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Swiss startup Gravis Robotics has raised $200 million in a Series A from SoftBank at a $1 billion post-money valuation, bringing AI-powered autonomy and operator assistance to heavy construction equipment…
Senior NVIDIA officials visited LG Electronics' Yangjae Data Factory in Seoul four days after the companies' Santa Clara MOU signing, with LG targeting 100,000 hours of combined real and synthetic…
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…
Unitree Robotics has unveiled Superman, a new humanoid robot that achieves a standing jump of over 2 meters - exceeding the human world record of 1.90 meters - and a…
NEURA Robotics is acquiring the ACTIVE Shuttle automated guided vehicle from Bosch Rexroth, effective October 1, 2026, integrating the proven industrial intralogistics platform into its Physical AI ecosystem alongside its…
The second World Humanoid Robot Games opens in Beijing on August 22 with 666 teams and 2,056 robots from 16 countries, quadrupling robot participation from the inaugural 2025 event, with…
Pony.ai and Uber have expanded their strategic partnership to deploy more than 2,000 Pony.ai robotaxis across four additional European cities beyond the existing Zagreb service, with Middle East deployment also…
LG and NVIDIA have signed an MOU formalizing execution across robotics, AI factories, and mobility, with LG developing a next-generation bipedal humanoid powered by Isaac GR00T and Jetson Thor for…
Counterpoint Research has ranked Pudu Robotics first globally in both commercial cleaning robot shipments and revenue, as the firm reports global shipments exceeded 50,000 units in 2025 with revenue surpassing…
Chinese researchers have developed BioflexBot, a spring-based pneumatic robotic gripper that extends and contracts 3.5 times more than a human hand using only two air inputs, demonstrating acupuncture needle threading,…
Pudu Robotics has launched the ET1, an AI-native compact scrubber-dryer robot designed for commercial spaces of 100 to 800 square meters, combining 800 rpm scrubbing, 85°C hot scrubbing, and an…
RoboStore, the primary U.S. distributor for Unitree Robotics with 1,500 robots deployed across 4,500 North American customers, has launched Robo Inc., a hardware-agnostic U.S.-based robotics manufacturer and systems integrator with…
Figure AI has demonstrated its Figure 03 robot climbing a ladder autonomously using its upgraded Helix AI system, which now integrates onboard stereo camera input with whole-body motion control trained…
Nearly 9.8 million retail accounts applied for Unitree's Shanghai STAR Market IPO on Monday, with valid online subscriptions reaching 8,289 times the initial retail allocation, producing a final allocation rate…
Global humanoid robot shipments reached approximately 19,100 units in the first half of 2026, up 272% year-on-year, with Agibot overtaking Unitree to claim 44% global share, as Chinese vendors accounted…