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7 days ago
Business—Single source

Feather Robotics sells a $30,000 modular humanoid to developers and tops $1 million in revenue

Feather Robotics, founded in 2025 by Hoa Mai, who previously worked at 1X, and former Tesla Model 3 engineer Parsa Bakhtiari, sells a modular humanoid platform whose hardware, such as arm length, customers can configure. The robot is priced at $30,000, about half the cost of Unitree's H2 Edu, and can run AI models from Nvidia, Skild and Physical Intelligence. The startup has raised a $7.6 million pre-seed round led by Gradient Ventures and has passed $1 million in revenue, with robots already working in restaurant kitchens and cleaning science labs, according to the company.

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7 days ago
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Mexican EPICS in IEEE Team Builds Portable Educational Platform

In Guadalajara, Mexico, many high schools have motivated teachers and talented students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but they lack access to advanced tools such as robotics laboratories. The resources shortfall limits the students’ opport

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7 days ago
Product—Single source

Epson launches AX6 cobot with 6 kg payload, 900 mm reach and cleanroom rating

Epson Robots has released the AX6, a collaborative robot arm with a 6 kg payload and 900 mm reach built on a lightweight carbon-fiber structure. The arm runs on Epson's RC-A1010 controller, accepts both 100-240 V AC and 48 V DC power and meets ISO Class 5 cleanroom requirements, which the company said fits life-science work and mounting on autonomous mobile robots. Programming is handled in the browser-based AX Portal software, which offers a no-code interface, a Python environment and a 3D simulator for testing programs. The AX6 is available now through Epson's distribution partners; no price was given.

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8 days ago
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PitPro puts automated tire-change system into service with Kal Tire in Calgary

San Francisco startup PitPro Automation has started operating its first robotic tire-changing system in Calgary, Alberta, in partnership with Canadian tire service chain Kal Tire. The setup pairs two oven-sized robotic units carrying sensors and an arm that removes and stores lug nuts and swaps the wheels, and the company said it can change all four tires on a vehicle in under 15 minutes. Founder and CEO Jeremy Conrad said commercial fleets are the first target, alongside tire chains where shop workers often quit within months.

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10 days ago
BusinessUS

Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids

Boston Dynamics opened the Robotics Metaplant Application Center at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, where Atlas is training on parts sequencing ahead of assembly work by 2030. The company said Hyundai plans to deploy 25,000 Atlas units and build a US facility able to make 30,000 robots a year, while Hyundai targets Atlas on its Georgia line from 2028.

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13 days ago
ResearchUS

Video Friday: Two Birotors Make a Quadrotor

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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14 days ago
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D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers

D-Robotics, the robot-chip business Horizon Robotics stopped consolidating in March, said on 17 September 2026 it had closed a US$400 million Series C without naming a single investor or a valuation. The company says it has shipped more than 8 million Sunrise chips and that its newest S600 part won more than 20 robot customers within six months, including UBTECH, Fourier and Booster Robotics.

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15 days ago
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Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI

This article is brought to you by VicOne . Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong?

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17 days ago
FundingUS

Shipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering

Houston-based Persona AI disclosed in an SEC Form D filed on September 14, 2026 that it has sold $65,363,626 of a planned $141,964,814 private offering to 46 investors, with the first sale on August 28. The company, which builds humanoid robots for shipyard welding and other skilled trades and has a deployment agreement with HD Hyundai, raised $27 million in a pre-seed round in May 2025.

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17 days ago
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Universal Robots launches Gen 7 cobot platform as Teradyne takes its fight with Chinese rivals to Europe's patent court

Universal Robots unveiled its seventh-generation platform on September 14, 2026, with three new g-Series arms, a CB7 controller offering 40% more compute in a 30% smaller footprint, and native ROS 2 support. Two weeks earlier its parent Teradyne Robotics sued the German subsidiary of China's JAKA at the Unified Patent Court, its second European IP action against a Chinese cobot maker this year.

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20 days ago
ProductJP

FANUC to ship AI Welding Agent that reads drawings and writes robot weld programs, built on Google's Gemini Enterprise

FANUC said on Sept. 11 it will begin shipping an AI Welding Agent at the end of December 2026. The system photographs a part drawing with the CRX tablet teach pendant and generates welding conditions and robot motion without manual teaching, using Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise. Price was not disclosed.

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21 days ago
BusinessUS

Skild AI says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue as its S1 model learns tasks from one video

Skild AI said on September 10 that it crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue ten months after its first commercial deployment, with more than 60 paying customers. The figure follows the August 18 launch of S1, a robot foundation model that the company says can pick up a new task from a single video demonstration without retraining.

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21 days ago
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Korea plans more than fivefold rise in humanoid core-parts budget to 62 billion won for 2027

South Korea's finance ministry said the 2027 budget proposal raises spending on sensors, actuators and humanoid batteries to 62 billion won from 11.6 billion won, after the three were named super-innovation leading projects in July. The money will fund technology development and field demonstrations, inside an industry ministry budget that rises 40.5% to 13.2573 trillion won.

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23 days ago
BusinessCN

XPeng's IRON humanoid rolls off its first production line after robotics unit raises US$900 million

XPeng said on September 8, 2026 that its IRON humanoid robot has started coming off a production line with more than 80% of core processes automated, ahead of mass production at the end of 2026 and deliveries in 2027. Two weeks earlier its robotics subsidiary Dogotix agreed to raise more than US$900 million at a post-money valuation above US$6.3 billion, including US$600 million from IDG Capital, Alibaba, Tencent and Gaorong Ventures.

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