Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch ·
Maven Robotics, whose wheeled robots travel up to 10 mph and lift up to 30kg using two arms, emerges from stealth after raising $100M
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Humanoids, industrial automation, and robots leaving the lab.
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The Information ·
China Securities Regulatory Commission is informally tightening IPO approvals for humanoid startups after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree
Chinese regulators are tightening the approval for humanoid startups seeking to go public after a volatile debut …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch ·
PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest $250M in India over three to four years, for a total investment of $500M+ since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics
Krafton, the South Korean gaming company behind titles including PUBG and Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) …
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg ·
Robotics and AI startup Lyte, founded by ex-Face ID engineers, raised $165M led by Maverick Silicon at a $1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M
Lyte, a fast-growing robotics and artificial intelligence startup from top members of Apple Inc.'s Face ID team …
Kai Williams / Understanding AI ·
A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome
A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.
Rocket Drew / The Information ·
Reframe, which uses AI and industrial robot arms to make modular homes in a factory, raised a $40M Series A extension round led by Energy Impact Partners
For all the talk of robots that look like humans, the next robots to move into people's houses could look more like ducks.
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal ·
Industry insiders say Chinese robot makers currently rely on Nvidia silicon and software; Nvidia's physical AI business generates ~$10B in annual revenue
Business in 'physical AI' is growing, and Chinese companies rely on U.S. chips and software
Paresh Dave / Wired ·
Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs
The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians …
Will Knight / Wired ·
Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms
The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.
Bloomberg ·
Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio
Artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face Inc. unveiled a singing $400 bipedal robot that can be taught tricks …
The Information ·
SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a $6B valuation; 1X sought $1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50%
SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X Technologies, an OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer …
Skild AI ·
Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning
UNSEEN TASKS10-MINUTE HORIZONSONE VIDEO PROMPTNO POST-TRAINING
Reuters ·
Unitree shares fell 45% after surging more than 5x in their August 19 Shanghai debut, cutting its valuation from $66B to $36B, raising robotics bubble concerns
A roughly 45% slump in the shares of Unitree, China's best-known humanoid robot maker, since a more than fivefold jump …
Dan Primack / Axios ·
Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June
Generalist has quietly raised around $200 million in new funding, just two months after the robotics AI startup raised $400 million.
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal ·
A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots
Engineers and investors pile into world models, aka 'large action models,' to do for robotics what ChatGPT did for writing and coding
Reuters ·
Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures at a $6.3B valuation, with Tencent and Alibaba participating
China's Xpeng said on Monday its robotics business raised over $900 million in its first funding round, led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures …
Telegraph ·
At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records
Chinese humanoid called Tiangong Ultra nearly five seconds faster than 2016 Rio Olympic time
Financial Times ·
Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's "ChatGPT moment" has yet to come
Beijing policymakers have made robotics a 'strategic priority'
Reuters ·
The Chinese city of Hangzhou deploys traffic-control robots that operate autonomously, using cameras and radar to signal traffic and flag violations
It is not quite the "RoboCop" of the 1987 movie: no gun, no power to arrest and wheels rather than the Hollywood cyborg's mechanical stride.
William Langley / Financial Times ·
China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns
Companies are selling machines to government-backed centres that then sell training data back to robot makers.
Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters ·
Velaura AI, which makes low-power chips and software for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation
Velaura AI was valued at more than $1 billion on Tuesday after raising $110 million in a Series A funding round …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE ·
ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, an autonomous control appliance for retrofitting onto excavators
Gravis Robotics AG said today it has bagged $200 million in funding from SoftBank Group Corp. in what is the largest-ever Series A round for a construction robotics startup.
Zeyi Yang / Wired ·
A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500+ units in 2025 and readies its China IPO
The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?
Chris Welch / Bloomberg ·
US-based robot vacuum maker Matic rolls out a firmware update that lets users control its $1,245 vacuum with voice commands in more than 70 languages
The device, from Silicon Valley brand Matic, can be controlled fully by voice instructions, helping it stand apart from the competition.
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg ·
A look at workers in India who are paid extra to wear devices that capture first-person video of factory and other work tasks for use as AI robot training data
Robotics companies are competing to collect videos of humans stitching shoes and welding steel to give their machines new skills.
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg ·
Filings show Uber divested from long-time partner Serve Robotics in Q2, as the companies clash over how to deploy delivery robots; Serve has a DoorDash deal
Uber Technologies Inc. has divested from long-time partner Serve Robotics Inc. as the two companies clash over how to deploy delivery robots …
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg ·
Smart Analytics: Chinese humanoid robot makers were 97%+ of global shipments in H1 2026, reaching ~19,100 unit shipments globally, up from 5,100 in H1 2025
China's humanoid robot makers commanded more than 97% of global shipments in the first half of 2026, according to new industry data affirming …
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters ·
Filing: DeepSeek has invested ~$20.8M in Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for humanoid machines
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has invested 140.8 million yuan ($20.8 million) in robot maker Unitree (688836.SS) and agreed …
Financial Times ·
JD.com founder Richard Liu says robots will replace the company's 700K delivery workers "sooner or later", and it will help retrain them in robot maintenance
China's rapid adoption of technology threatens millions of gig-economy jobs, policymakers fear
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