Hyundai Factory Partially Halted Over Union Dispute on Boston Dynamics Atlas Deployment
A Hyundai factory in South Korea has partially shut down amid a union dispute centered on the deployment of Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot — marking what appears to be the first time a fight over humanoid robots has halted automotive…
Hyundai-Kia MobED Robot Completes First Autonomous Driving Test Aboard a Working Ship
Hyundai Motor and Kia have completed what they describe as the world's first autonomous driving demonstration of a mobile robot aboard a working vessel, testing their MobED platform in the cargo hold and passageways of a ship at berth . Th…
AeroVironment Lands $500M Pentagon Counter-Drone Contract, Taps Teledyne FLIR for AI Sensors
The Pentagon awarded AeroVironment a $500 million contract to procure commercial counter-drone technology for the U.S. military over the next three years . The three-year, sole-source Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) agreemen…
AGIBOT Launches Robot-as-a-Service Model in Australia and New Zealand
AGIBOT hosted the Australia and New Zealand AGIBOT Partner Conference (APC) 2026 in Melbourne on July 17, 2026, launching a Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) model and a suite of industry-specific embodied AI solutions for the two markets . The co…
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RANKED · 12 THIS DAYUnitree G1 Humanoid Robot Performs First Live Surgery, Published in Nature
A general-purpose Unitree Robotics G1 humanoid robot has completed laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgeries on two live pigs via remote teleoperation — the first time a general-purpose humanoid robot has performed a standard live microsur…
ABB to Acquire Rotork for 503 Pence Per Share in All-Cash Offer
ABB announced on July 16, 2026, that it has agreed to acquire Rotork plc, a global provider of intelligent flow control solutions, through a recommended all-cash offer at 503 pence per Rotork share . ABB described Rotork's mission-critical…
NHTSA Targets 2028 Deadline for Federal Robotaxi Safety Standards
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is pushing to finalize new federal safety requirements for autonomous vehicles by 2028, NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg . The agency plans to…
Ubtech Tops 13,000 Pre-Orders for Consumer Humanoid, Inks Mercedes-Benz Dealer Distribution
Ubtech Robotics has accumulated more than 13,361 pre-orders for its UWORLD U1 consumer humanoid robot series and signed a distribution deal that will place the machines in luxury car dealerships across northern China . The Boshi Group, a s…
Medicaroid Wins CE Mark for Hinotori Surgical Robot, Eyes European Market
Medicaroid Corporation obtained CE marking under the EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR 2017/745) for its hinotori surgical robot system, announced on July 10, 2026 . The approval enables the Kobe-based company to market the system in EU mem…
Xiaomi open-sources 38B-parameter model unifying four embodied-AI tasks
Xiaomi has open-sourced Xiaomi-Robotics-U0, a 38-billion-parameter multimodal autoregressive foundation model that unifies four distinct robot task categories within a single framework . Code and weights are available on GitHub, HuggingFace…
LimX Dynamics drives full-size humanoid through unedited household task sequence
LimX Dynamics has demonstrated its full-size humanoid robot Oli autonomously completing a continuous sequence of household tasks in a real home environment, without teleoperation or video editing . The 31-degree-of-freedom robot performed c…
Neuracle Completes First Commercial Invasive BCI Implant in China
Chinese neurotechnology company Neuracle has completed what it describes as the world's first commercial surgery using a regulatory-approved invasive brain-computer interface device, implanting its NEO-ONE SCI system in a patient at Shangha…