Archives - 2026

Toyota will establish Toyota Robotics on January 1, 2027, consolidating its robot expertise under production chief Takefumi Shiga to accelerate commercialization.

Zipline raised $1.5 billion at a $21.5 billion valuation and expanded its Walmart agreement to launch 300 additional drone-delivery sites.

Humble Robotics raised $51 million in Series A funding led by Obvious Ventures to advance autonomous electric haulers for regional dock-to-dock freight.

MOVIN raised approximately $7.5 million to expand LiDAR-based motion capture, including robot-learning applications and a planned South Korean R&D centre.

Carnegie Mellon’s Pixel combines a wheeled two-arm research robot, demonstration interfaces and a shared learning stack, with an open-source release promised.

EPFL spin-out Embodied AI introduced AIR, combining lightweight tendon-driven arms with human-operated training shifts and plans for CE marking in 2027.

Apple researchers trained a Unitree G1 with simulated home environments, reporting 91% success across 360 real-world trials of six physical skills.

Kraken announced C$102 million in new orders across subsea batteries, sonar and Covelya products, lifting the combined group’s announced 2026 total to C$457 million.

Serve Robotics launched fleet connectivity, data-curation and training-data services for other robot developers, naming Bedrock Robotics among its launch customers.

NEURA, E.ON and enviaM will train robots for grid inspections and demanding infrastructure tasks, with MITNETZ STROM targeting initial field experience in 2027.

Tesla plans to wind down Cybertruck output in Texas around mid-2027 for more Cybercab production, alongside its separate Optimus humanoid manufacturing push.

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.