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UC San Diego researchers have completed two minimally invasive gallbladder removal surgeries on live pigs using a teleoperated Unitree G1 humanoid robot, published in Nature, in what is described as…
Elon Musk has outlined a plan to send construction materials to the Moon and Mars starting in late 2026, with Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots building infrastructure ahead of human settlement,…
Mitsubishi Motors and University of Tokyo spinout Highlanders have signed an MOU to jointly develop humanoid robots for Mitsubishi's manufacturing facilities and explore mass production at the Kyoto Plant, with…
Mistral has released Robostral Navigate, an 8B embodied navigation model that achieves 76.6% on the R2R-CE unseen benchmark using only a single RGB camera, outperforming systems that use LiDAR, depth…
NVIDIA and Hugging Face have integrated Isaac GR00T 1.7 and Isaac Teleop into LeRobot, the open-source robotics library, giving developers a standardized end-to-end pipeline for robot foundation model training, data…
Robot.com has been named the official robotics partner of LEAP East in Hong Kong, where it will deploy its R-kiwi autonomous robots for brand activations using its R-ads platform, extending…
Simplexity Robotics, an embodied AI startup founded less than a year ago, has delivered its first batch of 100 i7 Pro robots across multiple industrial and logistics scenarios, including CNC…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres used the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva to call for binding international controls on autonomous weapons, mandatory AI safety testing before deployment,…
The 2026 World Robot Conference opens in Beijing on August 19 with more than 300 exhibiting companies, a 36% increase in exhibitors from 2025, as China accounts for 90% of…
Rémi Cadene, who developed Tesla's Optimus AI from scratch and pioneered LeRobot at Hugging Face, has unveiled an early prototype of Northstar, UMA's humanoid robot, targeting European manufacturing plants, logistics…
McLaren Construction has partnered with California-based FieldAI to deploy autonomous quadruped robots across its UK construction sites for 360-degree site scanning, point cloud data capture, progress verification, and AI-enabled deviation…
In a rare public disclosure ahead of its SPAC merger, Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson described a $300 million pipeline of booked multi-year revenue covering roughly 1,000 robots, positioned Agility's…
Edward Warchocki, the humanoid robot that has become one of Poland's most recognized internet figures with tens of millions of views, appeared on the beach at Ustka on the Baltic…
Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot delivered the match ball to the referee at halftime of Brazil's round-of-16 World Cup match against Norway at New York New Jersey Stadium, overcoming stadium…
Weave Robotics has launched Isaac 1, a wheeled home robot priced at $7,999 or $449 per month that handles room tidying and laundry autonomously with remote human operator backup, with…