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RoboticsBoston Dynamics Names Ex-Alexa Chief Rohit Prasad as CEO
Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon Alexa and AGI chief Rohit Prasad as CEO, a bet on physical AI as Hyundai scales Atlas humanoids for factories.
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RoboticsBoston Dynamics Gives Atlas a Four-Finger, 13-DOF Hand for Tools
Boston Dynamics unveiled a four-finger, 13-DOF hand for Atlas, dropping the pinky to handle drills and welding torches and to speed sim-to-real robot learning.
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RoboticsTesla Halves AI5 Chip Memory to Scale Optimus Robot Production
Elon Musk says Tesla cut RAM on its AI5 chip in half and AI6 by a third to secure enough memory for Optimus humanoid production as DRAM supply stays tight.
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RoboticsHumanoid Robot Shipments Jump 432% as China Takes 95% of Market
IDC says global humanoid robot shipments hit nearly 25,000 units in H1 2026, up 432%, with Chinese vendors led by AgiBot supplying over 95% of the market.
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RoboticsWaymo Hits 500,000 Weekly Rides as Robotaxi Fleet Surges
Waymo now averages 500,000 paid robotaxi rides a week across 15 US cities, while new safety data covering 270 million miles shows 82% fewer injury crashes.
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RoboticsUkraine's Fedorov Launches an Army of Robots to Replace Soldiers
Former Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov unveils Army of Robots, a defence-tech push to put humanoid and ground robots on the frontline within months.
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RoboticsQualcomm Buys PickNik, Steward of Open-Source MoveIt
Qualcomm will acquire PickNik Robotics, maintainer of the MoveIt manipulation framework, pledging to keep it open source as it builds a full physical AI stack.
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RoboticsFive Million Factory Robots: IFR Report Shows China Pulling Away
The IFR World Robotics 2026 report counts a record 5 million industrial robots in service, with China taking 59% of installs and the US moving into second place.
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RoboticsUber's $10B Robotaxi Bet Takes On Waymo, Tesla and Zoox
Uber is committing about $10 billion to autonomous vehicles and fleets as Waymo hits 15 cities and Tesla's Cybercab starts carrying riders in Austin.
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RoboticsAlphabet's Intrinsic Open-Sources Its Industrial Robotics Core
At ROSCon 2026, Alphabet's Intrinsic released Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, opening real-time control, pose estimation and motion planning to everyone.
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RoboticsBoston Dynamics Opens an Atlas Training School Inside a Car Plant
Boston Dynamics has opened RMAC, a dedicated Atlas humanoid training centre inside Hyundai's Georgia EV plant, ahead of a 2028 production deployment.
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RoboticsA Humanoid Every 10 Minutes: China Scales While US Shuts Door
UBTech's Liuzhou plant now builds a Walker S2 every 10 minutes and D-Robotics raised $400M for humanoid chips, even as FCC rules block new US imports.
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RoboticsAgility's Digit 5 Drops the Safety Cage and a 50 lb Payload
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 on September 15 with a 50 lb payload, nine-minute fast charge and a safety architecture built to work cage-free beside people.
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RoboticsRobots Take Over the European Parliament in Brussels
Europe's most advanced robots cleared tables and delivered parcels inside the European Parliament as the EU pitched a bid to rival China and the US in robotics.
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RoboticsUnitree's Blockbuster Shanghai Debut Prices the Humanoid Era
Unitree Robotics raised about $904 million in Shanghai and saw shares multiply on debut, making it the first listed humanoid robot maker in mainland China.
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RoboticsTesla Installs First Optimus Line as Fremont Start Slips
Tesla has installed its first Optimus humanoid line at Fremont, but its Q2 update quietly walked the start date back from August to later this year.
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RoboticsBYD Enters the Humanoid Race With 'Xiao Di' Robot Debut in August
China's EV giant BYD is unveiling its first humanoid robot, the service-focused Xiao Di, at its Di Space centres — a new front in its rivalry with Tesla.
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RoboticsFigure Retires Its Battle-Scarred F.02 Humanoids After 30,000 BMWs
Figure AI is retiring its F.02 humanoids after an 11-month BMW deployment that helped build over 30,000 X3s and loaded 90,000 sheet-metal parts.
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RoboticsBaidu's Apollo Go Brings China's Robotaxi to London Roads
Baidu's Apollo Go has begun robotaxi road testing in London with both Uber and Freenow by Lyft, the first time a Chinese autonomous vehicle has run in the UK capital.
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RoboticsBYD Unveils Its First Humanoid Robot, Extending EV Tech into Embodied AI
BYD debuts its first humanoid robot in early August, joining a wave of Chinese automakers turning EV batteries, motors and AI into embodied machines.
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RoboticsAgility Robotics Races to Nasdaq in $2.5B Deal, a Humanoid First
Agility Robotics is set to become the first US-listed pure-play humanoid company via a $2.5B SPAC merger, as its Digit robot logs 65,000+ hours of real work.
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RoboticsChina's UBTech Puts Humanoids to Work at a Border Crossing — and in Homes
UBTech won a $37M contract to deploy Walker S2 humanoids at a China-Vietnam border crossing while its lifelike U1 consumer robot drew 13,000 orders.
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RoboticsIndependent Study Finds Waymo Robotaxis Crash 68% Less Than Humans
An independent IIHS study of 50 million driverless miles found Waymo robotaxis had 68% fewer police-reportable crashes per mile than human drivers.
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RoboticsHyundai Buys Out SoftBank to Take Full Control of Boston Dynamics
Hyundai will buy SoftBank's remaining 10% of Boston Dynamics for about $325M, taking full ownership as it prepares to deploy Atlas humanoids in its plants.
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Robotics1X Gives Its NEO Home Robot Hands That Rival Human Dexterity
1X unveiled a 25-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven hand for its NEO home humanoid, and says it will ship on the first units delivered in 2026.
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RoboticsTesla Optimus: The Gap Between the Hype and the Assembly Line
After Tesla's Q2 2026 results, the reality of Optimus humanoid production still trails the rhetoric — even as Figure, Agility and 1X post more verifiable deployment numbers.
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RoboticsUnitree Nears $618M STAR Market IPO at Nearly $6B Valuation
Unitree is finalizing pricing for a Shanghai STAR Market debut to raise about $618M at a roughly $6B valuation, a landmark listing for humanoid robotics.
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RoboticsHyundai Moves to Full Ownership of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank Exits
SoftBank has exercised its put option on Boston Dynamics, clearing the way for Hyundai to take full ownership of the humanoid robotics pioneer.
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RoboticsHyundai Moves to Full Ownership of Boston Dynamics
SoftBank exercises its put option and Hyundai moves to full ownership of Boston Dynamics, clearing the IPO deadline that once loomed over the robot maker.
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RoboticsUnitree Wins Approval for $618M Shanghai Humanoid Robot IPO
China's Unitree cleared its STAR Market IPO to raise about $618 million, offering a rare look at a profitable humanoid robot maker as the sector consolidates.