Wall Street Journal — Inside China’s Dark Factories Where Robots Run the Show WSJ cameras step onto the shop floor of “lights‑out” electric‑vehicle plants where AI‑directed welders, gantry robots and AGVs keep assembly lines humming 24/7—no lights, no humans, no breaks.

Hardware sales grab headlines, but Richtech Robotics’ $4M China deal is really about software lock-in. Licensing Adam, Scorpion & Titan opens a data pipeline into Asia’s service economy—fuel for smarter, stickier robots. Will Western firms pivot from unit sales to recurring

Moody’s newest data‑story maps the 2025 global robotics race and shows that, while Germany, Japan and the US still top the technology leader‑board, China is sprinting ahead on sheer volume—shipping more robots and racking up the highest annual installations thanks to massive

⚡️ Zero human entry, zero excuses. Can a robot change industrial safety forever? 15 Jul 2025 proved it might. ₹5.5 Cr Pre‑Series A led by O2 Angels propels Unibose Technology’s ATEX‑Zone‑0 robot into scale mode (valuation undisclosed). Founder & CEO Manikandan

When AI meets waste, downtime turns into megawatts. Jaipur Robotics just grabbed fresh fuel for that mission — €153K non‑dilutive from Venture Kick. The pre‑seed top‑up lifts total funding to ~€880K and keeps the runway clear through 2026 ahead of a larger Seed. Co‑founder

RT HealthTech, spun out of CUHK and co-led by David Shi (buff.ly/byjVaFF), just demoed soft, inflatable knee- and elbow-braces that slip under clothing and add “artificial muscle” via a pocket-sized air pump. The timing is hard to ignore: Hong Kong’s 65+ population will

Cartken has quietly rerouted its fleet from ferrying burritos across college quads to lugging 660-lb parts between factory bays for ZF and Mitsubishi plants. Its new Hauler, Runner and soon-to-launch robotic forklift all run the same vision stack honed on crosswalk chaos—no

🚀 Fresh Robotics Intel Just Dropped China 5×‑ed its robot density in six years and now logs half of all new installs worldwide. Moody’s interactive deep‑dive shows how AI economics + muscular policy are rewriting factory playbooks. That’s just one bite from this week’s

Business Insider — Robotics Application Engineer Is an AI‑Created Role That’s Here to Stay. 30‑year‑old Hanut Singh of Chef Robotics details how smarter, cloud‑connected robots have spawned a new breed of “application engineers” who straddle AI, systems integration, and

Riyadh — not Silicon Valley — could supply the next gigawatt of AI compute. Elon Musk’s xAI is negotiating with Saudi-backed HUMAIN for hyperscale capacity measured in gigawatts, while an alternative 200-MW site offers a faster on-ramp. Together they would extend xAI’s Memphis

PitchBook’s July 17 brief lays out how venture funding for robotic foundation‑model (RFM) startups rocketed past $2.2 billion in 2025—a 7× jump since 2023—while profiling leaders such as Figure AI, Skild AI and Physical Intelligence, and warning that data scarcity and

94 % technical success in brain aneurysm repair—now delivered by a robot, not a wrist. Six-month data from the CorPath GRX trial, presented by Dr. Vitor Pereira at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery, show 117 patients treated across six countries: no unplanned handovers

Forget the flashy humanoids - ByteDance is teaching robots to learn like ChatGPT, not walk like Atlas. Its new GR-3 vision-language-action model couples web-scale V-L pre-training with just ten VR-captured human demos to fold cloth, bus tables, and pick unseen objects. Early

🚨 Robot guard dogs just fetched $26M! Meet the new top dog in perimeter security. Asylon Robotics closed a $26M Series B led by Insight Partners, with Veteran Ventures, Allegion Ventures & GO PA Fund on board. CEO Damon Henry says this fuels scaling of DroneDog and its

Tesla posted Q2 results that reflect the transition headwinds it warned about. Revenue fell 12% to $22.5B, while EPS came in at $0.40, missing Street estimates. Automotive gross margin held up at ~15% even as regulatory credit sales plunged 51% and deliveries declined 13.5%. Elon

👉 Booster Robotics secures RMB 100M+ in Series A+ — a massive step towards mass-producing practical humanoid robots! Kudos to Shoucheng Holdings and co-investors for powering the next wave of embodied AI. Founded by Cheng Hao in 2023, Booster Robotics’ RMB 100M+ Series A+

The real loyalty killer in grocery isn’t price—it's execution. Simbe’s new shopper survey shows 48 % of consumers have caught a price mismatch and 1 in 3 regularly meet empty shelves. No surprise only 54 % would recommend their primary store today. The cost of those

Robots have finally put their (metal) hands where ours fear to tread. This week Sellafield Ltd and partners AtkinsRéalis, Cavendish Nuclear and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority retro-fitted a fully-articulated arm inside a live glovebox—tackling 60-year-old legacy waste

Silicone skin just got a £950k upgrade. AnthroTek is taking Hollywood SFX tech into medtech & robotics—and investors just wrote the cheque. Seed round: £950k at a £10.5m pre; post jumps to ~£12m when a further £550k closes. Lead: a discreet French family fund tied to early

Centimeter accuracy just got a $50M boost. Swift Navigation just closed its Series E to push Skylark into every car, robot and pallet on earth. Led by Crosslink Capital (with NEA, Eclipse Ventures, TELUS Global Ventures and others returning), the raise takes total funding past