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ROBOTNESS has published 16 stories about Google DeepMind since Jan 5, 2026; the latest is from Oct 1, 2026.

Data as of Oct 1, 2026. Included: company announcements, regulator filings and reported rounds; estimates and sample rows are excluded, and undisclosed amounts are never estimated.

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Jan 5, 2026

Latest story

Oct 1, 2026

Stories about Google DeepMind

What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Industry
Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Product
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Market
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Funding
Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2, taking its robot models to whole-body humanoid control
Date
Jul 30, 2026
Type
Product
NVIDIA sets a reference humanoid for labs, pairing Unitree's H2 Plus with Sharpa hands and a Jetson Thor brain
Date
Jun 1, 2026
Type
Product
FANUC opens its robots to Google's Intrinsic and Gemini and deepens NVIDIA ties in a two-day physical AI push
Date
May 15, 2026
Type
Partnership
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows
Date
Apr 22, 2026
Type
Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
Research
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase
Date
Apr 14, 2026
Type
Product
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data
Date
Apr 2, 2026
Type
Research
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move
Date
Mar 16, 2026
Type
Product
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre
Date
Feb 27, 2026
Type
Business
Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo
Date
Feb 11, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code
Date
Jan 27, 2026
Type
Research
Boston Dynamics starts building the production Atlas as Hyundai targets 30,000 robots a year and a Georgia line debut in 2028
Date
Jan 5, 2026
Type
Product

Headline	Date	Type
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?	Oct 1, 2026	Industry
Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model	Sep 30, 2026	Product
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says	Sep 30, 2026	Market
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act	Sep 29, 2026	Funding
Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2, taking its robot models to whole-body humanoid control	Jul 30, 2026	Product
NVIDIA sets a reference humanoid for labs, pairing Unitree's H2 Plus with Sharpa hands and a Jetson Thor brain	Jun 1, 2026	Product
FANUC opens its robots to Google's Intrinsic and Gemini and deepens NVIDIA ties in a two-day physical AI push	May 15, 2026	Partnership
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows	Apr 22, 2026	Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data	Apr 15, 2026	Research
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase	Apr 14, 2026	Product
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data	Apr 2, 2026	Research
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move	Mar 16, 2026	Product
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre	Feb 27, 2026	Business
Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo	Feb 11, 2026	Funding
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code	Jan 27, 2026	Research
Boston Dynamics starts building the production Atlas as Hyundai targets 30,000 robots a year and a Georgia line debut in 2028	Jan 5, 2026	Product

Data as of Oct 1, 2026

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