The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
Check out the highlights of the second annual World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.

Anthropic has released the Model Hardware Standard in research preview, a specification that stores how a piece of hardware works and how an AI may safely operate it, such as limiting a robot arm’s speed and angles. Europe’s Machinery Regulation starts…
It waddles… it roller-skates… it plays ball… it learns.
Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.

Unitree’s shares have fallen roughly 45% from the peak they hit on their first day of trading in Shanghai. The slide has turned a national success story into an argument about how China prices its listings. The stock steadied on Tuesday after three con…

NEURA Robotics is buying a company that makes cleaning robots, and says it wants to replace their brains. The German firm is acquiring 100% of Adlatus Robotics, an Ulm maker of autonomous cleaning and sweeping machines. It announced the deal on Monday,…

XPENG said on Monday that its robotics business has raised more than $900M in what the company described as its first funding round, a substantial sum for a unit that has yet to sell a single robot commercially. The timing is deliberate, since the Chin…