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AI is transforming robotics, enabling machines to perceive, reason, and act with unprecedented flexibility. This hub tracks AI-driven robots — from warehouse automation and humanoid machines to surgical and agricultural systems — along with the companies and research institutes pushing the field forward.
Andreessen Horowitz has raised $1.1 billion for its first fund dedicated to AI hardware, betting that chips, power and data centers — not software — are now the industry's biggest bottleneck.
Read more →Caterpillar is applying lessons from more than a decade of autonomous mining trucks to a company-wide AI rollout, backed by a $100 million plan to retrain 118,000 workers.
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Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard lets AI agents like Claude safely operate lab robots, microscopes, and factory equipment — turning weeks of custom integration into minutes.
Read more →Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, letting Claude and other AI agents safely operate lab and factory equipment like liquid handlers and microscopes.
Read more →XPeng's robotics unit raised over $900 million from IDG Capital, Tencent and Alibaba at a $6.3 billion valuation, the largest single-round raise yet in China's humanoid robot industry.
Read more →At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot called Tiangong Ultra ran the 100 meters in 9.39 seconds, edging out Usain Bolt's 9.58-second world record, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Read more →FORT Robotics, whose safety systems certify robots for Google DeepMind and Zoox, is going public through a SPAC merger valuing it at $556.6 million.
Read more →Chinese robotics maker Unitree unveiled an experimental humanoid, Superman, claiming a 2-meter jump and a sprint speed that would top Usain Bolt's peak pace — figures the company has not independently verified.
Read more →Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at roughly $9 billion, with retail demand oversubscribed more than 8,000-fold ahead of its August 19 trading debut.
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Self-driving cars use AI models that turn camera and sensor data into a live picture of the road, then predict what happens next and decide how to steer, brake, and accelerate.
Read more →Uber and China's Pony.ai are expanding their robotaxi partnership beyond Zagreb to four more European cities and the Middle East, deploying over 2,000 self-driving cars.
Read more →Chinese robotics maker AgiBot shipped more humanoid robots than rival Unitree in the first half of 2026, a new market report found, as both firms race toward competing IPOs.
Read more →Xiaomi released the code and checkpoints for Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a vision-language-action model it says tops several robot-manipulation benchmarks, under an Apache 2.0 license.
Read more →Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, emerged from stealth with a platform that lets factory workers train robots by demonstration instead of code.
Read more →Google DeepMind's new Gemini Robotics 2 models let humanoid robots coordinate full-body movement, plan multi-step tasks and work together, shown on Apptronik's Apollo 2.
Read more →Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model that lets robots parse live video, track task progress and coordinate with each other in real time.
Read more →The US FCC added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, plus power inverters, to its national-security 'Covered List,' blocking new import approvals over spying and cyberattack risks.
Read more →Travis Kalanick's robotics venture Atoms raised $1.7 billion in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber — the company that ousted him as CEO in 2017 — joining as an investor.
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A system-on-module packs a processor, memory, and networking onto one small board. Here's what it is, how it works, and why robotics and edge-AI makers build on top of one instead of a raw chip.
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FPGAs are chips that can be rewired after manufacturing. Here's what that means, how they compare to GPUs and ASICs, and why AI and robotics hardware increasingly relies on them.
Read more →German AI startup Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 in early access on July 23, its first model trained to generate images, video, and audio together — and to power robot movement.
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