By Amber Atherton, early stage investor, partner at Patron For decades, science fiction has imagined the future of robotics as a single humanoid capable of doing everything around the home. Silicon Valley has largely adopted the same vision. Every few months brings another humanoid demo, followed by predictions that one general-purpose machine will absorb countless […]

X Square Robot is showcasing its full portfolio of embodied AI technologies at the World Robot Conference 2026 in Beijing, presenting applications ranging from logistics automation and dexterous manipulation to household robotics and AI training-data collection. The Shenzhen-based company is exhibiting at booth C107 during WRC, which runs from August 19 to 23, bringing together […]

South Korean electronics giant LG is developing a next-generation bipedal humanoid robot built using Nvidia Isaac GR00T, Nvidia’s open reasoning humanoid foundation model, for a public unveiling in the first quarter of next year. LG and Nvidia signed a memorandum of understanding on August 13 at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, with chairman and […]

Sony has filed a US patent application for a robotic hand featuring a human-like opposable thumb, providing another intriguing indication of the electronics giant’s continuing research into humanoid and embodied robotics. The application, US 2026/0225261 A1, was published by the US Patent and Trademark Office on August 6 and describes a robot hand designed to […]

The rapidly expanding global robotics industry could require 363 TWh of electricity annually by 2035 – equivalent to the yearly consumption of around 35 million average US households – according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. The finding arrives as energy capacity planning is already under pressure from AI data centres, making robotics a second […]