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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 first-half 2026 revenue of…
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 system integration specialist with…
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 the EV and battery…
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…