The Seoul Welfare Foundation has selected six nursing facilities to receive AI and robotics technology under a pilot program targeting the physical burden of caregiving, as South Korea’s demographic shift accelerates pressure on its senior care workforce.
Genesis AI has unveiled GENE-26.5, a robotics foundation model paired with a human-scale robotic hand and a data-collection glove that enables 1:1 skill transfer from humans to robots, targeting complex long-horizon manipulation tasks at commercial scale.
Meta is developing a highly personalized agentic AI assistant powered by its Muse Spark model, alongside an internal agent codenamed Hatch, as the company builds toward an autonomous AI and robotics strategy across its consumer platforms.
South Korean AI entertainment company Galaxy Corporation has opened Galaxy Robot Park in Seoul’s Gangdong district, a 16,500 square-meter venue combining robot performances, K-pop concerts, and interactive experiences, with a soft launch timed to Children’s Day.
Nvidia and Doosan Robotics have announced plans to connect Doosan’s agentic robot operating system with Nvidia’s simulation and training infrastructure, targeting an intelligent robot solution launch in 2027 and an industrial humanoid by 2028.
American digital artist Beeple has installed a group of robot dogs fitted with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, and Pablo Picasso at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, where they roam freely and print AI-transformed images of their surroundings.
SusHi Tech Tokyo, Asia’s largest startup convention, opened Monday at Tokyo Big Sight with 770 exhibitions across AI, robotics, resilience, and entertainment, targeting 10,000 business negotiations over three days.
Stuttgart-based AI robotics software company Sereact has raised $110 million in a Series B led by Headline, with customers including BMW and Daimler Truck already running its vision-language-action models in live production environments.
Gartner predicts that 50% of new warehouses built in developed markets by 2030 will be designed as robot-centric facilities where human labor is required only for exception handling, driven by labor shortages, cost pressure, and advances in AI-orchestrated intralogistics.
Texas Instruments reported first-quarter revenue of $4.83 billion, up 19% year-over-year, driven by 90% growth in its data center segment and 30% growth in industrial, sending shares to their best single-day gain since 2000.
Tesla has raised its 2026 capital expenditure target to over $25 billion, up from a January forecast of more than $20 billion, as CEO Elon Musk accelerates investment in AI infrastructure, self-driving technology, and humanoid robotics.
Zoomlion has made the global debut of Robot Ops, an embodied intelligence operating system designed to standardize and accelerate robot deployment across industrial, construction, and logistics applications, at Hannover Messe 2026.
Agibot used its annual partner conference to declare 2026 the first year of large-scale commercial deployment for embodied AI, unveiling five new robotic platforms, eight AI models, and an open-source development architecture called AIMA.
DEEPX and Hyundai Motor Group’s Robotics LAB have announced a strategic collaboration to co-develop an ultra-low-power AI computing platform capable of running large-scale generative AI models on-device within robotic systems.
More than 3,000 exhibitors at Hannover Messe 2026 showcased physical, generative, and agentic AI systems moving from demonstration into production, with Siemens, Schneider Electric, NVIDIA, and Microsoft presenting deployments already delivering measurable results on factory floors.