Even one of robotics’ biggest names says that a major breakthrough for the industry may take up to a decade. During a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday, Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing said that the industry’s breakthrough will come only when a robot can perform most tasks without
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DoorDash’s delivery robot isn’t quite ready for prime time. The delivery service has spent the last several months testing its Dot delivery robot as it makes deliveries in parts of Phoenix, Arizona. And while the company is working on securing permits for Dot to expand to other cities, there’s still a lot that the company
The Trump administration is expanding its technology crackdown on China. The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday announced new restrictions targeting imports of advanced Chinese robots and power inverters, as part of a broader push to secure the domestic AI supply chain. According to the FCC, the measure would ban imports of new Chinese-made humanoid and
In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field’s toughest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before. On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new artificial intelligence model that powers Memo, its wheeled
A former Formula One engineer has left the world’s fastest racing cars to tackle a much bigger engineering challenge: teaching robots to work in factories. Now, his Munich-based startup microagi has raised $55 million in the largest seed round secured by a German startup. Hummingbird led the round, with participation from Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global