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27 days ago
FundingUS

Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss

Churchill Capital Corp XI filed a Form S-4 with the SEC on September 4, 2026 for its $2.5 billion merger with Agility Robotics, the maker of the Digit humanoid, which plans to trade on Nasdaq as AGLT. The filing discloses 2025 net sales of $1.78 million, a net loss of $138.1 million, a $100 million SAFE raised in July 2026 and a single customer commitment of $300 million for Digit v5.

9 sourcesAgility RoboticsFigure AISkild AIElectric ActuatorsBattery Systems
28 days ago
PartnershipUS

Figure commits $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs to train its Helix robot model

Figure AI said on September 3, 2026 that it signed a strategic partnership with Nscale for up to 100,000 GPUs on Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform in Barstow, Texas, starting with a $3.5 billion compute commitment that the companies intend to scale beyond $6 billion. Nscale is also making a strategic investment in Figure, which says the capacity will train Helix on data from its crowdsourced Index program.

4 sourcesFigure AINVIDIASkild AIVLARobot Foundation Models
Aug 28, 2026
BusinessCN

UBTech sells 921 full-size humanoids in first half as robot revenue rises 1,445%

UBTech Robotics said revenue doubled to RMB1,269.1 million in the six months to June 30, 2026, driven by RMB590.3 million of full-size humanoid robot sales, up from RMB38.2 million a year earlier. The Hong Kong-listed company sold 921 Walker-class units and narrowed its loss for the period by 23.0% to RMB338.8 million, while one customer accounted for 24% of revenue.

5 sourcesUBTECH RoboticsUnitree RoboticsFigure AIRobot Foundation ModelsWorld Models
Aug 28, 2026
FundingKR

Korea's National Growth Fund puts 150 billion won into robot-hand maker Wonik Robotics in a 350 billion won raise

Wonik Robotics will issue 349.99998 billion won of convertible preferred shares to Korea Development Bank's Advanced Strategic Industry Fund and an IMM Credit Solution vehicle, according to the Financial Services Commission and a Wonik Holdings filing. The money funds a robot-hand factory and AX center in Wanju, R&D and acquisitions, while Wonik Holdings grants investors a put option if the unit does not list within six years.

1 sourceWonik RoboticsRainbow RoboticsDoosan RoboticsDexterous ManipulationTactile Sensing
Aug 24, 2026
M&ADE

NEURA Robotics spends its Series C on Europe's robot assets, buying Bosch Rexroth's ACTIVE Shuttle and cleaning-robot maker ADLATUS

Two months after announcing a Series C of up to $1.4 billion, Germany's NEURA Robotics agreed to take over Bosch Rexroth's ACTIVE Shuttle transport-robot business on August 13, 2026 and bought all of Ulm-based ADLATUS Robotics on August 24. Together with a compute-module deal with Italy's SECO and a new training centre at RWTH Aachen, the moves show NEURA assembling a European physical-AI group by acquisition rather than only by in-house development.

6 sourcesNeura RoboticsNVIDIAANYboticsFleet Orchestration SoftwareEdge AI Compute
Aug 20, 2026
ResearchCN

Tsinghua's vision-driven soccer humanoid makes the cover of Science Robotics, trained entirely in simulation

A Tsinghua University team working with ByteDance Seed and China Agricultural University published a reinforcement learning controller in Science Robotics on August 19, 2026 that links a humanoid's camera directly to its legs. On Booster Robotics' T1, the authors report a 46% cut in ball-position error, up to 64% faster time-to-kick and about 90% kick success in frontfield positions, with no real-world fine-tuning.

4 sourcesBooster RoboticsUnitree RoboticsNVIDIARLSim-to-Real Transfer
Aug 19, 2026
MarketCN

Unitree lists on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising RMB6.1 billion at 219 times earnings

Unitree Robotics began trading in Shanghai on August 19, 2026 under code 688836 after selling 40.4 million new shares at RMB150.80, raising gross proceeds of RMB6,099.32 million. The issue price values the Hangzhou humanoid and quadruped maker at about RMB60.99 billion, or 219.23 times 2025 earnings, against an industry average of 38.56 times cited in its own listing document.

3 sourcesUnitree RoboticsUBTECH RoboticsFigure AIElectric ActuatorsRobot Foundation Models
Aug 14, 2026
PartnershipKR

LG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027

LG Group and NVIDIA signed a strategic collaboration MOU on Aug. 13 covering robots, AI factories and mobility, LG Corp. said. LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid on Jetson Thor and Isaac GR00T in the first quarter of 2027 using LG Electronics actuators, LG Innotek sensors and LG Energy Solution batteries, and will test its wheeled CLOiD on a Tennessee washing-machine line this year.

2 sourcesLG ElectronicsNVIDIAHyundai Motor GroupRobot Foundation ModelsEdge AI Compute
Aug 13, 2026
BusinessNO

AutoStore revenue jumps 43% on North American demand and signs a global supply framework with Amazon

AutoStore reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $192.1 million, up 43.4%, and order intake of $217.6 million, up 44.7%, on August 13, 2026. The Norwegian cube storage maker disclosed a global strategic supply agreement with Amazon that sets a framework for future procurement without purchase commitments, launched a buyback of up to $75 million and guided 2026 revenue to about $700 million.

6 sourcesAutoStoreFleet Orchestration SoftwareBattery Systems
Jul 31, 2026
ProductUS

Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2, taking its robot models to whole-body humanoid control

Google DeepMind on July 30 released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of three models covering whole-body humanoid control, high-level embodied reasoning and on-device inference. The reasoning model ER 2 is available to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, while the action models remain limited to early-access partners and trusted testers.

3 sourcesGoogle DeepMindApptronikBoston DynamicsVLARobot Foundation Models
Jul 29, 2026
MarketUS

Teradyne's robotics arm grows 33% to $100 million as AI test demand doubles group revenue

Teradyne reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $1,329 million, up 104% from a year earlier, with its Robotics group, home to Universal Robots and MiR, contributing $100 million against $75 million in the second quarter of 2025. The company guided third-quarter revenue to $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion.

2 sourcesTeradyneFANUCDoosan RoboticsElectric ActuatorsFleet Orchestration Software
Jul 24, 2026
PolicyEU

EU moves AI-driven machinery out of the AI Act's main track and gives robot makers until August 2028

The EU's Digital Omnibus on AI, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, was published on July 24, 2026 and took effect on July 27. It delays high-risk AI obligations to December 2, 2027 for stand-alone systems and August 2, 2028 for AI built into products, and shifts machinery, including industrial robots, into a lighter AI Act regime whose substance will instead be written into the Machinery Regulation by delegated act.

6 sourcesNeura RoboticsANYboticsRobot Foundation ModelsRL
Jul 21, 2026
FundingGB

London's Humanoid raises $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation as Schaeffler and Bosch buy in

Humanoid, a two-year-old London robotics company, closed a $152 million Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, with industrial partners Schaeffler and Bosch joining the round. The company says the money will fund mass manufacturing of its wheeled humanoid, a Beta fleet from the fourth quarter of 2026 and its KinetIQ AI software.

3 sourcesHumanoidNeura RoboticsFigure AIElectric ActuatorsFleet Orchestration Software
Jul 21, 2026
ProductUS

NVIDIA opens Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter world model that plans robot actions on a Jetson Thor

NVIDIA released Cosmos 3 Edge on July 20, the smallest member of its Cosmos 3 physical-AI model family, as open weights on Hugging Face. The 4-billion-parameter model runs on Jetson Thor and generates 32 robot actions per inference, and Doosan Robotics, Siemens, Agile Robots and Skild AI are evaluating it.

5 sourcesNVIDIADoosan RoboticsSkild AIWorld ModelsRobot Foundation Models
Jul 20, 2026
PolicyCN

China expects embodied AI robot output to exceed 100,000 units in 2026, MIIT says

China's industry ministry said on July 20, 2026 that more than 230 companies have released over 400 embodied AI robot models and that full-year output of complete machines is expected to exceed 100,000 units. Official data show industrial robot output rose 28% in the first half and 29.0% to 729,352 sets in the first eight months, as Beijing pushes humanoids into real factories through a joint programme with the state asset regulator.

5 sourcesUBTECH RoboticsUnitree RoboticsFigure AIRobot Foundation ModelsImitation Learning
Jul 17, 2026
ResearchUS

MIT's NeuralActuator lets low-cost robot arms feel force without sensors, winning RSS 2026's systems award

NeuralActuator, a model from MIT's Computational Design and Fabrication Group with Amazon, won the Outstanding Systems Paper Award at RSS 2026. It learns how cheap servo motors really behave from motor current, voltage and temperature, and estimates external force with a reported mean error of 0.12 N, against 0.66 N to 1.41 N for classical baselines.

4 sourcesElectric ActuatorsSim-to-Real Transfer
Jul 17, 2026
ResearchKR

RSS 2026's top paper, FlashSAC, cuts humanoid walking training on one GPU from hours to minutes

FlashSAC, an off-policy reinforcement learning method from a team spanning Holiday Robotics, KAIST, KRAFTON, TU Darmstadt, KTH and others, won the Outstanding Paper Award at Robotics: Science and Systems 2026 in Sydney. The authors report training a Unitree G1 walking policy in about 20 minutes on a single RTX 5090, against about three hours for the standard PPO method.

5 sourcesUnitree RoboticsNVIDIARLSim-to-Real Transfer
Jul 16, 2026
PartnershipJP

Fujitsu enlists FANUC, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to build a sovereign physical AI platform on NVIDIA technology

Fujitsu said on July 16 it had begun exploring physical AI businesses with three of Japan's largest robot makers, FANUC, Yaskawa Electric and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, using NVIDIA Cosmos, Omniverse, Isaac and the Newton physics engine. Fujitsu will build a common software platform and hardware interfaces, with manufacturing, retail and logistics, and healthcare as first targets. No timeline or financial terms were given.

4 sourcesFujitsuFANUCYaskawa ElectricWorld ModelsSim-to-Real Transfer
Jul 15, 2026
FundingUS

Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation

Walden Robotics, spun out of Toyota Research Institute in January 2026, emerged from stealth on July 15, 2026 with a $300 million seed round at a $1.1 billion valuation co-led by Toyota and Deviation Capital. The Cambridge, Massachusetts company says its robots, driven by large behavior models, have been doing production work at a Toyota plant in North America since February, and on July 28 it added Samsung SDS as a manufacturing partner.

5 sourcesWalden RoboticsNVIDIASkild AIRobot Foundation ModelsImitation Learning