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China’s BrainCo showed a platform that lets you control robots with your mind

Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported. BrainCo calls its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform the […]

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An F1 aerodynamicist just raised $55m to teach factory robots, using footage of people doing chores

Bercan Kilic got his dream job in 2023, designing aerodynamics for Red Bull Racing while it was winning everything. He found the engineering magnificent and the point of it thin. His Munich startup, microagi, has now raised $55m, which it says is the largest seed round a German company has secured. Hummingbird led, with Northzone, […]

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Walden Robotics launches with $300M, and its factory humanoids have no legs

Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300m and a $1.1bn valuation. The Toyota spin-out builds humanoids for factories, and it left off the legs on purpose. “If you listen to the people on the factory floor, they aren’t ready, and they don’t want them yet.” That is Russ Tedrake, telling Bloomberg why his new […]

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Dutch Monumental raises $32m led by Khosla to put more bricklaying robots on site

Monumental has raised a $32m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, money it will spend putting more of its bricklaying robots on building sites in Britain and, for the first time, in the United States. Plural and Hummingbird, both backers of the company’s $25m round in early 2024, took part again. The Amsterdam company says the […]

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‘Listing is a must’: China’s LimX raises $200m as the humanoid IPO race heats up

China’s humanoid gold rush just minted another contender. LimX Dynamics has raised $200m at a $2.21bn valuation. And its founder says the race to list has become do-or-die. A Shenzhen humanoid startup has become the latest name in China’s robot boom to command a giant valuation. On Tuesday, LimX Dynamics said it had closed a […]

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Home robots already walk. 1X’s new hands try to solve the part that actually matters

Humanoid robots learned to walk years ago. The thing still tripping them up is the hand. 1X has given its NEO home robot new hands, and they are the most interesting thing about it. A robot can stride across a stage and still be useless in a kitchen. Lifting a wet glass takes precision, fast […]

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From powerboat records to a $1bn war chest: meet Europe’s newest defence unicorn

First the Royal Navy shoved a robot boat out of a transport plane at 1,300 feet. Then its maker became Europe’s newest defence unicorn. Kraken Technology Group, a British maker of uncrewed surface vessels, has raised $175m (€152.9m) in a Series B round. It values the company at more than $1bn. Kraken announced the raise […]

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Humanoid robots just removed organs from live animals for the first time

Two robots that look roughly like people just reached inside a live animal and removed an organ. No film studio staged the scene. It happened in a lab in California, and it is a first for medicine. Surgeons at the University of California San Diego used two teleoperated humanoid robots to remove the gallbladders from […]

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Alipay’s owner just open-sourced an entire robot brain in a single week

The company behind China’s Alipay just gave away an AI that builds a playable video game world and keeps it running for a full hour. Robbyant, the robotics arm of fintech giant Ant Group, open-sourced its LingBot-World 2.0 world model this week. It generates an interactive 3D world in real time, at 720p and 60 […]

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Robots swept RoboCup 2026, and they’re coming for the human World Cup by 2050

While the world watched the World Cup, robots played their own version in Incheon. RoboCup 2026 ran from 30 June to 6 July in Songdo, drawing teams from dozens of countries. When the whistle blew, one name was behind every winner. Teams using robots from Beijing’s Booster Robotics swept all three humanoid football divisions. The […]

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