AI
Lightwheel reports $100 million in Q1 orders for physical AI robotics infrastructure
Lightwheel is a robotics infrastructure company that develops simulation, synthetic data, evaluation, and deployment systems for training and scaling physical AI robots in real-world environments.
CUHK Launches Hong Kong’s First Embodied AI Lab for Humanoid Robots
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) announced on Monday the establishment of the Hong Kong Embodied AI Lab.
Developed through CUHK’s InnoHK Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics (HKCLR), the facility represents the city’s first full-stack interactive robotics laboratory. Backed by a five-year roadmap, the facility aims to accelerate the translation of frontier research into industrial applications while training the next generation of tech talent.
Gabi, an AI Robot, Has Been Ordained and Is Now a Buddhist Monk
Learn how a religious order in South Korea is embracing AI and robotics and what that could mean for religion around the world.
Faraday Future AI Robotics Launches on RobotShop
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc., a global Embodied AI (EAI) ecosystem company, has announced that its FF AI-Robotics has signed an MOU with RobotShop, one of North America’s leading robotics-focused e-commerce platforms. RobotShop is FF’s first FF PAR partner in the EAI robotics category. As part of this MOU, FF’s EAI robotics products are already live and available for purchase on RobotShop’s platform, with the broader partnership framework to be further developed under the terms of the agreement.
Innovation
Rivian Founder’s New Company Aims To Evolve Humanoid Robots
In a conversation about humanoid robotics JR Scaringe references Rosie, the robotic house cleaner in the 60’s animated TV show “The Jetsons,” and C3PO and R2D2, the “Star Wars” saga droids, and personal digital assistants Siri and Alexa.
The future of robot armies is here – and it’s not what you think
Robots are becoming more a part of our lives every year, and worries about a robot army rising up have long plagued the technology. But columnist Annalee Newitz talks to nanobot researchers and finds out the real robot army could be a welcome solution to medical or environmental problems
Humanoid, Schaeffler to Bring Thousands of Robots to Factories
U.K.-based robotics vendor Humanoid has signed a deal to deploy thousands of humanoid robots in manufacturing plants owned by motion tech vendor Schaeffler.
The partners said last week that the first systems are set to go live before the end of this year, with an initial deployment phase running from December 2026 to June 2027 at two Schaeffler sites in Germany.
Technology
A 15-Year-Old Built an AI Robotic Turtle That Detects Underwater Threats With 96% Accuracy
A 15-year-old built a robot sea turtle in his grandparents' pool. It just won first place beating scientists from 40 countries.
Hyundai Motor to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots in factories from 2028
The plan would account for more than 80% of Hyundai’s targeted annual humanoid production capacity in 2028
Investment
Robotics Gift Expands STEM Learning Programs At The Tennessee Aquarium
Students and campers served by the Tennessee Aquarium’s education programs will soon find new ways to engage in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning thanks to a donation from Tennessee Valley Robotics.
Entertainment
Southwest Airlines bans humanoid robots from flights
The policy change follows a viral incident in which a Dallas entrepreneur bought a seat for his 3.5-foot humanoid robot on a flight from Las Vegas
Research
These are the robot vacuum-mops I recommend for every type of home
The right robot for your home has less to do with specs and everything to do with your floors, rugs, clutter, and general tolerance for robot nonsense.
New research enables a robot to chart a better course
By rapidly generating a smooth path plan that cuts travel time and avoids obstacles, the open-source “MIGHTY” system could streamline disaster recovery and parcel delivery.
Trends
The Robots Are Coming For the Toolbox
For years, white-collar workers comforted themselves with a soothing fantasy. AI would come for the truck drivers, the warehouse workers, the cashiers, the men with steel-toe boots and suspiciously strong forearms. The lawyer in a glass tower, meanwhile, would remain safe, sipping oat milk and forwarding emails until retirement.
Instead, AI walked straight into the office and started eating the middle class alive. Copywriters discovered that a chatbot could produce 30 versions of their marketing slop before they finished adjusting the font size in a PowerPoint presentation. Junior coders found out machines could already write functional software while they were still arguing about “workplace culture” on Slack. Even parts of medicine and law now look less like professions and more like waiting rooms for automation.