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San Francisco-based Framework Ventures has raised $400 million for its fourth fund, expanding its mandate from crypto into frontier technology including robotics, AI, and energy. The firm is part of…
BMW Group has deployed Figure AI's Figure 03 humanoid robot at its Spartanburg plant for a logistics sequencing application, following the successful 11-month Figure 02 deployment that supported production of…
UBTECH's U1 full-size companion humanoid robot has accumulated over 5,000 pre-orders on JD.com and Tmall within three weeks of launch, nearly five times the company's total 2025 full-size humanoid robot…
Realbotix has deployed its M-Series humanoid robot and Optio AI teaching assistant at Salamanca City Central School District in New York, with plans to expand the pilot to approximately 500…
Goldman Sachs Research estimates Korean companies will account for 30% of global humanoid robot production by 2035 through direct manufacturing and component supply, with Korean supply chains supporting approximately 74,000…
Naver Labs Europe has unveiled DIVINE, a universal encoder that consolidates multiple specialized AI encoders into a single model, reducing robot memory consumption by approximately 90% and increasing encoding throughput…
MWC Shanghai 2026 opened at the Shanghai New International Expo Center with Honor's humanoid robots Flash and Vita Boy appearing live on stage, as GSMA Director General Vivek Badrinath named…
Morgan Stanley has raised its China humanoid robot shipment forecast to 50,000 units for 2026, nearly doubling its previous projection of 28,000, as commercial verification in factories, logistics, and retail…
Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a modular nanorobot comprising a magnetic propulsion module and a swappable payload capsule connected by a DNA-based self-assembly system, demonstrating targeted anticancer…
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…
JD.com founder Richard Liu said at the APEC China CEO Forum that robots will replace the company's 700,000 delivery workers "sooner or later", pairing the prediction with a retraining program…
U.S. industrial robot installations grew 11% year-on-year to 38,000 units in 2025, according to the International Federation of Robotics, with food industry adoption surging 30% as the country climbs to…
Sanctuary AI has validated a 99.5% task success rate and 2.54-second cycle time on a wire-plugging task at a global Tier 1 automotive supplier's live production line, as the company…
Kawasaki Robotics has debuted the RL030N at Automate 2026 in Chicago, an 8-degree-of-freedom robot described as the industry's first platform designed specifically for physical AI applications, alongside patented Pulseboard weld…