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How robotics could upend the US manufacturing industry
The US manufacturing industry is at a crossroads: try catching the leaders where they are or beat them to where the industry is headed. Edward Mehr sits firmly in the second camp. The thesis of his robotics-enabled manufacturing startup, Machina…
China's robotics giant puts 200 robots to the test
A Chinese robotics company recently did something most tech firms would never dare attempt. Agibot put more than 200 robots on stage for a live one-hour televised event called Agibot Night. The gala took place in Shanghai ahead of the Chinese Lunar…
'It's survival of the fittest': the UK kebab chain seeking an edge with robot slicers
They are already packing our groceries and delivering shopping. Now robots are coming to the kebab shop, alongside self-service screens and loyalty apps, as takeaways look for ways to tackle rising costs. German Doner Kebab (GDK), a perhaps…
I've Tested More Than 20 Robot Vacuums. These Are the Best.
Unlike their hand-operated counterparts, robot vacuums can sweep up your house or apartment all with the press of a button, even when you're not at home — no manual pushing and sweeping necessary. Using either a robust set of motion sensors…
AI Seed Trends: More Multimedia, Backend Automation, Agentic Security, And Yes, Robots
Every so often at Crunchbase News, we take it upon ourselves to review every sizable seed round of the past few months, seeing what trends arise. This time around, given the excitement around artificial intelligence, we honed in exclusively on…
New Year on the Frontlines: China's Gen Z who train robots
This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30). A new year begins with new resolve and new momentum. The call to 'fight for our dreams and our…
Tesla's $3 Trillion Opportunity: How Optimus Could Dominate the Robotics Market in 2026
There may be no other U.S.-based, publicly traded company that's betting its future more on robotics than Tesla (TSLA 0.35%). The company is in the throes of pivoting from its electric vehicle (EV) business to humanoid robots, a market that could…
Humanoid home robots are on the market-but do we really want them?
Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: 'the world's first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home.' Standing 168 centimeters tall and weighing in at 30 kilograms, the US$20,000 Neo bot…
The Best Robot Vacuum Deal of the Week: Clean Up $250 in Savings on This Roborock Vac-Mop Combo
I often feel lucky that I get to find tech deals for you guys every single day. It's a pleasure to help you upgrade your tech without paying full price. Some upgrades sit in our carts for weeks because we tell ourselves we do not really need them.
Food delivery bots invade Broward: You have robot questions. We have human answers.
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On her smartphone map, she watched the tiny dot scurrying toward her Fort Lauderdale address in real time. Then her phone buzzed with an alert: “Your food delivery robot is here!” Karla Joan…
Toyota Adds Seven Humanoid Robots to Canada Factory
Toyota is officially putting robots on the factory floor, and not just for show. After a quiet year-long pilot project, Toyota's Canadian manufacturing arm has hired seven humanoid robots to work inside its plant that builds RAV4 SUVs. The rollout…
Who's laughing now? China's humanoid robots go from viral stumbles to kung fu flips in one year
China's humanoid robots impressed at the Spring Festival Gala earlier this week, shifting public sentiment. The robot's abilities displayed at the event were far more advanced than those shown just one year prior. Analysts say that while technology…
DreamDojo: Scaling Robot World Models with 44,000+ Hours of Egocentric Human Video - Luigi Freda
DreamDojo pretrains a robot world model on 44,711 hours of egocentric human video using continuous latent actions as proxy supervision. After robot-specific post-training and autoregressive distillation, the model demonstrates improved physics…
Humanoid robots that 'catch themselves' instead of falling: What a new walking algorithm changes
While the statement, 'Humanoid robots are coming,' might cause anxiety for some, for one Georgia Tech research team, working with humanlike robots couldn't be more exciting. The researchers have developed a new 'thinking' technology for two-legged…
Beyond Tesla and Nvidia: 2 Overlooked Robotics Stocks Just Blew Out Earnings
Everyone knows NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) are the marquee names in robotics and autonomous systems. But with both stocks carrying trillion-dollar valuations, the leverage may be limited. Today, we're…
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