Archives - 2026

AutoStore agreed to acquire Dutch pallet-robotics specialist Logiqs for up to €30 million, with Q4 closing expected and wider platform integration to follow.

Estonia’s government backed a bill enabling robotic pharmacies with video-linked pharmacy professionals, with parliamentary approval still needed before March 2027.

Xiaomi showed two humanoids sorting car parts over an eight-hour trial, with two charging breaks and a wheeled robot helping recover a dropped component.

Unitree, AGIBOT, Galbot, Xynova and Intel are set to put humanoids, dexterous hands and physical-AI deployment on the agenda in Lisbon on November 9–12.

Pudu brought six robot lines to its Amsterdam summit, outlining shared AI technology for delivery machines, cleaning robots, semi-humanoids and quadrupeds.

Unitree’s GPT-6 robot demos show painting and board-game skills without task-specific model training, but supplied tools and control software remain essential.

Tan Y’s rubber-tapping robot combines lidar navigation with a guided cutting head, as its Vietnamese development team prepares for larger plantation trials.

ABB confirms China has prohibited SoftBank’s acquisition of its local robotics business, putting a regulatory obstacle in the $5.375 billion deal.

NVIDIA-backed Agility Robotics is scheduled to begin Nasdaq trading under AGLT on November 5 after completing its Churchill Capital XI merger.

Realbotix has renamed its Echo humanoid platform Series 1, bringing the product line under its corporate brand as reservations continue for 2027 delivery.

StarBot is promoting Spark, a compact 22-DOF humanoid with a $7,999 standard starting price, for education, programming and supervised research.

Tutor Intelligence has raised a $75 million Series B led by a16z to expand robot workers that learn through real deployments and remote human assistance.

Boston Dynamics has unveiled Stretch Gen 2, redesigning its warehouse robot for greater durability, simpler maintenance and up to 1,000 cases per hour.

Zurich-based Enact Intelligence has raised $30 million to combine force-aware actuators with AI, backed by Yann LeCun and Arthur Mensch.

Schaeffler plans 3,460 European job cuts while expanding humanoid robotics, saying new growth areas could offset part of the reduction.