XRobotics’ countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a month
XRobotics recently raised a $2.5 million seed round to help it produce more of its countertop pizza robots.
Tesla’s Optimus robot VP is reportedly leaving the company
The head of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot program, Milan Kovac, is leaving the company, according to Bloomberg News. The departure comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed the company will have “thousands” of Optimus…
Figure AI CEO skips live demo, sidesteps BMW deal questions onstage at tech conference
Figure AI has drawn attention for making claims that its AI-powered robots possess human-like fine motor skills and can manipulate objects with precision but hasn’t done a live demonstration of the humanoids.
Europe will have to be more Tenacious to land its first rover on the moon
Tenacious was set to become the first European-made rover to land on the Moon, but communications were lost with the lander that carried it.
Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and robotics
Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills.
Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook
AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA, which the company claims outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments.
Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots
AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots. The company announced a pair of open-source robots, HopeJR and Reachy Mini. HopeJR is a…
Rivr’s dog-like robots join Veho vans to solve ‘last-100-yards’ parcel delivery in Austin
Zurich-based robotics startup Rivr is partnering with Veho to deliver parcels in Austin.
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Why Intempus thinks robots should have a human physiological state
Teddy Warner, 19, has always been interested in robotics. His family was in the industry, and he says he “grew up” working in a machinist shop while in high school. Now Warner is building a…