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Skild AI has received investment from SoftBank, NVIDIA, Bezos Expeditions, and more as it builds a brain to operate any robot.

LG debuts the CLOiD humanoid robot at CES 2026, a dual-armed home assistant designed to automate daily household chores.

The editorial team reviews 2025’s top robotics stories, including iRobot’s bankruptcy, the humanoid boom, and Waymo’s scaling.

The companies intend to roll out up to 10,000 of 1X’s humanoid robots across EQT’s global portfolio of companies between 2026 and 2030.

iRobot negotiations with another potential acquirer fell through, and its main creditor has set a deadline of Jan. 15 for certain conditions.

CMU and King’s College London evaluated how robots using LLMs behave when they have access to personal information.

1X has launched consumer preorders for the NEO humanoid robot, which it said will be ready for human interaction and tasks around the home.

Figure AI is a new humanoid robotics unicorn as its valuation passes $39 billion and it plans to scale production.

The Japanese market will be the first international expansion of Intuition Robotics and ElliQ outside the U.S.

X Square Robot has raised funding to accelerate adoption of its Wall-OSS open-source foundation model and Quanta humanoids.

Things have gotten so bad that iRobot has suspended future financial guidance and opted not to host an earnings call for Q2.

Over a year after Vogt launched The Bot Company, and with no publicly unveiled prototype, the startup is valued at $3 billion.

Neura Robotics CEO David Reger explains how his company is staying focused on cognitive robotics as it scales for global growth.

1X has equipped NEO Gamma with improved conversational skills, a whole-body controller, improved manipulation, and more.

Move Digital is a global blockchain and AI technology firm specializing in developing applications for the B2B sector.

All consumer goods are heavily cost-driven. Household robots will be no exception, writes an Engineering.com columnist.

Toyota Research Institute demonstrated its research into machine learning, simulation, and manipulation in a virtual open house, which included a ceiling-mounted kitchen gantry robot.

Toyota Research Institute’s VP of robotics research explains how TRI is working on algorithmic techniques and simulation to improve manipulation for human-assist robots, eventually in the home.

The Laundroid consumer robot, which has been at CES for the past few years, hit the usual snags of price and performance, but other household robots will come.

iRobot splits its units, as the markets for both consumer and military robots have been profitable.