Self-driving cars, humanoid robots and factory automation carry risks that standard auto, property and liability policies don’t usually cover. Insurers are now building a new line of business around machines that drive, move and decide on their own. Some of the new policies pay for...
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...
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...
October 28, 2026
Autonomous factory company Foundry Robotics is planning an expansion of its manufacturing footprint after raising $100 million. The company said its Series A round, announced Wednesday (Oct. 28), will allow it to build out its facility in Emeryville, California, and to accelerate deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) models into real-world manufacturing, and expand its robotics […]
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...
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...
