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Faraday Future is best known as an electric vehicle company, but it is increasingly positioning robotics as a major part of its future, describing itself more broadly as a “physical AI ecosystem compa
Neura Robotics and the Technical University of Munich have opened a €17 million robotics research and training center near Munich Airport, while unveiling the latest generation of Neura’s 4NE1 humanoi
Maxinsights has raised $30 million in seed funding to expand its physical AI data platform, which pays people to record everyday activities such as cooking, cleaning and other work to generate trainin
North American robot orders climb 24.8% in Q3 of 2026, says A3
What Symbotic’s Walmart growth teaches robotics startups about anchor customers
Robotics companies are continuously expanding into new markets. As a result, many businesses are setting up offices in multiple countries or hiring remote international workers to accommodate their gr
By Nathan Spitalny, CEO of RDE Technologies Walk through most small and mid-sized plants and you’ll find them: the Windows box running the HMI on line two, the SCADA workstation in the control r
Warp Sciences emerges from stealth, to apply robotics to drug research
WorldOracle Tests Whether World Models Can Reliably Predict Real-World Executions
Fort Robotics, a developer of security systems for physical AI, has announced approximately $20 million in new commitments from existing investors, expanding the capital available to support Fort’s ne
Wonder is expanding its partnership with autonomous technology developer Avride to scale AI-powered robot delivery across Jersey City and Hoboken in New Jersey, Arlington County in Virginia and Philad
An autonomous UV-C disinfection robot developed by Ryberg Healthcare has met international disinfection standards, according to a study by researchers at Leiden University. The Omnia robot was evaluat
Teradyne Robotics and Sereact have formed a partnership to combine Sereact’s physical AI technology with Universal Robots’ collaborative robots for applications in retail, logistics and manufacturing.
Siemens is collaborating with Nvidia to develop adaptive AI-powered manufacturing capabilities that combine industrial software, Siemens’ Digital Twin technology and Nvidia Cosmos to accelerate produc
E0.5: From Reconstructive to Future-Predictive 3D Foundations for Robotic World-Action Modeling
Rollback: Experience Backtracking in World Models for Policy Improvement
Closed-Loop Aware Planning via Imitation-Free Speed Scoring for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Program-Level Adversarial Co-Adaptive Self-Play for Robotic Security
cuArms: GPU-Accelerated Conflict-Based Planning for Multi-Arm Manipulation
Learning Multi-Phase Robot Loco-Manipulation via Phase-Conditioned Policy Optimization
ASPEN: Adaptive Semantic Reasoning via Command Persistence Prediction for Efficient Navigation VLAs
SG^2SLAM: Spatial Geometry-Informed 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM for Monocular Outdoor Navigation
HIDRA: Hierarchical Dual-Routing Attention for Replay-Free Lifelong Imitation Learning
A 2-DOF MultiBody Track Joint for Race Car Optimization
2026 has been called the “year of mass production” for humanoid robots. In the first half of the year alone, output exceeded 40,000 units, with full-year projections surpassing 100,000. As
According to Gartner, buyers spend only about 17% of their buying time meeting suppliers. They would have spent the largest chunk researching and deliberating within the team. Most of that research ha
Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies?
ANYbotics begins delivering ANYmal X legged robot for explosive atmospheres
Embotech and BMW move 1M vehicles with automated driving technology
Xpanner launches autonomous pile driver for solar farm contruction
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