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California Executive Order Targets AI Job Loss — What It Means for Robotics Adoption

California’s order directs agencies to study AI job displacement policies, with reporting rules and retraining credits that could shape robotics adoption.

RoboticsAIMay 21

Smarter Interfaces, Not Smarter Robots, Are Physical AI's Future

Wetour Robotics argues that the bottleneck in Physical AI is human-machine interfaces, not robot capability. Their Spatial Intent Fusion approach fuses body position, gaze, and gesture into sub-100ms commands.

RoboticsAIMay 21

Locus Robotics Acquires Nexera Robotics for AI-Powered Grasping in Warehouse Automation

Locus Robotics acquires Nexera Robotics for AI-driven grasping, targeting the manipulation bottleneck in warehouse automation with validated soft-membrane gripper technology.

RoboticsSoftwareMay 19

China Robots Could Offset 60% of Population Slump, Says Barclays

China’s humanoid robot deployment could offset 60% of its working-age population decline by 2035, according to Barclays, intensifying the automation-versus-jobs debate while reshaping global manufacturing economics.

RoboticsAIHardwareEVsOpenAIXiaomiMay 3

Xiaomi’s 3nm Xuanjie O1 Chip Surpasses One Million Shipments

Xiaomi's in-house 3nm Xuanjie O1 chip just passed one million shipments, and plans to extend it to EVs and smart devices signal a coming robotics play.

RoboticsAIHardwareNVIDIAMay 3

LG and NVIDIA Talks Reveal Home Robot Edge Inference Challenges

LG and NVIDIA are in talks to solve the edge inference and cooling challenges required to bring dexterous home robots like CLOiD to market, highlighting the infrastructure gap between industrial automation and consumer physical AI.

RoboticsAISoftwareEVsSpaceTeslaMay 3

Launchpad Build AI's Manufacturing Language Model Speeds Robot Assembly Design

Launchpad Build AI launches a Manufacturing Language Model that uses production data to cut robot assembly design time by 50%, targeting the 95% of factories that are small and midsize.

RoboticsAIMay 2

Scout AI Raises $100M to Train Physical AI Agents for Autonomous Combat Fleets

Scout AI raised $100 million and trains a Physical AI agent to coordinate drone and ground robot fleets in simulated and live-fire-adjacent scenarios.

RoboticsMay 1

Accenture: Humanoid robot runs warehouse pilot project in Germany

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RoboticsAISoftwareMay 1

Matternet's NHS Drone Network Proves Physical AI Works in Cities

Matternet's M2 drone now flies medical payloads between Central London NHS hospital campuses, marking the first operational urban healthcare drone network in the UK.

RoboticsAIHardwareSoftwareBig TechIntelMay 1

Zebra Sells Fetch Robotics to Skild AI After $300M Acquisition Fails

Zebra sells its $300M Fetch Robotics acquisition to Skild AI, whose omni-bodied Brain platform aims to unify AMRs, humanoids, and arms under one intelligence layer.

RoboticsSoftwareMay 1

Robot Dexterity Breakthrough: Handling Curved Objects Like Bananas and Cups

New curvature-aware manipulation framework enables robots to grasp and precisely place irregular objects like bananas, cups, and tools — a key barrier in flexible automation.

RoboticsHardwareSoftwareMay 1

FingerEye Sensor Fuses Touch and Vision for Dexterous Robot Manipulation

FingerEye integrates visual and tactile sensing in one fingertip sensor, giving robots continuous object perception across the pre- and post-contact boundary.

RoboticsAIOpenAIApr 29

Robotics Dexterity Hype vs. Reality: When 'ChatGPT Moments' Mislead

Eka Robotics' dexterous manipulation demos are impressive — but do they represent a real 'ChatGPT moment' or a well-staged party trick? Here's how to tell the difference.

RoboticsAIHardwareEVsBig TechAmazonWaymoApr 29

Waymo, Zoox, and the Physical AI Stack Powering Today's Robotaxi Boom

Waymo tops 150,000 weekly rides as transformer-based AI stacks drive the robotaxi industry from testing to commercial scale — with direct implications for industrial robotics hardware.

RoboticsAISpaceSpaceXApr 29

Starship's 10 Million Deliveries Mark a New Threshold for Physical AI

Starship Technologies has passed 10 million autonomous deliveries, marking a measurable maturity threshold for Physical AI systems in real-world commercial deployment.

RoboticsHardwareApr 29

Schaeffler and VinDynamics Target the Joints Powering Humanoid Robots

Schaeffler and VinDynamics are co-developing planetary gearboxes for humanoid robots — revealing who actually builds the joints that make humanoids move.

RoboticsAISoftwareApr 29

Flex and Teradyne's Vertical Integration Playbook for Physical AI Scale

Flex and Teradyne expand their partnership to deploy UR cobots and MiR AMRs across 100+ global facilities, testing a vertical integration model for physical AI at scale.

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