Robotics funding has broadly cooled off since its 2021-2022 peaks, but plenty of the issues exposed by the pandemic remain firmly in place. The biggest push behind venture funding in the category is an ongoing labor shortage. Analyst firm Garner forecasts that by 2028, half of large enterprise compa
Malicious hackers can take over control of vacuum and lawn mower robots made by Ecovacs to spy on their owners using the devices’ cameras and microphones, new research has found.Security researchers Dennis Giese and Braelynn Luedtke are due to speak at the Def Con hacking conference on Saturday deta
Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI Institute), earlier known as The Boston Dynamics AI Institute.Both organizations were founded by Marc Raibert,
Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it has become the largest shareholder of South Korea-based robotics maker Rainbow Robotics, increasing its stake from 14.7% to 35% for KRW 267 billion (about $181 billion).The electronics giant, which paid KRW 86.8 billion (about $59 billion) for the 14.7% st
At CES 2025, Roborock unveiled a feature that it hopes could help its vacuums dethrone the Roomba: an arm.This is Saros Z70, the autonomous vacuum that comes equipped with a five-axis arm that unfolds from the top of the vacuum to pick up obstacles using onboard cameras and sensors.The S70 starts sh
LONDRES, 13 ago (Reuters) – La oferta mundial de petróleo aumentará más rápidamente de lo previsto este año y el próximo, a medida que los miembros de la OPEP+ sigan incrementando la producción y crezca el suministro procedente de fuera del grupo, dijo el miércoles la Agencia Internacional de la Ene
12 Ago (Reuters) – As ações europeias fecharam em alta nesta terça-feira, devido ao otimismo com a trégua tarifária entre os Estados Unidos e China e com cortes na taxa de juros pelo Federal Reserve, enquanto quedas nos papéis de tecnologia limitaram os ganhos.O índice pan-europeu STOXX 600 (.STOXX)
Mentee Robotics hasn’t been in stealth, exactly. The Israeli firm caught a small wave of press at the tail end of 2022, following Tesla’s initial humanoid robotics announcement. As that was the year of the startup’s founding, it didn’t have much to show off at the time. Even so, the firm caught some
CompaniesBaker Hughes CoFollowAug 15 (Reuters) – U.S. energy firms this week held the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating steady, energy services firm Baker Hughes (BKR.O), opens new tab said in its closely followed report on Friday.The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future ou
Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers, most notable of which is Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter reasoning vision language model for physical AI applications and robots.Also joining the existing batch of Cosmos world m
