Latest news, developments and reporting on Robotics.
Lei Feng Network reports that Hugging Face-backed Pollen Robotics’ 25-cm Microduck spotlights edge AI, but the real challenge is whether large language models can run efficiently on end devices.
Tashi Zhihang's AWE3.7 uses one AI model for industrial and home tasks, showing real-world generalization.
New raw videos by a mysterious team show robots with human-like physical understanding and self-evolving skills. The model is called 'MVP,' reports QbitAI.
Chinese robotics firm x2robot launched TwinDex: a three-finger dexterous system that completed fine lab tasks with zero real-robot teleoperation data and only hundreds of non-embodied samples.
Yeedi S14 Plus robot vacuum and mop drops to $399.98 on Amazon, matching its all-time low.
Lyte AI raised $165M at a $1.6B valuation to scale its robotics perception platform, the company said Sept. 2.
YuanDian teases open-source robot ecosystem and ¥8,888 humanoid; Zhiyuan gets 18 golds with mass-produced robots.
iRobot unveiled two new Roombas at IFA 2026, including the $1,199 Max 875 Combo it calls its most powerful robot ever, featuring a new carpet-sealing suction system.
A tech review says humanoid home robots are impractical; Tuya unveils Doova, a wheeled AI companion for seniors, at IFA.
Aibono, AIROBO's mainland China entity, signed a five-year cooperation pact with the CAS Institute of Mechanics to build an intelligent operations platform for heterogeneous robots in real-world spaces.
iRobot launched Roomba Max 875 Combo and Plus 678 at IFA with SealForce carpet-sealing suction; both are available now.
Sun Peng, a former ByteDance reinforcement learning expert, joined Xingchen Intelligence on Sept. 2 to lead robot RL R&D, completing the company's full-stack Physical AI strategy.
AI² Robotics has deployed its AlphaBot 2 robot as a bartender at Lan Kwai Fong, marking Hong Kong's first real-world service robot in an open, authentic scene.
World Labs, co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, released Atlas, which it calls the first multimodal world model, creating 3D worlds from single images and enabling robot training simulations.
Anthropic opens preview of its Model Hardware Standard for AI control of lab and industrial equipment.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp is set to become the first major investor in a defense-tech venture proposed by Ukraine's former defense minister, focusing on battlefield robotics, drones, and AI-guided missiles.
The ECOVACS Deebot X9 Pro Omni robot vacuum and mop is now $449 at Amazon, 44% off its $799.99 RRP, according to Android Authority.
Nori Robotics unveiled a $1,688 bimanual robot for robotics developers and researchers, aiming to lower the cost of hardware experimentation.
Meta is testing robots at U.S. data centers for tasks like powering hardware and swapping cables, raising employee concerns about replacing up to 80% of technician roles.
At IFA 2026, Dreame will unveil robotic mowers, a quadruped robot, and new scooters, per Leiphone.
For the first time in over 30 years, NASA has no firm plans for new Mars landers or rovers, instead betting on aerial drones like the SkyFall helicopter fleet set for launch in 2028.
NPR reports that a GE Appliances plant in Georgia uses AI-powered cameras and sensors to cut defects and costs, helping it compete with overseas factories.
Hugging Face's new duck robot, Microduck, sold over 10,000 units in days, driven by a Chinese Rockchip processor with ARM tech, highlighting global supply chain ties.
Three major AI releases converge on September 1: Fudan's Life Operators for multi-scale life modeling, Tsinghua AIR's self-evolving embodied model Zeva, and Ropedia's HOMIE Gen2 for capturing human experience.