UK Launches £20 Million Farm Robot Funding Round to Accelerate Field Automation
The UK government has opened a £20 million funding round for field robots capable of planting, tending, and harvesting crops, as part of its Farming Innovation…
Robots & Robotics covers the machines, systems, and technologies that enable physical automation and intelligent interaction with the real world. This topic focuses on the design, development, and deployment of robotic platforms across industrial, commercial, and public environments. Coverage includes robotic hardware, sensing and actuation, control systems, autonomy, and human-robot interaction. It also examines how advances in artificial intelligence, software, and materials are expanding the capabilities of robots beyond controlled settings into complex, dynamic environments. From factory floors to healthcare, logistics, and service applications, robotics plays a growing role in productivity, safety, and operational efficiency. As robots become more adaptable and widely deployed, this topic provides context on the technological progress and challenges shaping the future of physical intelligent systems.
The UK government has opened a £20 million funding round for field robots capable of planting, tending, and harvesting crops, as part of its Farming Innovation…
Researchers have developed Milo, an autonomous robotic guide dog priced below $2,000 to manufacture, designed to help blind and visually impaired people navigate indoor and outdoor…
FedEx is expanding its use of Dexterity's AI-enabled trailer-loading robot at its Hagerstown, Maryland hub, while Pickle Robot and Ambi Robotics have integrated their systems to…
Unitree Robotics is expected to be valued at more than 50 billion yuan following its Shanghai IPO, according to sponsor Citic Securities, as the company reports…
Agile Robots, which supplies automation to Foxconn and Tata Electronics for iPhone production in India, has acquired a majority stake in Bengaluru-based XNG Automation, a 200-person…
BYD will unveil its first humanoid robot at its Di Space showrooms in August 2026, presenting a functional production model that attendees can interact with, as…
New York state senators have introduced legislation that would prohibit AI-enabled humanoid robots from performing teaching responsibilities in public schools, following a New York Focus report…
Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics team leaders, has emerged from stealth with robots that workers can train, correct, and adapt without specialist…
A LexisNexis report ranking global humanoid robot startups by patent asset strength places six Chinese companies in the top ten, with the top five all from…
Google DeepMind has launched Gemini Robotics 2.0, a three-model suite covering embodied reasoning, robot action generation, and on-device inference, with a new ASIMOV-Agentic safety benchmark and…
DoorDash has earned FAA Part 135 air carrier certification and launched DoorDash Air, its in-house drone delivery program, becoming one of only eight drone operators in…
Google DeepMind has launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, its most capable embodied reasoning model for robotics, introducing multi-robot collaboration, continuous video-based task progress classification, and precision…