<p>Beatbot makes robotic pool cleaners. In fact, the company is showing off a new one with a docking station this week at CES 2025. What really caught our eye on the show floor, however, is RoboTurtle, because, well, it’s a robot that looks like a turtle. The turtle, sadly, seems to very much be in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nvidia and Uber-backed Serve Robotics has raised $80 million via a direct offering of 4.2 million shares of common stock. The fresh cash will help the company extend its runway through 2026 and scale its fleet from the 100 robots on the streets of Los Angeles today to the 2,000 Serve hopes to deploy by [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nvidia and Uber-backed Serve Robotics has raised $80 million via a direct offering of 4.2 million shares of common stock. The fresh cash will help the company extend its runway through 2026 and scale its fleet from the 100 robots on the streets of Los Angeles today to the 2,000 Serve hopes to deploy by [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At CES 2025, German Bionic announced the Apogee Ultra, a new robotic exoskeleton it claims is the “world’s most powerful.” What did the system do to earn such a lofty title? It offers up to 80 pounds of dynamic lift assistance. That means a payload of 70 pounds feels more like nine to 11 pounds [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At CES 2025, German Bionic announced the Apogee Ultra, a new robotic exoskeleton it claims is the “world’s most powerful.” What did the system do to earn such a lofty title? It offers up to 80 pounds of dynamic lift assistance. That means a payload of 70 pounds feels more like nine to 11 pounds [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Robotics have been a foundational element of Nvidia’s stratospheric growth in recent years. When the chip maker announced GR00T in March of last year, it was heralded as a watershed moment from humanoid robotics. Most of the category’s biggest names were available from launch, including 1X Technologies, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Fourier [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Robotics have been a foundational element of Nvidia’s stratospheric growth in recent years. When the chip maker announced GR00T in March of last year, it was heralded as a watershed moment from humanoid robotics. Most of the category’s biggest names were available from launch, including 1X Technologies, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Fourier [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nvidia continues its expansion into robotics software with Mega, an Omniverse Blueprint designed specifically for robotic fleet management at scale. The offering, announced at CES Monday, specifically targets warehouses, a space that saw massive robotics adoption during the pandemic. Even so, most still lack significant automation. Companies like Locus Robotics have made significant headway in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nvidia continues its expansion into robotics software with Mega, an Omniverse Blueprint designed specifically for robotic fleet management at scale. The offering, announced at CES Monday, specifically targets warehouses, a space that saw massive robotics adoption during the pandemic. Even so, most still lack significant automation. Companies like Locus Robotics have made significant headway in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nvidia will no doubt have the biggest CES 2025. After all, the company has pretty much the biggest everything nowadays. The chip giant is sporting a $3.4+ trillion market cap, due largely to its foundational position in the ongoing AI boom. Companies like OpenAI and Meta have purchased Nvidia processors by the boatload, and that’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tech companies love rolling a robot out onstage. These systems serve as shorthand for consumer electronics brands branching out into a more bleeding-edge category. On occasion we get an Amazon Astro or Sony Aibo that actually hit the market in some form. More often than not, however, the robots only exist in the land of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda revealed Monday at CES 2025 his vision for a living laboratory chock-full of startups and technology. His message: Woven City — a prototype city on a 175-acre site at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan — is open for business and searching for inventors. &#8220;Today, I say to anyone [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Monday’s Toyota CES press conference was all about Woven City, the carmaker’s planned community at the base of Mount Fuji. Robotics will undoubtedly play a major role in the company’s bid to automate as much of the 2,000-person city as possible, including autonomous cars and drones designed to chaperone people back home after dark. One [&hellip;]</p>

<p>John Deere has a bunch of new products that it just showed off at CES 2025, including an electric robot lawnmower meant for commercial-grade landscaping. Powered by a 21.4 kWh battery — roughly a quarter the size of what you&#8217;d find on a passenger EV — the company says the mower is supposed to be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>John Deere has a bunch of new products that it just showed off at CES 2025, including an electric robot lawnmower meant for commercial-grade landscaping. Powered by a 21.4 kWh battery — roughly a quarter the size of what you&#8217;d find on a passenger EV — the company says the mower is supposed to be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>“These are the kind of jobs that we shouldn&#8217;t need people to do anymore,&#8221; founder Leo Ma said about dangerous factory jobs. </p>

<p>“These are the kind of jobs that we shouldn&#8217;t need people to do anymore,&#8221; founder Leo Ma said about dangerous factory jobs. </p>

<p>Best known for its Qooba cat pillow, Yukai Engineering has made a name for itself with some of the strangest little robots around. Who could forget, for example, Amagami Ham Ham, whose sole purpose is to gnaw on fingers, offering a “somewhat pleasing sensation.” At CES 2025, Yukai unveiled its latest, Mirumi, and it follows [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Yukai Engineering’s parade of weird animal robots at CES 2025 continues with Nékojita FuFu. The little cat mounts to the side of a mug or bowl, blowing air to help cool it off. The Tokyo-based firm says the robot combines a fan and “special algorithm” — or a “Fu-ing System” — to blow at random [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Yukai Engineering’s parade of weird animal robots at CES 2025 continues with Nékojita FuFu. The little cat mounts to the side of a mug or bowl, blowing air to help cool it off. The Tokyo-based firm says the robot combines a fan and “special algorithm” — or a “Fu-ing System” — to blow at random [&hellip;]</p>