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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…
Shanghai-based Run Robotics has unveiled a centaur-configuration robot combining a humanoid upper body with a wheeled-legged lower body, capable of carrying 100-120 kg continuously and up to 210 kg statically,…
UBTECH's UWORLD U1 companion humanoid has accumulated 13,000 pre-orders, but the critical test arrives in mid-July when final payments are due from pre-order customers, as the company navigates a 35%…
Researchers at Keio University and MIT Media Lab have developed a soft floating robot that uses helium buoyancy and flapping fins to hover silently indoors, establishing the first systematic design…
LimX Dynamics has raised $200 million in a pre-IPO round valuing the company at $2.21 billion, with founder Will Zhang declaring listing a strategic necessity as China's humanoid sector investment…
1X Technologies has unveiled NEO Hands, a 25-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven robotic hand system for its NEO home humanoid, combining distributed tactile sensing, AI-assisted manipulation, and fast actuation loops to enable dexterous…
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, has unveiled LingBot-VA 2.0, an autoregressive world model built from scratch for physical-world robot control rather than adapted from digital video generation,…
Researchers have published ThorArena, a simulation-based benchmark that evaluates humanoid robots under realistic physical forces by replaying human interaction data against virtual robots, revealing substantial performance differences that conventional empty-space…
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs is working with ITRI and six industry partners to develop indigenous four-legged robot technology, trained on NVIDIA's Taipei-1 supercomputer across 4,000 virtual robots, targeting the…
LG Electronics has established a Robotics Business Center reporting directly to CEO Lyu Jae-cheol, effective July 1, integrating business development, sales, and operations into a single organization and launching a…
Tesla has released time-lapse footage showing the decommissioning of its original Model S and Model X assembly line at Fremont in 46 days, with limited Optimus Gen 3 production expected…
MIT and EPFL engineers have built a 300-gram flapping-wing robot that swims through water and transitions to flight without paddling, published in Science, inspired by diving birds and targeting oceanographic…
iRobot has launched the Roomba Electro Plus, a $399.99 cordless hard-floor cleaner combining vacuuming, mopping, disinfecting, and self-cleaning, alongside five redesigned Roomba robot vacuums, marking its first significant product expansion…