Robotics

On the night of March 1, 2026, a driverless Waymo robotaxi blocked an ambulance trying to reach a mass shooting in downtown Austin, Texas.

Cut a traditional robot in half and you have two broken robots.

Mind Robotics just raised $500 million at a $2 billion valuation to tell the robotics industry it has been thinking about this all wrong. The company, spun out of electric vehicle maker Rivian in November 2025, is not building humanoids.

Physical Intelligence, the two-year-old San Francisco robotics startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers Sergey Levine and Brian Ichter alongside former Stripe executive Lachy Groom and academic co-founders, is in talks to raise about $1 billion in new funding at a valuation exceeding...

When the Israel-Gaza war opened, one AI system produced more than 37,000 targets in the first weeks.

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Canada is spending nearly a billion dollars to build drones without buying them from the United States. Ottawa announced March 26 that the National Research Council will invest over [C$900 million](https://www.canada.ca/en/national-research-council/news/2026/03/new-programs-to-support-canadas-de...

Browse Island is seventeen hectares of coral and scrub, one hundred and eighty kilometers off the Kimberley coast, and last October it received seven hundred kilograms of bright green pellets dropped from a six-rotor drone.

The triple-decker on Gilman Street in Somerville, Massachusetts went up in four days.

Three years.

Richtech Robotics claimed a Microsoft partnership.