California AV Rules. Cities Get Ticketing Power Over Robotaxis
The rules of the road just changed for driverless cars in California — and this time the machines aren't the…
NVIDIA and Hugging Face supercharge LeRobot with new AI models
Robotics developers just got a serious upgrade to their open-source toolkit. On July 6, 2026, NVIDIA and Hugging Face folded…
Toshio Fukuda. The engineer who taught robots to swing like monkeys
Some engineers build a single great machine. Toshio Fukuda built a whole way of thinking about them — and now…
ENCY Robot Meets Stäubli. When CAD Paths Become Robot Moves
Programming an industrial robot has long been the domain of specialists fluent in proprietary teach pendants and cryptic motion commands.…
Kraken Robotics. A $615M dive deeper into the subsea frontier
Ocean-tech specialist Kraken Robotics has just made its biggest move yet. On July 2, 2026, the company closed its acquisition…
ABB Flexley Stack F712. The forklift that sees where it’s going
Warehouse automation just lost one of its most annoying prerequisites: infrastructure. ABB Robotics unveiled the Flexley Stack F712 on July…
Tesollo DG-5F-S. The dexterous hand behind a South Korean IPO bet
Building a humanoid robot is hard enough. Building the hands is arguably harder — and that is precisely the niche…
HIVE Physical AI. The startup teaching factory machines to think for themselves
Industrial automation usually means buying purpose-built robots and rebuilding your workflow around them. HIVE wants to flip that logic entirely:…
Boston Dynamics Atlas. Robots take to the pitch at the FIFA World Cup
The 2026 FIFA World Cup didn't just deliver upsets on the field — it also became an unlikely stage for…
Quantum Systems. A $1.2B Bet on Building More Autonomous Drones
Autonomous drones are quietly becoming one of the hottest categories in tech investment, and Quantum Systems just gave the trend…
