What Is the Model Hardware Standard — AI That Runs Lab Gear
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.
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Every AI News story tagged with both Artificial Intelligence and AI Robotics — the two topics side by side, updated as new articles publish.
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Anthropic Unveils Standard for AI to Control Lab Hardware
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 Arm Raises $900M at Record $6.3B Valuation
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 →Chinese Humanoid Robot Beats Usain Bolt's 100-Meter Time
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 →Robot-Safety Startup FORT Robotics to List on Nasdaq for $556M
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 →Unitree Unveils 'Superman' Robot, Claims Record Speed and Jump
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 Prices Shanghai IPO at $9 Billion, Sets Demand Record
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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How Does AI Power Self-Driving Cars?
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 Pony.ai to Deploy 2,000 Robotaxis Across Europe
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 →AgiBot Overtakes Unitree as World's Top Humanoid Robot Vendor
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 Open-Sources Robotics-1, a 100,000-Hour-Trained Robot Model
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 Launches Robots Trained by Demonstration
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 Launches Gemini Robotics 2 for Whole-Body Control
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 Launches Gemini Robotics ER 2 With Video Understanding
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 →FCC Bars New Chinese Humanoid Robots, Power Inverters From US
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 Atoms Raises $1.7B for Physical AI Robots
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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What Is a System-on-Module — and Why Do AI Robots Run on One?
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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What Is an FPGA — and How Is It Different From a GPU?
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 →Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX 3, a Multimodal AI Model
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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What Is Edge AI — and How Does It Power Robots?
Edge AI runs directly on robots, cameras, and machines instead of in the cloud, cutting reaction time from hundreds of milliseconds to microseconds.
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What Is a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Model — and Why It Matters
A vision-language-action (VLA) model turns a camera feed and a plain instruction directly into a robot's movements, replacing separate perception and control systems with one model.
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