Deep Dive
Definitive Guide to Home Robots: Escaping the Vacuum Closet and Finding Your Living Room
Home robots are moving beyond vacuums into helpers, companions, and surveillance risks. This guide explains the tech, business, safety, and hype.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: The Robotaxi Industry’s 2026 Reality Check
Robotaxis are finally carrying paying riders at scale. This guide explains the tech, economics, safety fights, and why geofences still run the show.
AI
RoSHI Turns Human Motion Into Robot Homework — Finally, a Tracksuit for Humanoids
RoSHI is a nine-sensor suit plus Meta-style glasses for harvesting real-world movement data. It is ingenious, faintly absurd, and exactly how robots become better interns.
Robotics
Apptronik’s Mega Series A Puts Apollo Humanoid Robots Into Overdrive
Apptronik raises over $935M in a massive Series A to scale Apollo humanoid robots, backed by Google, Mercedes-Benz, and DeepMind.
Robotics
Robots, But Make Them Practical: Stryker Introduces Mako RPS for Knee Surgery
Stryker has introduced Mako RPS, a handheld robotic system for total knee replacement that blends robotic precision with the familiarity of manual surgical tools.
AI
Cyngn and NVIDIA Showcase AI-Powered Autonomous Forklifts and Robotics Tech at Automatica 2025
In today’s episode of “What If We Just Automated Everything and Called It Innovation,” Cyngn has announced it’s teaming up with NVIDIA to bring us simulated forklifts.
Snark Bytes
Snark Bytes: Dexterity Raises $95M to Teach Robots the Joys of Manual Labor
Dexterity just raised $95 million and announced it with a LinkedIn post so brief it felt like an afterthought. No details, no fanfare, just a link to a much longer Bloomberg feature, because why explain your own vision when a paywall can do it for you?