Roborock Launched Its First-Ever Robot Pool Cleaner and We Saw It First

Roborock makes seriously impressive robot vacuums. With the launch of the RockAqua P1, it’s taking on pool care for the first time.

ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogs without running a competition
ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogs without running a competition

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has posted plans to buy a fleet of Boston Dynamics robot dogs. The listing puts the spend at $1m to $2m. It also says ICE does not intend to compete the purchase. Joseph Cox found the plan for 404 Media on Friday….

Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck with open-source software
Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck with open-source software

Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and shipping. The Bordeaux company is owned by the AI platform Hugging Face. Its new machine has one eye and 15 motors, stands 25cm tall, and w…

The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them

The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.

China’s Robot Olympics Keep Getting Wilder

Check out the highlights of the second annual World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.

Anthropic tests a new standard for Claude to work with factory and lab hardware
Anthropic tests a new standard for Claude to work with factory and lab hardware

Anthropic has released the Model Hardware Standard in research preview, a specification that stores how a piece of hardware works and how an AI may safely operate it, such as limiting a robot arm’s speed and angles. Europe’s Machinery Regulation starts…

Hugging Face’s Microduck Feels Like a Harbinger of the Cute AI Robot Wave

It waddles… it roller-skates… it plays ball… it learns.

Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck

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.

Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn
Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn

Unitree’s shares have fallen roughly 45% from the peak they hit on their first day of trading in Shanghai. The slide has turned a national success story into an argument about how China prices its listings. The stock steadied on Tuesday after three con…

Fresh from €1.2bn, NEURA buys its second company in eleven days
Fresh from €1.2bn, NEURA buys its second company in eleven days

NEURA Robotics is buying a company that makes cleaning robots, and says it wants to replace their brains. The German firm is acquiring 100% of Adlatus Robotics, an Ulm maker of autonomous cleaning and sweeping machines. It announced the deal on Monday,…