Robotics Daily

• Tesla's Cybercab turns one month old, gets to stay up until 11 PMCNBC calls Cybercab's first month of rides in Austin "rocky" and says the hard part, expanding, comes next.Oct 4, 2026
• FieldAI raising $700M at $10B for a humanoid brain, humanoid not includedThe startup building one brain for humanoids, robot dogs and drones is reportedly raising at five times its $2B valuation from 2025, close to Physical Intelligence (about $11B) and Skild AI ($14B+).Oct 3, 2026
• Boston Dynamics gives Atlas four-finger hands, betting the pinky was never load-bearing13 degrees of freedom (up from 7), no pinky, a motor in every joint and touch sensors, built for tool use and sim-to-real training, with a target of 100K hands a year.Oct 2, 2026
• Figure retires F.02 in a vat of molten steelFigure trained its retired F.02s to jump, on their own, into a 75-ton arc furnace in Finland, a Terminator-style sendoff with Arnold Schwarzenegger.Oct 1, 2026
• Dyna's Taku runs a laundry room alone for an hourDyna released Dyna-2.1 and Taku, a wheeled semi-humanoid, with uncut footage of it running a whole hotel-style laundry room workflow.Sep 30, 2026