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Morgan Stanley: SpaceX, Tesla share tech and talent

Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas said the two companies "share tech, talent, and infrastructure," citing 71 Tesla r…

Top Companies AISep 21, 2026

Anthropic opens secret wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropic has quietly set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, its life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abr…

Top Companies AISep 21, 2026

FD-SOI market widens as AI moves into cars and robots

AI is shifting from data centers into cars, robots, wearables and connected devices, widening the market for F…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 21, 2026

Tokyo Science Univ. robot lab targets iPS regenerative medicine

Tokyo Science University's Robot Future Creation Center, opened in April, is pursuing research where AI plans…

Top Companies AISep 20, 2026

Stellantis taps Inbolt's sub-$600 vision to stop robot freezes

At a Detroit plant, Stellantis retrofitted a welding robot for Dodge Durangos and Jeep Cherokees with French s…

Exponential IndustrySep 20, 2026

Wiwynn adds cobots at El Paso, Mexico plants for rack testing

Wiwynn is introducing collaborative robots (cobots) at its El Paso, Texas, facility and third plant in Mexico…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 20, 2026

NTTドコモ builds robot ML pipeline in 3 days with AI-DLC

NTT Docomo's MIT Division joined AWS's AI-DLC Train The Trainer and built a robot-arm pipeline — imitation lea…

Top Companies AISep 19, 2026

RoboHarm: GPT-6 Astra refused just 2 of 100 robot tasks

In Robocurve's RoboHarm benchmark, GPT-6 Astra completed 60 of 100 dangerous trials and refused two, stabbing…

THE DECODERSep 19, 2026

IFA after Samsung: Lindtner on exits, 2,000+ exhibitors

At IFA 2025 in Berlin, IFA Management CEO Leif Lindtner said Samsung Electronics left the fair after its leade…

ITmedia AI+Sep 19, 2026

Vantora raises $100 million to build in-house physical AI for industrial firms

UP.Labs, now Vantora, raised $100 million from Silversmith Capital Partners and shifted to building physical A…

TechCrunch AISep 19, 2026

Toyota Motor Europe to deploy 400,000 AI robots from 2028

Toyota Motor Europe said at a mid-September investor tech briefing that it will deploy 400,000 self-developed…

Top Companies AISep 18, 2026

住友電装 and ExaWizards start physical AI agents for factories

住友電装 and エクサウィザーズ said they began jointly developing AI agents for production floors, pairing them with camera…

Top Companies AISep 18, 2026

Anthropic opens AI-powered wet lab in San Francisco Bay Area

Reuters reported that Anthropic PBC opened a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, where robots powered by it…

SiliconANGLE AISep 18, 2026

SoftBank to buy Robotics and AI Institute from Hyundai

SoftBank Group agreed to acquire the Robotics and AI Institute from Hyundai Motor Group, according to multiple…

The Robot ReportSep 18, 2026

Scaleout brings AI-driven learning to drones, military bases

Scaleout is deploying decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones, per Ars Technica

Ars Technica AISep 18, 2026

Lessons from China, the humanoid robot superpower

A Nikkei piece frames China as a "humanoid robot superpower" (ヒューマノイド大国) and asks what can be learned from it

Nikkei AI StocksSep 18, 2026

Raleigh builds digital twin with Esri, NVIDIA, Microsoft

Raleigh created a digital twin of the city with tech partners Esri, NVIDIA and Microsoft, using four drones to…

DRONELIFESep 18, 2026

Lockheed Martin wraps Riyadh AI internship

Lockheed Martin completed a Riyadh summer internship for Saudi university students in AI, robotics and advance…

Top Companies AISep 17, 2026

Lockheed's Jim Taiclet: tripling PAC-3, quadrupling THAAD

CEO Jim Taiclet told a Morgan Stanley panel Lockheed will pair the F-35 and advanced missiles with cheaper aut…

Top Companies AISep 17, 2026

Honeywell CTO Mehul Patel: we'll stop talking about AI

At an IMTS media panel in Chicago, Honeywell Technologies CTO Mehul Patel predicted companies will eventually…

Top Companies AISep 17, 2026

Google, Fanuc ship AI welding robot in December

Google and Fanuc developed a welding robot that uses generative AI to read drawings and perform "zero teaching…

Top Companies AISep 17, 2026

REVERSAL-BENCH shows the reset-free RL cliff

Riyaaz Shaik and Chandru Venkataraman introduced REVERSAL-BENCH, which controls reversibility via a parameter…

Apple Machine LearningSep 17, 2026

Arm unites 80+ firms for Physical AI push

Arm launched Arm Total Design for Physical AI, bringing together more than 80 companies including AWS, NXP, Si…

The Robot ReportSep 17, 2026

Deloitte Taiwan seminar: Physical AI hinges on system integration

At a Deloitte Taiwan seminar in Taichung on September 15, industry and research leaders said Taiwan's next Phy…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 17, 2026

Vertex Ventures bets on physical AI

Vertex Ventures is investing in early-stage deep tech companies building robotics, smart devices and frontier…

Top Companies AISep 16, 2026

FANUC, Google Cloud AI reads drawings for zero-teaching welding

FANUC said on September 11 it developed an AI welding agent with Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise, which reads…

Top Companies AISep 16, 2026

BadVLA shows robots can be hijacked without visible failure, VicOne warns

VicOne highlights NeurIPS 2025's BadVLA, which caused conditional deviations in a Vision-Language-Action robot…

IEEE Spectrum RoboticsSep 16, 2026

Nvidia's Les Karpas: robots lack a data moment

Nvidia Inception's Global Head of Physical AI, Les Karpas, will explain at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 why general…

TechCrunch AISep 16, 2026

Flytrex rooftop drone docks launch in Dallas-Fort Worth

Flytrex introduced a rooftop docking system and AI-based fleet positioning in Dallas-Fort Worth and more than…

DRONELIFESep 16, 2026

AIVE AI Systems debuts Atlas GEO Cloud at INTERGEO 2026

AIVE AI Systems demoed Atlas GEO Cloud and Atlas GEO QGIS at INTERGEO 2026 in Munich — tools that build georef…

DRONELIFESep 16, 2026

Airwise Solutions and UAS Sentry Integrate Drone Detection and Airspace Intelligence

Airwise Solutions and UAS Sentry formed a partnership integrating UAS Sentry Nexus Remote ID detection into th…

DRONELIFESep 16, 2026

ITRI Innovation Day shows 25 AI, robotics technologies in Tainan

ITRI held its ITRI Innovation Day on September 15 in Tainan, Taiwan, bringing together research groups and sta…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 16, 2026

TDK begins mass production of 100V, 10μF MLCC for AI servers and humanoid robots

TDK said it has started mass production of multilayer ceramic capacitors rated at 100V and 10μF, targeting AI…

Top Companies AISep 15, 2026

TDK adds 10μF part to resin-electrode MLCC line

TDK has introduced a 10μF version of its MLCC that uses the company's own resin electrodes, with the design ai…

Top Companies AISep 15, 2026

Denso, Nagoya University test AI robots at Kariya hub

Two AI-equipped robots appeared for a limited time at "Caricoco" near Kariya Station's north exit

Top Companies AISep 15, 2026

Physical AI’s real prize: 280,000 old US factories

Harmoni raised $10 million in Series A funding on Sept

Top Companies AISep 15, 2026

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InOrbit.AI releases OpenRobOps, an ISO 21423 reference implementation, under the Apache 2.0 license

InOrbit.AI released OpenRobOps, an open-source robot operations and fleet management software it calls the ind…

The Robot ReportSep 15, 2026

ResearchAndMarkets.com report maps humanoid robots' three deployment waves

ResearchAndMarkets.com added a report projecting humanoid robots will deploy in three waves — automotive and l…

Yahoo Finance AISep 15, 2026

XPeng's Turing AI chip expands beyond cars

XPeng Motors is extending its self-developed Turing AI chip from intelligent driving into humanoid robots

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 15, 2026

Minebea Mitsumi pauses M&A to chase AI parts demand

Chairman Yoshihisa Kainuma said Minebea Mitsumi has no current plans for deals, choosing instead to focus on b…

Japan Times TechSep 15, 2026

Nikkei physical AI article blocked behind newsletter sign-up

The page for this Nikkei article contains only a newsletter registration notice, not the article text

Nikkei AI StocksSep 15, 2026

Force Feedback study: 63% recover in a day, vs 28% without, Intuitive says

Intuitive Surgical reported a prospective study tying Force Feedback to faster bowel function recovery after p…

Top Companies AISep 14, 2026

Mitsubishi Electric unveils single-model audio separation tech

Mitsubishi Electric said it developed a single AI model, Task-Specific Sound Source Separation Technology, tha…

Top Companies AISep 14, 2026

FANUC builds AI welding agent that reads drawings to generate robot welding motions

FANUC developed an "AI welding agent" that reads drawings and automatically generates a robot's welding motion…

Top Companies AISep 14, 2026

Daifuku bets on physical AI and humanoid robots for factories

Daifuku presented its outlook on the future of semiconductor factories and logistics, saying it will use physi…

Top Companies AISep 14, 2026

Arm's O'Driscoll to talk "Building Physical AI that Scales" at RoboBusiness

Arm's Dermot O'Driscoll is giving a RoboBusiness talk, "Building Physical AI that Scales," on October 20-21 in…

The Robot ReportSep 14, 2026

Universal Robots unveils Gen 7 platform at IMTS

Universal Robots launched Gen 7 at IMTS, adding three arms UR10g-1750, UR17g-1300, UR18g-950 and a redesigned…

The Robot ReportSep 14, 2026

AGIBOT's Yao: Robots Reach 'GPT-3.5' Moment in 3–5 Years

At the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on Sept

Fortune AISep 14, 2026

Artery Technology joins Arm ecosystem as high-end MCU partner

Artery Technology has become a key partner in Arm’s ecosystem, focusing on high-end 32-bit MCU applications an…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 14, 2026

Caterpillar, FieldAI team up on physical AI for jobsites

Caterpillar announced on Sept

Top Companies AISep 13, 2026

Skild Brain to assemble NVIDIA Blackwell with Foxconn

Skild AI, with NVIDIA and Foxconn, is deploying Skild Brain on dual-arm manipulators for high-precision assemb…

Exponential IndustrySep 13, 2026

SLAM: the first step in Physical AI for robots

A column explains that SLAM is the starting point of Physical AI, letting autonomous robots work in unstructur…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 13, 2026

Hyundai puts Data Flywheel into full operation, sets 2028-2029 self-driving roadmap

At its HMG Autonomous Driving Media Day, Hyundai Motor Group said its Data Flywheel is in full operation and s…

Yahoo Finance AISep 13, 2026

Merck names AI robotic scientist as 2027 Future Insight prize topic

Merck Group has set the topic for its 2027 Future Insight Prize as the "AI empowered robotic scientist."

Top Companies AISep 12, 2026

US Army taps TERN for $11.26 million AI navigation deal

Defense tech company TERN announced an $11.26 million contract with the US Army to deploy its AI-based Indepen…

Top Companies AISep 12, 2026

Bin-e AI recycling box picked for KDDI lithium-ion collection

Forcetec said its Bin-e AI sorting recycling box was adopted for KDDI's lithium-ion battery collection effort…

Top Companies AISep 12, 2026

AI takeover: bad even if no one dies

The article argues that the debate never needs to reach total human extinction

LessWrong AISep 12, 2026

GPT-6 Astra tops StationeryBench 7 to 0 over MolmoAct2

On StationeryBench, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra fully completed 7 of 100 dual-arm robot tasks versus zero for Ai2's M…

THE DECODERSep 12, 2026

UltraSense pitches ultrasound as robot touch fix; 500 µm resolution

UltraSense says its sub-surface ultrasound tactile platform can sense through a protective outer layer, resolv…

The Robot ReportSep 12, 2026

Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led round

Mecka AI, which collects human motion data to train robots, is nearing a round led by Sequoia Capital at a val…

TechCrunch AISep 12, 2026

Caterpillar CEO Joseph E. Creed sells $26,211,763 in stock

Caterpillar CEO Joseph E

Top Companies AISep 11, 2026

Toyota Industries to show Japan-first multi-load handler autonomous forklift

Toyota Industries announced it will exhibit an autonomous forklift with a multi-load handler specification, bi…

Top Companies AISep 11, 2026

FANUC unveils Gemini Enterprise AI Welding Agent for arc welding

FANUC announced on September 11 it developed an AI Welding Agent for arc welding

Top Companies AISep 11, 2026

ASI's Mel Torrie to map outdoor autonomy roadmap at RoboBusiness

Mel Torrie, founder and CEO of Autonomous Solutions Inc., will lead a RoboBusiness session titled "Designing t…

The Robot ReportSep 11, 2026

Mazur and Wiśniewski: $127.3B drone market was right, timing was wrong

Michael Mazur and Adam Wiśniewski, co-authors of PwC's 2016 "Clarity from Above," graded their $127.3 billion…

DRONELIFESep 11, 2026

Japan names Tokachi, Hokkaido as first AI agriculture special zone

The government designated 19 municipalities in Hokkaido's Tokachi region, including Obihiro, as national strat…

Japan Times TechSep 11, 2026

MW bets ceiling-mounted robot arms over humanoids

Tokyo-based startup MW is offering homes with built-in robotic housekeeping arms that fold laundry and carry g…

Japan Times TechSep 11, 2026

Experts: AI, encrypted messaging platforms, and drones pose new terrorism threats

Analysts said the global jihadi movement is fractured 25 years after the Sept

Semafor TechSep 11, 2026

Robot tactile model hits 65 percent success, nearly double best VLA

Trevor Darrell's UC Berkeley team pretrained a model, then trained a specialist submodel on 100 hours of tacti…

IEEE Spectrum RoboticsSep 11, 2026

ADI buys Alif Semiconductor in up to $200 million edge-AI bet

On September 9, 2026, Analog Devices said it will acquire Alif Semiconductor, a builder of AI-native microcont…

Top Companies AISep 10, 2026

Sovereign AI push widens as SoftBank, Sony, NEC, Honda set up Noetra

The article frames Sovereign AI as a response to five systemic risks, including data governed by foreign law a…

Top Companies AISep 10, 2026

ABEJA starts autonomous drone work for Mitsubishi Heavy

ABEJA began verification support commissioned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to add autonomous functions to un…

Top Companies AISep 10, 2026

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