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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.
NVIDIA and Unitree announced a jointly developed open humanoid robot reference design built on Unitree's H2 Plus chassis, with 75 total degrees of freedom and Jetson Thor compute, due from Unitree in late 2026.
Locus Robotics buys Vancouver-based Nexera Robotics, adding NeuraGrasp's patented soft-membrane gripper to its Locus Array autonomous fulfillment system.
Boston Dynamics engineers detail the five-step reinforcement learning pipeline that taught Atlas to lift over 100 pounds using whole-body control — from animation to factory floor in weeks.