Robotics & Automation

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

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.

Amazon-owned Zoox is recalling software across its 105-robotaxi fleet after a driverless car entered heavy smoke at an uncordoned fire scene on June 20, fixing the flaw with an over-the-air update.

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.

Waymo went fully driverless in Las Vegas and is bringing San Diego, Tampa, and Denver online next, pushing its network past 10 cities as it chases 1 million weekly rides by year-end.

MIT spinout Walden Robotics raised $300 million led by Toyota and Deviation Capital, and has run wheeled humanoid robots at a Toyota plant since February.

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.

NHTSA proposed dropping the federal manual brake pedal mandate for purpose-built autonomous vehicles like Tesla's Cybercab, opening a public comment period through July 27, 2026.

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.

Tesla started shipping FSD v14 Lite to roughly 4 million Hardware 3 vehicles, ending a freeze on FSD v12.6, though the system remains Level 2 as a Dutch legal claim grows.

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.

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.