Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.
Brussels-basedrobotics company Motion has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to expand itsHumanoids-as-a-Service (HaaS) platform and move its existing industrial pilotsinto commercial deployment. T…
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and…
XPeng’s robotics business has raised over $900 million at a post-money valuation of more than $6.3 billion, the Chinese EV maker announced today. XPeng calls it the largest single-round private financing in the history of China’s embodied AI industry.
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NEURA Robotics is expanding its Physical AI ecosystem to include another important application area. NEURA Mobile Robots is acquiring 100 per cent of the shares of ADLATUS Robotics from Ulm, an establ…
Two robots at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing beat Usain Bolt’s 2009 100-meter dash world record. The Tiangong Ultra set a record of 9.39 seconds, while the Honor Lightning achieved a 9.47 record time, breaking the Jamaican runner’s 9.58-second record.
SoftBank has invested $200m in Swiss robotics startup Gravis Robotics, in what has been billed as a record investment. Gravis says the Series A funding round, in which the Japanese investor was the so…