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iRobot has launched the Roomba Electro Plus, a $399.99 cordless hard-floor cleaner combining vacuuming, mopping, disinfecting, and self-cleaning, alongside five redesigned Roomba robot vacuums, marking its first significant product expansion since emerging from bankruptcy under new owner Shenzhen Picea Robotics.
Agility Robotics has announced a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI to go public at a $2.5 billion valuation, providing more than $620 million in proceeds to fund commercial expansion of its Digit humanoid robot, backed by over $300 million in existing orders for a new Digit version.
As Genesis AI’s Eno joins a growing list of robots that reject bipedal human appearance in favor of functional minimalism, the industry is quietly splitting into two camps with different answers to the same question: does a robot need to look human to be useful in a human world?
Amazon has unveiled a next-generation Proteus autonomous robot controllable by conversational text prompts, committing more than €10 billion to expand European fulfillment center robotics and adding 25,000 jobs, with Proteus deployment in Europe planned for the first half of 2027.
NEURA Robotics and Amazon Web Services have announced a strategic collaboration to train, validate, and deploy cognitive robots at scale, with Amazon exploring deployment of NEURA systems in select fulfillment centers as a real-world data source for Physical AI development.
German humanoid robotics startup Neura Robotics is reportedly seeking around €1 billion in new funding at a €4 billion valuation, with backing from Amazon and a Qatari investor highlighting rising global interest in physical AI.
Amazon has acquired startup Fauna Robotics, maker of the small humanoid robot Sprout, as the company broadens its push into robotics beyond warehouses and into homes and delivery.
Amazon has acquired robotics startup RIVR, a developer of stair-climbing quadruped delivery robots, as the company expands its efforts to automate last-mile logistics.
Amazon plans to invest AU$750 million in a new robotics-enabled fulfillment center in Brisbane, Australia, designed to process more than 125 million packages annually with the help of automated systems.
Amazon has halted its Blue Jay warehouse robotics project less than six months after unveiling the prototype, redirecting its underlying technology to other automation initiatives.