Robots, drones, autonomous vehicles, wearables, and embodied AI systems that sense, decide, and act in the real world.
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Waymo ended 2025 with more than 14 million fully autonomous rides, more than tripling its public ride count from the prior year, according to a year-end blog post on the company website.
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Pony.ai closed 2025 with 1,159 Robotaxis in operation, exceeding its goal of 1,000 vehicles. The company called the year a turning point for fleet scale and deployment execution in a LinkedIn update.
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Ambarella has announced that its CV5 AI system-on-chip is powering the new Antigravity A1, described as the world’s first all-in-one 360 drone. In the A1, the chip handles both video capture and runs AI tasks to enable autonomy directly onboard.
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POSCO DX, a South Korean tech company specializing in digital transformation, has invested $3 million in U.S.-based Persona AI, a startup developing humanoid robots specialized for heavy-duty industrial site
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) is putting €50 million behind Comau, a Turin-based robotics and automation company. The money will go toward developing new technologies in robotics, machine tools, automation
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Fujitsu has released Kozuchi Physical AI 1.0, a new technology developed with NVIDIA to integrate physical and agentic AI. It combines NVIDIA’s NIM microservices with Fujitsu’s proprietary AI systems, including the Takane large language model.
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Global automaker Stellantis and Bolt, one of Europe's largest ride-sharing companies, have announced a partnership to develop and deploy Level 4 autonomous vehicles across Europe.
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A major power outage darkened traffic lights across San Francisco, prompting Waymo to pause service and redirect its fleet. The company is updating its software after processing over 7,000 intersection checks during the disruption.
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Hyundai Motor Group said it will reveal its AI Robotics Strategy at CES 2026, with a focus on human-robot collaboration, manufacturing innovation, and advancing AI robotics commercialization.
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Comau, an Italian leader in industrial automation, has expanded its collaborative robotics offering with the launch of MyCo, a family of six cobots built to support safe and efficient human-robot collaboration across a range of sectors.
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Galbot, a Beijing-based robotics company, has raised over $300 million in a new round of funding from investors from China, Singapore, and the Middle East, bringing Galbot’s total funding to $800 million and valuing the company at $3 billion.
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mimic-video is a new robot control system from teams at mimic robotics, Microsoft Zurich, ETH Zurich, ETH AI Center, and UC Berkeley. The team says that the new model helps robots learn faster and with less training data.