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1. Chinese Startup AI² Robotics Is Said to Consider Hong Kong IPO

   Bloomberg · 2026-08-04

   Chinese robot maker AI² Robotics is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter

2. Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

   MIT Technology Review · 2026-08-03

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3. China’s tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House

   The Guardian AI · 2026-08-01

   New AI models, advanced robots and specialty computer chips are unsettling markets and the US tech industry Over the past month

4. FCC bans new Chinese robots and power inverters to protect US AI buildout from foreign threats

   The Decoder · 2026-07-30

   The FCC is blocking imports of new Chinese humanoid robots and robot dogs. But the rule's broad definition also sweeps in Roombas, robotic lawn mowers, and delivery bots.

5. AI & Robotics enters Escalating U.S. Protectionism Phase

   AI Supremacy · 2026-07-30

   The bifurcation of technology will now include robots and perhaps open-source models. If you can't beat them, ban them.

6. Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?

   Ars Technica · 2026-07-29

   Government ban on foreign-made robots may hinder instead of help US robotics.

7. How would AI data centers in space even work? A former NASA robotics chief explains

   ZDNet · 2026-07-27

   'You collect electricity in space, and you eject heat in space. The only thing that comes to Earth is data.'

8. NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics

   Hugging Face Blog · 2026-07-27

   NVIDIA has introduced Cosmos-H-Dreams, a system designed to enable real-time generative simulation for surgical robotics.

9. Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3: A Multimodal Flow Model for Image, Video, Audio and Robot Action Prediction

   MarkTechPost · 2026-07-26

   Black Forest Labs (BFL) has released FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns from images, videos and audio inside a single architecture.

10. Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly

    IEEE Spectrum · 2026-07-26

    Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light.

11. SoftBank Weighs Deal for Robotics Startup Gravis

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-24

    SoftBank Group Corp. is considering an acquisition of Gravis Robotics AG, people familiar with the matter said

12. Robotics Startup Genesis in Talks to Raise About $500 Million

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-23

    AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks with investors to raise around $500 million in a new funding round, according to people familiar with the efforts.

13. Nvidia bets physical AI can solve healthcare robotics’ data problem

    AI News · 2026-07-23

    Nvidia’s new Medical Physics Simulation framework treats healthcare robots as physical AI systems that need embodied experience to learn, not just code.

14. Datacenter Capex is Spilling over into a ChatGPT of Robotics Moment set for 2027 and this decade.

    AI Supremacy · 2026-07-23

    Do people really want datacenters, robots and AI overlords? This is going to become a problem. The robotics flood is near. 烙

15. Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-22

    Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.

16. I Tried Fine-Tuning a Robot AI Model on Colab. Here Is What Worked

    Towards Data Science · 2026-07-21

    A reproducible 100-step LoRA fine-tuning run for OpenVLA, with dataset checks, Colab setup, training metrics, and W&B evidence.

17. Samsung establishes a robotics division

    Engadget · 2026-07-21

    Samsung created a robotics division called RX, and its first product could be a humanoid robot.

18. Xiaomi-Robotics-1 shows that more data beats bigger models when training robots to move

    The Decoder · 2026-07-21

    Xiaomi trained Xiaomi-Robotics-1 on more than 100,000 hours of motion data collected by people using camera-equipped handheld grippers rather than robots.

19. NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3 Edge: A 4B-Parameter Open World Model That Reasons and Generates Robot Actions On-Device

    MarkTechPost · 2026-07-21

    NVIDIA has released Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter open world model built to run on-device.

20. Samsung Hires Ex-Boston Dynamics Executive in Robotics Push

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-21

    Samsung Electronics Co. has hired one of South Korea’s leading robotics executives from Hyundai Motor Group to oversee a new robotics division

21. At SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Advances Graphics and Simulation With Agentic and Physical AI

    NVIDIA AI Blog · 2026-07-20

    From open models to real-time simulation, AI and graphics breakthroughs are transforming media, content creation and robotics.

22. Blackstone Agrees to Invest in Korean Robotics Supplier Futronic

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-20

    Blackstone Inc. has agreed to invest in Futronic, a South Korean supplier of high-precision actuators used in industrial robotics and the automotive sector.

23. Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-17

    Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.

24. Hyundai reportedly looking to take total control of robotics giant Boston Dynamics

    Engadget · 2026-07-16

    Hyundai could soon own Boston Dynamics in full.

25. Hyundai to Buy SoftBank Boston Dynamics Stake in Robot Push

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-16

    Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliates are moving to acquire SoftBank Group Corp.’s remaining stake in the automaker’s Boston Dynamics unit

26. Japan’s Robotics Leaders Unite With Nvidia to Take On China

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-16

    Fujitsu Ltd., Fanuc Corp. and two of Japan’s biggest robotics companies will work together in robot development, a move aimed at staying ahead of surging competition from China.

27. NVIDIA Introduces New Jetson Thor Computers to Advance Mainstream Robotics and Edge AI

    NVIDIA AI Blog · 2026-07-15

    General-purpose robots and autonomous machines are moving from research labs to real-world mass-market deployment, creating demand for compact

28. NVIDIA and Japan Bring Full-Stack AI and Robotics to Every Industry

    NVIDIA AI Blog · 2026-07-15

    Home to leading manufacturers, robotics pioneers and infrastructure builders, Japan is one of the world’s centers of AI — building across the full stack with NVIDIA technologies.

29. Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-13

    The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.

30. Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots

    IEEE Spectrum · 2026-07-13

    This article is brought to you by X Square Robot.Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe.

31. Hyundai Motor Workers Strike Over Bonuses, Robot Job Security

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-13

    Hyundai Motor Co. workers began a three-day partial strike on Monday as their union demands bigger bonuses following landmark deals at semiconductor companies

32. China's Orca world model matches specialized robotics systems without ever seeing a single action label

    The Decoder · 2026-07-11

    The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence has released Orca, a world model that predicts abstract world states instead of tokens or pixels.

33. Robot Dogs, Teslas, and Rescue Helicopters: The UN AI Summit Was a Lot

    WIRED · 2026-07-10

    Amid live coding sessions and Silicon Valley optimism, the UN’s AI for Good summit wrestled with an increasingly urgent question: Can global governance catch up before the

34. Robotics Isn't Living Up to the Hype

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-09

    At the Automate Show, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Thomas Black saw a lot of robots, but it was clear to him that there is still a long way to go before widespread

35. This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-08

    General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI

36. Crypto-Focused VC Firm Paradigm Raises $1.2 Billion for AI Bets

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-08

    Paradigm, the venture firm founded to invest in cryptocurrency companies, has raised a new $1.2 billion fund to make more bets outside of the sector

37. How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces—and maybe homes

    Ars Technica · 2026-07-07

    Top robotics researchers and founders explain how robot autonomy is evolving.

38. NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot for the Open Robotics Community

    NVIDIA AI Blog · 2026-07-07

    Open source AI has shown how quickly developers can innovate when models, data and tools are shared.

39. China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands

    The Guardian AI · 2026-07-06

    Race to develop ‘embodied AI’ focuses on creating dextrous hands to transform humanoid robots from gimmicks into useful products Human hands – nimble

40. Hyundai Motor Showcases Humanoid at World Cup in Robotics Push

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-05

    Hyundai Motor Co. showcased its Atlas humanoid robot at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, highlighting its technical progress on football’s biggest stage as the South Korean automaker gears