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Amazon has announced Prime Air drone delivery will expand to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by end of 2026, a sixfold increase from its current footprint, with thousands of daily deliveries already occurring across 11 active sites in seven states and five more metro areas launching soon.
Beijing-based Robotera is considering a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $800 million to $1 billion, according to Bloomberg, as the HSG-backed humanoid robotics company operates robots in more than 10 logistics centers through partnerships with China Post and SF Group.
Amazon has announced plans to fill more than 500,000 roles with robots, intensifying debate over the pace of workplace automation. The move underscores the growing role of robotics in logistics and reignites questions about long-term employment displacement.
FedEx is expanding its use of Dexterity's AI-enabled trailer-loading robot at its Hagerstown, Maryland hub, while Pickle Robot and Ambi Robotics have integrated their systems to provide an end-to-end trailer-to-warehouse…
The global hybrid robots market is forecast to grow from $4.93 billion in 2025 to $10.03 billion by 2030 at a 15.3% CAGR, driven by AI advances, edge computing, autonomous…
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…
Bear Robotics has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinisi Robotics, adding the KR1 humanoid robot and its vision-language-action manipulation models to Bear's existing fleet of more than 16,000 deployed…
Swiss deep-tech company Verity has won the 2026 IERA Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation for its fully autonomous indoor drone system, deployed across approximately 200 warehouses…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Decathlon says robotic warehouse systems from Exotec have significantly boosted productivity across several European facilities, highlighting both the promise and tensions of logistics automation.
