Latest Robotics News Today
Robots are moving from the lab into the real world faster than ever. The Daily Prompt follows the robotics news that matters — humanoid robots from Figure, Tesla Optimus and Boston Dynamics, warehouse and manufacturing automation, autonomous vehicles, surgical and service robots, and the AI breakthroughs giving machines new capabilities.
Each story below links to the original reporting, while our editors keep this feed current as developments break. From research milestones and funding to product launches and real-world deployments, this is your live feed of robotics news today — updated throughout the day, every day.
Latest Robotics News
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics open pre-orders for the $399 Microduck
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck
StreamPI: Streaming Multimodal Temporal Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models
The Humanoids at China’s Robot Games Were Faster Than Usain Bolt—but I’m More Impressed by Their Tweezer Mastery
AI Detectors Are Being Used to Discipline Students. I Tested Whether They Should Be
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI
Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight
Spineart’s PERLA TL App Gains FDA Clearance for Robotic Spine Surgery
Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames
Gatik Raises $200M Series D to Scale Autonomous Freight Operations
AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes
Sentante’s Endovascular Robot Enters Commercial Use in Vascular Surgery
Self-driving Cars Could Someday Take Requests
Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: A Robot Foundation Model That Learns New...
XPENG Robotics Raises $900M+ First Round at $6.3B+ Valuation
Scientific Data Analysis with LabPlot in Python: Signal Processing, Spectral Peak Fitting, Visualization, and Batch Automation
Galbot Robots Complete 100 Consecutive Autonomous Tennis Rallies
The Robots Are Stumbling on Their Way to the Revolution
Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities
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