Category Robotics

Updates on AI-driven robots in various sectors and their advancements.

XDOF races toward a $1.2 billion valuation as robot data demand surges

Robotics data startup XDOF is in talks for a $1.2B valuation as investors race to back the company building training data for robots.

U.S. drone and robot restrictions may reshape the robotics market, but China’s scale could still dominate global competition.

Caterpillar is using mining automation lessons to scale industrial AI across jobsites, factories and its workforce.

Meta is testing data center robots to plug cables and reset servers as AI spending surges, raising questions about jobs and automation.

Anthropic unveiled an AI agents hardware standard to help labs and factories use robots and instruments more safely.

Hugging Face’s Microduck robot preorders start at $399. Here’s what the tiny open-source duck can do and why it matters.

Amazon is adding 2 million Nvidia chips to AWS as AI demand surges, deepening a partnership that could be worth tens of billions.

China’s humanoid robot games showed record sprint times, tricky dexterity tests and the limits of autonomy in practical tasks.

Perceptron has launched Isaac 0.5, an open-weight visual AI model aimed at robots, warehouses and factory-floor automation.

Physical AI startups are booming, but robotics still lacks the data and reliability needed for a true breakthrough in physical AI.