Ubitium, a semiconductor startup building a “universal processor” for machines that perceive, think and act in the real world, has announced $14 million in new seed funding. The round was led by Ibex Investors, with participation from OpenOcean, existing investors including KBC Focus Fund, Runa Capital and Inflection, and Florian Seibel, co-founder and co-CEO of […]

PlusAI has moved a step closer to becoming a publicly traded company, filing registration documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for its proposed merger with special purpose acquisition company Texas Ventures Acquisition III Corp. The transaction, first announced in September, values autonomous driving technology developer PlusAI at approximately $800 million in pre-money equity […]

Symbotic, a specialist in AI-enabled robotics technology for the supply chain, has announced the acquisition of cellumation, a Bremen, Germany-based automation company and creator of the celluveyor, a patented, software-driven sortation technology. The celluveyor is made up of hundreds of independently controlled, omnidirectional cells. Each cell can move an item in any direction, meaning the […]

South Korean entertainment technology company Galaxy Corporation has staged a synchronized performance involving 16 humanoid robots in New York as part of a demonstration combining robotics with K-pop and other entertainment content. The company deployed the humanoid robots in Times Square for what it described as a K-pop “Peace Flash Mob”, held as part of […]

Odyssey, an AI research company pioneering foundation world models, has announced Odyssey-3, its most powerful world model to date. The new model represents a significant advance toward general-purpose intelligence that can understand, predict, and interact with both physical and virtual environments. World models learn from vast examples of the world evolving to predict and simulate […]

Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, and the Arab Federation for Digital Economy (AFDE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance the deployment, localization and commercialization of embodied AI and robotic solutions in the United Arab Emirates and the wider GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) and Middle East markets. The agreement was […]

Stäubli Robotics will host its first North East European Robotics & Automation Summit at its Welcome Center in Bayreuth, Germany, on November 19 and 20, following a restructuring of its sales operations across Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The company has consolidated its sales activities across the region, with overall responsibility centralized at its Bayreuth […]

Physical AI company Sereact, online retailer Zalando and CEVA Logistics have announced the launch of AI-powered automated returns processing across key fulfillment facilities in Germany (Greven) and Poland (Świebodzin). Powered by Cortex, Sereact’s physical AI platform, the dual-arm robotic systems have entered live operations to autonomously process returned fashion items, marking the initial phase of […]

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, […]

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 […]