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GE Aerospace Lynn factory embraces AI and robots

GE Aerospace's Lynn, Massachusetts facility is integrating robots and AI into its manufacturing operations, re…

Top Companies AISep 1, 2026

Suntory Logistics, Toyota Industries to Test Forklift with Switchable Forks

Suntory Logistics and Toyota Industries announced on September 1 that they will begin a demonstration test in…

Top Companies AISep 1, 2026

AWS Japan showcases 13 physical AI projects

AWS Japan held a成果発表会 on August 31, 2026, where 13 projects from 14 companies presented results from its physi…

Top Companies AISep 1, 2026

Gemini Robotics 2, robotics funding and IPOs top August 2026

Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, the latest vision-language-action (VLA) model, with whole-body con…

The Robot ReportSep 1, 2026

Physical AI takes center stage at RoboBusiness 2026

At RoboBusiness 2026, held Oct

The Robot ReportSep 1, 2026

AI and robots take center stage at K-Safety Expo 2026

K-Safety Expo 2026 will be held at BEXCO in Busan from September 2–4, featuring AI, robots, sensors, and conne…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 1, 2026

Turing Drive 8th anniversary: Physical AI opens new doors for Taiwan firms

At Turing Drive's eighth-anniversary press event, partners Vecow and oToBrite discussed how advances in AI, se…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 1, 2026

Skild AI unveils S1 robot foundation model

Skild AI has introduced S1, its flagship robot foundation model, which lets robots learn new, complex tasks by…

The Robot ReportSep 1, 2026

BHP's AI cuts downtime, boosts iron ore output

BHP, the world's largest mining company by market capitalization, has deployed AI across its operations

Top Companies AIAug 31, 2026

John Deere invests $10M in AI for high-value crops

John Deere announced a three-year, $10 million research and development partnership with ag-tech company Reser…

Top Companies AIAug 31, 2026

Panasonic HD establishes AI & robotics R&D division

Panasonic HD has established a new AI and robotics research and development division, and CAIO Sakaba is leadi…

Top Companies AIAug 31, 2026Also reported by ITmedia AI+

Japan's first AI-driven lithium battery recycling service picked by environment ministry

JFE Engineering's iGomi™ service, Japan's first to use AI to identify lithium-ion batteries for collection, tr…

Top Companies AIAug 31, 2026

Better grippers unlock physical AI's real-world promise

OnRobot's Thomas Houden argues that grippers and end-of-arm tooling (EOAT), the hardware robots use to grasp o…

The Robot ReportAug 31, 2026

Reframe Systems raises $40M to scale robotic homebuilding

Reframe Systems, a robotics company using physical AI to industrialize home construction, has raised $40 milli…

The Robot ReportAug 31, 2026

Industrial PC market to grow 7.9% CAGR, driven by AI and robotics

The industrial PC (IPC) industry is entering a new AI-driven recovery cycle

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 31, 2026

Japan defense budget request hits record ¥8.9 trillion

The Defense Ministry submitted a record ¥8.9 trillion ($56 billion) budget request for fiscal 2027, the final…

Japan Times TechAug 31, 2026

Expressive robot errors erode human trust, study finds

In a study published in Science Robotics, 50 people held conversations and made joint decisions with the comme…

RobohubAug 31, 2026

Caterpillar brings mining AI lessons to construction

Caterpillar is applying AI across its operations, including the Cat AI Assistant for field technicians and AI…

Top Companies AIAug 30, 2026Also reported by TechCrunch AI

FANUC and NVIDIA partner to bring Physical AI to factory robots

FANUC, a global leader in industrial robots, and NVIDIA have formed a strategic partnership to integrate what…

Top Companies AIAug 30, 2026

Edge AI hits a wall: new math needed

A new analysis argues that embodied AI systems face a systemic bottleneck called the 'edge AI wall,' where onb…

The Robot ReportAug 30, 2026

Kyocera, Kobe Steel, 20 firms form physical AI alliance

Kyocera, Kobe Steel, and about 20 other companies have formed an alliance to realize physical AI, led by Alum…

Nikkei AI StocksAug 30, 2026

AI as factory mentor: Toyota and Noritake lead Japan's manufacturing revival

Toyota's Motomachi plant in Aichi Prefecture now has factory workers teaching each other AI-assisted 3D design…

Nikkei AI StocksAug 30, 2026

Anthropic unveils Model Hardware Standard for physical AI

Anthropic released Model Hardware Standard (MHS) as a research preview on Thursday

Top Companies AIAug 29, 2026Also reported by Fortune AI and 1 others

Hyundai's US EV plant runs 1,400 robots, 2:1 vs human

Hyundai's new US EV factory operates 1,400 robots, giving it a robot-to-human ratio of 2:1—more than triple th…

Nikkei AI StocksAug 29, 2026

Robust AI deploys 100th Carter robot, names new CEO

Robust AI has deployed its 100th Carter robot and named former Fox Robotics CEO Marin Tchakarov as its new CEO

r/roboticsAug 29, 2026

Meta Tests Robots in Data Centers, Tech Layoffs Near 140,000

Meta is testing robots from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB at its data centers in Altoona, Iowa, and New Alb…

Yahoo Finance AIAug 29, 2026

Deere raises full-year guidance, teams with Reservoir on rugged AI

Deere posted Q3 2026 net income of $1.379 billion, or $5.10 per share, beating market expectations

The Robot ReportAug 29, 2026

Brain Corp CTO on scaling 50,000+ robot fleet

John Black, CTO of Brain Corp, discussed scaling robot fleets and building trust in public spaces on The Robot…

The Robot ReportAug 29, 2026

Panasonic to Reorganize Tech Units, Accelerate AI-Led Transformation

Panasonic Holdings will reorganize its current DX/CPS Headquarters into a business development division focuse…

Top Companies AIAug 28, 2026

Japanese humanoid robot livestreams work for 3+ hours

Robot developer Atom is livestreaming its humanoid robot performing a task on a conveyor belt, picking up pack…

ITmedia AI+Aug 28, 2026

Japan to test AI for 119 emergency call handling

The Fire and Disaster Management Agency plans to launch a model project in fiscal 2027 to use AI in handling 1…

Japan Times TechAug 28, 2026

Anthropic unveils MHS to let AI control lab hardware

Anthropic announced the research preview of Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a common specification for AI agent…

ITmedia AI+Aug 28, 2026

Anthropic unveils MHS to link Claude with robots and lab tools

Anthropic announced a new software standard, the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), to help AI assistants like Cla…

Japan Times TechAug 28, 2026

Anthropic previews MHS standard for AI-operated machines

Anthropic PBC previewed the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a unified interface that lets AI agents control sci…

SiliconANGLE AIAug 28, 2026

Honor Robot Phone enters mass production

Honor has moved its Robot Phone from an internal debate to a mass-produced commercial product, more than a yea…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 28, 2026

ZEALS and Timee team up to collect humanoid training data

ZEALS and Timee announced a partnership on August 27, 2026, to create a new work category called "data collect…

ITmedia AI+Aug 28, 2026

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Anthropic unveils MHS standard for AI control of lab gear

Anthropic introduced MHS, a new hardware standard that lets AI models like Claude control physical lab equipme…

Ars Technica AIAug 28, 2026

Renesas opens physical AI & robotics lab in Beijing

Renesas Electronics has opened a physical AI & robotics lab in Beijing to accelerate next-generation robotics…

Top Companies AIAug 27, 2026

Renesas opens physical AI and robotics lab in Beijing

Renesas Electronics announced on August 27 that it has opened a "Physical AI & Robotics Lab" in Beijing, China

Top Companies AIAug 27, 2026

Japan's first AI-powered battery recycling service selected for government trial

JFE Engineering's lithium-ion battery collection and recycling service 'iGomi' has been selected for a Japanes…

Top Companies AIAug 27, 2026

Anthropic unveils Model Hardware Standard for safe AI agents in labs and factories

Anthropic released details of Model Hardware Standard, a set of rules for AI agents like Claude to safely use…

WIRED AIAug 27, 2026

Nvidia acquisition rumor swirls as Hugging Face launches robot

Hugging Face released a small robot amid rumors that Nvidia may be closing in on a deal to buy the company

Yahoo Finance AIAug 27, 2026

Carbon Robotics launches single large plant model for instant weeding customization

Carbon Robotics replaced its crop-specific AI vision models with a single "large plant model" trained on milli…

The Robot ReportAug 27, 2026

Hugging Face rolls out $399 rollerskating robot duck

Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics launched the Microduck, a one-eyed biped robot under 10 inches tall, available…

The Verge AIAug 27, 2026Also reported by ITmedia AI+

Tennibot launches $1,495 Partner Lite AI ball machine

Tennibot launched Partner Lite, an AI-powered ball machine for tennis, padel, and pickleball

Robotics & Automation NewsAug 27, 2026

RoboSense H1 revenue up 30.2%, robotics LiDAR sales surge 510.4%

RoboSense reported H1 2026 revenue of approximately RMB 1.02 billion, up 30.2% year over year

Yahoo Finance AIAug 27, 2026

Humanoid Robots Need Standard Interfaces

MIPI Alliance has formed the Physical AI Birds of a Feather (BoF) group to explore how its standardized interf…

ITmedia AI+Aug 27, 2026

Tesla's AI5 chip claims 2-3x Nvidia efficiency

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company's upcoming AI5 inference chip could deliver two to three times the perfor…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 27, 2026

Nvidia and Microsoft: 2 AI Robots Stocks to Own

Nvidia and Microsoft are highlighted as two robotics stocks to buy and hold, with Nvidia's GR00T AI foundation…

Yahoo Finance AIAug 27, 2026

Why scaling LLMs won't lead to real agency

A Reddit user proposed a conceptual 3-tier architecture for embodied AI that combines an always-on cognitive c…

r/AI_AgentsAug 27, 2026

Reservoir, John Deere in $10M AI Ag Partnership

Reservoir announced a $10 million, three-year R&D partnership with John Deere at its inaugural Ruggedize confe…

Top Companies AIAug 26, 2026

AI in Industrial Automation: Honeywell CEO Weighs In

T. Rowe Price and Honeywell's CEO discussed AI's role in industrial automation, focusing on how AI can improve…

Top Companies AIAug 26, 2026

Hitachi charts AI-driven social infrastructure future

At Physical AI Day, Hitachi's General Session 1 laid out a vision for how physical AI can open up new possibil…

Top Companies AIAug 26, 2026

SORA Technology launches malaria elimination drones in Zanzibar

SORA Technology has officially launched a malaria elimination project in Zanzibar, Tanzania, using satellite d…

Top Companies AIAug 26, 2026

Deloitte Taiwan: Physical AI adoption lags expectations

Deloitte Taiwan said global companies are rushing to discuss physical AI, but only a small share have embedded…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 26, 2026

Open-source Codex Micro clone built for $35 by AI scientist

Iluvatar Labs used its autonomous scientist Marvin to design AgentPad13, an open-source version of the $230 Co…

Hacker NewsAug 26, 2026

ETF investors return to tech as AI shifts to robots

Defiance ETFs chief investment officer Sylvia Jablonski says ETF investors are pouring back into the tech trad…

Yahoo Finance AIAug 26, 2026

Operator-free excavators deployed in Texas, Nevada

Bedrock Robotics Inc. has deployed fully autonomous, retrofitted heavy excavators onto active infrastructure p…

The Robot ReportAug 26, 2026

Goldman Sachs exec: world to be rebuilt for AI agents

Goldman Sachs Global Institute co-head Jared Cohen argues that the world will be redesigned for machine intell…

Fortune AIAug 26, 2026

Ex-Meta scientists launch open-weight industrial AI model

Perceptron, founded in November 2024 by former Meta FAIR scientists Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, l…

TechCrunch AIAug 26, 2026

Unitree IPO value slumps as robot brains lag

Unitree, China's leading robot maker, saw its value drop by nearly half this week after a $66 billion valuatio…

TechCrunch AIAug 26, 2026

Burns & McDonnell, Gritt partner on AI solar robots

Burns & McDonnell and Gritt have formed a strategic partnership to evaluate and deploy AI-powered robotics on…

Robotics & Automation NewsAug 26, 2026

Robotics startup Generalist hits $3B valuation

Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising nearly $200 million in additional ca…

TechCrunch AIAug 26, 2026

Disney patents AI memory tech for robot characters

Disney and ETH Zürich were granted patent US 12,718,481 B2 on August 25, 2026, for AI virtual characters with…

Top Companies AIAug 25, 2026

HydroGym cuts flow-control trial-and-error by 65%

An international team launched HydroGym, a platform to train and compare machine learning models for actively…

Top Companies AIAug 25, 2026

NSK partners with startup on domestic humanoid parts

NSK has formed a partnership with a startup to jointly validate and collect data on domestically produced huma…

Top Companies AIAug 25, 2026

Chinese automakers enter humanoid robotics

Chinese automakers are moving aggressively into humanoid robotics, drawing on existing technology, supply chai…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 25, 2026

Airbound Raises $37M Series A for Drone Delivery in Andhra Pradesh

Bengaluru-based Airbound closed a $37 million Series A round on August 25, 2026, led by Greenoaks with partici…

DRONELIFEAug 25, 2026

NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 発表、推論性能2倍

NVIDIA has introduced Jetson Orin Nano 2, a new entry-level computer for edge AI

The Robot ReportAug 25, 2026Also reported by SiliconANGLE AI

Ropedia launches HOMIE Gen2 wearable for robot training

Singapore-based Ropedia Pte

SiliconANGLE AIAug 25, 2026

Tesla AI hardware chief joins DensityAI

Shishuang Sun, Tesla's senior director of AI hardware design, joined DensityAI in July 2026 to head packaging…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 25, 2026

NEC invests in robotics startup Dexmate

NEC's corporate venture capital fund, the NEC Orchestrating Future Fund (NOFF), has invested in US-based robot…

Robotics & Automation NewsAug 25, 2026

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