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Farday Future hasn't quite given up on EVs, but it's now also pitching a lineup of robots, including humanoids and a quadruped with an optional canine heads.

Agility Robotics, the humanoid robotics startup that spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, expects to generate $620 million in proceeds.

The new Zoox robotaxi has more cushioning, lighter colors, and a better microphone and speaker for communicating with Zoox Support.

Summer is for relaxing, not cleaning. Upgrade your backyard setup with a robot that cleans your pool for you.

US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms.

Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

Figure says its F.02 robot "contributed to the production of 30,000+ X3 vehicles" at BMW's plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Loaded 90,000-plus sheet metal parts. Logged 1,250-plus hours on a live assembly line. After ten years of stage demos and treadmill walks, that is a real number from a real factory, and it deserves to be read carefully. So here is the part most coverage skipped: that robot has been retired. The headline numbers are real Two of the loudest names in the field finally stopped quoting choreography and started quoting line output. Figure's Spartanburg run hit greater than 99% placement success per shift on a 37-second load cycle, ten-hour shifts, five days a week, all on the chassis assembly line. Tesla, separately, says more than 1,000 Optimus units were already working its Fremont floor in January 2026, doing battery assembly, pack loading, cable routing and parts handling, with a dedicated line targeting 100,000 to 300,000 units this year per The Robot Report. I want to be clear that this is genuinely new. A fixed pick-and-place task, run for months on a production line at automotive takt, with a placement success number you can audit, is not a demo. It is the first time the category has produced metrics an operations lead can actually argue about. Take the capability seriously. The trouble starts the moment you treat the capability number as an availability number. The footnote that inverts the headline The single most important sentence in Figure's announcement is the one about retirement. F.02 "return[ed] to HQ from BMW as part of our fleet-wide retirement" once Figure 03 launched. So the 30,000-car figure is the lifetime output of a pilot that has ended, not the running rate of a station that still exists. As of now there are no Figure robots on the Spartanburg line. BMW's own June 2026 material reads the same way once you stop skimming. The company frames its next move as a new pilot at Plant Leipzig in Germany starting summer 2026, wit

PSYONIC's prosthetic touch data is now training ABB robots. Gatik signed the first Fortune 50 commercial autonomous freight contract with PepsiCo. Burro drove Physical AI onto the construction site. Experts set $20k as the humanoid price target. And someone just called Edge AI the Windows of robotics. This week, Physical AI crossed three invisible lines at once. A company that makes prosthetic hands figured out that the touch data from amputees is exactly what industrial robots need to learn how to grip. A Fortune 50 company signed not a pilot but a commercial contract for autonomous freight. A 44-horsepower robot drove off the warehouse floor and onto the construction site. And two separate conversations about software and pricing suggest that the next wave of robotics adoption will be driven by access, not capability. Here is what happened, and why it matters beyond the headlines. Value Description Fortune 50 PepsiCo becomes first to sign a commercial contract for autonomous freight with Gatik $20k Target price point for humanoid robots, Robotics Summit consensus: achievable by 2028–2030 1M hours Burro's field experience backing the Grande 44 autonomous outdoor platform 100+ Pressure sensors per fingertip in PSYONIC's Ability Hand, now training ABB GoFa A Prosthetic Hand Is Now Teaching an Industrial Robot How to Grip The standard approach to teaching a robot how to handle objects has been simulation, teleoperation, or labor-intensive physical demonstrations. PSYONIC and ABB just introduced a different source of data : the hands of people who have already learned to feel again. PSYONIC's Ability Hand is a prosthetic with more than 100 pressure sensors per fingertip . The company has been collecting kinesthetic data from users with upper-limb amputations. That data, which captures how a human hand adjusts grip pressure, contact area, and force across thousands of everyday tasks, is now being fed as training data into ABB GoFa robot arm models. The implication is no

The company has identified at least 13 instances where its robotaxis drove into highway sections closed for construction.

If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.

The next humanoid robot might not have a head. It might not have legs. It might even sit on a wheeled base and fold down like a deck chair. But, as Genesis AI puts it, "humanoid robots don't need to look human." That explains the look of Eno, the new robot from the French startup […]

Mobileye apparently wants to own some of the robotaxi market, even if that puts it in direct competition with companies it supplies its self-driving system to.

The service will leverage its Moovit platform to launch in an a US city in 2027.

Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.

The hard parts of robotics are supposed to be perception, planning, and control. So why does so much of the day go to everything that comes before them? The hidden setup tax in every robotics simulation project Ask anyone what's hard about robotics and you'll get the same list: perception, planning, control, navigation. The genuinely interesting problems. If you track where your hours actually go, though, a strange thing shows up. A big chunk of the day disappears before you reach any of that. You're not solving hard problems yet. You're just getting to the starting line: wiring up a workspace, writing description files, stitching together launch files, and coaxing a simulator into opening without errors. It's the unglamorous tax on every project, and most of us have quietly accepted it as the cost of doing business. Building a differential drive robot simulation in ROS 2 and Gazebo from scratch A diff drive base, a LiDAR, and Gazebo, set up from one prompt instead of an afternoon of boilerplate. A few days ago I wanted a simple mobile robot simulation. Nothing exotic: a differential drive base (two driven wheels, the classic mobile-robot setup), a LiDAR for sensing, running in Gazebo . This is the kind of thing that should be straightforward. In practice it's an afternoon of boilerplate before the robot so much as twitches. So instead of wiring it up by hand, I wanted to see how far Drift could get from a single prompt. To make it a fair test, I stripped the workspace down to nothing. No packages, no URDF, no launch files. A blank slate. Then I typed one line: "Create a mobile simulation from scratch." From XACRO to URDF: how the robot description gets generated in ROS 2 What the tool wrote first, and what XACRO and URDF actually do for your robot. It checked the workspace first: The opening move was sensible: it looked at the current directory to understand what it was working with. It generated a XACRO file for the robot's dimensions: XACRO is the macro-based for

Robot demonstrations can distort public perceptions of robotic capabilities.

The incident helps shed some new light on how Waymo treats and stores the footage captured by its robotaxis.

The California startup released the fourth-generation of its home assistance robot, Stretch.

Amazon has announced a new version of its fully autonomous warehouse robot, Proteus, that will can interact using language instead of code. The expanded capabilities come as part of a growing pivot toward automation as the e-commerce giant replaces its human workers with robots. Amazon says the AI-powered upgrade means its human employees can assign […]

Spencer Huang, Nvidia’s robotics lead, tells WIRED that the new bot combines the best of both worlds.