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The business of robots and AI: factory and warehouse automation, the deals and funding behind them, and the data centres and power they depend on.
The robot that picks raspberries: inside the Norfolk trial automating British soft fruit
Fieldwork Robotics is trialling its four-armed Fieldworker 1 at Place UK near North Walsham. How it finds a ripe berry, what it can really pick, who is funding it, and what fleets from 2027 would need.
The robot dog patrolling a UK building site: how McLaren is using Spot to check progress
After trials including the LSE's 35 Lincoln's Inn Fields refurbishment, McLaren Construction is deploying Spot robots with FieldAI software to scan sites, compare them with the design model and patrol for safety.
Tesla starts building Optimus robots in Fremont, but Musk says the ramp will take a year
Tesla says the first production-quality Optimus humanoids are rolling off a Fremont line. Musk's own timetable, 20,000 a week and outside customers around the end of 2027, shows how far there is to go.
Intel asks the FCC for a lifeline for its factory robots
A US ban on foreign-made advanced robots has caught the automated vehicles that shuttle silicon wafers around chip plants, and Intel wants an exception.
Anthropic's leaked IPO filing: $16bn in revenue, an $80bn loss and a $750bn computing bill
A draft of the Claude maker's share prospectus gives the clearest look yet at the economics of frontier AI: revenue up fifteenfold, a huge paper loss and compute commitments on an extraordinary scale.
Madrid becomes Europe's robotaxi battleground as Bolt picks NVIDIA to drive 25,000 cars
Bolt will start testing driverless Lucid cars in Madrid in 2027 using NVIDIA's software, a day after Waymo said it was coming too. Europe's carmakers are lining up behind the same platform.
Tesla and SpaceX set up merger committees: what it could mean for AI and robots
Elon Musk says both boards have formed independent committees to weigh a combination, reportedly worth around $3.5 trillion. No deal exists yet, but Optimus and AI sit at the heart of the pitch.
Britain bets £40m on eight robotics adoption hubs
From surgery to farming to waste sorting, the government wants British businesses actually using robots, not just building them in labs.
How is Britain doing in the humanoid race? A spotlight on UK robotics
From Shadow Robot's hands to Humanoid's new unicorn, the UK is strong on robot dexterity and AI. Building robots in volume, and keeping its best companies British, is another matter.
Microsoft walks away from Britain's flagship AI data centre, and the grid is to blame
The Loughton site in Essex was meant to be the UK's biggest sovereign AI data centre. Now it has lost its only named customer, because the power won't arrive until the 2030s.
Nine minutes to charge, 20 hours a day: the British battery behind the next Digit humanoid
Agility Robotics has picked Cambridge-based Nyobolt to power Digit 5. Battery life is the unglamorous problem that decides whether humanoid robots ever pay their way.
NVIDIA's $250m bet on Britain as the world's AI safety lab
The chip giant is giving five years of computing power to UK researchers working on safer AI agents, and robots are part of the plan.
From chatbots to robots: DeepSeek's move into physical AI
The Chinese AI lab is reported to be leading a funding round for Winverse AI, a robotics start-up valued at around $400m. It's part of a wider race to give robots a brain.