For a long time, robots made little economic sense for food manufacturers juggling many recipes, each with its own mix of ingredients. Chef Robotics, a San Francisco startup that sells artificial intelligence (AI)-guided robot arms to food plants, now says its robots have handled more...
Building a house has gotten expensive enough that a family in Collin County, Texas, found even a smaller conventional home would run more than $300,000. The U.S. is short about 1.2 million homes, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) estimates, and builders can’t find...
Runway AI, a company building world models as well as platforms built on top of those models, has doubled its annual recurring revenue (ARR) since April, reaching $200 million, Co-Founder and Co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis said in a Tuesday (Sept. 8) post on LinkedIn. The platforms...
Warehouse automation has always been easiest where a company can build the environment around the machines: standardized bins, fixed conveyor paths, predictable inputs. The harder problem sits at the edges of a logistics network, where a package has to move from a trailer to a...
February 10, 2026
Despite high-profile demos from the likes of xAI and AWS and aggressive corporate roadmaps, PYMNTS Intelligence’s Wage to Wallet Index™ shows that workers who could be most exposed to automation are not acting as though humanoid robots are about to displace them at scale. Even among Labor Economy workers, the consumer group made up of […]
January 05, 2026
Everybody wants technology that can take over household chores, and at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, major tech companies suggested that moment may be closer than it once seemed. At...
May 09, 2025
Competition comes best in twos. Think Apple and Microsoft, Coke and Pepsi, McDonald’s and Burger King and many other famous pairings. It’s because a dose of healthy competition ultimately benefits...
February 03, 2025
Serve Robotics CEO Ali Kashani envisions autonomous delivery robots transforming urban logistics by optimizing the pickup and delivery of food and other products to lower the cost of last-mile delivery...
September 08, 2026
Runway AI, a company building world models as well as platforms built on top of those models, has doubled its annual recurring revenue (ARR) since April, reaching $200 million, Co-Founder and Co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis said in a Tuesday (Sept. 8) post on LinkedIn. The platforms Runway has built on top of its Real-World Intelligence models […]
August 24, 2026
Amazon has denied details cited in a media report about its plans for an automated delivery-station concept, saying the concept is one of many being evaluated and the plans will likely...
August 24, 2026
General Intuition, which is developing a foundation artificial intelligence model with potential applications in robotics, is finalizing a funding round that would value the company at $6 billion, TechCrunch reported...
July 21, 2026
U.K.-based robotics firm Humanoid says it is now a $1 billion company. The startup achieved that status, becoming “Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn,” after raising $152 million in a...
