SusHi Tech Tokyo, Asia’s largest startup convention, opened Monday at Tokyo Big Sight with 770 exhibitions across AI, robotics, resilience, and entertainment, targeting 10,000 business negotiations over three days.
Stuttgart-based AI robotics software company Sereact has raised $110 million in a Series B led by Headline, with customers including BMW and Daimler Truck already running its vision-language-action models in live production environments.
Gartner predicts that 50% of new warehouses built in developed markets by 2030 will be designed as robot-centric facilities where human labor is required only for exception handling, driven by labor shortages, cost pressure, and advances in AI-orchestrated intralogistics.
Texas Instruments reported first-quarter revenue of $4.83 billion, up 19% year-over-year, driven by 90% growth in its data center segment and 30% growth in industrial, sending shares to their best single-day gain since 2000.
Tesla has raised its 2026 capital expenditure target to over $25 billion, up from a January forecast of more than $20 billion, as CEO Elon Musk accelerates investment in AI infrastructure, self-driving technology, and humanoid robotics.
Zoomlion has made the global debut of Robot Ops, an embodied intelligence operating system designed to standardize and accelerate robot deployment across industrial, construction, and logistics applications, at Hannover Messe 2026.
Agibot used its annual partner conference to declare 2026 the first year of large-scale commercial deployment for embodied AI, unveiling five new robotic platforms, eight AI models, and an open-source development architecture called AIMA.
DEEPX and Hyundai Motor Group’s Robotics LAB have announced a strategic collaboration to co-develop an ultra-low-power AI computing platform capable of running large-scale generative AI models on-device within robotic systems.
More than 3,000 exhibitors at Hannover Messe 2026 showcased physical, generative, and agentic AI systems moving from demonstration into production, with Siemens, Schneider Electric, NVIDIA, and Microsoft presenting deployments already delivering measurable results on factory floors.
Accenture Ventures has invested in General Robotics, whose GRID platform connects robots from multiple manufacturers under a single AI intelligence layer, targeting scaled automation in factories and warehouses.
Boston Dynamics has integrated Google’s Gemini robotics model into its Spot platform, enhancing reasoning and inspection capabilities in industrial environments.
Google has introduced a new AI model that improves how robots understand, plan, and act in real-world environments, marking progress in embodied reasoning.
AGIBOT introduced Genie Sim 3.0, a unified platform combining simulation, data generation, and benchmarking to accelerate embodied AI development.
Gig workers across more than 50 countries are recording household tasks to train humanoid robots, revealing a new data economy behind physical AI.
Researchers have developed a flexible sensor that allows robots to detect gentle touch with high precision, marking a step toward safer human-machine interaction.