Robotics
Even one of robotics’ biggest names says that a major breakthrough for the industry may take up to a decade.During a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday, Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing said that the industry’s breakthrough will come only when a robot can…
After years of investors shunning hardware, Silicon Valley is getting physical.Robotics has become one of the hottest bets in tech as investors look beyond software for the next wave of AI. Physical AI startups — companies building machines that can act in the real world — raised a record $16.3…
In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field’s hardest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before.On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new AI model that powers…
A former Formula One engineer left the world’s fastest race cars to tackle a much bigger engineering challenge: teaching robots to work in factories.Now, his Munich-based startup, microagi, has raised $55 million in the largest seed round secured by a German startup. Hummingbird led the round, with participation from Northzone,…
The race to build useful humanoids is coming down to the hands.1X, which builds the home humanoid NEO, unveiled a new robotic hand last week that it says matches or exceeds human performance. The company said the hand can pour tea, sort grapes by color, plug in a USB-C charger,…
