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BYD’s answer to its car-sales slump: a humanoid robot in every showroom

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BYD sells more electric cars than anyone. Next month, it wants to sell you one using a robot. China’s biggest EV maker will unveil its first humanoid robot in August, at its Di Space experience centres in Zhengzhou, the company told the South China Morning Post. It will be a working prototype, not a concept, […]

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China threatens ‘resolute’ retaliation over the US robot ban, and it holds the rare-earth card

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The US wanted to keep Chinese robots out. Beijing’s answer: do this, and we will hit back where it hurts. China has threatened “resolute” retaliation after Washington moved to bar imports of Chinese-made humanoid robots. Its commerce ministry called the measure discriminatory and warned it “severely” damages trade relations, the New York Times and CNBC […]

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Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips

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Google DeepMind wants one AI brain to run every robot, and it just taught that brain to use its whole body. It has released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of models that can control a humanoid from its feet to its fingertips. The system can also coordinate several machines at once and adapt to a […]

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Procore’s AI could read the blueprints. For $845M, it just bought eyes on the site.

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Procore’s AI can read a construction project’s paperwork. Now it is paying $845m to give that AI eyes on the actual site. The construction-software company said it will buy DroneDeploy, a reality-capture and robotics firm, for about $845m in cash, Procore announced. DroneDeploy’s drones, ground robots and cameras are used on more than 3 million […]

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The US just banned ‘foreign’ robots and inverters, and it means China

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The United States has moved to block new imports of foreign-made robots and power inverters. Officials fear a hostile power could spy through them, or switch them off from afar. The order never says China. It does not need to. The Federal Communications Commission added two categories to its Covered List on Tuesday, as first […]

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New York school pauses humanoid robot ‘Sally’ after state and union pushback

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A humanoid robot named Sally was due to take a seat in a Western New York high-school classroom this autumn, silicone skin, long brown hair, and all. Instead she is on hold. A plan that had quietly cleared the Salamanca school board back in June turned, over the following weeks, into a public fight over […]

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Enigma raised $70M to let anyone online control its robots and figure out how humans actually want to talk to machines

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Enigma, a robotics research lab less than a year old, is emerging from stealth with a $70 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo’s Conviction Partners. The startup is not building a foundation model to make robots more capable. It is studying how humans actually want to […]

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Dopl Technologies raises $6.3M to bring remote robotic ultrasound to rural hospitals

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Dopl Technologies raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by SpringTide Ventures to advance a telerobotic ultrasound platform toward FDA clearance. The system, called Traverse, lets sonographers remotely operate a robotic arm via haptic controllers and cameras to perform diagnostic ultrasound exams on patients at distant sites. The platform is hardware-agnostic, integrating off-the-shelf robots and […]

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SoftBank is reportedly weighing a deal for Swiss robotics startup Gravis

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Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout, fits autonomy kits to excavators. A tie-up would extend Masayoshi Son’s robotics buying spree from the factory floor to the building site. SoftBank is weighing a deal for Gravis Robotics, a Swiss startup that fits excavators and diggers with the sensors and software to run themselves, according to Bloomberg. The […]

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Genesis AI is in talks to raise about $500m for its robot brains

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Genesis AI, the startup building foundation models that it hopes will run inside a wide range of robots, is in talks to raise about $500m, according to Bloomberg. A round of that size would value the company at roughly $3bn, capping a fast climb for a business that only came out of stealth last summer. […]

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