The End of Robot Programming: Why Demonstrations Are Replacing Code

For decades, robots were programmed.

Tomorrow’s robots will be taught.

That shift may become one of the biggest breakthroughs in the history of robotics.

Across the industry, we’re seeing…

One AI Brain. Any Robot.

Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, its next-generation Physical AI model designed to bring general-purpose intelligence to robots.

Rather than building AI for a single robot or task, Gemini Robotics 2 is designed to…

Robotics Is Going Public: Unitree’s IPO Could Mark a New Chapter for the Industry

Unitree Robotics is set to open subscriptions for its Shanghai STAR Market IPO on August 10, targeting RMB 4.2B (~$620M) at an implied valuation of around RMB 42B (~$5.8–6B)…

The $7,999 Home Robot Has Arrived. But Who Will Actually Buy It?

Weave Robotics has opened pre-orders for Isaac 1, a mobile home robot designed to handle repetitive household work like folding laundry, making beds, putting clothes away, and resetting rooms.…

The Robotics Race Is Becoming a Policy Issue

The U.S. has moved to restrict imports of new Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots, citing national-security, cybersecurity and supply-chain concerns.

The measures, announced by the FCC on July 28, apply to…

The next breakthrough in robotics may not be a better robot. It may be a better model of the world. 🌎🤖

NVIDIA is pushing a different idea for the future of Physical AI: open-world models that help machines understand, simulate and predict what can happen…

Teleoperation may be the fastest path to autonomous robots.

Avatar Robotics has raised $6.5 million in seed funding, led by AlleyCorp and Defy.vc, with participation from Headline and other investors.

The company deploys remotely operated robots in warehouses…

A robotic hand that learns to move like a human.

Swiss startup mimic Robotics has unveiled the M1, a robotic hand designed to reproduce the dexterity and movement of a human hand.

Instead of relying on traditional rigid mechanisms, the M1 uses tendon-like…

NVIDIA just made real-time humanoid motion generation dramatically faster.

NVIDIA has open-sourced MotionBricks, an AI framework designed to generate real-time motion for digital characters and humanoid robots at scale.

The reported numbers are striking:…

Humanoid robots are learning to move with rhythm, coordination, and expression.

A group of Unitree G1 humanoid robots performing a synchronized Chinese ethnic group dance shows another side of humanoid robotics that doesn’t get enough attention: whole-body…

The next bottleneck in Physical AI may not be intelligence.

It may be safety.

NVIDIA is expanding its Halos for Robotics ecosystem as Physical AI moves from research labs into real-world environments.

Halos is a full-stack safety system designed for humanoids…

The real challenge isn’t making a humanoid walk.

It’s making it navigate environments designed for humans.

This robot moving shelf-to-shelf in a Chinese convenience store is a small but interesting glimpse of that transition.

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The most valuable thing simulation gives a robot isn't more data.
It's the ability to experience what hasn't happened yet.
Real-world data tells a robot what has happened.
But reality has a limit: a robot can only learn from situations that actually occur.…

Most robots are built around rigid joints.

This one asks a different question:

What if robots moved more like we do?

Will Cogley built a 3D-printed artificial spine and neck inspired by human anatomy.

Instead of relying on a conventional rigid joint,…

Humanoid robots are becoming development platforms, not just machines.

Booster Robotics has unveiled the Booster T2, its latest humanoid platform built for embodied AI development.

The T2 can walk at up to 2 m/s and operate for around two hours, while NVIDIA…

Princess Leia used R2-D2 as a data mule.
Turns out the architecture aged pretty well.

Physical world → robot → valuable data → someone who can actually use it.

That’s increasingly what robotics infrastructure looks like in 2026 — except now the payload…

Unitree just turned the humanoid robotics hype into a public-market event.

Unitree Robotics surged as much as 629% during its first trading day on Shanghai’s STAR Market, before closing at 845 yuan — still 460% above its IPO price.

At the close, the company…

A humanoid robot just ran 100m faster than Usain Bolt.

Honor’s “Lightning” completed a 100m test in 9.32 seconds.
Bolt’s human world record: 9.58 seconds.
Lightning reportedly reached 14.5 m/s during the run ahead of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.…