Latest news, developments and reporting on Robotics.
QbitAI reports Maxinsights has emerged as a supplier of egocentric training data to OpenAI and leading Physical AI developers, with ARR near $100 million.
BOK holds rate at 3 pct; Yonsei reports data leak; Kim Yo-jong warns of border measures.
Zurich's Enact Intelligence raises $30m pre-seed with backing from Yann LeCun and Arthur Mensch, Sifted reports.
IROS 2026's LT-Mem award and BetaMem paper put long-term embodied memory at the center of robot research.
S. Korea, U.S. air forces to sign LOI on autonomous combat platform cooperation Thursday, Seoul says.
Nvidia unveiled DSX POD blueprints, an OpenShell deployment architecture and Isaac robotics tools at GTC Berlin.
SkyFall unveils StarGate, an evacuation drone that can carry wounded soldiers without risking a rescue crew.
Tesla started Optimus robot production at Fremont as flat Q3 revenue accompanied conflicting profit figures.
Hugging Face tutorial trains Microduck walking policies in Isaac Lab and Newton, exports ONNX and deploys on real robot.
Motubrain streams full training of embodied model Motubrain 2.0 for two weeks before its open-source release.
Chicago residents sue Coco and Serve, alleging delivery robots took biometric scans without consent under Illinois law.
TechRadar reports Unitree has unveiled a 'kung fu' robot bodyguard with an eight-hour battery life.
Hugging Face opened SimReady Central, a free 2,000-plus-asset SimReady OpenUSD library for robotics and AI factory simulations.
Shengshu Technology began a half-month livestream of Motubrain 2.0's full training before open-sourcing the embodied model.
Shanghai is building a real-scene training pipeline for embodied AI in Pudong, linking data collection, factory validation and feedback as China confronts a shortage of real-world robot data. Leiphone reports the effort includes laboratories, automotive production lines and a permanent training venue ahead of an Oct. 23-25 competition.
China’s daily average token calls exceeded 500 trillion by June 2026, MIIT official Wang Weiwei said, as AI companies use tokens to price model services and measure inference efficiency. Leiphone reported that token counts alone cannot capture a robot grasp’s cost, which also depends on latency, power, success rate and equipment investment.
Arda Industries launched with $232M to sell AI software that helps factories design and reconfigure production lines.
Eka Robotics raised $150M at a reported $1.45B valuation for force-sensing robot hands and vision-force-action model.
Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade says it used a heavy-lift drone to evacuate a wounded soldier, calling it a first.
Engineers at MIT and EPFL have designed a flapping-wing robot weighing less than 300 grams that can fly, dive into water, swim, and leap back into the air, inspired by birds like puffins. The robot could enable new drones for aquatic sampling and ocean science.
Robotic rehab system learns from therapists and uses AI and force feedback to assist stroke patients, developers say.
Astrolab’s FLIP lunar rover, slated for launch as early as November 2026, will carry HPE’s Spaceborne-4 computer to run custom large language models on the lunar surface, the first such use, MIT Technology Review reports.
Ukraine’s army has shown a wounded soldier evacuated by drone, calling it a historic step in casualty rescue.
Tuesday Labs has opened $200 reservations for Voxel Series-1, a bipedal home robot with articulated arms and room-monitoring cameras. It is expected to cost about $20,000 and ship in 2028.