Robotics

Oct 22, 2026

Maxinsights raises $30 million for robot training data

Maxinsights raised $30 million to collect video and force data for training robotics models.

Oct 22, 2026

Advantech Expands Robotics Platform With Functional Safety

Advantech has expanded its robotics platform with an independent safety path, diagnostic tools and support for NVIDIA IGX Thor.

Oct 22, 2026

Figure 03 Logs 348 Miles During Nine Days on Treadmill

Figure AI's Figure 03 humanoid robot logged 348 miles and 1.2 million steps during an extended treadmill test designed to expose hardware failures.

Oct 22, 2026

Beyond Vision Raises More Than €28 Million to Scale Drone Production

Portuguese drone maker Beyond Vision raised more than €28 million to increase production, develop its AI systems and enter new international markets.

Oct 22, 2026

Körber Invests in NAiSE for Mixed Robot Fleet Management

Körber is acquiring a stake in NAiSE, whose software manages automated and manual vehicles from multiple vendors through a shared control layer.

Oct 22, 2026

LG Innotek and NVIDIA Develop Robot Sensing Systems

LG Innotek and NVIDIA are working on sensing systems that connect cameras and other sensors directly to GPU based AI computers. The companies plan to expand the work into robot vision and robotic hands.

Oct 22, 2026

Enact Intelligence raises $30 million pre-seed, backed by Yann LeCun and Arthur Mensch

Zurich robotics startup Enact Intelligence has raised a $30 million pre-seed round from Redalpine, Notion Capital and Firstminute Capital, Sifted reports.

Oct 22, 2026

TIER IV and TUM Bring NVIDIA Hyperion to German Level 4 Projects

TIER IV and the Technical University of Munich will integrate NVIDIA Hyperion and Halos into Autoware projects for Level 4 autonomous driving in Germany.

Oct 22, 2026

AGCO to Test Agility Robotics Humanoids in Kansas Factory

AGCO will test Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid at its Hesston, Kansas, manufacturing plant starting in 2027.

Oct 21, 2026

YYForce Plans Workforce OS Robotics Platform Using NVIDIA Tools

YYForce plans to develop Workforce OS, a robotics architecture for coordinating human workers, service robots and Unitree humanoid robots in hospitality and facility operations.

Oct 21, 2026

GM Uses AI to Target Two Year Vehicle Development

General Motors plans to reduce vehicle development from four to five years to about two years through AI, simulation and concurrent engineering.

Oct 21, 2026

NVIDIA Expands Hyperion Autonomous Vehicle Platform in Europe

NVIDIA is expanding its Hyperion autonomous vehicle platform through projects with Bolt, Lucid, Volvo Cars, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Einride.

Oct 21, 2026

NVIDIA Expands Isaac With Agile ONE SN Humanoid and Robot Learning Tools

NVIDIA expanded its Isaac robotics platform with the Agile ONE SN reference humanoid, Isaac OS, Isaac Lab 3.0, new datasets and robot training workflows.

Oct 21, 2026

Agile Robots Plans Up to 2,000 Humanoids With NVIDIA in 2027

Agile Robots plans to produce 1,000 to 2,000 small humanoid robots with NVIDIA in 2027, with production due to begin late this year.

Oct 21, 2026

Teradyne Robotics and Sereact Partner on Industrial Robot AI

Teradyne Robotics and Sereact are partnering to deploy the Cortex physical AI platform on Universal Robots arms for logistics, retail and manufacturing tasks.

Oct 21, 2026

NASA Awards AstraQua $1.27 Million for Aircraft Health AI

NASA awarded AstraQua a $1.27 million Phase II contract to advance AstraSense, which monitors aircraft health and informs autonomous operating decisions.

Oct 21, 2026

Avride Expands Grubhub Delivery Robots to Philadelphia

Avride will provide autonomous food delivery for Grubhub and Wonder in Philadelphia, Hoboken, Arlington County and a larger part of Jersey City.

Oct 21, 2026

Nebius Releases Physical AI Workbench for Robotics

Nebius released an open source framework that lets AI agents operate robotics workflows spanning data generation, simulation, training and evaluation.

Oct 21, 2026

Bolt Selects NVIDIA Alpamayo for European Autonomous Vehicle Program

Bolt will use NVIDIA Alpamayo Stack in its European autonomous ride hailing program, starting with Lucid vehicles in Madrid in 2027.

Oct 21, 2026

Jingji Intelligent Raises Seed Funding for Cleaning Robots

The Shanghai robotics startup raised tens of millions of yuan from Haowen Tianshu Robotics and Shanghai Lanyun Industrial Development.

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