Robotics

In one Dublin trial, a Manna drone delivered a defibrillator to a cardiac arrest scene in 3 minutes 42 seconds. Now the Irish startup has $50M and a plan to open 40 U.S. bases — and it wants to be invisible while it does it.

EPFL built a robot that gets more reliable the more modules it has. When a central unit goes completely dark, its neighbors bring it back to life.

300 km/h. 32 km range. $1,000 price tag. These are the specs of the drone Japan is betting on.

Goldman Sachs expects 35,000 robotaxis in the U.S. by 2030 — about 8 percent of today's ride-hail market. Uber's CEO told a podcast full of billionaire optimism that replacing 9.5 million human drivers is a generational event. He did not say what happens to the people in between.

Ryan Gury built drones for arenas at 90mph. Now his company is making them for warzones, and the Army just signed three contracts.

Twelve dumb acrylic particles on a vibrating plate form a solid, then liquefy, then scatter like a gas — no code, no chips, no batteries. The trick: the shape IS the algorithm.

10,000 Chinese humanoid robots are already in warehouses and factories across Europe and the US — and every one can receive remote firmware updates from Shanghai. Nobody has a procurement framework for that.

A Saronic autonomous ship crashed into another during a Navy test last July. Six months later the company is valued at $9.25B, promising 20 ships a year before the shipyard to build them exists.

A Ukrainian combat robot held a frontline position for 45 days on a single battery charge. The person running it sat four kilometers behind the line of contact. That is the confirmed part. Everything else is contested.

Tennant bet $32M on Brain Corp when it had 6,500 robots in the field. Now there are 40,000. Clean 2.0 is the first product of that deal.

When AI agents exist in the physical world, a wrong decision has consequences no chatbot hallucination ever could.