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Unitree's H1 robot has recorded a peak sprint speed of 10 meters per second on an athletics track, approaching Usain Bolt's average race speed of 10.44 meters per second, as…
Japan Airlines will begin a trial deployment of Unitree humanoid robots for baggage and cargo handling on the tarmac at Tokyo's Haneda Airport from May, targeting labor shortages driven by…
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…
Shares of Leaderdrive, China's largest manufacturer of harmonic reducers for robotic joints, have risen 40% over the past year, making founders Zuo Yuyu and Zuo Jing billionaires as humanoid robot…
Elon Musk said Tesla will delay the Optimus V3 unveil until closer to its production date, targeting a July-August window, citing concerns that competitors are conducting frame-by-frame analysis of Tesla's…
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…
Foundation Future Industries has secured a $24 million Pentagon contract to test its Phantom humanoid robot for military breach and combat support applications, as the U.S. defense establishment accelerates investment…
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…
Pudu Robotics has closed a funding round of nearly USD 150 million, pushing its valuation past USD 1.5 billion and bringing cumulative funding to over USD 300 million, as the…
Xpeng president Brian Gu told Reuters the Chinese EV maker will begin mass production of its flying car in 2027 and plans to bring humanoid robots to market by the…
Accenture, SAP, and Vodafone Procure & Connect have completed a humanoid robotics pilot at a warehouse in Duisburg, Germany, where robots autonomously conducted visual inspections and reported findings directly into…
At Hannover Messe 2026, German manufacturers and startups showcased AI-powered robots for industrial applications, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz backing wider AI adoption as Germany seeks to close the gap with…
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…
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…
NVIDIA and more than a dozen industrial partners used Hannover Messe 2026 to demonstrate AI-driven manufacturing systems already operating in live production environments, from humanoid robots in electronics factories to…
