What happened: The Defense Ministry submitted a record ¥8.9 trillion ($56 billion) budget request for fiscal 2027, the final year of a five-year, ¥43 trillion plan. The request includes AI for command and control, hypersonic underwater-launched missiles, and drones.
In a study published in Science Robotics, 50 people held conversations and made joint decisions with the comme…
Panasonic Holdings announced on August 28, 2026, that it will reorganize its technology divisions effective Oc…
Caterpillar is applying AI across its operations, including the Cat AI Assistant for field technicians and AI…
FANUC, a global leader in industrial robots, and NVIDIA have formed a strategic partnership to integrate what…
A new analysis argues that embodied AI systems face a systemic bottleneck called the 'edge AI wall,' where onb…
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30,000+ monthly readersKyocera, Kobe Steel, and about 20 other companies have formed an alliance to realize physical AI, led by Alum…
Toyota's Motomachi plant in Aichi Prefecture now has factory workers teaching each other AI-assisted 3D design…
Anthropic released Model Hardware Standard (MHS) as a research preview on Thursday
Hyundai's new US EV factory operates 1,400 robots, giving it a robot-to-human ratio of 2:1—more than triple th…
Robust AI has deployed its 100th Carter robot and named former Fox Robotics CEO Marin Tchakarov as its new CEO
Meta is testing robots from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB at its data centers in Altoona, Iowa, and New Alb…
John Black, CTO of Brain Corp, discussed scaling robot fleets and building trust in public spaces on The Robot…
Deere posted Q3 2026 net income of $1.379 billion, or $5.10 per share, beating market expectations
Panasonic Holdings will reorganize its current DX/CPS Headquarters into a business development division focuse…
Robot developer Atom is livestreaming its humanoid robot performing a task on a conveyor belt, picking up pack…
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency plans to launch a model project in fiscal 2027 to use AI in handling 1…
Anthropic announced the research preview of Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a common specification for AI agent…
Anthropic announced a new software standard, the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), to help AI assistants like Cla…
Anthropic PBC previewed the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a unified interface that lets AI agents control sci…
Honor has moved its Robot Phone from an internal debate to a mass-produced commercial product, more than a yea…
ZEALS and Timee announced a partnership on August 27, 2026, to create a new work category called "data collect…
Anthropic introduced MHS, a new hardware standard that lets AI models like Claude control physical lab equipme…
Renesas Electronics announced on August 27 that it has opened a "Physical AI & Robotics Lab" in Beijing, China
Renesas Electronics has opened a physical AI & robotics lab in Beijing to accelerate next-generation robotics…
JFE Engineering's lithium-ion battery collection and recycling service 'iGomi' has been selected for a Japanes…
Anthropic released details of Model Hardware Standard, a set of rules for AI agents like Claude to safely use…
Hugging Face released a small robot amid rumors that Nvidia may be closing in on a deal to buy the company
Carbon Robotics replaced its crop-specific AI vision models with a single "large plant model" trained on milli…
Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics launched the Microduck, a one-eyed biped robot under 10 inches tall, available…
Tennibot launched Partner Lite, an AI-powered ball machine for tennis, padel, and pickleball
RoboSense reported H1 2026 revenue of approximately RMB 1.02 billion, up 30.2% year over year
MIPI Alliance has formed the Physical AI Birds of a Feather (BoF) group to explore how its standardized interf…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company's upcoming AI5 inference chip could deliver two to three times the perfor…
Nvidia and Microsoft are highlighted as two robotics stocks to buy and hold, with Nvidia's GR00T AI foundation…
A Reddit user proposed a conceptual 3-tier architecture for embodied AI that combines an always-on cognitive c…
Reservoir announced a $10 million, three-year R&D partnership with John Deere at its inaugural Ruggedize confe…
T. Rowe Price and Honeywell's CEO discussed AI's role in industrial automation, focusing on how AI can improve…
At Physical AI Day, Hitachi's General Session 1 laid out a vision for how physical AI can open up new possibil…
SORA Technology has officially launched a malaria elimination project in Zanzibar, Tanzania, using satellite d…
Deloitte Taiwan said global companies are rushing to discuss physical AI, but only a small share have embedded…
Iluvatar Labs used its autonomous scientist Marvin to design AgentPad13, an open-source version of the $230 Co…
Defiance ETFs chief investment officer Sylvia Jablonski says ETF investors are pouring back into the tech trad…
Bedrock Robotics Inc. has deployed fully autonomous, retrofitted heavy excavators onto active infrastructure p…
Goldman Sachs Global Institute co-head Jared Cohen argues that the world will be redesigned for machine intell…
Unitree, China's leading robot maker, saw its value drop by nearly half this week after a $66 billion valuatio…
Perceptron, founded in November 2024 by former Meta FAIR scientists Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, l…
Burns & McDonnell and Gritt have formed a strategic partnership to evaluate and deploy AI-powered robotics on…
Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising nearly $200 million in additional ca…
Disney and ETH Zürich were granted patent US 12,718,481 B2 on August 25, 2026, for AI virtual characters with…
An international team launched HydroGym, a platform to train and compare machine learning models for actively…
NSK has formed a partnership with a startup to jointly validate and collect data on domestically produced huma…
Chinese automakers are moving aggressively into humanoid robotics, drawing on existing technology, supply chai…
Bengaluru-based Airbound closed a $37 million Series A round on August 25, 2026, led by Greenoaks with partici…
NVIDIA has introduced Jetson Orin Nano 2, a new entry-level computer for edge AI
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Shishuang Sun, Tesla's senior director of AI hardware design, joined DensityAI in July 2026 to head packaging…
NEC's corporate venture capital fund, the NEC Orchestrating Future Fund (NOFF), has invested in US-based robot…
Ollobot introduces OlloNi SS1, an AI family companion robot designed for proactive, emotion-oriented interacti…
An R&D center on the outskirts of Shanghai held a robot 'carnival' on a public holiday, drawing families to se…
X account The Humanoid Hub posted a video on August 23 showing multiple Figure AI humanoid robots walking outd…
Oishii Farm, which runs a strawberry factory in the U.S., set up a new R&D base in Hamura, Tokyo, to develop m…
Generalist AI Inc., which develops AI software for robots, has reportedly raised $200 million in funding
OmniVision Group reported a sharp drop in first-half 2026 profit, dragged down by weak consumer electronics an…
Tim Bucher, co-founder and CEO of Agtonomy, argues that the next big AI play is embedding physical AI into hea…
AWS last month rolled out cloud-to-edge solutions for customers building physical AI systems—AI that perceives…
Unitree's new robot foundation model, GEN-1.5, can learn a new physical task in seconds from a single example…
The U.S. power and grid value chain will need about 500,000 additional workers by 2030, according to a recent…
General Intuition, a New York-based startup building AI agents that move through space and time, is in talks t…
A developer trained a Unitree GO2 robot to imitate a real dog's movements using only a single phone video of a…
Neura Mobile Robots, part of Neura Robotics, has acquired 100% of Adlatus Robotics, a provider of autonomous c…
As robotics deployments grow from small pilots to dozens of sites across multiple shifts, companies are discov…
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