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Agile Robots CEO Zhaopeng Chen forecasts a physical AI industry 10x bigger than automotive as the company expands humanoid production and factory partnerships.

Deliveroo plans UK robot deliveries with Sam Altman-backed Coco, starting in Canary Wharf before expanding to four more locations.

A three-finger soft robotic gripper can rotate objects without releasing them, with tests revealing both its dexterity and current limits.

MIT’s thin swimming robot uses light-controlled living muscle to navigate a lab maze, showing a new approach to biohybrid propulsion.

RobCo has surpassed a $1 billion valuation in an employee share sale and investment deal ahead of Alfie’s planned March 2027 launch.

NVIDIA and Foxconn are targeting 99.5% success in GB300 tester-tray assembly, with busbar robots still above the 124-second cycle-time goal.

Bonsai World turns satellite imagery into simulated environments to prepare autonomous field machines for new terrain and operating conditions.

FieldAI is reportedly raising $700 million at a $10 billion valuation to expand its industrial robot autonomy software.

Dyna Robotics’ Taku tackles an hour-long laundry workflow, combining mobile manipulation with task planning as the company prepares for customer-site testing.

Penn’s SymSkill combines reusable movements with symbolic planning, allowing a robotic arm to complete multi-step tasks and recover from interruptions.

Ministry of Awe’s Awebot brings a remote-controlled artwork to Philadelphia’s streets, using character design and movement to spark public interaction.

Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas hand has four fingers and 13 degrees of freedom, combining tool-use dexterity with a design built for simulation and manufacturing.

SUTD’s ALBATROSS robot uses the same wings to slow its fall and sail across water, demonstrating aerial deployment and autonomous navigation in reservoir trials.

Anthropic’s new study finds a wide gap between robot capabilities and affordable deployment, with cost scenarios pointing to decades before broad physical automation.

Eni and Generative Bionics will assess GENE.01 humanoids for industrial applications, linking robotics development with materials expertise and computing capacity.