Robotics

The US has restricted foreign-built drones and robots but cannot easily shrink the manufacturing base that makes Chinese drones cheap...

On August 27, 2026, Hugging Face opened orders for the Microduck, a tiny open-source machine that costs $399 and arrives...

China's Tiangong Ultra humanoid ran 100 metres in 8.86 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games, smashing its own mark...

Uber is teaming up with drone company Zipline to start airborne takeout deliveries later this year, aiming for one million...

BYD's Xiao Di humanoid has started greeting shoppers at Di Space stores. The robot is a sales tool first and...

Unitree priced its Shanghai listing near $9 billion and retail demand hit 5,526 times. Most of its robots still go...

Avatar Robotics raised $6.5M led by AlleyCorp to scale semi-humanoid robots driven by remote operators, betting teleoperation beats full autonomy.

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 adds whole-body control and a reasoning model that lets humanoid robots plan, self-correct, and team...

AI models that aim to give machines a grasp of physics and intent need richer data than one-angle video, and...

TrendForce puts humanoid companion robots at $1.1 billion by 2030. UBTech's lifelike U1, with 88 degrees of freedom, shows where...