AI security firm, depthfirst, announces $40 million Series A
Cybercriminals are increasingly using AI in their attacks. At the same time, cyber defenders are also turning to the technology to fight back. Depthfirst, a…
Category: Ai/Robotics
VoiceRun nabs $5.5M to build a voice agent factory
Nicholas Leonard and Derek Caneja wanted to build AI voice agents, but when they went to build the product, they felt many of these voice…
CES 2026 robotics recap; industry experts make predictions
In Episode 226 of The Robot Report Podcast, hosts Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman recap the major robotics news of the week. They discuss…
Microsoft announces glut of new data centers but says it won’t let your electricity bill go up
Although public backlash against data centers has been intense over the past 12 months, all of the tech industry’s biggest companies have promised additional buildouts…
A3 releases full three-part national safety standard for industrial robots
The standard outlines all of the latest industrial robot workcells and application safety guarding requirements. | Image generated by Gemini AI The Association for Advancing…
A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google’s AI agent shopping protocol — Google says she’s wrong
Shortly after Google announced its new Universal Commerce Protocol for AI-powered shopping agents, a consumer economics watchdog sounded the alarm. In a now viral post…
X Square Robot secures $140M in funding for AI foundation models
The Quanta X2 semi-humanoid robot Source: X Square Robot While artificial intelligence has advanced with large language models, or LLMs, robots need to understand the…
Ring founder details the camera company’s ‘intelligent assistant’ era
What does it take to bring a burned-out founder back to the company he sold to Amazon? For Jamie Siminoff of the video doorbell maker…
Doctors think AI has a place in healthcare – but maybe not as a chatbot
Dr. Sina Bari, a practicing surgeon and AI healthcare leader at data company iMerit, has seen firsthand how ChatGPT can lead patients astray with faulty…
Neo humanoid maker 1X releases world model to help bots learn what they see
1X, the robotics company behind the Neo humanoid robot, has unveiled a new AI model that it says understands the dynamics of the real world…