19 Jun 2026
Elon Musk challenges Tesla credit rating from Moody’s after SpaceX gets a higher one
Elon Musk has publicly questioned Moody’s credit assessments following the rating agency’s decision to assign SpaceX a Baa1 investment-grade rating, two notches above Tesla’s Baa3. The comments came amid discussions comparing the two companies’ financial profiles.
Joey Klender
2026
19 Jun 2026
New robot plugs moving wires with 99.5% accuracy in factory test
Canadian robotics company Sanctuary AI has reported a significant achievement in industrial automation. The firm said its system achieved a task success rate of more than 99.5 percent during a complex wire-plugging task for a global Tier 1 automotive supplier.
@IntEngineering, Jijo Malayil
2026
19 Jun 2026
Hyundai Motor Group is Boston owned by Softbank GroupIt will buy all of the remaining shares (9.65%)..
Hyundai Motor Group is Boston owned by Softbank GroupIt will buy all of the remaining shares (9.65%) of Imix and incorporate them into 100% subsidiaries. It's Boston at SoftBank in June 2021It is the first independent management in five years since the acquisition of Lee Na-mix.
News Desk
2026
19 Jun 2026
Chinese Workers Are Controlling Humanoid Robots With VR
Shelving unit // Image by Kait Cunniff with DALL-E Why It Hits: There are plenty of startups trying to put autonomous robots into homes à la The Jetsons — but the technology really isn’t there yet. What these robotics, AI, and VR systems are currently good enough for is enabling people to control humanoids at scale.
David Ernesto Vendrell, David Vendrell
2026
19 Jun 2026
Robots pour cocktails and run marathons, but still can’t multitask
BOSTON – They can mix cocktails, run marathons and fold laundry. But humanoid robots are still a long way from doing lots of different jobs on command, whatever the marketing says.
Thomas Urbain
2026
19 Jun 2026
Humanoid Robots: 18 Companies Racing To Build The Next Big Thing In AI
Humanoid robots are moving from science fiction into factories, warehouses and potentially our homes, as tech giants and ambitious startups race to bring them into the real world. Adobe Stock Humanoid robots are having their ChatGPT moment. For decades, they belonged in science fiction, glossy lab demos and viral videos. Now they are starting to appear in factories, warehouses and test homes,…
Bernard Marr
2026
19 Jun 2026
United States - Advising On Neura's USD1.4B Funding Round
Drawing on our experience in venture capital, we have advised Lingotto on its investment in Neura robotics as part of a USD1.4B fundraising round.
News Desk
2026
19 Jun 2026
[Exclusive] Hyundai Motor Group to Buy More Boston Dynamics Shares, Making It a Wholly Owned Subsidiary
SoftBank to sell its 9.6% stake Put option agreement worth about 500 billion won Final decision to be made at an extraordinary board meeting Move to strengthen control and speed up IPO Boston Dynamics research unit RAI To be sold to SoftBank for $100 million Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot Atlas practices a soccer pass. Hyundai Motor Group Hyundai Motor Group will buy additional shares in Boston…
News Desk
2026
18 Jun 2026
Anthropic's Claude Model Outperforms Humans in Robot Control
AI technologies have begun to surpass human capabilities not only in writing text and code but also in performing complex tasks in the physical world. A new stage of the Project Fetch experiment conducted by Anthropic showed that the Claude Opus 4.7 language model acts dozens of times faster and more efficiently than inexperienced operators in controlling robotic devices.
Abror Shuhratov
2026
