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A white Waymo Jaguar I-Pace robotaxi with a sensor dome on its roof stopped at an intersection, with the San Francisco skyline behind it

US regulators question whether Waymo's school bus fix worked

The US traffic safety agency opened a new review after most reported school bus violations happened after Waymo's November 2025 software fix.

November 9, 2026

A bright blue Ambi Robotics robot arm with a suction gripper above a conveyor, with more identical arms lined up behind it and camera units overhead

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NVIDIA unveils GR00T 2 and Isaac Lab 3.0 to teach robots delicate work

At the Conference on Robot Learning, NVIDIA introduced an open robot model, a faster simulator and new benchmarks. The goal is robots that can handle gears, cables and small parts.

November 9, 2026

Side view of a gold Tesla Cybercab, a two-seat car with an open upward-swinging door, parked on display inside a Tesla showroom

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Tesla launches its robotaxi service in San Antonio, its eighth city

Tesla's Robotaxi is live in San Antonio with a 274 square mile launch map. The big question is how much of that map riders can actually book.

November 9, 2026

A teal robot with a lattice-shaped head, a camera in its eye socket and a soft torso shell stands on a gravel road in front of dark mountains

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Embodied AI unveils AIR, a wheeled robot built to work beside people without a cage

The Swiss startup's two-armed robot keeps its heavy parts in the torso, learns each job from a remote operator, and aims for CE marking in 2027.

November 9, 2026

An AGIBOT G2 humanoid robot with a scarf waves at a customer inside a Shanghai convenience store, with shelves of snacks behind it

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Four of six AGIBOT robots pass a 24-hour convenience store shift

AGIBOT put six G2 humanoid robots to work in a real Shanghai convenience store for a full day. They finished 1,730 tasks, and two of them failed the final review.

November 9, 2026

Three black carbon-fiber delta-wing Reaper jet aircraft lined up on a wooden workbench in a workshop, with an American flag on the wall behind

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A Georgia Tech student says his dorm-built jet hit 491 mph

Tomas Salvo says his $13,000 Reaper jet aircraft beat the 465 mph radio-controlled record. Nobody has verified it yet.

November 9, 2026

RobotsNovember 7, 2026
Axon invests $1.2 billion in Skydio and becomes its exclusive police drone seller
Axon's largest investment ever lifts its stake in drone maker Skydio to 37% and makes Axon the only seller of Skydio drones to police in the US and Canada.
RobotsNovember 6, 2026
Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch Gen 2, a tougher truck-unloading robot
The second Stretch unloads up to 1,000 boxes an hour and is built to break less. Boston Dynamics cut 81% of its internal cables and made repairs take hours, not days.
RobotsNovember 6, 2026
Zipline raises $1.5 billion as Walmart signs up 300 more drone sites
The drone delivery company is now valued at $21.5 billion, and Uber is aiming for one million Zipline deliveries a day by 2029.
RobotsNovember 5, 2026
China blocks SoftBank's $5.4 billion deal for ABB Robotics
ABB says China's foreign investment review office has barred SoftBank's purchase of its robot business in the country. Both companies say they are still talking.
RobotsNovember 3, 2026
Tutor Intelligence raises $75M to rent out warehouse robots by the hour
The MIT spinoff closed a $75 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz. Its robots work in factories and warehouses, and customers pay by the hour or by the pick.
RobotsNovember 3, 2026
Robots race up Mount Tai's 3,100 stone steps in China's first mountain contest
The inaugural CMG World Robot Mount Tai Competition sent legged and humanoid robots up a real mountain trail. A Unitree robot dog won the legged race in 43 minutes and 41 seconds.

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