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Teradyne has made a strategic investment in Bright Machines and will collaborate on software-defined manufacturing for AI infrastructure. The investment size was not disclosed.

German industrial robot maker RobCo has closed a $40 million round that values it at more than $1 billion, with most shares sold by current and former employees. Here is what it makes and why the deal structure matters.

Reka has released a research preview of Rho-1, a 19-billion-parameter model that it says can read and create text, images and video and output robot actions in a single network. The speed claims are the company's own tests.

Nvidia and Foxconn reported robot success rates above 95% on GB300 NVL72 tester-tray busbar assembly and 90–95% on multi-connector insertion, according to coverage of Nvidia’s technical blog. Figures are company-reported.

Panasonic's chief AI officer says the group will develop humanoid robots for factories and warehouses and aims to start making them by 2029. Here's what was said, and how much is still unknown.

From factory floors to operating rooms—how robots and intelligent automation are reshaping the global economy.In 1961, General Motors installed the first industrial robot on its assembly line...

April 6-12, 2026The HeadlineThis week, artificial intelligence didn't just advance—it crossed thresholds that forced the industry to confront questions it's been avoiding for years. Anthropic built an...

Update, 9 Oct 2026: Slovakia's transport minister says his ministry plans to send the Netherlands a letter recognising the Dutch approval of Tesla's system "in the coming days" (reported; not yet approved). Update, 8 Oct 2026: Tesla's European websites are switching "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" to "Tesla Assisted Driving" after Germany's Transport Ministry called the FSD name "somewhat misleading". The rollout is partial, the system is unchanged and EU-wide approval is still pending, with no vote expected before December.

Welcome to the week robots stopped being expensive paperweights and started understanding what grab the thing means.For decades, robots were basically programmable arms. You coded every movement:...

Intel has spent the better part of a decade falling behind. The company that once dominated semiconductor manufacturing missed the mobile revolution, fumbled advanced process nodes, and...