Humanoids, factory automation, agricultural bots, and the machines moving into the real world.
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Enact Intelligence, legally Eta Robotics AG, has raised a $30 million pre-seed to build force and touch sensing into robot actuators rather than adding it as an external accessory.
Backed by AMD Helios rack-scale compute, the Genoa humanoid maker plans three training sites, with the first 5,000 square metre hub in Italy targeted to be running by the fourth quarter of 2027.
Tesla says Optimus robots now roll off high-volume lines in Fremont, California, but it disclosed no unit counts as quarterly net income fell 43% to $787 million.
Munich based Agile Robots introduced a 1.4 metre research humanoid preconfigured with Nvidia Isaac GR00T and Jetson Thor, aiming to start production by the end of 2026.
Eka Robotics closed a 150 million dollar Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and F-Prime at a 1.45 billion dollar valuation, betting that force feedback beats vision alone.
Boston Dynamics CFO Amanda McMaster said Hyundai has committed to roughly 50,000 robot deployments across Hyundai Motor and Kia plants, doubling an earlier Atlas target.
Leju Robotics and Zhaofeng say 15 Kuafu humanoids have handled more than 60,000 parts across 15 stations, though each loading cycle still takes about 2.7 times a worker's time.
The Los Angeles event pairs a $2,490 developer humanoid with a $299 education robot, days after FFR agreed to buy the Faraday Future robotics business in an all-stock deal valued near $200 million.
The SEC declared the Agility Robotics merger registration effective on October 13, 2026, setting a November 2 shareholder vote on the Churchill Capital Corp XI combination and a planned Nasdaq listing under AGLT.
The Chinese AI lab has agreed to spearhead a seed financing round worth tens of millions of dollars for a stealth Hangzhou robotics startup founded by a former Tencent scientist.
Schaeffler's humanoid robotics order book grew to roughly 400 million euros in the third quarter of 2026 as two Greater China customers signed on, even as group revenue slipped to 17.5 billion euros.
The Chinese automaker used its Paris Motor Show programme to outline a staged commercial path for IRON, with internal testing before external sales.
A design patent published by China's intellectual property office shows a bipedal BYD robot with articulated fingers, but the automaker has not confirmed production plans or a formal launch date.
California's regulator says REK's September 18 human versus humanoid bout was unsanctioned, prompting a cease-and-desist and questions about old rules for new machines.
Brooklyn robotics startup Ultra closed a $50 million Series A led by Framework Ventures plus a $12 million seed round, and will run Pi's robot-brain model on its warehouse machines.
Rohit Prasad, formerly Amazon's head scientist for Alexa and AGI, takes over as chief executive of Boston Dynamics as Hyundai pushes toward building 30,000 robot units a year by 2028.
First Supply's new West Salem distribution center runs 31 Skypod robots and more than 50,000 bin positions to turn a 5 p.m. order cutoff into guaranteed next-morning branch delivery.
The Japanese machinery maker will adopt Noetra's domestic physical AI in its Kaleido platform, targeting staged autonomy and initial factory and warehouse tasks.
Figure AI retired most of its Figure 02 humanoid fleet by teaching the robots to leap into a 75 ton electric arc furnace in Imatra, Finland, after Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested melting them.
The Irvine-based robotics software startup has signed a term sheet for a $700 million round that would value it at $10 billion, up from $2 billion in 2025, as investors bet on a universal robot brain.
The Hyundai robotics unit has replaced a seven degree of freedom hand with a four finger design that targets 100,000 units a year and skips the pinky entirely.