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🚀SpaceNews

June 25: Golden Dome: How Could Sensors Protect the United States?

Join us as we explore the technologies behind Golden Dome, what’s necessary to make them operate at a high level and what possibilities could be in the works for the satellites involved. The post June

5h ago
Electrek

Home solar in rural America: a storm just took out your power, now what?

There’s no shortage of advice on how to size a home solar and battery system, but most of it assumes a suburban home with city services and outages measured in hours, not days. Rural homes play by dif

7h ago
🟩NVIDIA

Hands Free, AIs Forward: NVIDIA XR AI Brings Agents to AR Glasses

NVIDIA XR AI is now available in public beta, giving developers a framework for building multimodal AI agents for AR glasses and XR devices.

8h ago
🟩NVIDIA

Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone

AI runs at the speed of light. More and more, that light is made in Texas. Coherent broke ground today on an expanded manufacturing building in Sherman, Texas.  The company makes the lasers, optical c

8h ago
🚗Teslarati

Tesla urges New Jersey owners to oppose new bill that could block Robotaxi

Tesla has launched a direct campaign targeting its customers in New Jersey, sending emails that warn of pending legislation that could effectively block true driverless technology in the state. The em

9h ago
Electrek

The Genesis GV90 looks huge charging next to the Kia EV9

The GV90 is set to arrive as the biggest, most prestige Genesis electric SUV to date. With its official debut coming up, the flagship EV was spotted charging alongside a Kia EV9, revealing its true si

9h ago
🚀SpaceNews

Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar lander

Astrobotic showed off the lunar lander it plans to launch later this year that will be the vanguard of NASA’s new lunar base ambitions. The post Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar lander appeared firs

10h ago
Electrek

Waymo taps fleet giant Element to scale its robotaxi service

Waymo has tapped fleet management company Element to help keep its robotaxis charged, maintained, and on the road as the company expands into more cities.

10h ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon

SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

10h ago
Electrek

BYD’s new magnetic EV device lets you control your car on the go

BYD is about to introduce a new detachable magnetic smart device that lets you control your vehicle remotely at the push of a button.

11h ago
🚗Teslarati

Tesla’s Navigation Nightmare: Why the easiest part of FSD might be the hardest

Turn-by-turn navigation is not new technology. For over two decades, drivers have relied on Garmin, TomTom, and later smartphone apps like Google Maps and Waze to receive precise, reliable directions.

11h ago
🦾The Robot Report

Pegasus Tech Ventures launches $60M fund for physical AI startups

Pegasus and CYBERDYNE will invest in startups developing robotics, physical AI, healthcare, automation, and intelligent systems. The post Pegasus Tech Ventures launches $60M fund for physical AI start

11h ago
Electrek

Rivian lays off hundreds, under 2% of staff, a week after R2 launch

Rivian laid off hundreds of workers on Tuesday, or less than 2% of its workforce, just one week after it began deliveries of its all-important R2 SUV. The electric automaker confirmed the cuts hit its

12h ago
🚗Teslarati

Tesla Cybertruck driver gets pickup seized for ‘legitimate concerns’ in UK

A Tesla Cybertruck driver in the United Kingdom had their all-electric pickup seized by local police in the Greater Manchester area after the department cited “legitimate concerns.” Last Thursday, pol

12h ago
🚀SpaceNews

Swiss decision to not contribute to Copernicus tests program’s value model

MILAN — Switzerland’s decision not to participate in the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation program during the 2028–2034 funding cycle has revived a broader debate over the value of contrib

12h ago
Electrek

Bluetti 2,016Wh+ FridgePower station exclusive launch deals from $807, Segway Xyber e-bike + extra battery $1,400 off at low, more

We’ve got an exciting round of Green Deals for you today, starting with the exclusive launch savings on Bluetti’s 2,016Wh to 8,064Wh FridgePower Portable Power Station and bundles starting from $807.

13h ago
Electrek

Hyundai is closing in on Chevy as the #2 EV brand in the US

Hyundai is on track for its sixth straight year of record sales in the US. In the EV market, Hyundai has its sights set on Chevrolet as it looks to become the second-best-selling brand behind Tesla.

13h ago
🟩NVIDIA

HPE AI Factory With NVIDIA Expands for the Era of Agents

Enterprises are moving agentic AI from proof of concept to production — and the next generation of AI factories are built for the era of agents. At HPE Discover Las Vegas, running through Thursday, Ju

14h ago
Electrek

Toyota’s new EVs are catching on as registrations jump 225% in April

With three fully electric SUVs now on sale, Toyota’s EV registrations surged 225% in April.

15h ago
🚀SpaceNews

The SpaceNews space unicorn tracker

Our ongoing list of current private space companies with a valuation of $1 billion or more. The post The SpaceNews space unicorn tracker appeared first on SpaceNews.

15h ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and mayb

15h ago
🚗Teslarati

Apple is developing the missing link for Tesla to get CarPlay: report

A new report claims that Apple is in the process of developing what would be the missing link for Tesla to get CarPlay. Apple and Tesla have been reportedly working together for some time to give Tesl

15h ago
🚀SpaceNews

Katalyst Space raises $12 million for GEO servicing demo mission

Satellite servicing startup Katalyst Space Technologies has raised $12 million for a geosynchronous orbit demonstration as its mission to boost the orbit of a NASA observatory nears launch. The post K

15h ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’

The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.

16h ago
🟩NVIDIA

Fastest, Largest, Strongest: NVIDIA Blackwell Sweeps MLPerf Training 6.0

Every breakthrough AI model starts the same way: with a training run. The infrastructure running those training jobs shapes everything: how fast teams can iterate, what scale of model they can build a

16h ago
Electrek

Kia’s electric van delivers more driving range in the real world at 260 miles

It’s no wonder the PV5 is flying off dealer lots. With more than enough driving range, fast charging, and a high-tech, spacious interior, Kia’s electric van may be the ultimate people mover.

16h ago
🚗Teslarati

Tesla deliveries get a big boost in expectations from Wall Street

Tesla deliveries got a big boost in expectations from Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, who believes the company will report some stronger-than-expected numbers when the second quarter comes to an end i

17h ago
🚀SpaceNews

PiLogic partners with Air Force lab to test satellite fault-prediction software

The startup uses probabilistic reasoning to diagnose spacecraft anomalies The post PiLogic partners with Air Force lab to test satellite fault-prediction software appeared first on SpaceNews.

17h ago
🦾The Robot Report

Kawasaki Robotics to debut RL030N physical AI platform at Automate

Kawasaki Robotics says its 8-DoF robot, Pulseboard inspection tech, and other systems will show its vision for intelligent automation. The post Kawasaki Robotics to debut RL030N physical AI platform a

17h ago
Electrek

Tesla ‘Robotaxis’ are not crashing because they are not running

Tesla didn’t report a single at-fault “Robotaxi” crash in the latest NHTSA autonomous-vehicle data — its only fresh incident was a Model Y getting rear-ended while stopped, clearly the other driver’s

17h ago
🚗Teslarati

SpaceX makes first acquisition post-IPO

SpaceX has exercised its option to acquire Cursor, the innovative AI coding company, in an all-stock transaction valued at $60 billion. The deal, announced on June 16, marks a significant step in Spac

17h ago
Electrek

Ex-Tesla exec builds the home heat pump Tesla gave up for robots

Drew Baglino spent nearly two decades building Tesla’s batteries, motors, and power electronics. Now the former Tesla SVP is quietly building the one home energy product Tesla talked up for years and

17h ago
🚀SpaceNews

A UN agency that works for US space

If United States policymakers deride the wider United Nations, they still spend on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) because it amplifies the commercial reach of U.S. standards. This inc

18h ago
🦾The Robot Report

Genesis AI launches Eno general-purpose robot

Genesis plans to begin Eno’s production and targeted customer deployments by the end of 2026, with home deployments coming later. The post Genesis AI launches Eno general-purpose robot appeared first

18h ago
Electrek

Baidu Apollo Go wins Level 4 robotaxi approval in Switzerland as AmiGo

Baidu’s Apollo Go has received a Level 4 autonomous driving permit in Switzerland for AmiGo, a robotaxi service it is running with Swiss Post’s PostBus, putting the Chinese tech giant ahead of Waymo a

18h ago
Electrek

Who killed the lightweight commuter e-bike?

There was a time, not all that long ago, when the electric bicycle industry seemed headed in a very different direction. The promise of the e-bike was elegantly simple: take a normal bicycle and make

18h ago
Electrek

Rivian just made it easier to save money on home EV charging

Rivian is partnering with ChargeScape to connect its EVs to utility-managed home charging programs across North America, giving owners new opportunities to save money while helping utilities manage el

19h ago
🚀SpaceNews

Geospatial industry launches maritime initiative

Growing demand from defense agencies and commercial shipping sectors is driving investment in maritime domain awareness technologies The post Geospatial industry launches maritime initiative appeared

19h ago
🚀SpaceNews

Deep Space Network antenna mishap blamed on poor training and procedures

A NASA investigation blamed millions of dollars in damage to one of its largest Deep Space Network (DSN) antennas on poor training and procedures. The post Deep Space Network antenna mishap blamed on

19h ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.

19h ago
🦾The Robot Report

Built Robotics, Penn xLAB to develop physical AI for construction

xLAB and Built Robotics partner to capture additional data, advancing AI models to improve construction site safety. The post Built Robotics, Penn xLAB to develop physical AI for construction appeared

20h ago
🚀SpaceNews

Tianwen-2 makes series of burns on approach to asteroid, according to radio tracking

China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has carried out a series of small propulsive maneuvers following a main burn June 7, setting up an asteroid rendezvous in July. The post Tianwen-2 makes series of burns on

20h ago
🦾The Robot Report

PSYONIC partners with ABB Robotics to apply human touch to robot dexterity

PSYONIC is combining its Ability Hand with ABB Robotics' GoFa cobot arm to apply data from prosthetics users to robotic grasping. The post PSYONIC partners with ABB Robotics to apply human touch to ro

1d ago
Electrek

Global EV sales hit 1.8 million in May as Europe races ahead

Global EV sales reached 1.8 million units in May 2026, according to new data from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, bringing total sales for the first five months of the year to 7.5 million vehicles.

1d ago
🚀SpaceNews

Gilat to buy Comtech satcoms business six years after failed merger

Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks plans to expand its defense capabilities by acquiring most of Comtech’s space-related communications business, six years after the U.S. company’s own takeover bid col

1d ago
🚀SpaceNews

Space Force orders two more GPS satellites from Lockheed Martin for $514 million

Contract brings GPS 3F orders to 14 satellites that add anti-jam features, digital payloads and upgraded civilian navigation signals The post Space Force orders two more GPS satellites from Lockheed M

1d ago
🚗Teslarati

Tesla Cybercab specs revealed: range, curb weight, range ratings, and more

Tesla’s Cybercab has taken a significant step toward production with new technical details emerging from 2026 EPA certification documents. The filings, which include a Certificate of Conformity issued

1d ago
🦾The Robot Report

Autonomous freight developer Einride goes public via SPAC

Stockholm-based Einride operates a fleet of heavy-duty electric trucks servicing Global Fortune 500 companies across the U.S. and Europe. The post Autonomous freight developer Einride goes public via

1d ago
🚗Teslarati

Tesla Cybercab snags huge regulatory green light that readies it for public roads

Tesla Cybercab, the all-electric ride-hailing-geared vehicle void of a steering wheel and pedals, has achieved a significant regulatory milestone. The vehicle has officially secured an EPA Certificate

1d ago
🚗Teslarati

SpaceX soars with its first launch as a public company, marking a new era

SpaceX executed its first Falcon 9 launch since going public on June 15, a routine yet symbolically powerful Starlink mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 bo

1d ago
🚗Teslarati

Tesla and SpaceX’s biggest bull just placed a massive $1B bet on the stock

Renowned investor Ron Baron, founder and CEO of Baron Capital, has once again demonstrated his unwavering faith in Elon Musk’s ventures. Just after SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO, Baron announced he pur

1d ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

SpaceX’s biggest-ever IPO just grew to $85.7B raised

SpaceX's IPO underwriters maxed out their share purchases, adding to an already historic amount of money raised.

1d ago
🚀SpaceNews

DARPA to explore ways to rapidly rebuild satellite networks if attacked

The agency is seeking novel concepts to restore critical satellite services within hours or weeks The post DARPA to explore ways to rapidly rebuild satellite networks if attacked appeared first on Spa

1d ago
🚀SpaceNews

What’s the Best Way to Monetize Space Energy?

By Marc Berte, Founder and CEO of Overview Energy AI is making energy valuable enough that we’re reconsidering where infrastructure should live. Space is increasingly where that conversation leads. Or

1d ago
🚀SpaceNews

Sustained maneuver has a propulsion problem

For years, space architecture was treated mostly as a question of placement: where to put a spacecraft, and how reliably it could hold position. That framing is now too narrow. […] The post Sustained

1d ago
🦾The Robot Report

Burro introduces Grande 44 with proven outdoor autonomy built for heavy industry

The 44 hp Burro Grande brings more than 1 million hours of real-world experience to industrial towing, site logistics, and facilities operations. The post Burro introduces Grande 44 with proven outdoo

1d ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?

Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."

2d ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

TechCrunch Mobility: SpaceX rockets past Tesla

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.

2d ago
🦾The Robot Report

Modernizing the global economy with industrial robotics is needed but not inevitable

While service robotics adoption grows, industrial automation faces greater demand and bigger obstacles, notes a columnist. The post Modernizing the global economy with industrial robotics is needed bu

2d ago
🤖IEEE Robotics

Visual Language Models Train Robots to Read Human Emotions

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As robots advance in terms of dexterity and other physical capabilities, it becomes more likely that hu

3d ago
🦾The Robot Report

Windows for robots: Edge AI expands usability

Before Windows, only engineers and computer scientists could work with computers. Edge AI is causing a similar accessibility shift for robotics. The post Windows for robots: Edge AI expands usability

3d ago
🦾The Robot Report

AI in warehousing: Akash Gupta’s vision for the future

Explore how GreyOrange's software revolutionizes warehouse automation with AI, transforming logistics into dynamic, predictive ecosystems. The post AI in warehousing: Akash Gupta’s vision for the futu

4d ago
🦾The Robot Report

MassRobotics announces the winners of 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star awards

Allison Okamura and Ayoung Kim won MassRobotics' 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star Medal, which honor women in robotics. The post MassRobotics announces the winners of 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising

4d ago
🟩NVIDIA

NVIDIA Blackwell Leads on First Agentic AI Infrastructure Benchmark

AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry’s first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to compare systems for agentic AI. In the first ro

4d ago
🦾The Robot Report

Robotics Summit panel explores the state of humanoid robot design

At the Robotics Summit & Expo, experts weighed in on humanoid robotics today — and the ability to achieve a $20,000 price point tomorrow. The post Robotics Summit panel explores the state of humanoid

4d ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

SpaceX IPO closes up 19% and delivers the world’s first trillionaire

The company made its heavily anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price.

4d ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint at a Tesla merger

A SpaceX-Tesla merger seems inevitable.

4d ago
🤖IEEE Robotics

Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school piqued her curiosity about the natural world. D

4d ago
🦾The Robot Report

Gatik to bring autonomous freight to PepsiCo’s North American supply chain

The partnership focuses on PepsiCo’s regional transportation networks, where it moves products daily from site to site. The post Gatik to bring autonomous freight to PepsiCo’s North American supply ch

4d ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

Robinhood sees ‘record-breaking’ traffic after SpaceX stock debuts

The trading platform says some customers experienced intermittent disruptions, but those issues have resolved.

4d ago
🤖IEEE Robotics

Video Friday: Robotic Motion Discovery Reveals Unusual Behaviors

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 month

4d ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, N

4d ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s historic IPO

The SpaceX IPO has boosted Musk's paper wealth to more than $1,000,000,000,000 at a time when he is more hated -- and powerful -- than ever.

4d ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

It’s hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, N

4d ago
🦾The Robot Report

Hello Robot is recognized by World Economic Forum as a tech pioneer

The World Economic Forum has honored Hello Robot, whose Stretch system provides mobile manipulation to older adults and people with disabilities. The post Hello Robot is recognized by World Economic F

5d ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever

Wits its official share pricing announcement, SpaceX's IPO has begun.

5d ago
🛰️TechCrunch SpaceX

SpaceX SPV investors won’t know their true holdings until post-IPO lock-ups lift

After SpaceX makes its public debut, lower-tier SPV investors face hidden fees, lengthy payout delays, and the risk of outright fraud.

5d ago
🟩NVIDIA

Save Big and Play Bigger: GeForce NOW Summer Sale Brings Major Membership Savings

The GeForce NOW summer sale kicked off today with limited-time savings of up to $70 off a 12-month membership, making now the perfect time to upgrade to get the best of the cloud and see just how far

5d ago
🦾The Robot Report

Inside XRZero-G0, a new 2,000-hour open dataset for robotics research

X Square Robot has open-sourced XRZero-G0, a framework that reduces real-robot training data requirements by up to 20x. The post Inside XRZero-G0, a new 2,000-hour open dataset for robotics research a

5d ago
🤖IEEE Robotics

Defining Autonomy for Wellness Robots in Senior Care

An examination of how socially assistive wellness robots could support the seven dimensions of senior wellness, and how a framework can measure their autonomy.What Attendees will LearnWhy the senior c

5d ago
🟩NVIDIA

For Robotaxis, Safety Must Be Built In, Not Bolted On

A car pulls up to the curb. The app says, “Your ride is here.” No one’s in the driver’s seat. For people who live in one of the dozens of cities now hosting robotaxi services, this is already a realit

6d ago
🟩NVIDIA

NVIDIA Accelerates Google DeepMind’s DiffusionGemma for Local AI

Today, Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma — an experimental open model built for exceptionally fast text generation. NVIDIA has optimized DiffusionGemma to run even faster across NVIDIA GeForce R

6d ago
🟩NVIDIA

NVIDIA Confidential Computing to Help Expand Apple’s Private Cloud Compute

NVIDIA GPUs with Confidential Computing are now used for confidential inference in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (PCC), as it expands beyond Apple’s data centers to Google Cloud.  Unveiled during Appl

Jun 9
🤖IEEE Robotics

Beyond Dexterity: Why Contact May Define the Next Era of Robotics

This article is brought to you by AGILINK.Throughout the exhibition hall at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics (ICRA), in Vienna, one demonstration seemed to attract a disproportionate

Jun 9
🤖IEEE Robotics

How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science

Thirteen years ago last August, I was camped out in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory press room in Pasadena, Calif., waiting to see whether the Curiosity rover would survive its descent and skycrane-a

Jun 9
🟩NVIDIA

How the UK Is Turning Sovereign AI Ambition Into Action With NVIDIA Technologies

A year ago at London Tech Week, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a declaration: the U.K. would be an AI maker, not an AI taker.  At this year’s event, NVID

Jun 8
🟩NVIDIA

NVIDIA and LG Group Build an AI Factory to Advance Physical AI, Mobility and AI Infrastructure

NVIDIA and LG Group are building an AI factory to accelerate LG Group’s next wave of AI-driven businesses, spanning robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services. The A

Jun 8
🟩NVIDIA

NVIDIA and Doosan Group Collaborate to Advance Physical AI and AI Factory Infrastructure

NVIDIA and Doosan Group are expanding their collaboration to advance new opportunities across physical AI, robotics and AI factory infrastructure, spanning Doosan Robotics, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Enerb

Jun 7
🟩NVIDIA

NVIDIA, KRAFTON, NC and Reigning ‘League of Legends’ Champions T1 Celebrate RTX Spark at Korea’s PC Bangs

At GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX last week, NVIDIA unveiled RTX Spark, the superchip that reinvents Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents. On the heels of this announcement, NVIDIA founder and CEO Je

Jun 7
🤖IEEE Robotics

Video Friday: Watch This Running Robot Not Fall Down Stairs

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 month

Jun 5
🟩NVIDIA

Seoul Purpose: How NVIDIA and South Korea Are Building the Future of AI

Home to cutting-edge sovereign AI infrastructure and robotics innovators, as well as one of the world’s most passionate gaming communities, South Korea is one of the world’s centers of AI. NVIDIA foun

Jun 5
🟩NVIDIA

Forecast: Fun Ahead — 18 Games Join in June to Stream on GeForce NOW

June’s forecast with GeForce NOW: 100% chance of gaming. GeForce NOW is lining up new adventures for the month, from big-name blockbusters to quirky indies ready for the spotlight. Members can dive in

Jun 4
🤖IEEE Robotics

This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors

In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like car

May 31
🤖IEEE Robotics

Video Friday: Extreme Omnidirectional Robot

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 month

May 29
🤖IEEE Robotics

Video Friday: Atlas Versus a Fridge

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 month

May 22
🤖IEEE Robotics

Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think

When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the bigger challenge is getting robots to think—and that’s start

May 21
🤖IEEE Robotics

The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces

This sponsored article is brought to you by Wetour Robotics.A field technician on a wind turbine, harness clipped, both hands on a wrench, needs to send a command to the diagnostic device hanging at h

May 21
🤖IEEE Robotics

Will Robotics Have a ChatGPT Moment?

Over the next few decades, billions of autonomous, AI-powered robots will work alongside people in factories, perform tedious tasks in warehouses, care for the elderly, assist in unsafe disaster areas

May 20
🤖IEEE Robotics

Robots Could Turn E-Waste Into a Source of Legacy Chips

Electronic waste is moving up on regulatory agendas in 2026. New European waste-shipment rules, expanded recycling fees on products with non-removable batteries in California, and an e-waste import ba

May 19
🤖IEEE Robotics

Home Robot Safety Is All About Relationships

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is updating its 12-year-old safety requirements for personal care robots. A lot has happened since the last revision, both on the technology si

May 19
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables

The startup specializes in "non-invasive" "mind-reading" tech — a kind of neural data collection that, its CEO hopes, will have all sorts of consumer applications.

Apr 28
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch

This is the largest early-stage funding in China’s brain computer interface industry.

Mar 12
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

Science Corp. raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to market

A source close to the company says the round assigns Science a post-money valuation of $1.25 billion.

Mar 5
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead

China’s brain-computer interface industry is rapidly scaling from research to commercialization, driven by strong policy support, expanding clinical trials, and growing investor interest.

Feb 22
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder

"You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain," Hodak says, "possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people."

Dec 5
🧬Ars Neuralink

OpenAI, cofounder Sam Altman to take on Neuralink with new startup

Aug 13
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Neuralink has been making serious progress. Soon Sam Altman and OpenAI could be backing a challenger.

Aug 13
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

Elon Musk’s Neuralink raises $600M at $9B valuation

Neuralink last year received "breakthrough device" clearance from the U.S. FDA. Three people have so far received implants made by Neuralink.

May 28
🧬Ars Neuralink

Neuroscientists are racing to turn brain waves into speech

Apr 21
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

Neuralink’s ‘breakthrough device’ clearance from FDA does not mean it has cured blindness

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-owned brain-computer interface company, on Tuesday received “breakthrough device” clearance from the FDA. But this does not mean the outfit has developed a cure for blindness,

Sep 17
🧬Ars Neuralink

Ars chats with Precision, the brain-chip maker taking the road less invasive

Jun 7
🧬Ars Neuralink

Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain

May 28
🧬Ars Neuralink

Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip

May 9
🧬Ars Neuralink

Musk claims Neuralink patient doing OK with implant, can move mouse with brain

Feb 20
🧬Ars Neuralink

Elon Musk claims Neuralink has implanted a brain chip in its first human

Jan 30
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

How soon can I get a computer-brain implant?

Welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news -- and you might be glad to know today was not all about OpenAI.

Nov 27
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, quietly raises an additional $43M

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-founded company developing implantable chips that can read brain waves, has raised an additional $43 million in venture capital, according to a filing with the SEC. The filing

Nov 25
🧬Ars Neuralink

Musk’s Neuralink seeks volunteers for brain implants—who’s in?

Sep 20
🧬Ars Neuralink

Neuralink says it has the FDA’s OK to start clinical trials

May 26
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

Talking with Future Ventures about its new fund, AI hype and Siri sucking (still)

For a firm whose bets are largely unpredictable, the early-stage venture firm Future Ventures has become very formulaic in its fundraising. Now entering its fifth year, the firm just closed a $200 mil

Apr 12
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

Neuralink human testing has reportedly received one FDA rejection already

Neuralink’s ambition to provide a brain-computer interface orders of magnitude better than what’s out there now has hit headwinds with the FDA, Reuters reports. The agency reportedly rejected the comp

Mar 2
🧬Ars Neuralink

Musk’s bid to start Neuralink human trials denied by FDA in 2022, report says

Mar 2
🧬Ars Neuralink

Neuralink transported brain implants covered in pathogens, group alleges

Feb 10
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

Precision Neuroscience is making brain implants safer, smarter and reversible

Brain researchers have relied on devices called microelectrode arrays for decades, but the technology behind these tools is increasingly outdated. Precision Neuroscience is building a modern alternati

Jan 31
🧬Ars Neuralink

Neuralink faces federal probe over alleged animal abuse, “hack job” surgeries

Dec 6
🧬Ars Neuralink

Over a year later, Musk’s Neuralink still 6 months from human trials

Dec 1
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

It sounds like Elon Musk is still trying to get out of his own Twitter deal

According to a new report from The Washington Post that relies heavily on anonymous sources, the world’s richest man is still looking for a way out of a $44 billion deal of his own making. The Post re

Jul 7
🧠TechCrunch Neuralink

Things get messy for Elon Musk with report about new twins he shares with Neuralink exec

Last month, Insider published an explosive report about a former SpaceX flight attendant who accused SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk of propositioning her for sex in 2016 and to whom the company paid

Jul 6
🧬Ars Neuralink

High-bandwidth wireless BCI demonstrated in humans for first time

Apr 28
🧬Ars Neuralink

The big advance in Elon Musk’s Pong-playing monkey is what you can’t see

Apr 9