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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 on Salamanca City Central…
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 programming, with deployments already…
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 China, as Chinese patent…
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 the on-device model adapting…
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 the U.S. to clear…
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 moment-finding, now available to…
The FCC has blocked new foreign-produced humanoid and quadruped robot models from entering the US market, with Chinese manufacturers expected to face the greatest disruption.
PNDbotics has demonstrated its Adam humanoid riding a robotic horse and firing an arrow at a target from 20 metres, highlighting advances in whole-body coordination and dynamic balance.
BrainCo has introduced a brain-to-robot AI platform that converts neural signals into commands for humanoids, robotic arms, and quadrupeds in under 200 milliseconds.
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and NVIDIA have announced the world's first national AI infrastructure dedicated to physical AI, built around an NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI factory with…
MicroWatt Controls has launched the ExR-2.5, the first inspection robot certified under the new UL 6260 framework for potentially explosive industrial environments in North America, targeting oil and gas, LNG,…
Xpeng is targeting monthly production capacity of more than 1,000 IRON humanoid robots by end of 2026, with deployment as showroom sales assistants in China in Q1 2027 and international…
The global hybrid robots market is forecast to grow from $4.93 billion in 2025 to $10.03 billion by 2030 at a 15.3% CAGR, driven by AI advances, edge computing, autonomous…
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University Singapore have developed a 3D-printed diving suit that allows remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches to survive underwater for up to three hours, following their deployment during Operation…
Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300 million at a $1.1 billion valuation, co-led by Toyota and Deviation Capital, with robots already performing real production work at a Toyota…