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Oct 1, 2026

ROBOTNESS Daily Brief

Top news

  1. 1Korea plans to put 200,000 AI robots into service by 2030, starting with more than 1,700 government purchases in 2027
  2. 2Korea names Daegu–Gyeongbuk a national advanced-industry zone for robotics
  3. 3Hitachi and FANUC pair edge AI chips with industrial robots, aiming for a global physical AI rollout from fiscal 2027
  4. 4Anthropic finds robots can do 74% of US physical tasks but are cost-competitive on just 0.3% of work
  5. 5Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model

Funding & deals

  1. 1Paris-based Inbolt raises $12.5 million to take its AI robot vision from car plants to data centres
  2. 2Columbia spinout Tangent Robotics raises $4.5 million to give factory robots a sense of touch
  3. 3Tokyo's Qibitech raises about ¥600 million in Series B to sell one control layer for robots from any maker

Research

  1. 1ECHO-G: Embodied Co-speech Humanoid mOtion Generation
  2. 2Neuro-Symbolic Predicate Learning for Semantic Safe Robot Control
  3. 3MVP-SLAM: Multi-Camera Visual-Inertial Floorplan-Prior SLAM
  4. 4Text-to-3D Policy: Fine-Grained Language-Behavior Alignment for Unseen Specification Generalization
  5. 5GroundAnything: Reconciling Parallel Decoding with Precise Visual Grounding at Flash Speed

Companies in focus

  1. 1Doosan Robotics · 2 stories
  2. 2FANUC · 2 stories
  3. 3Figure AI · 2 stories
  4. 4Inbolt · 2 stories
  5. 5Rainbow Robotics · 2 stories

Market & policy signals

  1. 1Korea plans to put 200,000 AI robots into service by 2030, starting with more than 1,700 government purchases in 2027
  2. 2Korea names Daegu–Gyeongbuk a national advanced-industry zone for robotics

What to watch tomorrow

  1. 1Confirmation pending: Korea plans to put 200,000 AI robots into service by 2030, starting with more than 1,700 government purchases in 2027