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Robotics covers humanoids, warehouse automation and other uses of AI in the physical world. It sits furthest from software delivery. The thread it shares with the rest of the site is the same question at higher stakes, which is what happens when an autonomous system acts on the world rather than on a codebase.

In the news log

Researchers poison a robot's model to make it mishandle objects dangerously

The Register →
22 October 2026

Former OpenAI research chief launches manufacturing software startup Arda

Latent Space →
21 October 2026

Eka reaches a $1.45bn valuation on its physical AI model

TechCrunch →
20 October 2026

Physical Intelligence opens a Pi API beta for robot foundation models

TLDR AI →
14 October 2026

Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars in simulation

TechCrunch →
13 October 2026

Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes

TechCrunch →
13 October 2026

Danish supermarket chain signs multi-year deal to trial humanoid robots on the night shift

There's an AI For That →
12 October 2026

China's Shenzhen delivery robots have been working night shifts since March

TLDR →
12 October 2026

London cabbies and Sadiq Khan push back on robotaxis

The Register →
12 October 2026

Shield AI's autonomous X-BAT fighter draws $400m in commitments

The Neuron →
11 October 2026

Danu Robotics works on a better recycling sorting robot

TechCrunch →
9 October 2026

Nvidia's physical AI push targets safer robotaxis and humanoid robots

Ars Technica →
8 October 2026

TwelveLabs releases Pegasus 1.6 for robotics training data from first-person video

VentureBeat →
6 October 2026

Runway releases Praxis-1, a robotics foundation model

TLDR AI →
2 October 2026

Dyna Robotics shows a robot doing an hour of hotel laundry, unedited

The Neuron →
30 September 2026

AMD buys spatial-AI and robotics startup World Labs for $8.2bn

TLDR →
29 September 2026

Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Action, an open-weights robotics model

VentureBeat →
23 September 2026

AI models will follow dangerous instructions once given a robot arm

The Neuron →
21 September 2026

Figure's Helix 2.5 does household chores zero-shot in 30 unseen homes

The Neuron →
18 September 2026

A robot foundation model trained on human hands, not teleoperation, generalises across arms

Latent Space →
15 September 2026

Agility's Digit 5 is built to work outside the safety cage

Ars Technica →
15 September 2026

XPeng starts mass production of its IRON humanoid robot as Tesla's Optimus stalls

TLDR →
8 September 2026

Wayve and Uber launch paid self-driving rides in London

The Register →
7 September 2026

Travis Kalanick's Atoms is reported to be eyeing the robotaxi market

TechCrunch →
6 September 2026

Tesla begins paid Cybercab rides in Texas

TLDR →
4 September 2026

DiDi begins fully driverless robotaxi trials in China

The Neuron →
31 August 2026

Hugging Face offers a $399 open-source robot duck for pair-coding

The Register →
28 August 2026

Anthropic launches the Model Hardware Standard, letting agents run lab and factory equipment

The Rundown AI →
28 August 2026

SoftBank in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X Technologies at a $6bn valuation

The Neuron →
27 August 2026

Amazon works on fully automated delivery stations using AI-driven robotics

TLDR →
26 August 2026

Tesla confirms Cybercab launch event for 3 September

TLDR →
25 August 2026

General Intuition in talks at a $6bn valuation as it moves into robotics

TechCrunch →
24 August 2026

Unitree says humanoid robots could reach the mass market within a decade

TLDR →
20 August 2026

Claw-equipped drones learn to perch on Arctic icebergs

IEEE Spectrum →
19 August 2026

Dyna-2 sets a scaling law for robot dexterity from a million hours of video

TLDR →
11 August 2026

Xiaomi open-sources the Xiaomi-Robotics-1 embodied AI foundation model

TLDR →
6 August 2026

MIT engineers build a physiotherapy robot that learns from therapists

The Neuron →
6 August 2026

Nvidia and Mistral push deployable specialisation with Alpamayo 2 Super and Shieldstral

Latent Space →
5 August 2026

Satyress shows Threehalves, a four-legged disaster-response robot

The Neuron →
4 August 2026

Robot vacuum makers put remote humans behind the wheel

The Register →
4 August 2026

Waymo opens its Dallas service to the public

Waymo →
4 August 2026

A $100m deal puts US AI onto 50,000 Ukrainian kamikaze drones

Ars Technica →
3 August 2026

The US bars 'foreign' humanoid robots and grid inverters, targeting China

TLDR →
30 July 2026

Anthropic shows Claude driving a quadruped robot 20x faster than a human record

Import AI →
27 July 2026

Robot startup Sunday's ACT-2 hits 99.1% on laundry folding

Import AI →
27 July 2026

Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3, a unified multimodal model

Latent Space →
24 July 2026

Travis Kalanick's robotics company Atoms raises $1.7 billion

TLDR →
23 July 2026

Tesla to train Optimus using workers at its Grünheide plant

TLDR →
23 July 2026

Anthropic held acquisition talks with robotics startup Physical Intelligence

TechCrunch →
22 July 2026

Xiaomi releases a robot foundation model trained on 100k hours

TLDR →
21 July 2026

China's EngineAI launches a humanoid-robot fighting league

The Neuron →
19 July 2026

Nvidia unveils the Cosmos 3 Edge world model

TLDR →
17 July 2026

NVIDIA expands Jetson Thor for edge robotics

TLDR AI →
16 July 2026

Hyundai workers strike over humanoid robots

TLDR →
16 July 2026

Sakana's "smart cellular bricks" show physical collective intelligence

TLDR AI →
14 July 2026

Ars Technica maps the promise and limits of world models

Ars Technica →
13 July 2026

Humanoid-robot showcases multiply, from lifelike skins to dexterous hands

The Neuron →
12 July 2026

Surgeon-controlled humanoid robots perform a world-first operation on live pigs

TLDR →
10 July 2026

First US autonomous ground vehicles deployed in Ukraine

TechCrunch →
7 July 2026

Sub-$10,000 general-purpose robots reach the market

TLDR →
2 July 2026

Wayve autonomous driving startup launches $85M employee tender at $8.5B valuation

TechCrunch →
1 July 2026

Japan targets 10 million robots by 2040, including medical care

The Register →
1 July 2026

US auto regulator proposes removing brake pedal requirement from robotaxis

The Register →
29 June 2026

Import AI 463: robot self-improvement through repeated practice

Import AI →
29 June 2026

South Korea plans to train entire military as "drone warriors"

Ars Technica →
26 June 2026

Nvidia Opens Humanoid Robotics Safety Lab

TLDR →
23 June 2026

Claude Completes Shared Robot Tasks 18-37x Faster Than Baseline

The Neuron →
22 June 2026

Waymo Recalls Nearly 4,000 Vehicles Over Construction Zone Safety Failures

The Register →
22 June 2026

Nvidia ENPIRE: Closed-Loop Framework for Autonomous Robot Training

TLDR AI →
22 June 2026

GM Deploys Robots at Flagship EV Plant After Cutting 1,300 Jobs

Ars Technica →
22 June 2026

Nvidia GEAR's agents learn to run their own robot labs

TLDR →
18 June 2026

Mobileye to launch a US robotaxi service in 2027

TLDR →
18 June 2026

Genesis AI debuts the Eno general-purpose robot

The Neuron →
17 June 2026

First confirmed battlefield deaths from fully autonomous drones

The Neuron →
16 June 2026

Alibaba's Qwen ships a robotics foundation-model suite

Qwen →
16 June 2026

Visual language models train robots to read human emotions

IEEE Spectrum →
13 June 2026

Theker raises $85M for a general-purpose factory robot

TechCrunch →
11 June 2026

Amazon's Proteus warehouse robot goes fully autonomous

TLDR →
5 June 2026

China is training a robot future "one folded shirt at a time"

TLDR →
4 June 2026