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Allegedly trashing Airbnbs to test robots puts startup in legal trouble

A San Francisco robotics startup is being taken to court by an Airbnb host who claims the company’s “robotic prototype testing” caused extensive damage to his home. In the lawsuit filed on May 26, 2026, Sean Donovan is seeking more than $12,000 in damages from the Bay Area startup The Bot Company. The court case […]

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Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training

A tech startup is offering New York City residents free home cleaning with a twist—it will send “professional cleaners” wearing cameras to record everything they do. All that data will supposedly be used to train AI-driven robots. The unusual pitch comes from the German startup MicroAGI, whose website describes the company as a “team of

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3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild

A $2,500 pair of humanoid robot legs built from 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components is not going to win marathons just yet. But such relatively inexpensive hardware could enable researchers to more easily test and train AI-powered robotics software in a physical body during real-world experiments. The newly available LeRobot Humanoid project comes from the

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