drones and critical components in latest move against China's proliferation of U.S. drone market, citing national security — products from allied nation face 10-15% rates The Trump administration has imposed tariffs of up to 100% on imported drones and key components, as Washington intensifies its push to reduce reliance on Chinese drone technology and rebuild a domestic supply chain.
Financial Times Tech
Financial Times TechEuropeUber picks a side in driver vs robotaxi wars: its own Since it operates in so many markets, Uber can easily fall into the trap of talking from both sides of its mouth
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AIValleyXDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
The Robot ReportResearchCalling robotics startups: Apply now to be part of the 2026 Robotics Startup Radar Submit now to be part of the Robotics Startup Radar, which brings together some of the most promising robotics startups.
The Robot ReportResearchLyte raises $165M to help robots better sense their surroundings Lyte AI plans to use its second round of funding this year to scale production of its AI and perception capabilities.
The Robot ReportResearchRobot.com partners with Sodexo to roll out more sidewalk delivery robots Robot.com says college campuses will continue to be an important part of its strategy as it scales sidewalk delivery robots.
SCMP TechAsiaRobot guide dog debuts in China amid severe lack of furry counterparts A Chinese defence industry research facility has unveiled what it calls the world’s first wheeled and legged robot guide dog for visually impaired people, in an example of the sector’s push into a growing range of civili
SCMP TechAsiaHow China Works author on the data economy, robots and AI Lan Xiaohuan is a professor of economics at China Europe International Business School. His book, How China Works: An Introduction to China’s State-led Economic Development, has sold millions of copies in China and has b
PandailyAsiaJD Cloud Charts a ‘Physical AI’ Ambition, From Airport Ads to the JDD Stage JD Cloud is pushing a “physical AI” ambition from airport ads to its annual JDD conference, betting on robots, embodied data and home devices as AI moves from screens into the real world.
SCMP TechAsiaChina’s robot revolution may not arrive in the way you expect China’s robots have become skilled at commanding a stage. At last month’s World Robot Conference in Beijing, humanoids sorted parcels, packed phones and performed household chores. Unitree Robotics, whose machines can ru
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