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Uber startet Robotaxis in London – vor Waymo und Baidu
Uber bietet Fahrten mit Robotaxis von Wayve in London an. Damit überholt der US-Fahrdienst Waymo, der Ende 2025 ankündigte, Robotaxis nach London zu bringen.
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Uber startet Robotaxis in London – vor Waymo und Baidu
Uber bietet Fahrten mit Robotaxis von Wayve in London an. Damit überholt der US-Fahrdienst Waymo, der Ende 2025 ankündigte, Robotaxis nach London zu bringen.

Uber launches London's first commercial robotaxi service; the vehicles use Wayve's autonomous driving tech and will initially have human safety drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/988415/uber-wayve-robotaxi-london-launch…

Uber beats Waymo as first to launch robotaxis in London
Uber beat Waymo to launching robotaxis in London. The ridehail company is working with UK startup Wayve to bring cars powered by AI, cameras, and radar to the foggy streets of England’s capital.

There are just 59 Robotaxis on the road, Bloomberg reports,
with at least some of them still requiring physical human supervision.
Its efforts to expand past its home base in Austin, Texas are floundering,
with the company forced to admit to California state regulators that its self-driving cabs don’t actually drive themselves, according to the reporting.
This incremental progress would be permissible at a smaller company.
But Musk has persistently wooed investo…

Tesla's Robotaxis Are a Complete Disaster
Behind the scenes, the reality is that Tesla's much-hyped Robotaxi program sounds like an absolute hot mess.

A study of Waymo robotaxi data for 13.8M trips from August 2023 to December 2025: the share of miles driven with a passenger onboard climbed from 36% to 56% (Jonathan M. Gitlin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/robotaxi…

Autonomous vehicles were supposed to cut traffic—what if they don't?
Data shows Waymo's robotaxis are empty for almost half of the miles they drive.

The Trump administration is expanding its protection of the AI industry beyond today’s leading labs.
It is now willing to step in on behalf of an emerging robotics sector that is still barely finding its footing
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/0

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics
The FTC has banned foreign-made humanoids, making a fragile, nascent sector part of America’s AI industrial policy.

Mückenabwehr in der Wohnung: Entwickler baut KI-gestütztes Lasersystem
Um sich der Mücken in seiner Wohnung zu entledigen, hat ein Robotik-Experte monatelang ein KI-gestütztes Lasersystem gebaut.
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Mückenabwehr in der Wohnung: Entwickler baut KI-gestütztes Lasersystem
Um sich der Mücken in seiner Wohnung zu entledigen, hat ein Robotik-Experte monatelang ein KI-gestütztes Lasersystem gebaut.

Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics, which develops spatial tech to let autonomous robots operate in complex, GPS-denied environments, raised a $125M Series A (Duc Dao/TNGlobal)
https://technode.global/2026/07/03/sin

Singapore's dConstruct raises $125M Series A as RoboNexus accelerator concludes inaugural cohort - TNGlobal
Singapore-based dConstruct Technologies has closed a $125 million Series A funding round, marking the standout achievement of the inaugural cohort of Singapore's RoboNexus accelerator, a venture-building program under the National Robotics Program.

A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome (Kai Williams/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-humanoid-robots-wont-catch-up

Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon
A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.

Alpamayo 2 Super, Nvidia's frontier open reasoning model for robotaxis and AVs, is now available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license (Jessica Soares/NVIDIA)
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/alpamayo-2-super-open-model-now-available/

NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super, the Frontier Open Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Vehicles, Now Available for Commercial Use
Open commercial licensing, benchmark‑leading reasoning and inspectable decisions bring autonomous vehicles, including robotaxis, closer to production and widescale deployment.

Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…