robotics

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.

Industrial-robotics software maker Mujin raised $233 million in a Series D led by NTT Group and co-led by Qatar Investment Authority, bringing total funding to $411 million as it eyes a 2030 IPO.

THEKER raised $85M (€73M) led by CRV with Samsung and LVMH backing, for AI-native factory robots that reconfigure for different tasks.

A KAIST team uses optimal transport over video-foundation-model embeddings to learn robot rewards from a handful of preference labels, winning a top-0.7% ICML 2026 oral slot.

A joint directive from China's industry ministry and state-asset regulator pushes humanoid robots from demos into paying jobs, targeting 10,000 commercial units and 100-plus applications by year-end.

Two Vingroup subsidiaries debuted humanoid robots at ICRA 2026 and Computex Taipei, marking Vietnam's entry into a field led by US and Chinese firms.

UBTECH, which sold 1,079 industrial humanoids in 2025, has launched a consumer brand, UWORLD, and opened JD.com preorders for the U1 ahead of a June 30 reveal.

The San Mateo startup, founded in 2024 by ex-DeepMind and Boston Dynamics researchers, has now raised more than half a billion dollars to scale its robot foundation models.

Amazon's new Proteus understands conversational commands and works beyond loading docks, debuting in London alongside a more than €10 billion European fulfillment investment.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market listing committee cleared the humanoid robot maker's IPO on Monday, a key hurdle toward a 4.2-billion-yuan raise.