DataraAI is developing robotic automation technology designed to enable industrial robot arms to connect cables and other components during the assembly of AI servers and racks – a task that is still largely performed manually. (See video below.) The California-based company is targeting operations including routing cables, seating connectors and handling wiring harnesses, where conventional […]

Faraday Future is planning to bring a robotics factory online in the United States by the end of 2026 as the electric vehicle company accelerates its expansion into humanoid and other embodied AI robots. The California-based company says it aims to have the first new robot from its “Built in USA” program roll off the […]

The humanoid robotics industry is increasingly dominated by companies promising general-purpose machines capable of performing a growing range of industrial tasks. Minerva Humanoids is taking a rather different approach: start with jobs where replacing the human body has an immediate and potentially life-saving purpose. The San Francisco-based company has developed Roger, a semi-autonomous humanoid designed […]

Minerva Humanoids has emerged from stealth with approximately $10 million in pre-seed funding to develop semi-autonomous humanoid robots for hazardous work in the energy and public safety sectors. The funding round was led by General Catalyst, with Long Journey Ventures and Credo Ventures as co-leads. MVP Ventures, Kaya, RunwayFBU, Compound, Founders Embassy, Hugging Face, Codecademy, […]

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Aigen says it has developed a simulation and world-model system that can train its autonomous agricultural robots to work with new crops in less than a week. The company’s Alchemy simulation platform generates synthetic, pixel-level annotated training data that is used to train its solar-powered “Element” robots before they are deployed in fields. Aigen says […]

Agile Robots CEO Zhaopeng Chen says “physical AI is going to be 10x bigger than automotive” as the Munich-based robotics company expands its manufacturing, AI development and humanoid robot operations. Chen made the prediction at the company’s Physical AI Media Day in Munich and Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany, where Agile Robots opened its engineering laboratories, Robots Academy […]

RobCo says it has “surpassed a $1 billion valuation” as it builds the next generation of autonomous industrial robotics, doubling its valuation in just nine months. The deal brings new investment into RobCo while giving long-standing employees the opportunity to realize part of the value they have helped create since the company’s founding. Existing investors […]

donut robotics has entered into a capital and business alliance with Japanese nursing home operator Charm Care Corporation to develop humanoid robots for eldercare applications. Charm Care, which operates more than 100 private nursing homes in the Kansai and Greater Tokyo areas, will invest ¥300 million (approximately $2 million) in donut robotics through a subscription […]

Teradyne, a provider of automated test equipment and advanced robotics systems, and Bright Machines, a next-generation manufacturer bringing AI and data center infrastructure production to the edge, have announced a strategic investment by Teradyne in Bright Machines. The investment accompanies a strategic collaboration focused on integrating Teradyne robotics and test technologies with Bright Machines’ software-defined […]

SafeWorld, an AI lab building robot safety simulation technologies, has emerged from stealth with $12.2 million in seed funding co-led by Shine Capital and a16z Speedrun, along with Box Group, Carnegie Mellon University Endowment, Innovation Endeavors, SV Angel, and other venture capital and angel investors. SafeWorld’s platform provides safety testing and simulation software to help […]

Hello Robot has received a Phase IIB Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, to advance the use of its Stretch mobile manipulator robot in supporting older adults with mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer’s dementia. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is Hello Robot’s […]

Agility Robotics, a humanoid robotics company, and FORT Robotics, a safety platform for machinery, have formed a a partnership to further advance the safety infrastructure of Digit 5, Agility’s next-generation humanoid robot engineered for cooperatively safe work at scale. The partnership will deepen a historical, multi-year engagement that has grown from a single custom hardware […]

At the recent Humanoid Robots Summit 2026 in Stuttgart, Vector Informatik, PEM Motion, and FMC³ Robotics signed a memorandum of understanding at Vector’s headquarters to jointly develop a standardized data infrastructure for industrial embodied AI. The agreement combines the partners’ complementary strengths in production engineering, standardized industrial data technologies, robotics, and embodied AI to support […]

Global humanoid robot shipments approached 25,000 units in the first half of 2026, up 432.1 percent year on year, according to the latest market data from International Data Corporation (IDC). Agibot ranked first globally, shipping more than 8,600 humanoid robots during the period and accounting for approximately 35 percent of global shipments. The latest figures […]

Neura Robotics is entering healthcare. The company is bringing physical AI, and the cognitive robots built on it, to one of the most structurally strained sectors in modern economies: healthcare and life sciences, where staff shortages and capacity limits leave care teams with too little time for patients. And the gap is widening: the World […]

Astribot, a Shenzhen, China-based physical AI company, showcased its T1 humanoid robot to North America for the first time at IROS 2026, which took place from September 27 to October 1 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company demonstrated its integrated approach to physical AI spanning continuously improving AI models, […]

Boston Dynamics has unveiled a new four-finger hand for its Atlas humanoid robot, designed to combine the dexterity needed for complex manipulation and tool use with the strength and durability required for industrial work. The new hand has 13 degrees of freedom (DOF), including a four-DOF opposable thumb, and uses direct actuation together with dense […]

Flexiv, a specialist developer of general-purpose robotics, has participated at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026), which finished yesterday.  Attendees visited booth 922 inside the David L. Lawrence Convention Center to watch and interact with live demonstrations of next-generation robotic capabilities. Powered by high-precision force control and artificial intelligence, Flexiv’s […]

Runway, one of the best-known developers of generative AI video technology, is moving into robotics with Praxis-1, an open-weight AI model designed to use knowledge learned from video to control physical robots. “Open-weight” means developers can download the model and run or adapt it themselves, rather than only accessing it through Runway’s servers. The company […]