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White robotic hand reaching towards a glowing circuit graphic marked AI, on a pale blue-grey background.

Lisa Su in a World Labs jacket and Fei-Fei Li in an AMD jacket, smiling at a table as they sign documents.

Krishna Rangasayee smiling outdoors in a navy SiMa.ai jacket

Tesla Optimus humanoid robot

Tesla

Tesla’s Optimus production hits snags with hands, The Information reports

Darius Popa
4d ago

A silver humanoid robot holds a robot control pendant beside a yellow Estun industrial robot arm on a factory production line

China installs 59% of new factory robots as EU installations fall 11%

Darius Popa
Sep 24, 2026

O-ID co-founders Simon Gormuzov (left) and Stian Jakobsen (right) smiling as they lean on the arms of a white two-armed O-ID humanoid robot, in front of a grey backdrop

“Supply chains are at risk”: O-ID raises $1.2m for modular humanoid robots

Cristian Dina
Sep 24, 2026

A silver Unitree humanoid robot stands surrounded by attendees at the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona

China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip

Ana-Maria Stanciuc
Sep 21, 2026

Finnur Pind stands with his arms folded in front of a wall of dark anechoic chamber wedges

Treble raises $18m to give physical AI a sense of hearing

Cristian Dina
Sep 17, 2026

The Viabot One sweeping robot in a parking lot, with cyan sensor rings and detection boxes drawn around nearby cars

Viabot’s sweeping robot can work 12 to 24 hours by swapping its own batteries. The same sensors flag loitering to human staff.

Alina Maria Stan
Sep 17, 2026

Headshots of Antioch co-founders Harry Mellsop, Alex Langshur, Collin Schlager and Michael Calvey in a two-by-two grid against a pale grey wall

Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware

Cristian Dina
Sep 10, 2026