robotics

Alibaba affiliate Ant Group is building a broad humanoid robotics position through equity deals, an in-house unit called Robbyant, and a joint venture with AgiBot.

Pudu Robotics launched the D7, a dual-arm semi-humanoid industrial robot running its PuduFM 1.0 foundation model, with a 14 kg payload and 2-meter reach for warehouse work.

Agility Robotics will list on Nasdaq as AGLT through a SPAC merger valuing it at $2.5 billion, with more than $620 million in proceeds and a Foxconn-led PIPE.

Alibaba's logistics arm Cainiao launched ZeeBot, a warehouse robot that drives the floor at up to 4 m/s and climbs five-level racks in about 10 seconds.

At Automate 2026, NVIDIA unveiled Halos for Robotics, a three-layer functional-safety system spanning IGX Thor compute, Halos OS, and an ANAB-accredited inspection lab, with Agility Robotics as first adopter.

Kawasaki Robotics premiered the RL030N, an eight-degree-of-freedom arm built for physical AI, and named Dexterity's Mech warehouse robot as an early adopter.

After a December 510(k) clearance for cholecystectomy, the UK firm is commercializing Versius Plus in the US and has applied to add benign gynecology procedures.

A new MIT framework lets robots store language descriptions of objects in a spatial map and answer natural-language queries, improving accuracy by 21 to 53 percent over prior methods.

The International Federation of Robotics gave its 2026 innovation and entrepreneurship award to Verity, whose self-flying drones scan warehouse inventory in 13 countries.

Counter-drone startup Allen Control Systems closed a $200 million Series B at a $2.2 billion valuation to scale Bullfrog, an autonomous weapon station already deployed with the U.S. Army and Navy.

Two months after a RMB 1 billion round, ROBOTERA raised over $200 million to scale humanoid deployments across 10-plus logistics centers.

German robotics-AI startup Sereact raised a $110M Series B led by Headline to scale its Cortex 2.0 software and open a first US office in Boston.