Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck |

Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and ships before Christmas. Clem Delangue, CEO of…

The Humanoids at China’s Robot Games Were Faster Than Usain Bolt—but I’m More Impressed by Their Tweezer Mastery

Some of the new events this year would be too simple for human athletes, but they were designed to tax the robots’ brains as much…

2026 World Robot Conference: Zoomlion Showcases Industrial Embodied Intelligence

/PRNewswire/ –Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (“Zoomlion” or “the Company”; 1157.HK) is showcasing its embodied intelligence technologies and robotic products for industrial…

I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot

Last week, I ventured a whopping 15 minutes from my house to see robots do some mind-boggling, jaw-dropping stuff. I visited the Cambridge, Massachusetts, offices…

The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China

When Edward Warchocki speaks with you, he sounds like a regular guy. “Not super intelligent, but very emotional, very easy to make friends with,” says…

Northrop's robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longer |

High above the Earth, a new generation of robots designed to keep satellites working longer is replacing its predecessor — quite literally. This week, a…

How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot

Last week, US regulators banned a wide variety of Chinese-made robots from being imported to the United States because of concerns about national security. Saurabh…

The robot NASA hired to lift a orbital telescope tumbled out of control |

12:07 PM PDT · July 28, 2026 A Katalyst Space robot that was launched to grab on to a space telescope and raise it to…

Google’s Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot

Google DeepMind just released a new version of its artificial intelligence model Gemini, and it can control a range of different robots—including humanoids capable of…

Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume |

Multiple robotics companies are tackling one of AI’s hardest problems: building foundation models capable of executing tasks they were never explicitly trained to handle. Their…