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21 hours ago
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Destro AI exits stealth with $8M seed to coordinate robots, workers and trucks at cross-docks

Destro AI, founded by NYU Tandon robotics graduate Manthan Pawar, came out of stealth on Sept. 30 with an $8 million seed round led by Base10 Partners and Bonfire Ventures, with CoFound Partners also investing, TechCrunch reported. The startup sells software rather than robots: a vision system built on open-weight vision-language-action models and an orchestration layer that directs people, carts and trucks in cross-dock operations, currently paired with Miva Robotics cart movers. Customer Yusen Logistics grew a three-robot pilot at a Pacific Northwest site to 26 robots and has started a 17-robot pilot in Southern California. Pawar said the company expects to turn cash-flow positive by the end of 2026.

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22 hours ago
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Xiaomi-backed robot chip designer Amicro clears Hong Kong listing hearing as sales rise 42% and losses widen

Zhuhai-based Amicro, which designs robot-specific chips, sensors and navigation software for cleaning and service robots, published its post-hearing information pack on the Hong Kong exchange on 30 September 2026 and is seeking a Main Board listing under Chapter 18C. Revenue rose 42.3% to RMB406.7 million in 2025 on more than 3.5 million solution sets sold, while the net loss widened to RMB155.1 million.

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2 days ago
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Flourish opens orders for $3,555 home robot that learns chores from a phone demonstration

Flourish, a San Francisco and Paris startup founded in January 2026 by Antoine Marcel, has opened sales of Flourish One, a six-wheeled, two-armed home robot priced at $3,555, The Robot Report reported. Owners teach a chore by moving their smartphone through the task, using the phone's motion sensors, and a cloud model is fine-tuned for that home in under 30 minutes; the robot runs on a Raspberry Pi rather than an onboard GPU, which Marcel said would double the cost. Each arm lifts 1.5 kg, the arms run for 12 hours per charge, and the first 50 hand-built units are due to ship before Christmas 2026.

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6 days ago
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Amazon picks Greenwood, Indiana, for a plant building equipment for its robotics and fulfillment network

Amazon plans to spend more than $100 million on a 585,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Greenwood, Indiana, scheduled to start operating in 2028 with 300 skilled manufacturing and engineering jobs. The site will produce equipment for Amazon's fulfillment and robotics network across North America, combining fabrication, robotic welding, automated powder coating and assembly supported by AWS and AI-based production systems, the company said. Amazon already runs a large robot manufacturing operation in Massachusetts that has built more than one million robots now deployed in over 300 facilities worldwide.

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6 days ago
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Agility Robotics studies wheeled designs beyond its Digit humanoid, CEO says

Agility Robotics is looking at other robot designs, including wheeled ones, to serve different operating environments and customer needs, CEO Jonathan Hurst confirmed. Hurst said the effort has only just started, with no launch timeline and no decision on whether it would mean a wheeled Digit or an entirely new machine. The company holds more than $300 million in multi-year Digit v5 orders from a single unnamed customer and is going public through a SPAC deal valued at $2.5 billion that is expected to raise more than $620 million in gross proceeds. Agility posted 2025 revenue of $1.8 million and an operating loss of $140 million.

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7 days ago
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IFR counts 5 million industrial robots in service as China takes 59% of 2025 installations

The global stock of operational industrial robots reached 5 million units in 2025, up 9% on the year, according to statistics the International Federation of Robotics released on Sept. 24. Annual installations rose 11% to more than 600,000 units, of which China accounted for 354,000, or 59%, with Chinese manufacturers supplying 195,000 of those robots. The United States ranked second with 38,500 installations, while Japan fell 19% to 36,219 units and dropped to third, ahead of South Korea at 30,000 and Germany at under 25,000. The IFR forecasts installations of 655,000 units in 2026 and 806,000 units in 2029.

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7 days ago
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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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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
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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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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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21 days ago
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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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