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Nearly 90 teams brought robots to Mount Tai, where separate races tested humanoids, quadrupeds and load-carrying machines on uneven stone steps.

Google’s Sprout puts a Monstera on a TurtleBot 4 base, using Gemini to find sunlight, identify other plants and ask people for water.

Isaac Lab 3.0 separates robot tasks from physics and rendering backends, adds lighter simulation workflows and provides a clearer path from training to deployment.

Maximo says its solar robots have completed over 300,000 tasks, with Max4.0 crews reporting 2.5x the manual installation rate per worker-hour.

AGIBOT’s G2 Max targets factory and warehouse handling with a 40 kg dual-arm capacity, omnidirectional mobility and adjustable working height.

DEEP Robotics’ Hangxing No. 2 humanoids supported traffic guidance, patrols and public information around Huanglong Sports Center during the Hangzhou Marathon.

Meta and Fourier reportedly built the 48 kg Max prototype in three months, while Meta says the units are for internal research rather than sale.

Paris-based Bleu Robotics raised €5 million in pre-seed funding to develop software that teaches industrial robots new tasks from a small number of demonstrations.

Avego led Opentrons’ $40 million Series E to expand lab robotics, software and data infrastructure for AI-driven experimental workflows.

AGIBOT introduced new robot hardware and AI models alongside Worken, a proposed way to measure autonomous working hours and productive output.

Agility expects roughly $465 million in gross financing, with its Churchill XI merger targeted for November 4 and Nasdaq trading planned for November 5.

Walmart’s expanded Symbotic agreement commits about $6 billion over several years to add automation capabilities across 25 U.S. distribution centers.

MaC Venture Capital and Toyota Ventures back Rendezvous Robotics as it prepares modular spacecraft to assemble and reconfigure themselves in orbit.

ABB’s upgraded Fashion Inductor combines vision models, retraining and a digital twin to simplify deployment of robotic fashion-logistics cells.

DTL Transport will deploy Kodiak’s autonomous driving system in 75 carrier-owned trucks under a per-mile model, starting with planned Sun Belt routes.