robotics

AMP's Commerce City facility will process 62,000 tons of recycling annually with minimal human intervention, as AI sorting systems spread across the waste industry.

Terabase Energy's next-generation automated solar construction platform completes field testing and enters commercial deployment, targeting 10 GW annual capacity by 2027.

Hyundai Motor Group plans to purchase tens of thousands of Boston Dynamics robots and build a dedicated robotics factory capable of producing 30,000 humanoid Atlas units annually by 2028, marking the industry's largest commitment to humanoid manufacturing at scale.

Figure 03 appeared alongside First Lady Melania Trump at a global education summit, greeting 45 delegations in multiple languages.

Beijing's E-Town district is hosting the world's largest humanoid robot race, with a fivefold increase in robot participants and a new autonomous navigation category.

Kleiner Perkins leads the largest defense tech raise of 2026, more than doubling Saronic's valuation as the company expands shipyards and targets 20 vessels a year by 2027.

Legged metamachines evolved by AI traverse rugged terrain, self-right when flipped, and continue operating after losing limbs, in research published in PNAS.

Agile Robots will integrate Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics vision-language-action models into its industrial platform, joining Boston Dynamics and Apptronik in a growing ecosystem play.

Mountain View startup Sunday has raised $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to bring its Memo household robot from demos to real-world deployment, with beta units heading to 50 homes by late 2026.

Carbon Robotics tops $100M in revenue, Solinftec deploys 100-plus autonomous sprayers across U.S. farms, and Ecorobotix sells its 1,000th precision unit as agricultural robots enter commercial scale.

MIT researchers present Wave-Former and RISE, two systems that combine millimeter-wave radar with generative AI to reconstruct hidden objects and entire indoor scenes through obstructions, achieving up to twice the precision of prior methods.

A fleet of 100 Huaneng Ruichi battery-electric haul trucks at an Inner Mongolia coal mine has operated autonomously for ten months, setting records for payload, speed, and cold-weather endurance while cutting 48,000 tonnes of CO2 annually and replacing 300 diesel trucks.