Humanoids, factory automation, agricultural bots, and the machines moving into the real world.
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Figure AI retired most of its Figure 02 humanoid fleet by teaching the robots to leap into a 75 ton electric arc furnace in Imatra, Finland, after Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested melting them.
The Irvine-based robotics software startup has signed a term sheet for a $700 million round that would value it at $10 billion, up from $2 billion in 2025, as investors bet on a universal robot brain.
The Hyundai robotics unit has replaced a seven degree of freedom hand with a four finger design that targets 100,000 units a year and skips the pinky entirely.
The October 1, 2026 memorandum of understanding makes FORT Robotics the off-robot safety layer for Agility's next-generation humanoid, pairing an existing component supply relationship with joint compliance work.
AIxCrypto Holdings becomes FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem and starts trading as FFR on September 30 at an estimated 200 million dollars, after agreeing to absorb Faraday Future robotics unit.
The Seoul industrial physical AI platform company priced its offering at 18,000 won and drew 4.9512 trillion won in retail deposits before shares more than tripled on their first trading day.
Four of the 30 robots enrolled at the Hangzhou Robot School have completed over two months of training and taken jobs as a museum guide, tour guide, Nestle inspector and piano performer.
Mykhailo Fedorov, dismissed as Ukraine's defense minister in July 2026, announced a private sector initiative to deploy humanoid and ground robots for the most dangerous battlefield missions.
The California startup founded in 2025 says its wheeled bimanual robot ships with a software development kit and has already generated more than $1 million in revenue from manufacturing and food service customers.
Amazon will invest more than $100 million in a 585,000-square-foot Greenwood plant to make robotics hardware, adding 300 jobs with average pay near $100,000.
AGIBOT and Chimelong have launched the first phase of a large-scale embodied AI deployment at Chimelong Spaceship Park in Hengqin, Zhuhai, with more than 300 robots and the delivery of AGIBOT's 20,000th production robot.
Qualcomm Technologies will acquire Boulder based PickNik, the steward of the MoveIt manipulation framework, and says MoveIt will stay open source while integrating with Dragonwing robotics.
The Hyundai-owned robotics unit has begun training its Atlas humanoid on automotive parts logistics inside a Georgia factory, with 25,000 deployments and a 30,000-robot US plant planned.
China's CSRC has used unpublished window guidance to slow humanoid robot listings, leaving at least six candidates waiting after Unitree Robotics swung from a 460 percent debut gain to a 55 percent decline.
The Japanese conglomerate's deal for the Cambridge research lab, founded by Marc Raibert, is under CFIUS review and follows its planned purchase of ABB's robotics unit.
Neptune Medical's Triton 1 robotic endoscopy system received FDA 510(k) clearance after a 50-patient study reported 100% cecal intubation and a 54.2% adenoma detection rate.
Spirit AI co-founder Gao Yang says humanoid robot brains may hit a GPT 3.0 level milestone by mid 2027, while robots that are genuinely useful in homes stay eight or more years away.
GXO Logistics and Exotec have brought a 127-robot Skypod system online at a Venlo distribution center, expanding automated fashion fulfillment for Guess across EMEA and Asia.
The clearance places Medtronic's LigaSure sealing technology on a U.S. surgical robot for the first time, though Hugo remains approved only for urologic procedures.
Waymo has opened its fully autonomous ride hailing service to the public in Las Vegas, covering nearly 24 miles and marking its 15th metro area and fourth new US city this month.
Agility Robotics has introduced Digit 5, a humanoid designed to work near people without safety barriers, as the Salem, Oregon company prepares for a $2.5 billion SPAC listing.