robotics

EndoQuest Robotics finished enrolling 49 subjects in its pivotal PARADIGM trial for robotic colorectal lesion removal, citing a 100% en bloc resection rate.

The FCC added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots to its Covered List, blocking new imports as China holds roughly 85% of the global market.

Atoms, Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics venture, closed a $1.7 billion round led by a16z, with Uber and Bain Capital among the backers.

EngineAI's Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend opened in Shenzhen with 32 teams fighting on standardized T800 humanoids for a gold championship belt worth 10 million yuan. One robot lost its head mid-match and finished the fight on torso-based systems.

Hyundai Motor's union struck for three days in Ulsan over pay and demanded a labor agreement before Boston Dynamics' Atlas robots enter its plants.

Intrinsic, folded into Google's core operations in February, debuted the Intrinsic Intelligence Cell at Automate 2026; Foxconn will pilot a customized version for electronics assembly later this year.

Engineers and surgeons at UC San Diego used two teleoperated humanoid robots, nicknamed Surgie, to complete two gallbladder-removal procedures, reporting the results in Nature.

AGIBOT unveiled its A3 humanoid in Europe and launched UK robot rental pricing starting at £1,999 a day, days after marking its 15,000th robot produced.

Mistral AI has unveiled Robostral Navigate, its first robotics model: an 8-billion-parameter navigation system that guides wheeled, legged, and flying robots with one RGB camera and language instructions, scoring 76.6% on the R2R-CE benchmark in unseen environments.

UMA, the Paris startup led by former Tesla Optimus and Hugging Face engineer Rémi Cadène, has emerged from stealth to unveil Northstar, a lightweight humanoid robot aimed at European factories and warehouses.

Mantis Robotics unveiled the MR-X, a biomimetic dual-arm robot that lifts 70 lbs and moves at 10.6 m/s without safety cages, relying on its SafetyCore reflex system to work near people.

The Allen Institute for AI released MolmoMotion, an open model that predicts an object's future 3D trajectory from a video, marked points, and a language instruction, plus a 1.16-million-video training dataset and a new benchmark.