Category: Robotics
Prepare for pitch battle: Startup Battlefield 200 nomin...
Nominations for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 are open. Pitch at Disrupt 2026 in October in front of top VCs and the full Tec...
Lucid Motors slashes 12% of its workforce as it seeks p...
The layoffs affect hundreds of full-time workers in the US, according to an internal memo obtained by TechCrunch.
Meta’s metaverse leaves virtual reality
Meta said it's shifting focus for Horizon Worlds to be "almost exclusively mobile" and that it will separate its Quest VR platform...
Toy Story 5 takes aim at creepy AI toys: ‘I’m always li...
Addictive, AI-enabled tablets are taking over, and also, Woody is balding in the new Toy Story movie, out June 19.
Threads posts can now be shared directly to your Instag...
The new Threads feature lets you share your posts — or anyone else's — to your Instagram Story without leaving the Threads app.
Tesla loses bid to overturn $243M Autopilot verdict
"The grounds for relief that Tesla relies upon are virtually the same as those Tesla put forth previously during the course of tri...
Ukrainian man jailed for identity theft that helped No...
A Ukrainian man has been sentenced for helping North Koreans gain fraudulent employment at dozens of U.S. companies and funnel tha...
Great news for xAI: Grok is now pretty good at answerin...
A new report from Business Insider reveals that high-level engineers at xAI were pulled off other projects to make sure Grok could...
All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact...
India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including Ope...
Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping
A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, image...
As browser wars heat up, Chrome adds new productivity f...
Split View, PDF annotations, and 'Save to Chrome' features come to the Chrome browser.
SpaceX’s Starbase city is getting its own court
Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its ow...
The boys’ club no one was supposed to write about
Reporter Zoë Bernard spent months talking to 51 people (31 of them gay men) to map out a subculture that's been an open secret in ...
Toyota contracts seven Agility humanoid robots for Cana...
The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger.
YouTube’s latest experiment brings its conversational A...
YouTube is testing conversational AI on smart TVs, allowing viewers to ask the assistant questions related to the video they're wa...
Why these startup CEOs don’t think AI will replace huma...
The CEOs of Read AI and Lucidya told TechCrunch at Web Summit Qatar that they see AI tools replacing tasks, rather than workers.
An AI data center boom is fueling Redwood’s energy stor...
Redwood Materials says its new energy storage business is the fastest growing unit within the company.
Google says its AI systems helped deter Play Store malw...
Google said it prevented 1.75 million bad apps from going live on Google Play during 2025, a figure that's down from previous year...
Cellebrite cut off Serbia citing abuse of its phone unl...
Cellebrite, which makes phone unlocking and hacking tools, stopped sales to countries that allegedly abused its tools. But after n...
Second and last chance for innovators to win scaling pe...
Last day to nominate for the 2026 Joseph C. Belden Innovation Award has been extended through February 27. Don't miss your chance ...
At a critical moment, Snap loses a top Specs exec
As Snap readies the public release of its long-awaited VR glasses, one of the key executives on the project has left the company.
FBI says ATM ‘jackpotting’ attacks are on the rise, and...
The FBI says hacks that trick ATMs into spitting out cash on demand are rising, with hundreds of attacks in the past year alone ne...
Nvidia deepens early-stage push into India’s AI startup...
Nvidia is working with investors, nonprofits, and venture firms to build earlier ties with India's fast-growing AI founder ecosyst...
Google’s new Gemini Pro model has record benchmark scor...
Gemini 3.1 Pro promises a Google LLM capable of handling more complex forms of work.
Ali Partovi’s Neo looks to upend the accelerator model ...
Neo's new Residency program invests $750,000 in an uncapped SAFE for startups and provides a $40,000 no-strings-attached grant for...
