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The KAIST Humanoid v0.9 robot pushing a large blue letter block across a running track on the KAIST campus.

KAIST's Humanoid Pushes 35 kg While It Walks. It Would Struggle to Lift the Same Load.

A Gecko Robotics wall-climbing inspection robot with a row of scanner feet crawling across a curved ship hull streaked with rust.

The US Navy Just Bet $300 Million on Robots That Read Rust

Minimalist editorial illustration of a sleek white robotic gripper gently holding a raspberry between two fingers, glowing force-sensor lines on the fingertips against a dark teal background

MIT-Built Robot That Feels Instead of Sees Just Raised $150M at $1.45B

A line-art diagram on cream: on the left, a city street grid with a collision spark at an intersection; on the right, lines branching toward simple geometric shapes — the failure case found and the conditions replayed.

Why a Startup Wants AI to Attack Robots in Simulation Before They Ever Touch the Street

A yellow Tigercat skidder drags cut logs along a forest track under full tree canopy in the southeastern United States — the class of machine Kodama retrofits with cameras, LiDAR and remote operation.

Kodama Raised $7 Million to Scale Forestry Autonomy. Its Machines Have Already Moved 100,000 Tons of Timber

A home-built speedcubing robot with four cameras arrayed around a large Rubik's cube clamped at its centre, on a workshop bench, minimalist editorial illustration

Four Canterbury Students Built a Robot That Solves a 4×4 Rubik's Cube in 9.8 Seconds

An autonomous wall-finishing robot on a three-wheeled platform sands a large bare drywall wall inside an unfinished house, work lights and drop sheets around it.

Origin Emerges From Stealth With $20 Million and Its Wall-Finishing Robot Already on US Job Sites

A humanoid robot and a worker in a high-visibility vest stand at the same warehouse rack under industrial lighting, both facing the shelves.

Robots Can Already Do 74% of Physical Work. They're Cheaper Than People for 0.3% of It.

A compact white research robot arm placing colourful toy blocks on a wooden workbench in a bright modern robotics lab, a dinosaur mug beside the arm, daylight from a large window.

Kyutai's REKI Gives Robots a Working Memory in Just 2.4 Billion Parameters

A working shipyard scene with hull sections under construction, cranes and scaffolding above a wet building dock, photographed in daylight.

Fincantieri Commits Almost $100 Million to Putting Physical AI on the Shipyard Floor

Two pairs of hands counting cash across a wooden kitchen table, shot from above with soft window light — value changing hands in small increments, unobserved.

The Unbundling Price of a Job: Anthropic Cut the Juniors, Disney Paid Nine Times the IP for a Team, and SoftBank Priced the Guards

A vast dim parking structure at dusk with a single sleek humanoid robot silhouette standing where a security guard would, city skyline lights behind.

SoftBank Wants to Buy America's Biggest Security Guard Company and Robotise It