At its investor day in New York, Lucid (LCID) introduced the Lucid Lunar. A two-seat robotaxi concept with no steering wheel and no pedals.

Urban air taxis were supposed to arrive by now. For years, the industry promised fleets of electric robotic aircraft flying over cities and cutting travel times from hours to minutes.

Amazon (AMZN) just plugged its Zoox robotaxi company directly into Uber’s (UBER) ride network. And that one move could reshape who controls the future of autonomous rides.

Flying robo-taxis are here. The FAA just gave the electric air taxis (eVTOL) industry a big green light.

Chinese company Honor just strapped a robot arm onto a smartphone. It effectively created a robotic camera smartphone that can move on its own.

For years, Alphabet (GOOGL) kept its robotics project parked off to the side inside X and “Other Bets.” That’s where experiments live. But the Google robotics strategy was evolving.

What if a robot didn’t have to ask the cloud what to do next? That’s the promise of edge AI moving from theory into real machines. It is the shift Toshiba just signaled. 

Humanoid robots aren’t coming “someday” anymore, they’re already doing stage tricks that would’ve been sci-fi last year.

Amazon (AMZN) has pulled the plug on Blue Jay. Its multi armed warehouse robot, less than six months after debuting it in a same day delivery facility in South Carolina. 

China just turned its biggest television event into a humanoid robot demo. At this year’s CCTV Spring Festival Gala, humanoid robots headlined comedy sketches and took the center stage. 

Waymo has begun deploying its sixth-generation driverless system in a new robotaxi called Ojai, now carrying employees and their guests in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Upside Robotics just raised $7.5 million to accelerate agricultural robotics and attack one of agriculture’s dumbest inefficiencies.

China just pulled ahead of the United States in humanoid robotics startups. Barely. 23 companies to America’s 22. And in 2025 alone, investors poured 2.65 billion dollars into humanoid robotics.

Alibaba (BABA) just open sourced a robotics AI model called RynnBrain, built to power machines that can see, understand, and act in the physical world.

At the start of the year, I made a prediction in Disruption Investor: “2026 will be the year investors stop valuing Tesla (TSLA) as an ‘automaker’... and start valuing it as an energy and robotics company.”

Tesla (TSLA) just made two moves that, together, look like a change in identity. It put $2 billion into xAI. It also said it will stop producing the Model S and Model X, and repurpose factory space for robots.

Robotics company Serve Robotics (SERV) just crossed a line it will never uncross. The company that made its name trundling burritos down sidewalks is buying its way into hospitals.

Oshen just sent tiny ocean robots straight into a Category 5 hurricane, marking a breakthrough in hurricane data collection and proving they can send live data back from extreme conditions.

Elon Musk announced that his robotics digging firm The Boring Company will build a one mile tunnel for free. The winner gets real infrastructure, not a feasibility study or a consultant slide deck.

OpenAI robotics strategy is taking shape as the company seeks US-based suppliers while preparing a broad expansion into hardware, robotics, and data center infrastructure.