Nevada approves permits letting Tesla deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in the Las Vegas area over the next year, while Waymo and Uber are each allowed up to 1,000 (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/tesl
"Earth is the cradle of humanity
but one cannot live in the cradle forever"
-- taken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Ex…
12th European TramDriver Championship in Warsaw
Probably the best thing happend today
https://youtube.com/live/R1PeT9Zeiow
> Experience the best moments of the 12th European TramDriver Championship in Warsaw in full - featuring all 52 competition runs by 25 teams from 24 nations.
Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from companies like Nvidia (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
Blackstone agrees to invest an undisclosed sum in South Korea-based Futronic, which makes actuators used in industrial robots, sources say at a ~$675M valuation (Manuel Baigorri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, a retrofit autonomous control appliance that mounts on excavators (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/17/gr
The Chinese city of Hangzhou deploys traffic-control robots that operate autonomously, using cameras and radar to signal traffic and flag violations (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-puts-robocops-traffic-duty-minus-arrest-…