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 […]

ANYbotics has launched Shift, a new software platform designed to manage fleets of autonomous inspection robots and connect the data they collect directly with industrial maintenance and enterprise systems. The platform brings together plant mapping, robot fleet management, inspection data and maintenance workflows, enabling companies to operate multiple robots and organize their findings around existing […]

Chipmaker AMD has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, an AI model and research lab led by AI pioneer Dr. Fei-Fei Li. The acquisition will bring a world-class team of researchers and model experts to AMD, strengthening its ability to develop AI hardware, software and systems around the needs of emerging models […]

Boston Dynamics has released Spot 5.2, a major software update designed to connect its quadruped robots more closely with enterprise systems and enable AI agents to trigger autonomous inspections and other actions on the factory floor. The release expands the capabilities of both the company’s Spot robot and Orbit fleet management software, with new integrations […]

Inbolt, which gives industrial robots the ability to see, think, and adapt in real time, has announced $12.5 million in funding. The round was led by new investor Shift4Good, a venture capital firm focused on decarbonizing transportation and energy, and joined by Bridges Climate Transition Partners, a specialist private markets investor focused on the transition […]

Agentic AI workflows can be used to prepare and validate digital twins for physical AI systems. Agents can inspect 3D scenes, author simulation-relevant data in...

Agentic AI workflows can be used to prepare and validate digital twins for physical AI systems. Agents can inspect 3D scenes, author simulation-relevant data in OpenUSD, add physics properties, render preflight views, and validate the result against simulation-ready (SimReady) requirements. This workflow follows that process from a scene in Blender to a simulation-ready OpenUSD handoff for NVIDIA…

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Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run...

Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run locally on edge hardware. Developers building agents have had to route inference through a data center, adding network dependency, increasing costs, and exposing data that may need to stay on device. That constraint is lifting.

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A perception stack is shaped by the vehicle that carries it. Move the same software to a new carline—for example, from an SUV to a sedan or another vehicle...

A perception stack is shaped by the vehicle that carries it. Move the same software to a new carline—for example, from an SUV to a sedan or another vehicle variant in the portfolio—and its perception of the world changes. The sensor placement, calibration, fields of view, occlusions, body geometry, timing, and coverage all shift. A traffic light may appear in a different part of the frame.

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