Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, giving Hyundai full ownership of the robotics company. The acquisition is expected to be approved on June 22, marking the completion of SoftBank's exit from Boston Dynamics.

Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players contributed to approximately 30 billion environmental scans to earn in-game rewards. Niantic Spatial has utilized these scans to train a camera-based navigation model for military drones and robots, which a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to implement.

NVIDIA and LG Group are collaborating to build an AI factory aimed at enhancing AI-driven businesses in robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies, and GPU cloud services. This facility will provide accelerated computing infrastructure to train, simulate, validate, and deploy AI applications across LG Group's key sectors.

AI startup Shift offers free home cleaning services to collect footage of cleaners in action. The recorded data will be used to train future cleaning robots.

A San Francisco startup is accused of secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, leading to property damage. Footage from a Ring camera captured individuals moving large cases into a home, and later, cables were observed taped to the walls.

Unitree Robotics has begun production of the GD01, a rideable transformer robot priced at approximately $537,000. This robot is marketed as the world's first mass-produced manned mech suit and is currently available only in China.

Waymo is expanding its autonomous vehicle services to Portland, Oregon, collaborating with state and city officials and community partners to establish a regulatory framework for deployment. Manual driving operations will commence as part of the groundwork for future service in the city.

Ace, an autonomous ping-pong robot developed by Sony's AI research division, has made history by competing against and defeating top-level human players in table tennis. This achievement marks the first instance of a robot reaching expert-level performance in a competitive physical sport that demands rapid decision-making and precision.

Realbotix has delivered its first Vinci-equipped humanoid robot to Ericsson, enabling the robot to track identity, behavior, and emotional signals during interactions. Vinci is a patented AI vision system designed to enhance human-robot interaction in enterprise environments.

Matthew Shifrin, who is blind, developed audio and Braille instructions to enable individuals with low vision to build Lego sets independently. This innovation allows users to follow detailed building steps without needing assistance from others.