This Zurich startup built a four-armed robot for space stations. Each astronaut hour it saves is worth $140,000.
This Zurich startup built a four-armed robot for space stations. Each astronaut hour it saves is worth $140,000.

Orbit Robotics, a Zurich-based startup, has unveiled Helios, a four-armed robot designed to work inside space stations. In microgravity, legs are useless. Helios replaces them with two extra arms that serve as both mobility aids and working hands. The …

Kawasaki Heavy ties up with Nvidia on physical AI, and the rideable robot horse gets a foundation model
Kawasaki Heavy ties up with Nvidia on physical AI, and the rideable robot horse gets a foundation model

Shares jumped 12% as the Japanese industrial group opened a San Jose development base with Nvidia, Analog Devices, Microsoft, and Fujitsu, with its four-legged CORLEO mobility concept as the first showcase. Kawasaki Heavy Industries said on Friday it w…

A caring robot just won a silver medal at one of the world’s biggest flower shows

The University of Lincoln won a Silver Gilt medal at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 for an exhibit that uses robots and AI to scan plant health and shape the future of food.

Barclays says humanoid robots can offset 60% of China’s 37M worker shortfall by 2035
Barclays says humanoid robots can offset 60% of China’s 37M worker shortfall by 2035

The British bank’s new note estimates humanoid robots can offset 60% of the projected labour-force decline by 2035, with China’s workforce shrinking by 37 million people over the next ten years. Up to 24 million humanoids would be needed. Barclays publ…

The man who put a Roomba in every home wants to replace your dog with a plush robot
The man who put a Roomba in every home wants to replace your dog with a plush robot

Colin Angle, the robotics engineer who co-founded iRobot and spent 25 years turning the Roomba into the world’s most widely adopted home robot, has unveiled the prototype for his next act: a four-legged, plush-covered AI companion designed to follow yo…

Faraday Future raised $25 million for its robotics pivot. The fine print tells a different story.
Faraday Future raised $25 million for its robotics pivot. The fine print tells a different story.

Faraday Future announced on Thursday that it has raised $25 million through convertible promissory notes, bringing its total financing over the past two months to $70 million. The company says the capital is sufficient to fund Phase 1 of its robotics b…

Japan’s Monster Wolf robot is a $4,000 scarecrow with red LED eyes, and it actually works
Japan’s Monster Wolf robot is a $4,000 scarecrow with red LED eyes, and it actually works

  Somewhere on a golf course in rural Hokkaido, a mechanical wolf with glowing red eyes is turning its head from side to side, howling at nothing in particular. It looks absurd. It is also, by most available evidence, working. Monster Wolf is the produ…

Google is doing to factory robots what Android did to phones. Fanuc just became the Samsung of the equation.
Google is doing to factory robots what Android did to phones. Fanuc just became the Samsung of the equation.

  Fanuc makes more industrial robots than anyone on the planet. Google makes more software platforms than anyone on the planet. On Wednesday, the two companies announced a partnership that merges those positions: Fanuc will integrate Google Cloud’s Gem…

The company that outsells Tesla on humanoid robots just unveiled a pilotable mecha. Unitree is filing for a $7 billion IPO.
The company that outsells Tesla on humanoid robots just unveiled a pilotable mecha. Unitree is filing for a $7 billion IPO.

  Unitree Robotics has unveiled a 2.8-metre transformable mecha that a human pilot climbs inside and operates from an open cockpit in the torso. The GD01 walks on two legs, folds into a quadruped configuration in seconds, weighs roughly 500 kilograms w…

Rice grain-sized sensor could give robots a delicate touch and keep them from breaking stuff

Researchers have built a force sensor the size of a grain of rice that lets robots feel pressure and twisting forces using light, and it’s already finding hidden tumors in tissue during early tests.