Robotics

PsiBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup focused on dexterous manipulation, has raised over $100 million from industrial investors including Chery-backed funds and Lens Technology.

A Chinese humanoid robot ran 100m in 8.64 seconds, nearly a second faster than Usain Bolt's record, at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.

China's Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot sprinted 100 metres in 8.86 seconds, smashing its own record and surpassing Usain Bolt's human world record.

Humanoid robots pushed their limits at the Beijing games, breaking sprint records while exposing gaps in stability and fine motor control.

ENGINEAI says the cost of a general-purpose humanoid robot for practical tasks has dropped below RMB100,000 per unit.

A Chinese humanoid robot sprinted 100m in 9.39 seconds, beating Usain Bolt's record. The feat shows how racing forces engineers to solve real-world mobility challenges.

Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing says the robot industry is nearing a 'ChatGPT moment' for embodied intelligence, but a major software leap could still be years away.

After years of flashy demos, Chinese humanoid robot makers now face pressure to show their machines can perform real jobs reliably and economically.

Chinese robot maker Unitree surged 600% as bond yields stayed high and Trump delayed tariffs on Canadian goods, according to a Reuters podcast.

Xiaomi's robot will debut publicly at the 2026 World Robot Conference as part of its human, car, and home ecosystem strategy, not as a standalone product.

Unitree's new Superman humanoid claims a 12.66 m/s top speed and a 2-meter standing jump, but the company has not released test details or production plans.

Serve Robotics shifts to Grubhub for robot food delivery in three cities after Uber Eats alliance ends.

Chinese manufacturers shipped over 97% of all humanoid robots globally in the first half of 2026, with AgiBot and Unitree leading the charge as industrial applications surged.

She started as a pair of animatronic eyes on a workbench. Now she's live 24/7, buying her own wardrobe on-chain, and switching between six personalities without missing a beat.

Xiaomi open-sources its embodied-AI foundation model, offering a full pipeline from post-training to deployment, in a move that could reshape the competitive landscape of robot intelligence.

Embodied-AI startup PaXini raised RMB1 billion to scale its tactile-sensing chips, with nearly 1 million units shipped, fueling R&D and global expansion.

China's Supreme People's Court ruled that patent lawsuits against Unitree Robotics were malicious, ordering the plaintiff to pay costs and invalidating the patent.

A humanoid robot powered by Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ10 chip collapsed during a Computex 2026 demo, which the company says was a planned safe-collapse sequence triggered by a communication glitch.

Pakistan's Indus RAS Expo 2026 drew 25,000 visitors and a $20M venture fund announcement, spotlighting homegrown robotics and AI innovations from defence to agriculture.

Japan launches Noetra, a government-funded company developing foundational AI for robots, with $2.3 billion in backing and 44 corporate partners. CEO Hironobu Tamba calls it the nation’s “last chance” to achieve technological self-reliance.

Volkswagen's CARIZON is accelerating Level 3 and Level 4 autonomous driving development with Horizon Robotics, targeting initial deliveries in the second half of 2027. The partnership integrates advanced chips and perception algorithms to compete in China's fast-evolving smart car market.

A practitioner documents a reproducible 100-step LoRA fine-tune of the OpenVLA robotics model on a Colab A100 GPU. The run verifies dataset loading, GPU training, and metric logging, providing a compact baseline before scaling to larger experiments.

Samsung Electronics has formed a new robotics division called RX, reporting directly to the CEO, to accelerate development and establish robotics as a key growth engine. The move comes as global robotics investment surges and AI makes robots more adaptable.

Nvidia’s new Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000 modules promise to shrink robotics compute costs while delivering massive AI performance. Major players like Boston Dynamics are already on board, but the 2027 launch leaves room for competitors.

Pakistan's Ministry of IT announces the Indus RAS Expo 2026, a two-day event on July 22-23 in Islamabad. The expo unites policymakers, industry, and academia to boost the robotics ecosystem with live demos, competitions, and high-level talks.

MIT CSAIL and Toyota Research Institute unveil SceneSmith, a system where three AI agents collaboratively generate realistic 3D environments from text prompts. The virtual playgrounds help robots practice skills with far less real-world testing.

Montefiore hospital replaced 12 utilization review nurses with AI, sparking union outrage and claims of a broken contract. The case tests new AI safeguards won after a massive nurses strike.