Robot

Blackstone agrees to invest an undisclosed sum in South Korea-based Futronic, which makes actuators used in industrial robots, sources say at a ~$675M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-20 Korea Robot

Robot 'Decapitated' in World's First-Ever Humanoid UFC Fight (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-20 Robot

Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-18 Japan AI Robot Sony Nvidia

China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated “brain-to-robot” platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset (www.scmp.com)
2026-7-18 China Robot

Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-17 Startup Robot

A New York State school district is piloting a humanoid robot teacher by the company Realbotix to help students with summer school classes (mashable.com)
2026-7-17 Robot New York

KAIST develops robot that judges its surroundings and walks, runs, and jumps like an animal (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-7-17 Robot

Munich-based Microagi, which collects factory and household data to train humanoid robots, raised $55M led by Hummingbird in Germany's largest ever seed round (sifted.eu)
2026-7-16 Germany Robot Munich

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 Edge, a world model designed for robots and vision AI agents to perceive and navigate physical environments in real time (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-16 AI Robot Nvidia

Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of it deploying Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot in factories (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-16 Korea AI Robot Boston Dynamics

Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of the company deploying its new humanoid robot in factories (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-16 Korea AI Robot

Amsterdam-based Monumental, which develops autonomous robotics and software for the construction industry, raised a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures (tech.eu)
2026-7-16 Robot

MA-based Walden Robotics, a Toyota robotics spin-off that has started selling humanoid robots, emerges from stealth with a ~$300M seed at a $1.1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-15 Robot Toyota

How this robot could accelerate the search for life (www.universal-sci.com)
2026-7-15 Robot

Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-14 Startup Robot

New flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-7-11 Robot

Humanoid Robots Controlled By Surgeons Did World-First Operation On Live Pigs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-10 Robot

1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give it 25 degrees of freedom of movement, nearly the same as a human hand (www.wired.com)
2026-7-10 Robot

Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that utilizes a single camera and language prompts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-9 Robot

Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its third fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, including AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-9 AI Robot

UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for autonomous “killer robots” to be “banned by international law”, a central issue in the US DOD-Anthropic clash (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-7 Robot

Paris-based UMA, founded by ex-Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadene and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Pierre Sermanet, demos its Northstar AI humanoid robot (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-7 Google AI Tesla Robot Paris

How camera-equipped homing pigeons could improve robotic vision in flight (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-7-7 Robot

Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-6 Startup Robot

How companies like Nvidia and Neura Robotics are building safety systems for humanoid robots to minimize risks like a bipedal robot losing stability (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-6 Robot Nvidia

Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics, which develops spatial tech to let autonomous robots operate in complex, GPS-denied environments, raised a $125M Series A (technode.global)
2026-7-4 Robot Singapore GPS

CarbonSix, which is developing AI automation and robotic intelligence tech for manufacturing, raised a $40M Series A co-led by DSC Investment and LB Investment (www.finsmes.com)
2026-7-2 AI Robot Manufacturing Intelligence

Chinese robot maker UBTech launches U1, a line of humanoid robots for personal companionship with lifelike silicone skin and emotional AI, priced from $17,650 (www.scmp.com)
2026-7-1 China AI Robot

South Korea To Spend $1 Trillion On More Memory Chip Production, Humanoid Robots (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-1 Korea Robot

Better to use (and lose) robots than soldiers: Ukraine's UGV drive (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-6-30 Robot Ukraine

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