Robotics/IoT
67 briefings
November 2026 · 2
October 2026 · 12
- Oct 31White House finds robotics imports threaten national security under Section 232
- Oct 27Robotics startups raised $9.9 billion in Q3, and Bedrock Robotics adds $600 million at a $4.1 billion valuation
- Oct 26Alibaba's Amap releases λ0, a humanoid model trained from first-person human video
- Oct 25Nvidia open-sources Flora, which labels robot video for about $0.72 an hour
- Oct 22AGCO signs to pilot Agility's Digit humanoid at its Hesston, Kansas factory, starting 2027
- Oct 21NVIDIA adds the Agile ONE SN reference humanoid, Isaac OS and Isaac Lab 3.0 to its open robotics stack
- Oct 20Agility Robotics launches Digit 5, a heavier humanoid built for warehouse shifts
- Oct 19Hangzhou's Gewu Tongzhi raises nearly RMB 100 million for dexterous-manipulation AI
- Oct 18HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs in Minneapolis, Chicago and Miami to film training data for robots
- Oct 17Elorian's Glimpse is a visual-reasoning model that crops, zooms and runs code on the source image mid-reasoning, at $0.60 / $3 per million…
- Oct 14Industrial Next demos reconfigurable robot stations at TechCrunch Disrupt
- Oct 9Waymo closes its first debt financing, $5B
September 2026 · 13
- Sep 28SiMa.ai raises $150M Series C at a $1.45B valuation for physical-AI chips
- Sep 27Stanford's HomeBody lets a frontier vision-language model drive a humanoid robot with no per-environment training
- Sep 24Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 Action: an open-weight 7B world-action model for robots
- Sep 23Alphabet's Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core, its industrial robotics stack
- Sep 21IFR: only ~7,000 humanoid robots sold worldwide in 2025, mostly not for work
- Sep 19Vantora (formerly UP.Labs) raised $100M from Silversmith and went all-in on physical AI
- Sep 17Lucid and Bolt committed to at least 25,000 autonomous vehicles across European cities
- Sep 15Agility unveiled Digit 5, its first humanoid designed to work without safety cages
- Sep 13Maven Robotics left stealth with a $100M Series A and robots already running shifts
- Sep 9China's CSRC is quietly raising the bar for humanoid-robot IPOs after Unitree round-tripped
- Sep 7Figure committed $3.5B to Nscale for up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs, with intent to scale past $6B
- Sep 4NHTSA opened a probe into ~1,000 Tesla Cybercabs one day after commercial deployment began
- Sep 2Nvidia put $3.5B into MediaTek — its largest direct investment outside the US — and MediaTek adopts NVLink Fusion
August 2026 · 14
- Aug 31The U.S. is building regulatory walls around drones and robots; the shipment data says the walls are late
- Aug 30Anthropic previews the Model Hardware Standard — MCP's shape, pointed at physical equipment
- Aug 29Hugging Face is selling a $399 open-source robot duck, and the sim-to-real loop is the actual product
- Aug 28Bosch confirms August 2027 for Europe's first humanoid production line
- Aug 27Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano 2: 2× the inference in the same form factor, or the same performance at 40% less power
- Aug 26Unitree gives humanoid robotics its first real market price — then loses 45% of it in four sessions
- Aug 25XPeng's robotics unit raises $900M+ at a $6.3B valuation — the largest embodied-AI round in China
- Aug 25TCS buys Porsche's IT consultancy MHP for €320M, plus a five-year AI mobility deal
- Aug 22Five federal agencies: AI-written exploit scripts are actively hitting Siemens S7 PLCs (AA26-231a)
- Aug 20Five federal agencies: attackers are using AI coding assistants to build Siemens S7 PLC exploitation tooling
- Aug 14Pony.ai + Uber to deploy 2,000+ robotaxis across Europe
- Aug 13Google DeepMind — Gemini Robotics 2
- Aug 3FCC bans imports of new Chinese humanoid/quadruped robots and connected inverters
- Aug 2Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7B for industrial "physical AI"
July 2026 · 9
- Jul 31Google DeepMind — Gemini Robotics 2
- Jul 29Anduril rolls out the first YFQ-44A "Fury"
- Jul 28Enigma exits stealth with a $71M seed for robot-control AI
- Jul 25Travis Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7B
- Jul 24China's PsiBot hits ~$1.48B valuation in new raise
- Jul 20Hyundai takes full ownership of Boston Dynamics
- Jul 15AI2 Robotics raises $735M at ~$3B valuation for wheeled humanoids
- Jul 9UMA unveils its first humanoid robot and a "Real-Time Learning" architecture
- Jul 2UBTECH launches UWORLD U1 humanoid line
June 2026 · 8
May 2026 · 2
April 2026 · 7
- Apr 25Tesla raises 2026 capex to $25B+ — nearly 3× last year's $8.53B
- Apr 22Neura Robotics + AWS collaboration for physical AI
- Apr 19Physical Intelligence π0.7
- Apr 13NVIDIA Newton 1.0, Isaac GR00T, Cosmos
- Apr 13NVIDIA Isaac GR00T & Cosmos
- Apr 7NVIDIA Physical AI Models
- Apr 6Hyundai: 30K Atlas humanoids/year by 2028