Latest news, developments and reporting on Robotics.
Kunlunx Robot's GeWu model won the Image Quality champion and ranked second overall in WorldArena 2.0 Track 1, demonstrating leadership in embodied world models.
Hugging Face opens preorders for Microduck, a $399 open-source duck robot that ships before Christmas 2026.
French finance minister vows tax stability, defends key breaks, and proposes robotics investment allowance.
Leju Robotics is set to release KUAVO VLA, a vertical-specific embodied AI model for industrial scenarios, which uses 600+ hours of robot data to nearly double efficiency and top two benchmark metrics.
Two Leiphone reports show embodied robots and unmanned delivery vehicles are pushing toward real-world commercialization, with Lingdong General targeting logistics and no-map technology reshaping the industry.
Zhiyuan Robotics topped the medal table at the World Humanoid Robot Games with 18 golds, proving its mass-produced robots can excel in both athletic and operational tasks.
South Korea has unveiled a 2.3 trillion won plan through 2030 to boost full-stack humanoid robot development, including mass production and procurement targets.
Cyborg cockroaches with medical injectors could deliver aid to trapped people, Australian researchers say.
Perceptron, founded by former Meta researchers, launched Isaac 0.5, an open-weight vision model to help robots perceive, reason and act in warehouses and factories.
Unitree's $66B valuation halved as physical AI startups struggle with data scarcity, prompting developers to seek new training methods.
Mara Inc. closed a $7M pre-seed round led by Khosla Ventures to deploy its low-cost AI-driven counter-drone system Spike against FPV threats.
World Robot Conference highlights physical AI shift, while Xiaoyuzhou report reveals surging AI collaboration trends.
Skild AI released S1, a robot foundation model that learns tasks from a single demo video without fine-tuning, hitting 66% success on unseen tasks.
TokenRhythm raises tens of millions for AI model routing; Huawei and IJCAI papers advance robot orchestration and VLA speed.
Vertex Ventures China proposes Singapore-based operations to help Chinese robot makers bypass US restrictions, but the plan is untested.
An unedited 10-minute video shows Unitree and Zhiyuan robots performing household tasks with a shared AI brain, demonstrating cross-embodiment collaboration and advanced autonomous reasoning.
At WRC 2026, Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Center showcased humanoid robots handling continuous tasks and announced a 2,000-unit apparel industry order.
At WRC, Chinese humanoid robot played table tennis, showcasing full-stack embodied AI from hardware to data.
Robotics startup Generalist is now valued at $3 billion after raising fresh capital led by 8VC, sources say.
Underwater vehicles could navigate murky water using a sonar-guided technique from WHOI researchers, MIT Tech Review reports.
At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, humanoid robots outpaced Usain Bolt's 100m record but also crashed and caught fire, highlighting both progress and limits.
Ropedia unveiled HOMIE Gen2, a head-mounted wearable that captures human movement and environmental data to train robots, aiming to improve AI training efficiency.
A robot carnival in Shanghai, where humanoids performed martial arts, highlights China's push to integrate AI into daily life, while a US school adopts classroom AI guidelines.
FanShi and over ten robot makers launch PhanthyMotus co-building plan in Beijing to break hardware silos in embodied intelligence.