John Ternus, Apple’s incoming CEO, is a hardware guy, signaling Apple may be putting devices back at the center of its strategy.
Sony’s table tennis robot looks like a lab flex with a paddle. The real story starts when AI stops answering prompts and learns to move through our world.

Tom Burick has always considered himself a builder. Over the years he’s designed robots, constructed a vintage teardrop trailer, and most recently, led a group of students in building a full-scale replica of a pivotal 1940s computer. Burick is a techn…
Bubble Robotics hassecured a $5 million pre-seedfunding round, led by Episode1 Ventures, Asterion Ventures,and Norrsken Evolve, followingits launch out of Entrepreneurs First.The ocean plays a central…
Smart Robotics, an embodied AI company focused onintralogistics automation, has closed a €10 million Series A funding round. Theround was led by Rotterdamse Havendraken, with participation from Innova…
A robot built by Honor just ran a Beijing half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record of 57 minutes.
The winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.
The company, which deploys AI-guided robot arms for food production, says it is looking to expand its services to provide for a broader array of customers.
The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.
Antioch raised a $8.5 million seed round to create simulation tools for a new generation of robot builders.