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donut robotics has entered into a capital and business alliance with Japanese nursing home operator Charm Care Corporation to develop humanoid robots for eldercare applications.
Teradyne, a provider of automated test equipment and advanced robotics systems, and Bright Machines, a next-generation manufacturer bringing AI and data center infrastructure production to the edge, have announced a strategic investment by Teradyne in Bright Machines.
SafeWorld, an AI lab building robot safety simulation technologies, has emerged from stealth with $12.2 million in seed funding co-led by Shine Capital and a16z Speedrun, along with Box Group, Carnegie Mellon University Endowment, Innovation Endeavors, SV Angel, and other venture capital and angel…
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women — yet the gaps in care are wide. A majority of women over age 40 skip the recommended annual screening. Radiologists are reading more mammograms with fewer colleagues.
Insider Brief Hitachi is partnering with Germany’s Agile Robots to develop physical AI systems for automating complex factory work that still depends on human judgment and adaptability.
Hello Robot has received a Phase IIB Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, to advance the use of its Stretch mobile manipulator robot in supporting older adults with mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer’s…
Learn how NVIDIA IsaacTeleop turns XR hand tracking and motion controller input into robot commands using a pure Python retargeting engine and NumPy. The post Inside NVIDIA’s IsaacTeleop: From Hand and Controller Tracking to Robot Actions with the Graph-Based Retargeting Engine appeared first on…
Insider Brief Wandercraft has acquired Ekso Bionics from a subsidiary of ChronoScale Holdings, combining two medical exoskeleton developers with complementary products and geographic footprints.
Humanoid robots have become increasingly good at performing impressive demonstrations, but the harder test is...
The startup, which is building a general-purpose "brain" for robots, is set to quintuple its valuation in just over a year
By Ian Foley What happens when a robot learns to run without the millions of years of compromises built into the human body? Around 25M years ago, our ancestors lost their tails, leaving behind only the coccyx.
Insider Brief Honda’s U.S.-based space development team is working with Redwire to explore a robotic system for future commercial space stations that could automate experiment handling and other laboratory tasks while reducing demands on astronaut time.
Insider Brief Eni and Generative Bionics signed a memorandum of understanding to explore industrial uses for humanoid robots, including inspection, teleoperation and remote assistance in complex operating environments.
Global humanoid robot shipments approached 25,000 units in the first half of 2026, up 432.1 percent year on year, according to the latest market data from International Data Corporation (IDC).
Neura Robotics is entering healthcare. The company is bringing physical AI, and the cognitive robots built on it, to one of the most structurally strained sectors in modern economies: healthcare and life sciences, where staff shortages and capacity limits leave care teams with too little time for…
Astribot, a Shenzhen, China-based physical AI company, showcased its T1 humanoid robot to North America for the first time at IROS 2026, which took place from September 27 to October 1 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Insider Brief Figure AI retired most of its Figure 02 humanoid robot fleet in an unusual way by training the robots to jump autonomously into a vat of molten steel. If that sounds familiar, there’s a reason.
Runway, one of the best-known developers of generative AI video technology, is moving into robotics with Praxis-1, an open-weight AI model designed to use knowledge learned from video to control physical robots.
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