Upside Robotics builds autonomous solar-powered robots that can help farmers reduce their fertilizer use by 70%.

Developing a durable and affordable hand is one of the biggest challenges in robotics.

Robotics has made jaw-dropping progress in perception, navigation, and even conversational interfaces. Yet one part of the human body continues ...

Outside of tightly controlled environments, most robotic systems still struggle with reliability, generalization and cost. The gap between what we can demonstrate and what we can operate at scale ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...

Whether or not 2026 really is the big year of physical AI (I think it’s likelier to be the year when agentic AI breaks out) and robotics, much hype surrounds recent comments made by the great Nvidia ...

CES kicked off robotics news for January 2026, and the momentum continued with companies hitting milestones and debuting new systems.

Over the past decade, China has moved from being primarily a manufacturing powerhouse to becoming a defining force in the ...

After receiving “substantial inbound investor interest,” AI-powered robotics company Apptronik says it raised $520 million in an extension of its $415 million Series A in February 2025, bringing the ...

The consolidation of SpaceX and xAI could lead to more adaptive use of robots, data, and AI in manufacturing, says ...

Allonic’s $7.2m pre-seed signals a shift in Europe toward early investment in robotics hardware and deep industrial innovation.

Motiv Space Systems and PickNik Robotics Collaborate on Software for NASA’s Fly Foundational Robotics (FFR) Mission ...