Qualcomm-powered robot collapses spectacularly on stage during company’s keynote — prepared stagehands rush to cloak and then carry off stricken humanoid (updated)
Qualcomm-powered robot collapses spectacularly on stage during company’s keynote — prepared stagehands rush to cloak and then carry off stricken humanoid (updated)

A Qualcomm exec suffered from one of the most disastrous tech demos we’ve ever seen live on stage at Computex 2026 this summer when a humanoid robot spectacularly collapsed.

Google’s new AI gives robots better balance, smarter hands, and teamwork capabilities

Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2 lets humanoid robots walk, handle delicate tasks, and coordinate with other robots, all while staying safer around humans

Kinematic Trees raises £585K to scale nature-inspired robotics software

UK-based robotics software startupKinematic Trees has raised £585,000 in pre-seed funding to accelerate thedevelopment of its robot-agnostic software platform and expand its commercialand engineering …

AI can turn a cloud of scuba bubbles into an early warning for divers

University of Minnesota researchers taught an underwater robot to estimate a diver’s breathing from exhaled bubbles, creating a contactless monitor that could eventually flag unusual respiration without pretending it can diagnose distress.

Perceptual Robotics secures £4M+ to scale AI-powered wind inspections

UK wind technology company Perceptual Robotics has securedover £4 million in funding so far this year. The funding combines investmentfrom new and existing shareholders, including Investing for Purpos…

Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume

The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo’s Conviction Partners.

Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

Forget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick’s company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.

Robotic Servicing Mission Launches with NASA Support
Robotic Servicing Mission Launches with NASA Support

Following its liftoff from Cape Canaveral on July 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) hosting the NASA-supported Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload is now en route to geosynchronous Earth orbit, where it will use its advanced robotics to service spacecraft. RSGS leverages in-space robotics expertise from NASA, […]

Google Cloud and NVIDIA power microagi’s embodied AI ambitions

Robotics deployment company microagi today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate the development of models and robotics capable of understanding and interacting with physical envir…