China’s Humanoid Robots. From boxing rings to sprint records in Beijing
If you've ever wanted to watch a robot lose a leg mid-sprint and keep the whole crowd on the edge…
John Deere and Reservoir. A $10 million bet on smarter farm robots
Tractors are quietly becoming some of the most sophisticated robots on the planet, and John Deere just doubled down on…
Swarm Robotics Power. The centralized-versus-decentralized tug of war
When dozens or hundreds of robots need to cooperate, the flashy part is the choreography — the way a swarm…
Roborock Q7 M5 Plus. Self-emptying floor duty at a $150 discount
Amazon has knocked the Roborock Q7 M5 Plus down to US$279.99, a chunky 35% cut from its US$429.99 list price.…
EXL buys iMerit. A $310 million bet on physical AI data
Artificial intelligence that operates in the real world — robots, autonomous vehicles, machines that see and move — needs training…
Brain Corp SelfPath AI. Cleaning robots that draw their own maps
For years, deploying an autonomous floor scrubber meant playing chauffeur first. A human operator would manually walk or drive the…
Locus Array. The warehouse robot that learned to grip almost anything
Manipulation has long been robotics' stubborn wall. Making a wheeled robot roll around a warehouse is comparatively easy; teaching a…
Meta Data Center Robots. When your coworker is a Kinova Gen3 arm
Meta is quietly building an army of machines to work inside its data centers, and the people who currently keep…
NSF Backs Robots That Learn Us Back With a $30M Bet on UT Austin
Robots are creeping out of factories and into homes, hospitals, and public spaces — but the machines still expect us…
Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder. Teaching farm AI to spot weeds on the fly
Precision farming just got a little more personal. Carbon Robotics has deepened its partnership with data-labeling specialist iMerit to power…
