Robotics Industry News

The hopes and risks of bringing humanoid robots into our homes

Why Serve Robotics Stock Plunged This Week

Thanks to a Wall Street analyst cutting earnings estimates and pointing to deeper multi-year losses, shares of Serve Robotics (SERV -7.45%) tumbled this week. Serve Robotics stock closed at $3.49 on Friday, Oct. 16, down 25.7% from Friday, Oct. 9's…

U.S. Industrial Robot Installations Rose 12% in 2025; China's Rose 20%

China accounted for 59% of global industrial robot installations in 2025, while U.S. deployments rose 12%, as Path Robotics Chief Revenue Officer Heather Carroll told Fox Business automation could address workforce shortages. Data from the…

Livestreamers Film Themselves Using Humanoid Robot to Sexually Assault Teen Girl, Prompting Police to Seize the Bot

Police in Cologne, Germany, have seized a humanoid robot after a pair of livestreamers used it to sexually harass a teenage girl. According to a police statement released Monday, the robot “allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl on the…

Amazon Has Now Deployed Over 1 Million Robots, Which Is Bad News for Its 1.5 Million Workers

Amazon has officially surpassed a fleet of 1 million robots, an arsenal of mechanical arms, Roomba-like floor loaders, and hulking pallet sorting machines. Each robot is a node in an intricate web allowing the corporation to speed up delivery times…

Techable VC Founder Says Robotics Still Needs Core Components

Robotics remains in what Techable VC founder and managing partner Amulya Vishwanath calls a “Lego era,” as developers continue work on key hardware, software and safety elements, TechCrunch reported Oct. 16. Before founding Techable…

Exclusive: Musk tells Isaacson 'AI and robots' will need to fix deficit

Elon Musk tells biographer Walter Isaacson in a new podcast interview that the fizzled DOGE experiment, which the SpaceX and Tesla CEO once headed, proved there's 'no way we were gonna solve the deficit from within the government.' 'The only way…

World's first space junk-collecting robot claw underway to combat deadly amount of trash in orbit

The long arm of the claw is coming for space junk. The UK is launching a first-of-its-kind mission to rid the atmosphere of space junk, which involves using giant, satellite-propelled claws to snatch it from the sky. On Wednesday, the UK Space…

Ex-U Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot 'taking over human jobs'

She's not going to let the robots take over without a fight. A retired University of Pennsylvania professor was hauled away by cops after staging a one-woman blockade against an Uber Eats delivery robot — and she's vowing to keep raging…

Team develops embodied robotic arm 'EmArm' with human-like touch sensing

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed an Embodied Sensorimotor Robotic Arm (EmArm) capable of whole-arm tactile sensing and adaptive manipulation. By embedding a soft optical tactile skin…

AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train AI robots - wearable sensors record video of repair work for robotics training, free services also include electrical work, air duct cleaning, and carpet cleaning

An AI lab that specializes in gathering real-world data wants to partner with homeowners to record how skilled laborers do their jobs to train AI robots. HUMXN said it will subsidize plumbing, electrical, HVAC, air-duct cleaning, and carpet…

Elon Musk just gave us a great reminder that flying cars, not killer robots are the bright future ahead

This fall, Hollywood's favorite villains are tech CEOs trying to build the future. Out now, “The Social Reckoning,” portrays Mark Zuckerberg as a man destabilizing the world; Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour documentary…

How this £150,000 robot 'firefighter' will be a vital life saver

Shooting out hundreds of gallons of water into the heart of a roaring blaze, Scotland's first firefighting robot blasts into action. Currently being trialled by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS), the remarkable machine has already helped…

Tally Robot Patrols L.A. Ralphs Grocery Store Aisles

At a Ralphs on Pico Boulevard, Tally's assignment is shelf inventory: the six-foot sensor tower scans for missing products, misplaced items and pricing errors. Its rounds are part of Kroger's broader rollout, though the scope of the deployment in…

SoftBank Wants to Buy America's Biggest Security Guard Company and Use Robots

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