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Humble Robotics, which is building cabless electric autonomous trucks for regional routes under 250 miles, raised $51M, taking its total funding to $75M (www.businessinsider.com)
8 hours ago Robot

Agility Robotics is set to begin trading on the Nasdaq under AGLT after a SPAC merger, the first dedicated humanoid robotics company to go public in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
12 hours ago Robot

Sources: China has told SoftBank it will not allow the $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics division to go ahead; China is the division's biggest market (www.ft.com)
20 hours ago China Robot

ITjuzi: Chinese embodied AI companies raised ~$13B across 322 deals in H1 2026, up 5x YoY, as robot makers shift focus from hardware to AI (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago China AI Robot

Apple HomeView Ultra, Drone and Laundry-Folding Robot Reportedly In Development (hardware.slashdot.org)
3 days ago Apple Robot Drone

Tutor, which is training a frontier robot foundation model and builds AI warehouse robots, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z, taking total funding to $117M (www.forbes.com)
3 days ago AI Robot

Sources: Apple is developing a tabletop robot with a 9" screen and a swiveling arm, set for release in 2027 or 2028 for ~$1,000, as John Ternus pushes robotics (www.theinformation.com)
3 days ago Apple Robot

Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell these units (www.theinformation.com)
5 days ago China Robot

Q&A with Sam Altman on finding PHP bugs, sandboxing superhuman models as an unsolved safety dilemma, robotics scaling data centers, math, agent swarms, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
7 days ago Robot Mathematics

A look at Toyota's robotics push, from its Walden spinoff to its $6.4B annual plan to deploy 400K factory robots, as it competes with Tesla, Xpeng, and Hyundai (www.ft.com)
7 days ago Tesla Robot Toyota

Foundry, a manufacturing-as-a-service startup that builds factories with robots powered by physical AI models, raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike (www.theinformation.com)
8 days ago Startup AI Robot Manufacturing

Sources: AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise $1B+ led by Avenir and Lux Capital at a ~$20B valuation, up from $11.5B earlier in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Startup AI Robot Intelligence

London-based Machenta, which is building an AI model that can teach robots new physical tasks after seeing them performed just once, raised a $40M seed (www.businessinsider.com)
9 days ago AI Robot London

Indian and Russian forces deploy drones and robotic systems in simulated combat (www.rt.com)
10 days ago Russia India Robot Drone

Bedrock Robotics, which makes driverless excavators and other autonomous construction machines, raised a $600M Series C at a $4.1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Robot

A look at Toyota's robotics expansion, including its Walden spinoff and a $6.4B annual plan to deploy 400K factory robots, as it competes with Tesla and China (www.ft.com)
10 days ago China Tesla Robot Toyota

a16z rebrands a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier and expands the fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies (fortune.com)
14 days ago Startup AI Robot

Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing (www.axios.com)
14 days ago Robot Asset

Maxinsights, which creates training data for robots using first-person footage from cameras worn by 5,000+ contractors, raised a $30M seed led by Peak XV (www.forbes.com)
14 days ago Robot

Enact, which develops full-stack tech for general-purpose robots, emerges from stealth with a $30M pre-seed from Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun, and more (tech.eu)
14 days ago Robot

Secret trigger words could make AI-powered robots dangerous -- and these researchers developed a defense (www.eurekalert.org)
15 days ago AI Robot

Reliable Robotics, which develops an autonomous flight system, raised a $115M extension for its $160M Series D, pushing its valuation to $1B+ (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Robot

Eka Robotics, which is developing a “vision-force-action” architecture for its physical AI models, raised a $150M Series A at a $1.45B post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago AI Robot

Amazon pledges to spend €16B+ in Germany in 2027 on AWS and AI data centers, its Leo satellite program, Prime Video media production, and a Berlin robotics lab (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Germany Amazon AI Robot

Dream Labs, which offers an API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures (www.forbes.com)
17 days ago Robot

'Human Vs. Robot' Cage Match Was Illegal, Says California (hardware.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Robot California

Woman Arrested After Blocking Delivery Robot to Protest Job Displacements (hardware.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Robot

Sources: SoftBank weighs buying US security services giant Allied Universal at an ~$18B equity valuation, as Masayoshi Son explores deploying AI-powered robots (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago AI Robot Equity

Police Seize Robot that Sexually Assaulted Teen Girl (hardware.slashdot.org)
20 days ago Robot

Austin-based Icon, which builds robotic 3D-printing construction systems and software, raised a $200M Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock (www.axios.com)
22 days ago Robot

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