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Issue #1

Compiled July 17, 2026
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Who’s hiring

Live data

The companies adding robotics & autonomy headcount right now — ranked by open roles. Pulled live from 3,011 tracked employers.

Amazon120 rolesDormont Manufacturing Company82 rolesAnduril Industries54 rolesRobotics Prcocess Automation, LLC33 rolesWaymo31 rolesBlue Origin28 rolesCushman & Wakefield26 rolesBooz Allen Hamilton25 rolesJobtailor25 rolesRobotics Technologies LLC25 rolesTesla24 rolesEnergy Jobline ZR23 rolesFieldAI23 rolesNVIDIA23 rolesErnst & Young Oman22 rolesApplied Intuition22 rolesMeta22 rolesTorc Robotics21 roles
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Papers worth reading

Sample

New work from the labs shaping the field.

Diffusion Policies for Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation
Stanford, UC Berkeley — New benchmark for multi-finger reorientation.
Manipulation
Whole-Body Model-Predictive Control for Humanoid Locomotion
ETH Zürich — Real-time MPC on a 30-DoF humanoid.
Locomotion
Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs for Mobile Robots
MIT CSAIL — Language-grounded navigation without maps.
Perception
Sim-to-Real Transfer with Learned Actuator Dynamics
CMU RI — Closes the gap on quadruped hardware.
Sim2Real
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News

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The stories moving the industry this week.

Humanoid startup raises $400M Series C to scale factory pilots
The Robot Report
Funding
Warehouse automation leader ships 1M+ mobile robots milestone
IEEE Spectrum
Industry
New open-source manipulation stack hits 10k GitHub stars
Hacker News
Open Source
Autonomous trucking pilot expands to three new interstate corridors
TechCrunch
Autonomy
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Events & conferences

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Where the robotics community gathers next.

Jun 2026Conference
ICRA — Int’l Conference on Robotics & Automation
Vienna, Austria
Jul 2026Conference
RSS — Robotics: Science and Systems
Los Angeles, USA
Nov 2026Conference
CoRL — Conference on Robot Learning
TBA
Dec 2026Conference
IEEE Humanoids
TBA
Oct 2026Industry
RoboBusiness
Santa Clara, USA
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