Boston Tech
Cognex Bets $500 Million on RealSense Because Robots Should See the Forklift
Natick-based Cognex agrees to acquire RealSense for about $500 million, betting on depth cameras and robot perception beyond the humanoid demo circuit.
Boston Tech
Boston Dynamics Opens Atlas Factory School, Where the Homework Is Car Parts
Boston Dynamics opens an Atlas robot training center at Hyundai’s Georgia plant, turning Waltham robotics into a serious test of factory automation.
Boston Tech
MIT’s HardFlow Gives Generative AI a Deadline for Obeying the Rules
MIT’s HardFlow steers generative AI toward outputs that obey hard constraints, a promising research step for robotics with real-world limits still ahead.
Robotics
Maine’s Robots Print Houses, Pilot Boats and Milk Cows
Maine robotics runs on 3D-printed homes, autonomous boats, defense vehicles, factory cobots and dairy machines—not humanoids doing backflips.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: World Humanoid Robot Games 2026 Turn China’s Industrial Policy Into Contact Sports
More than 2,000 humanoid robots are racing, fighting and folding laundry in Beijing. The spectacle is China’s industrial strategy in sneakers.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: Travis Kalanick’s Podcast Comeback Is Selling Atoms—and Travis Kalanick
Travis Kalanick’s podcast surge is a masterclass in founder reintroduction. Here is what Atoms does—and why his reputation is now infrastructure.
Boston Tech
Massachusetts Put AI Safety and Robotics Funding in the Same Very Long Homework Assignment
Massachusetts lawmakers passed a $575.4 million package pairing AI safety rules with robotics funding and research support. The hard part is implementation.
Boston Tech
Hyundai Is Buying All of Boston Dynamics, Because Atlas Needs a Factory More Than Applause
Hyundai is taking full control of Waltham-based Boston Dynamics as Atlas moves from viral robot demos toward factories, manufacturing, and real work.
Boston Tech
Walden Robotics Raised $300 Million to Put Cambridge Robots on the Factory Floor
Cambridge startup Walden Robotics raised $300 million for trainable factory robots already working at Toyota, making Boston’s physical AI bet concrete.
Boston Tech
Boston Dynamics Put Atlas on the World Cup Stage, Because Waltham Never Does Anything Casually
Boston Dynamics put Atlas and Spot into FIFA World Cup 2026 operations, giving Waltham robotics its biggest global stage yet.
Boston Tech
Boston Dynamics Is Building a Bigger Waltham Robot Lair
Boston Dynamics will invest $100 million in a new Waltham robotics and AI center, adding 1,250 jobs by 2033 in a serious Massachusetts flex.
Boston Tech
MIT Built a 6 Milliwatt Robot Chip Because Boston Thinks HVAC Ducts Need Homework
MIT's new Gleanmer chip maps 3D space for tiny robots at under 6 milliwatts, giving Boston robotics another deeply practical flex.