28 Zero-Days in Two Days: Robots Have a Security Problem
AI-assisted research found 28 vulnerabilities in robotics software from Google, NVIDIA, and Meta—before anyone even attacked a robot.
Robotics
Humanoid deployment, industrial automation, and embodied AI.
Percepto's Axion Wants to Read Every Power Line
The autonomous-drone firm pivots to software, opening its AI inspection engine to any hardware — and the timing is no accident.
Warp Sciences Exits Stealth With $215M to Automate Drug Discovery
The South San Francisco CRO wants to close the loop between AI, robotics, and wet-lab chemistry — and keep it all onshore.
One Million Cars, Zero Drivers Inside
Embotech and BMW have quietly automated a million factory vehicle moves — and the intelligence never touches the car.
One Operator, Every Pile: Meet the X1 Piling R6
Xpanner's new autonomous pile-driving robot wants to solve solar construction's skilled-labour crisis — one post at a time.
Dream Labs Raises $90M to Give Any Robot a Brain
Dream-1 uses zero-shot learning to control unfamiliar robots via plain-English commands — no task-specific programming required.
Digit Goes to the Farm Belt
Agility Robotics is sending its humanoid to an AGCO plant in Kansas. What happens next will test whether bipedal robots can survive real manufacturing.
Avenda's Unfold AI Enters the OR with Surgery Mode
A 3D prostate cancer mapping platform moves from pre-op consultation to live surgical guidance—with accuracy figures that dwarf standard MRI.
Robots Follow Dangerous Orders. Reliably.
A new benchmark puts frontier robot AI policies through five harmful tasks. Most comply. The safest model still mostly complies.
Stryker Bets $400M on a Robot That Fits Any OR
CMR Surgical's modular Versius system is rewriting the economics of robotic surgery — and Stryker wants in before anyone else does.
America's Robot Gap: Who Builds the Machines That Reshore?
Most U.S. factory robots are foreign-made. A panel at RoboBusiness 2026 wants to change the calculus — and the policy.
Timken Builds a Motion Stack for Humanoid Joints
A platform uniting strain wave, cycloidal, and planetary gearing aims to solve the joint-by-joint complexity of humanoid robotics.
Promise Robotics Lands D.R. Horton Deal for 1,250 Homes
The Toronto startup's Factory-as-a-Service model brings KUKA arms and physical AI to America's largest homebuilder — one component at a time.
The Reality Gap: Why Orchestration Beats Automation
Warehouses are drowning in data yet starved of decisions. The next competitive edge isn't more robots — it's synchronization.
Four Nines or Bust: The Real Test of Robot Dexterity
A 99% success rate sounds impressive—until you do the math on a 100-step workflow. The bottleneck in physical AI isn't capability. It's reliability.
3,000 Tally Robots Later, Shelf AI Gets Serious
Groceryshop 2026 revealed a retail robotics sector moving from data collection to store execution — and the gaps that remain.
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Gets a Four-Fingered Hand
Fewer fingers, 13 identical actuators, and a design philosophy built around reliability over complexity.
AWS Open-Sources the Robot Brain Assembly Line
A new Physical AI Toolchain from AWS and NVIDIA stitches together synthetic data, simulation, and edge deployment into one workflow.
Schneider's $22.6B Bet to Rewire Industry
By acquiring PTC, Schneider Electric is stitching together a rival to Siemens — from CAD screen to factory floor. The hard part starts now.
The Robot Race Will Be Won in the Patent Office
In physical AI, the most valuable invention may not be the robot itself—it's the behavior that makes it work.
Maven Robotics Is Building Factories' Missing Workforce
The Santa Clara startup skipped the humanoid hype, raised $100M, and is running wheeled manipulators on factory floors right now.
Atlas Drops the Pinky—On Purpose
Boston Dynamics' new four-fingered hand trades anatomical fidelity for sim-ready reliability and tool-grade grip.
The Robots That Need to Feel
Humanoid machines are leaving the lab. The sensors that tell them how hard to grip — and when to let go — are the quiet infrastructure holding it all together.
Helicon Wants to Make Carbon Fiber Like Steel
The LA startup raised $16M to automate composite manufacturing — cutting lead times from six months to two weeks.
Intrinsic opens its robot software stack to all
The Alphabet unit drops Intrinsic Core on GitHub under Apache 2.0—giving ROS developers pre-built controls, pose estimation, and motion planning.
Robo Inc. Bets on the Picks-and-Shovels Play
Teddy Haggerty's Long Island startup wants to build America's robotics infrastructure—one job-specific deployment at a time.
Open Source Comes for the Robot Fleet Stack
InOrbit's OpenRobOps gives developers a production-grade foundation for fleet management—and the first reference implementation of ISO 21423.
Ultrasound Wants to Give Robots a Sense of Touch
UltraSense Systems is betting that acoustic sensing below the skin surface can solve the durability problem plaguing robotic tactile systems.
The Gear That Runs the Robot
Rack and pinion systems are the unsung backbone of precision linear motion. Getting the selection wrong cascades into cost, speed, and accuracy failures.
Unitree's Post-IPO Hangover Is a Reality Check
Shares down 53% from their peak, but the Hangzhou robotics firm still has $252M in 2025 revenue and a real business.
Agility Robotics Is Worth $2.5B—on $1.8M in Sales
A SPAC filing cracks open the humanoid sector's books for the first time. The numbers are striking, and not in the way bulls might hope.
Australia's Robot Gap Gets an AI Fix
A new platform wants to do what government roadmaps couldn't: get Australian manufacturers to actually buy robots.
The Attack Surface Inside the Robot Brain
A new class of cyber threat doesn't break robots—it manipulates what they see, decide, and do. Safety standards aren't keeping up.
Skild AI's S1 Wants to Be the ChatGPT of Robots
A new foundation model lets robots learn complex, multi-minute tasks from a single video—no retraining required. But the ChatGPT moment hasn't arrived yet.
Bee Logic Is Making Robot Swarms Smarter
A honeybee-inspired decision rule helps robot swarms reach consensus under bad data—and may reshape how warehouse fleets handle disruption.
Deere Bets $10M on Field-Hardened AI
A new R&D partnership and a Salinas conference signal that ag robotics is moving from proof-of-concept to production reality.
RoboBusiness Turns 20 — Early Bird Ends Aug. 31
Santa Clara hosts two decades of commercial robotics history this October. Discounted passes expire next week.
The Dog That Never Sleeps
Avnet and Weston Robot are strapping edge AI to a quadruped and sending it to patrol the factory floor—no cloud required.
Moove Raises $250M to Build the Backbone of Autonomous Fleets
The Lagos-founded mobility operator wants to own the infrastructure layer — depots, charging, maintenance — that makes self-driving scale.
One Robot Brain, a Thousand Different Hands
Generalist's GEN-1 model trains across 9,000 end-effector variants to build physical commonsense that transfers across tools.
XTEND Patents Drone Nav That Works Without a Map
The Tampa-based robotics firm locks down IP for autonomous UAV navigation that adapts in real time—no pre-mapped environment required.
Gatik's Driverless Trucks Go Deep Into PepsiCo
A multi-year deal puts autonomous middle-mile freight at the heart of one of North America's largest food and beverage supply chains.
Hello Robot's Stretch Named a WEF Tech Pioneer
The mobile manipulator that helps people with quadriplegia fetch water and feed themselves just earned one of tech's most-watched validations.
Mach Industries Raises $300M to Scale Drone Warfare
The three-year-old defense startup has now pulled in $1.8B to manufacture autonomous strike systems at industrial speed.
Festo's Gripper Knows What to Grab
A new pneumatic gripper and an AI picking system are quietly rewriting the rules for collaborative robots on the factory floor.
FORT Robotics Acquires Mapless AI to Close the Trust Gap
The deal adds remote teleoperation and onboard perception to FORT's Trust Platform, pushing supervised autonomy into airports, construction sites, and beyond.
Petal Surgical Raises Fresh Funds for Scalpel-Free Robot
The startup's ultrasound-based platform destroys tissue without cuts or heat — and now has more than $25 million to prove it works in humans.
The Robot That Never Calls in Sick
Robotic arms are no longer just moving parts around CNC shops. They're running full production cells — overnight, unsupervised, and with micron-level consistency.
No Yardstick for the Robot Next Door
NIST wants to measure what humanoid robots can actually do. The industry has been marketing its way around that question for a decade.
Software Is Now the Wall Robots Can't Scale
A survey of 1,000 robotics developers finds the industry's biggest obstacle isn't motors or sensors—it's the code holding everything together.