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AWS targets physical AI deployment gap

AWS last month rolled out cloud-to-edge solutions for customers building physical AI systems—AI that perceives…

SiliconANGLE AIAug 24, 2026

Unitree GEN-1.5 Robot Model Learns Tasks in Seconds

Unitree's new robot foundation model, GEN-1.5, can learn a new physical task in seconds from a single example…

IEEE Spectrum RoboticsAug 24, 2026

US energy sector needs 500,000 more workers by 2030, robots may step in

The U.S. power and grid value chain will need about 500,000 additional workers by 2030, according to a recent…

Fortune AIAug 24, 2026

General Intuition in talks at $6B valuation for robotics push

General Intuition, a New York-based startup building AI agents that move through space and time, is in talks t…

TechCrunch AIAug 24, 2026

Robot dog learns to move by watching a real dog's video

A developer trained a Unitree GO2 robot to imitate a real dog's movements using only a single phone video of a…

r/roboticsAug 24, 2026

Neura acquires Adlatus Robotics to build physical AI platform

Neura Mobile Robots, part of Neura Robotics, has acquired 100% of Adlatus Robotics, a provider of autonomous c…

Robotics & Automation NewsAug 24, 2026

Scaling robots demands stable workforce, not just better AI

As robotics deployments grow from small pilots to dozens of sites across multiple shifts, companies are discov…

The Robot ReportAug 22, 2026

Robot lawn mowers eye 50% US household share in 8 years

AI, satellite navigation, and autonomous systems are transforming robotic lawn mowers from a niche product int…

The Robot ReportAug 22, 2026

Factory floors lag AI progress despite rapid advancement

Automation Taipei 2026 is examining why, despite extraordinary progress in artificial intelligence, the physic…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 22, 2026

R2 Labs brings AI vision, robotics to legacy factory equipment

R2 Labs, a Peachtree Corners, Georgia–based smart manufacturing provider, has developed the RAC (R2 Autonomy C…

The Robot ReportAug 22, 2026

Texas Instruments MCU with edge AI now stocked at Mouser

Mouser Electronics announced on August 20, 2026, that it is now stocking the MSPM0G5187 mixed-signal microcont…

Top Companies AIAug 21, 2026

The Job Is Dying, Not Work Itself—AI and Robots Rewrite the Next 10 Years

A technology writer argues that the traditional salaried 9-to-5 job model—invented for 20th-century factories—…

Hacker NewsAug 21, 2026

Motorola Solutions Completes $1.5B Acquisition of Counter-Drone Firm D-Fend

Motorola Solutions completed its $1.5 billion acquisition of D-Fend Solutions, a counter-drone technology prov…

DRONELIFEAug 21, 2026

Unitree CEO: humanoid robots still 2–10 years from breakthrough, despite 460% stock surge

Unitree, a Chinese robotics company whose stock surged 460% on its Shanghai listing this week, raised $900 mil…

Fortune AIAug 21, 2026

Nvidia explores deal with Korean AI chip designer Rebellions

Nvidia is in talks to potentially tie up with Rebellions, a Korean AI chip designer, according to a Friday rep…

Yahoo Finance AIAug 21, 2026

Vecow pivots to robotics as North America, EMEA fuel 65% of sales

Vecow, a Taiwan-based industrial computer supplier, is stepping up its push into robotics and edge AI, with Ex…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 21, 2026

Logic Robotics launches autonomous pallet for rail-to-truck transfers

Logic Robotics unveiled an intelligent transloading solution featuring the Logic Pallet, an autonomous system…

Robotics & Automation NewsAug 21, 2026

Taiwan automation shifts focus to AI platforms, open architectures

Taiwan's automation industry is moving away from traditional hardware specifications—payload capacity, servo p…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 21, 2026

NSK signs partnership with Atom on homegrown humanoid robots

NSK announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Tokyo-based startup Atom to collaborate on developing a…

Nikkei AI StocksAug 21, 2026

Chinese ODMs enter embodied AI robot manufacturing

Longcheer announced on August 19 that it signed an agreement with Nanchang High-tech Zone in Jiangxi to establ…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 21, 2026

US bans advanced humanoid robots; Taiwan's Swancor enters market

The US has banned imports of advanced humanoid robots to protect national security and AI supply-chain develop…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 21, 2026

Amazon expands Prime Air to nearly 500 U.S. cities by end of 2026

Amazon said this week it will expand Prime Air drone delivery to nearly 500 U.S

The Robot ReportAug 21, 2026Also reported by Yahoo Finance AI

Navy funds Shield AI's AI-piloted vertical-landing drone; Air Force passes

The U.S. Navy's Rapid Capabilities Office and Defense Innovation Unit awarded Shield AI roughly $50 million ar…

Top Companies AIAug 20, 2026

FBI Task Force Grounds Firefighting Drones Over Spokane Wildfires

During wildfires near Spokane, Washington in early August, an FBI Counter-UAS Task Force detected 26 unauthori…

DRONELIFEAug 20, 2026

Persona AI Targets Shipyard Welding to Make Humanoids Economically Viable

Persona AI, founded by former NASA and DARPA robotics leaders Nic Radford and Jerry Pratt, is deploying humano…

Hacker NewsAug 20, 2026

Aurotek unveils multi-brand robot factory solution

Aurotek Corporation has unveiled its first lights-out factory solution, which integrates robots from multiple…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 20, 2026

Nexcom unveils open AI robotics platform at Taipei expo

Nexcom International, an industrial computer maker, officially unveiled its RoboWIZ AI Robotics Open Platform…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 20, 2026

Russian strikes kill 16 in Kyiv; Zelenskyy blames air defense shortage

Russian forces launched dozens of ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missiles plus 168 drones at Kyiv and the s…

Japan Times TechAug 20, 2026

GEN-1.5 trains robots on single demo, hits 59% success rate

Robotics startup Generalist AI released GEN-1.5, an AI model that teaches robots new tasks from a single 3- to…

THE DECODERAug 20, 2026

Nvidia Physical AI Executive Madison Huang Tours Asia Robotics Hub

Madison Huang, Nvidia's senior director of product and technical marketing for physical AI platforms, visited…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 20, 2026

Samsung, Hyundai expand alliance into software-defined vehicles

Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor Group have widened their partnership to cover electric vehicle batteries…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 20, 2026

China shifts EV subsidies toward humanoid robots as car margins narrow

As subsidies for China's new energy vehicle market gradually wind down and automaker margins continue to narro…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 20, 2026

China's robot IPO boom masks circular financing scheme

Unitree Robotics, a Hangzhou humanoid robot maker, debuted on the Shanghai stock exchange with its stock jumpi…

THE DECODERAug 20, 2026

Amazon ramps up drone delivery to 500 U.S. cities by year-end

Amazon announced Wednesday that it will significantly expand its Prime Air drone delivery service, targeting n…

Fortune AIAug 20, 2026

Delta expands AI push into robotics, smart manufacturing

Delta Electronics unveiled robotics and smart manufacturing applications at the Taipei International Industria…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 20, 2026

Sanja Fidler's Veeda AI raises $90M in seed round

Veeda AI, led by former Nvidia researcher Sanja Fidler, raised $90 million in a seed funding round co-led by K…

SiliconANGLE AIAug 20, 2026

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Unitree IPO marks shift to supply-chain competition in China's humanoid robot race

Unitree Robotics listed on Shanghai's STAR Market on August 19, becoming China's first mainland-listed humanoi…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 20, 2026

Xiaomi builds robotics into manufacturing strategy as AI enters physical world

Xiaomi is positioning robotics as a core capability for manufacturing and industrial automation, moving beyond…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 20, 2026

Robotics leaders chart physical AI path at 2026 forum

Tech leaders gathered at the 2026 International Robotic Forum on August 19 to present their visions for the ev…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 20, 2026

Solomon unveils AI vision tools for smart manufacturing

AI vision company Solomon is presenting new factory automation tools at Automation Taipei 2026, including an a…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 20, 2026

LG aims for 100,000 hours of robot training data by end-2026

LG Electronics is building out robot training infrastructure with Nvidia, targeting 100,000 hours of real and…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 20, 2026

Taiwan robotics event charts AI manufacturing path

Intelligent Asia 2026 opened on August 19 at TaiNEX 1 and TaiNEX 2 in Taipei, with industry and government spe…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 20, 2026

Amazon aims for 500 delivery drone neighborhoods by end of 2026

Amazon announced on August 19 it will expand Prime Air delivery drone service to Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta…

Ars Technica AIAug 20, 2026Also reported by Yahoo Finance AI

Kollmorgen outlines humanoid motion scaling at RoboBusiness

Yoshi Umeno, global director of business development for robotics at Kollmorgen (a brand of Regal Rexnord), wi…

The Robot ReportAug 19, 2026

Robot Learns Tasks From Video, No Extra Training Needed

Generalist AI, a robotics startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has built robot arms that learn to perform phys…

WIRED AIAug 19, 2026

Chinese robot maker Unitree surges 460% in Shanghai debut, valuing it at $51B

Unitree Robotics soared 460% on its first day of trading on the Shanghai exchange on Wednesday, reaching a mar…

Yahoo Finance AIAug 19, 2026

Unitree shares surge 600% on Shanghai debut

Shares in Chinese robotics maker Unitree soared more than 600% on their first day of trading in Shanghai, join…

Semafor TechAug 19, 2026

X Square Robot showcases embodied AI across logistics, manipulation, home robotics at WRC 2026

X Square Robot is exhibiting its full embodied AI portfolio at the World Robot Conference 2026 in Beijing (Aug…

Robotics & Automation NewsAug 19, 2026

Pudu Robotics unveils MP2000 autonomous forklift with 20-second pallet cycles

Pudu Robotics launched the MP2000, an AI-powered autonomous pallet handler equipped with 3D lidar and depth ca…

The Robot ReportAug 19, 2026

Unitree's 8,000X IPO oversubscription signals robotics investment surge

Chinese robotics company Unitree's upcoming IPO on a Chinese exchange is reportedly 8,000× oversubscribed, dem…

Yahoo Finance AIAug 19, 2026

Amazon expands drone delivery to nearly 500 U.S. locales

Amazon is expanding its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 locales, with launches planned in metro…

Yahoo Finance AIAug 19, 2026Also reported by DRONELIFE

Sequoia, Khosla, Y Combinator lead 2026 unicorn investor race

Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator are the most active investors backing newly minted unicorns…

Crunchbase News AIAug 19, 2026

Faraday Future's RoboShare books first paid robot rental order

RoboShare, a robot-sharing and rental platform backed by Faraday Future Intelligent Electric (FFAI), completed…

Robotics & Automation NewsAug 19, 2026

Y Combinator's 2026 batches reveal robotics boom, tiny founding teams

Y Combinator funded 208 startups in its Winter and Summer 2026 batches

Hacker NewsAug 19, 2026

Japan quadruples AI spending to $8 billion, pivots to humanoid robots

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) decided in December 2025 to quadruple its previous AI i…

RobohubAug 19, 2026

OpenAI pauses training after AI models breached sandbox, hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI halted major AI training runs for two weeks after a July incident in which its AI models escaped a sand…

Fortune AIAug 19, 2026

Drone stocks weather Nasdaq slide; defense budget demand shelters them from AI hardware rout

Red Cat Holdings closed down 2%, Ondas Holdings finished up 1%, and AeroVironment fell roughly 4% to around $1…

Yahoo Finance AIAug 19, 2026

China's humanoid robot maker Unitree lists as 'physical AI' gains policy backing

Unitree, a Chinese humanoid robot maker, went public on the Shanghai exchange this week, coinciding with the W…

Semafor TechAug 19, 2026

High-voltage motion systems don't need high complexity, Kollmorgen says

Kollmorgen has expanded its Essentials motion platform to include high-voltage (400–480V) options, enabling it…

The Robot ReportAug 19, 2026

JLG invests in Nextera Robotics for AI-powered jobsites

JLG has made an investment in Nextera Robotics, a company focused on AI-powered solutions for jobsites

Top Companies AIAug 18, 2026

J&J wins FDA clearance for AI-powered bronchoscopy upgrade

Johnson & Johnson received FDA clearance for MONARCH QUEST 3, a software update to its robotic-assisted bronch…

Top Companies AIAug 18, 2026

Perfect AI unnecessary? Meitetsu explores 'weak robots' and generative AI foundation

Meitetsu Group is exploring the concept of 'weak robots'—imperfect AI systems designed to work alongside human…

Top Companies AIAug 18, 2026

Battery startup SES.AI maps the missing link in U.S. drone supply chain

SES.AI, a Massachusetts-based battery maker, has used AI to map approximately 100 million possible molecules f…

DRONELIFEAug 18, 2026

Brightpick expands robot rollout at Dr. Max Group to 74 units across three sites

Brightpick will deploy 44 additional Autopicker autonomous mobile robots across facilities in the Czech Republ…

Robotics & Automation NewsAug 18, 2026

FORT Robotics IPO via SPAC at $556.6M valuation

FORT Robotics, a safety platform for autonomous machines, entered a definitive agreement to merge with Newbury…

Robotics & Automation NewsAug 18, 2026

Taiwan studies Pittsburgh's AI-robotics hub strategy for southern tech clusters

Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Minister Wu Cheng-wen led a delegation to Carnegie Mel…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 18, 2026

2,056 humanoid robots compete in Beijing for China's largest real-world test

China is staging its largest real-world test of humanoid robots in Beijing, with 2,056 robots set to compete

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 18, 2026

VCs pour $47.4B into physical AI in H1 2026, nearly 4× prior half

Global venture funding in physical AI (robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, drones, industrial automation…

Crunchbase News AIAug 18, 2026

Samsung Opens Humanoid Robotics Lab, Deepens AI Research

Samsung Electronics has begun operating a dedicated physical AI research lab focused on humanoid control and m…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 18, 2026

Hushan Autoparts sees H1 2026 hit by US tariffs, memory costs

Hushan Autoparts, an aftermarket parts and automotive camera maker, experienced operational headwinds in the f…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 18, 2026

Meta faces $200B–$1.4T child privacy trial in California

Opening arguments begin Tuesday in a federal trial where 29 state attorneys general, co-led by California AG R…

Fortune AIAug 18, 2026

Horizon Robotics readies J7 chip for 2027 to challenge Tesla, Nvidia

Horizon Robotics is preparing its Journey 7 (J7) automotive AI chip family for mass production in 2027, target…

DIGITIMES AsiaAug 18, 2026

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