Amazon's Proteus Warehouse Robot Can Now Speak Your Language Amazon has unveiled a significantly upgraded version of Proteus, its flagship autonomous warehouse robot, and this iteration comes with a capability that sets it apart from every generation before it:... AI Amazon Automation Enterprise Robotics Jun 4, 2026
Hugging Face Opens the First App Store for Robots, and It’s Already Hosting 200+ Apps Robots have long suffered from a software problem. You can buy impressive hardware, but making it do something useful usually means writing code from scratch or paying for expensive integrations. That... AI Developer Platforms Hugging Face Open Source Robotics May 7, 2026
Ouster’s Color Lidar Pushes Robots Toward Fewer Sensors and Richer Perception Ouster is trying to simplify one of robotics’ hardest hardware problems: how machines understand the physical world. The lidar company announced its Rev8 lineup, which TechCrunch reports can capture c... AI Hardware Autonomous Vehicles Lidar Robotics Sensors May 4, 2026
Meta’s Robotics Startup Deal Points to Bigger Humanoid AI Push TechCrunch published a new report, Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions , and the headline is worth watching because it lands in a period when technology strategy is moving ... AI Enterprise Tech Robotics Startups Tech News May 2, 2026
Meta Robotics Deal Signals a Bigger Race to Train Humanoid AI Meta is moving deeper into robotics, and the strategic signal is bigger than one startup acquisition. TechCrunch reported on May 1 that Meta bought Assured Robot Intelligence, a humanoid robotics star... AI Enterprise Tech Meta Robotics Startups May 1, 2026
SoftBank’s Robotics Data Center Bet Shows AI Infrastructure Is Becoming a Factory Business Published April 29, 2026, US Central. SoftBank is reportedly creating a robotics company focused on building data centers, with TechCrunch noting that the group is already thinking in terms of a possi... AI Infrastructure Data Centers Enterprise Tech Robotics SoftBank Apr 29, 2026
Beijing Humanoid Half-Marathon Breakthrough Shows Robotics Is Moving Into Real-World Endurance A new result from Beijing's robot half-marathon is drawing attention well beyond the robotics community. TechCrunch reports that the winning machine posted a dramatically faster time than the previous... Automation China Tech Embodied AI Robotics Apr 19, 2026
Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 to Improve Real-World Robot Reasoning Google DeepMind has introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 , positioning the update as a meaningful step toward robots that can reason more effectively in physical environments. While many AI announcements... AI Automation Gemini Google DeepMind Robotics Apr 14, 2026