Robotics

Uber Eats customers in Atlanta can now opt in to have their food delivered via sidewalk delivery robots, following partner Serve Robotics's launch on Thursday. The move comes just two days after Uber and Waymo launched a commercial robotaxi service in the city.  Serve, which spun out of U

It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing's E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the world's first humanoid half-marathon on Saturday, with 21 humanoid robots competing alongside thousands of humans. Bloomberg

As generative AI moves increasingly into the physical world through robotics, vehicles, and drones, the need to map cloud-based AIs to real-world environments can lead to a huge mismatch. Rerun, a Stockholm-based dev tools startup, which builds a data stack for this emergent kind of “physical

ICON, which builds homes using 3D printing, has closed on $56 million in Series C funding co-led by Norwest Venture Partners and Tiger Global, the company has confirmed to technewss exclusively. The raise represents a first close for the Austin-based ICON, according to a spokesperson. Existing ba

LG Electronics is betting on robotics as its next big growth driver. The South Korean electronics company said on Friday that it has agreed to acquire an additional 30% stake in Bear Robotics, a California-based startup it previously backed that is building AI-powered server robots for restaurants.

Ati Motors on Wednesday announced a $20 million raise. The funding arrives as the Indian-based autonomous mobile robots (AMR) startup looks toward global expansion. The firm hopes to tap into increased demand for domestic manufacturing in the U.S., India, and Southeast Asian nations, as countries l

CES 2025 has been a mixed bag for humanoid robots. The form factor had a watershed moment, as images of the top players flanked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during his Monday keynote. Of these, Agility's Digit also showed up alongside a miniature conveyer belt at a closed-access Nvidia booth. It wa

Like anything in life, the secret to becoming Steph Curry or Sabrina Ionescu is practice, practice, and more practice. You practice when it's too hot, too cold, you're tired, or you're sick. Finding a willing one-on-one partner through all of that is, however, another question entirely

Roughly two and a half years after their patent battle began, Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics have settled the dispute on reasonably amicable terms. The robotics firms on Wednesday issued a joint release announcing the end of the dispute.  “We are pleased to resolve this dispute on mutua

Nvidia continues its expansion into robotics software with Mega, an Omniverse Blueprint designed specifically for robotic fleet management at scale. The offering, announced at CES Monday, specifically targets warehouses, a space that saw massive robotics adoption during the pandemic. Even so, most

Nvidia will no doubt have the biggest CES 2025. After all, the company has pretty much the biggest everything nowadays. The chip giant is sporting a $3.4+ trillion market cap, due largely to its foundational position in the ongoing AI boom. Companies like OpenAI and Meta have purchased Nvidia proce

Monday's Toyota CES press conference was all about Woven City, the carmaker's planned community at the base of Mount Fuji. Robotics will undoubtedly play a major role in the company's bid to automate as much of the 2,000-person city as possible, including autonomous cars and drones desi

John Deere has a bunch of new products that it just showed off at CES 2025, including an electric robot lawnmower meant for commercial-grade landscaping. Powered by a 21.4 kWh battery — roughly a quarter the size of what you’d find on a passenger EV — the company says the mower is suppos