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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.
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.
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.
Read more →AMD launched a Kria AI system-on-module and robotics developer platform for physical AI, claiming faster real-time control than Nvidia's Jetson Thor chips.
Read more →London-based Humanoid raised $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn as Fortune 500 clients scale up deployments.
Read more →Shenzhen humanoid-robot maker LimX Dynamics closed a nearly $200 million pre-IPO round on July 14, valuing it at about $2.1 billion as it pushes toward a stock listing.
Read more →Walden Robotics, a robotics startup spun out of Toyota's research lab, emerged from stealth with $300 million in seed funding and a $1.1 billion valuation, backed by Toyota and Nvidia.
Read more →NVIDIA said more than 20 Japanese manufacturers and robotics firms, including FANUC, Sony and SoftBank, are building on its Cosmos world-model platform for real-world AI.
Read more →Japan's government and a 44-company consortium called Noetra partnered with Nvidia to build a 140-megawatt AI factory powering open foundation models for robotics and manufacturing.
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