Robotics

Nov 3, 2026

Armatrix Raises ₹67.3 Crore in Seed Funding

Robotics startup Armatrix raised ₹67.28 crore in a seed round led by Crane Venture Partners. The round values the company at an estimated ₹360 crore.

Nov 3, 2026

MOVIN Raises $7.6 Million for 3D Motion Data Technology

MOVIN raised $7.6 million in a Series A round led by IMM Investment. The startup will expand its motion capture business, develop its physical AI technology and pursue overseas growth.

Nov 3, 2026

NVIDIA Humanoid Systems Use Robotic Hands With China Ties

NVIDIA's two humanoid reference systems use mechanical hands from China-linked startups Wuji and Sharpa, CNBC reports.

Nov 2, 2026

Autoware 2.0 Adds End to End AI Driving Models

Autoware 2.0 adds end to end AI and hybrid driving stacks, a package registry, and reference designs for autonomous vehicle systems.

Nov 2, 2026

Tutor Intelligence raises $75 million to expand robot model training

The Series B round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, brings Tutor Intelligence's total funding to $117 million. The company will expand model training and production of its Sonny and Cassie robots.

Nov 2, 2026

YYForce reports US$21.9 million in net assets and outlines robotics priorities

YYForce reported approximately US$21.9 million in net assets as of June 30 and outlined plans for service robotics and AI enabled workforce and facility platforms.

Nov 2, 2026

Self Driving Car Market Projected to Reach 51.2 Million Units by 2035

MarketsandMarkets projects global self driving car volume will increase from 31.5 million units in 2026 to 51.2 million in 2035, representing annual growth of 5.5%.

Nov 2, 2026

Gallium Defence Raises €7.1 Million for Drone Detection Radar

Paris startup Gallium Defence has emerged from stealth with €7.1 million in seed funding to expand production of its GDS-10 drone detection radar.

Nov 2, 2026

Ericsson launches ISAC System to detect drones with 5G networks

Ericsson's ISAC System uses existing 5G infrastructure, AI and signal processing to detect and track drones. Commercial pilots will begin in 2027.

Nov 1, 2026

VicOne Says AI Research Found 28 Zero Days in Robotics Tools

VicOne says AI assisted research found an initial 28 zero day findings in robotics software, including projects from Google, NVIDIA and Meta.

Nov 1, 2026

Sadiq Khan Calls for Cap on London Robotaxis

London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants powers to cap robotaxi numbers as the UK government prepares to allow fully driverless vehicles in the capital.

Nov 1, 2026

Meta Reportedly Builds Humanoid Robot Prototype With Fourier

Meta reportedly built a humanoid robot prototype called Max with Chinese startup Fourier in about three months and is working on a second version, The Information reported.

Oct 31, 2026

Agility Robotics Expects $465 Million Raise as SPAC Merger Nears Close

Agility Robotics expects about $465 million in gross proceeds from its merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI. The transaction is expected to close on November 4, followed by Nasdaq trading under the symbol AGLT.

Oct 29, 2026

Altman Says OpenAI Will Aim Its Robots at Building Data Centers

Sam Altman said OpenAI will point its robotics programme at building data centres, calling self-replicating data centres "within grasp."

Oct 29, 2026

Scale AI and Hugging Face Release FineART Robotics Dataset and Model

Scale AI and Hugging Face released FineART, an open robotics dataset containing 40,543 recorded episodes and more than 533,000 labeled steps, alongside the FineART-VLA model.

Oct 29, 2026

Foundry Robotics Raises $100 Million for Robotic Assembly Factories

Foundry Robotics raised a $100 million Series A to build and operate robotic assembly factories. Its FoundryOS software coordinates robots, schedules and assembly processes across different products.

Oct 29, 2026

Shopify Cuts AI Serving Costs 90% as NVIDIA Details European Retail Deployments

Shopify says a customized NVIDIA Nemotron model surpassed a leading frontier model on its internal accuracy benchmark while reducing serving costs by 90% and producing responses seven times faster.

Oct 29, 2026

AgiBot Proposes Worken Metric for Robot Productivity

AgiBot introduced Worken, a framework that measures robot productivity using active robot numbers, autonomous working hours and output efficiency. The company also unveiled new robot hardware, AI models and an operating system.

Oct 29, 2026

Bleu Robotics Raises €5 Million for Factory Humanoids

Paris based Bleu Robotics raised €5 million to build humanoid robots that it says can learn factory tasks in 20 minutes.

Oct 29, 2026

Dimensional Offered $20 an Hour to Walk Robot Dogs

Dimensional offered workers $20 an hour to guide robot dogs through San Francisco and collect data for training AI systems.

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