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Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robot, which ICE has ordered in a deal reported at up to $2 million

ICE Is Buying Boston Dynamics Spots. A Video Saying They'll Be Used in Deportations Is Now Front-Page News

Skild AI says its S1 robot foundation model enables in-context learning, letting robots take on long tasks from a single demonstration video

Skild AI's S1 Learns a New Task From One Video. No Retraining Required

A group of white-and-black humanoid robots performing a synchronised demonstration at a humanoid robot exhibition zone in Serbia, with Serbian signage in both Cyrillic and English.

Europe's First Humanoid Robot Mass-Production Factory Just Opened — in a Serbian Town Most Maps Skip

A white capsule-shaped Galbot convenience store on Hong Kong's Hung Hom waterfront, with the G1 humanoid robot visible inside behind the counter at dusk.

Hong Kong's First Robot-Run Convenience Store Is Open, and the Payoff Isn't the Tech — It's the Rent

A haul truck operator in a high-vis vest and bucket hat reviewing autonomy dashboards in a mine site control room at dawn

Caterpillar thinks mining taught it how to deploy AI — and it's betting $100 million on that

Unitree humanoid robots performing in formation at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing.

China's Robot Games Were a Flex. The Failures Were the Point.

The Wonik Allegro Hand, a four-fingered robotic hand with 16 torque-controlled joints, widely used in robotics manipulation research.

South Korea Is Spending $254 Million to Solve the One Problem That Makes Humanoid Robots Expensive

A humanoid robot sprinting on an athletics track while a spectator in a bright beanie watches from the stands

A Humanoid Just Ran the 100m in 8.64 Seconds. Enjoy the Record While It Lasts.

Three Microduck robots from Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics standing on a platform with a small white ball between them

Hugging Face's Robot Ducks Did $2.6 Million in 24 Hours — and Christmas Is Off the Table

Render of the SWIFT-Build concept showing robotic assemblers and drones constructing a modular timber building, by Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners Will Let Robot Swarms Build a Timber Pavilion From the Top Down

Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robot, which ICE plans to purchase at amounts up to $2 million for inspection and hazard-assessment work

ICE Plans to Spend Up to $2 Million on Boston Dynamics Spot Robots

Robot arms working among server racks in an AI data centre, illustrating Meta's maintenance robotics trials

Meta Is Testing Robots That Swap Cables and Reset Servers in Its Data Centers