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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.
Figure AI has signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands to deploy humanoid robots at the retailer’s Reno, Nevada distribution center, marking Figure’s first commercial deployment with a major multi-brand retail portfolio operator.
Figure AI staged a 10-hour parcel sorting contest between an intern and its Figure 03 humanoid robot. The human won by 192 packages but finished with a near-broken forearm. Figure AI’s CEO Brett Adcock declared it the last time a human will win.
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.
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.
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.
Decathlon says robotic warehouse systems from Exotec have significantly boosted productivity across several European facilities, highlighting both the promise and tensions of logistics automation.
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.
Zalando plans to deploy up to 50 AI-powered Nomagic robots across its European fulfilment centres, expanding automation for item picking and tackling one of fashion logistics’ toughest challenges: handling shoeboxes.
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.
Siemens and two robotics partners have launched the UK’s first fully customizable autonomous mobile robot manufacturing capability, aimed at modernizing factory logistics and industrial automation.
RLWRLD has raised $26 million in new funding to develop robotics foundation models trained in real industrial environments, accelerating deployment across logistics and manufacturing.
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.
Kodiak has entered a strategic agreement with Bosch to scale production-grade autonomous trucking hardware, aiming to accelerate commercial deployment of driverless trucks.
UPS has purchased hundreds of warehouse robots designed to unload packages from trucks, expanding automation across its U.S. logistics network to address labor strain and efficiency demands.