Seeing Machines has launched a Physical AI Platform for robots and industrial automation. The system builds 3D perception maps to help robots understand people, objects, and surroundings.
LG Electronics has opened a new smart factory in Paraná, Brazil, with AI and industrial robotics systems. The plant can produce about 600,000 refrigerators per year.
Karsan has started passenger service with its Autonomous e-ATAK bus at Efteling in the Netherlands. The route connects the park's central public transport hub with nearby hotels, accommodation sites, and visitor facilities.
Pony AI and Uber plan to deploy more than 2,000 robotaxis across Europe, expanding from Zagreb to four additional cities.
LG plans to publicly unveil a bipedal humanoid robot built with NVIDIA Isaac GR00T in the first quarter of next year. The agreement with NVIDIA also covers CLOiD robot validation, AI factory reference sites, and an AI defined vehicle platform.
TIER IV has joined a Japan Science and Technology Agency semiconductor research program to develop open AI chip designs for Level 4 autonomous driving.
Realtime Robotics has appointed Kevin Carlin as CEO, effective immediately. Cofounder Peter Howard will continue as nonexecutive chairman as the company works to expand its Resolver platform with automotive manufacturers.
Feagine Robotics announced Fi0, a foundation model designed to keep robot task knowledge intact when a robot body changes. It was released with three FEAGINE A series biomimetic manipulators.
Alloy Robotics raised $8 million at an $80 million valuation to expand its AI agents for robot fleet debugging. Square Peg led the round, with Blackbird, Airtree and Skip Capital returning.
X Square Robot demonstrated an embodied AI parcel handling system that processed 1,816 parcels per hour with more than 98% accuracy in a live sorting workflow.
Neros Inc. raised a $250 million Series C at a $2.5 billion valuation to expand autonomous and interceptor drone programs.
Vatn Systems and Taiwan's NCSIST signed an agreement to explore autonomous underwater vehicles, AI enabled command and control, systems integration, and local sustainment for Taiwan's naval defense work.
Inturai said its proposed DomeCommand acquisition would add counter drone planning, AI reasoning agents, and audit trail tools to its infrastructure security capabilities.
Dyna Robotics announced DYNA-2, a robot foundation model trained on more than 1 million hours of egocentric human video. The company says the model improves task success rates and can adapt to several robot platforms with limited local training data.
Animotion Robotics has shared the first details of Éloi, a bionic robot with an AI core, autonomous motion systems, and a digital phase that lets users build interaction history before the physical robot ships.
Avatar Robotics raised a $6.5 million seed round led by AlleyCorp to expand deployments of humanoid robots for warehouse and manufacturing work.
The firefighting drone market is projected to grow from about $2.5 billion today to more than $8 billion by 2032, as emergency agencies use drones for wildfire detection, thermal imaging, live video, and disaster response.
Autodesk and the University of Florida opened the Autodesk Design and Make Laboratory in Gainesville with a $1 million donation to support robotics research and training for industrialized construction.
American Rheinmetall has received an 18 month U.S. Army contract to deliver autonomous, hybrid powered uncrewed ground vehicles for Project Sustainment.
GeoComm and SkyfireAI have connected emergency call data to Drone as First Responder operations using GeoComm DFR Routing and SkyfireAI drone response tools.
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