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Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B valuation, up 3x from when it raised $350M in February 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Google Startup Robot

Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Alibaba Robot

How China boosts its humanoid robot industry, giving companies land, favorable bank loan terms, and sometimes subsidizing the robots' purchase price by ~10% (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago China Robot

Overland AI, which develops off-road robots and autonomous vehicles for military purposes, raised $100M led by 8VC, bringing its total funding to $142M (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago AI Robot Autonomous Car

Starbucks Bets on Robots To Brew a Turnaround in Customers (hardware.slashdot.org)
11 days ago Robot Starbucks

Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt (hardware.slashdot.org)
12 days ago Robot

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B+ (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Startup Robot Intelligence

Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (restofworld.org)
12 days ago China AI Robot

Moment terrified Russian soldiers surrender to Ukrainian machine gun-mounted combat robot on meatgrinder front line (www.dailymail.co.uk)
15 days ago Russia Robot Ukraine

'Hundreds' of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For US Roads (tech.slashdot.org)
15 days ago Robot

Munich-based RobCo, which makes robotic arms and factory automation software, raised $100M led by Lingotto and Lightspeed, a source says at a $500M+ valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Robot Munich

Tesla plans to scrap its premium S and X models and convert its California factory into an Optimus manufacturing hub, as Elon Musk refocuses on robotics and AI (www.ft.com)
16 days ago AI Tesla Robot Manufacturing Elon Musk California

Q&A with James Wu on leaving his role as DJI's chief scientist to found FJDynamics to build robots for labor intensive sectors like agriculture and construction (www.ft.com)
17 days ago Robot

Misleading text in the physical world can hijack AI-enabled robots (www.eurekalert.org)
17 days ago AI Robot

Documents: China's military is focused on harnessing AI to deploy swarms of drones, robot dogs, and other autonomous systems, learning from hawks and coyotes (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago China AI Robot Drone

Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more (www.technologyreview.com)
22 days ago Startup Robot Intelligence Paris

Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds (inc42.com)
25 days ago Startup Robot

Q&A with FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, only the second CEO in the company's history, on humanoid robots, automation, AI, drones, US-China trade tensions, and more (www.nytimes.com)
25 days ago China AI Robot Drone

Shenzhen-based UBTech signed deals to supply its Walker S2 humanoid robots to Airbus and Texas Instruments, and says it aims to produce 10,000+ units in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago Airbus Robot Shenzhen Texas

Ukrainian robot soldier holds off Russian forces by itself in six-week battle (www.dailymail.co.uk)
29 days ago Russia Robot Ukraine

Mytra, which is building autonomous robots for warehouses that can move loads up to 3,000 pounds, raised a $120M Series C led by Avenir Growth (fortune.com)
29 days ago Robot

OpenAI says it issued a request for proposals to US-based hardware manufacturers as it seeks to push into consumer devices, robotics, and cloud data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago Robot

Chinese chipmaker SpacemiT, whose RISC-V-based K1 chip is used in industrial systems, robotics, edge computing, and AI devices, raised an ~$86M Series B (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago China AI Robot

Pittsburgh-based Skild AI, which makes robotics foundation models, raised a $1.4B Series C at a $14B+ valuation, up from ~$4.5B in June 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago AI Robot

Pittsburgh-based Skild AI, which makes robotics foundation models, raised a $1.4B Series C at a $14B valuation, up from $4.5B after raising $300M in June 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago AI Robot

CES 2026 report: AI, autonomy, and robotic products are still finding their way, country-level booths are growing, Nvidia underpinned much of the show, and more (hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
2026-1-12 AI Robot Nvidia

A profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
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Chinese humanoid robotics companies dominated CES 2026, but a wide gap remains between choreographed demonstrations and real-world deployment (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9 China Robot

Omdia: global humanoid robot shipments rose more than 5x YoY in 2025 to ~13K units; China accounted for the vast majority, led by AgiBot shipping ~5,168 units (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9 China Robot

Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9 AI Robot

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