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Factories are the next AI frontier: robotics, quality inspection, predictive maintenance and supply-chain optimization. This hub follows industrial AI deployments and the vendors behind them.
The company that made its name on cab-less driverless pods just tripled its fleet with conventional trucks that need drivers — and the AI in the deal is dispatch software.
3h ago
The number in almost every headline is the cumulative total of three tranches raised across most of a year. The money that arrived this week is $18m.
6h ago
The agreement spans robots, an 80 MW AI factory and autonomous vehicles. What exists today is a joint task force and a schedule.
2d ago
The DMV issued its first heavy-duty autonomous testing permits to Kodiak and Aurora. Both appear on the state list under 'Testing with a Driver' and nothing else.
2d ago
Pony.ai supplies the driving stack, Uber the demand, local partners the operations. Zagreb is first; four more cities are unnamed.
4d ago
Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid go to Archer; Boeing gets stock equal to 19.75% of Archer's pre-close share count. No cash price was disclosed.
6d ago
About 19,100 units in the first half against 5,100 a year earlier. The ranking flip and the 97% both come from one research firm's methodology.
Aug 10, 2026
500 to 1,000 Gen-4 heavy trucks over two to three years, on parts that are entirely automotive-grade. First-quarter robotruck revenue was $10.2m.
Aug 9, 2026
Seven-year performance-based agreements with Path Robotics and GrayMatter for autonomous welding, grinding, blasting and painting on Navy hulls. Every dollar is gated on milestones.
Aug 9, 2026
A five-fold markup in twelve months for robot-run defence factories, anchored by JPMorganChase. The company builds parts, not models.
Aug 9, 2026
35.2 trillion won for a Yongin DRAM fab, 19.1 trillion for a Cheongju NAND fab. Neither touches the memory shortage that prompted them.
Aug 9, 2026
AgiBot says WITA-Omni Preview scored 85.21 on DailyOmni and won six of eight sub-metrics, ahead of entries from Qwen, Gemini, Doubao and Nvidia. Parameters, licence and availability are all undisclosed.
Jul 29, 2026
Public Notice DA 26-786 adds humanoid and quadruped robots and grid inverters to the Covered List. The legal text identifies equipment by where it is made, not by who makes it.
Jul 29, 2026
LG Innotek and TDK signed a memorandum to co-develop vision and tactile sensing for physical AI. Tactile sensing is the gap holding humanoid manipulation back.
Jul 28, 2026
The world's largest EV maker put its robot plan on the record. There is no name, no specification, no price and no date beyond 'early August'.
Jul 28, 2026
Enigma left stealth with Index and Ribbit co-leading, angels from six frontier labs, and more than 100 robots in hangars that the public can control in real time.
Jul 28, 2026
Baidu's Apollo Go and Lyft-owned Freenow put dozens of vehicles on the road in the borough of Brent. Every one of them has a human safety operator behind the wheel.
Jul 28, 2026
China's dominant assisted-driving supplier confirmed its robovan business on Monday — three days after a leak, and several months after the vehicles started working in Suzhou.
Jul 27, 2026
CaoCao has started testing robotaxis with nobody behind the wheel on public streets in Binjiang district, with a remote-monitoring platform watching every vehicle.
Jul 27, 2026
Motion Brain added roughly 100 million yuan to a Pre-A round it first closed in May. The revenue it reports is cash collected rather than booked, and the round labels take some untangling.
Jul 26, 2026
The London- and Paris-based startup, founded by an ex-Accel investor with Palantir alumni, is betting AI's biggest payoff is in mission-critical industry — not office work.
Jul 23, 2026
The Shanghai world-model startup — training robots with data from bespoke gloves and humanoids — becomes China's newest embodied-AI unicorn, with an Apple supplier on the cap table.
Jul 23, 2026
Nine years after ousting him, Uber joins Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital and Fifth Wall in funding Kalanick's bet that a 'wheelbase for robots' can automate mining, transport and food.
Jul 23, 2026
Revenue jumped 26% but margins buckled; Musk says robotaxi miles are compounding over 10% a week, while meaningful autonomy revenue slips to 2027 and the first Optimus lines rise at Fremont.
Jul 23, 2026
The deal pairs Mobileye's EyeQ6L silicon with its crowdsourced REM road map, enabling hands-free driving on roads that have no clearly marked lanes.
Jul 22, 2026
Prime Movers Lab led the largest Series A ever for a European humanoid robotics company, with Bosch signing on as contract manufacturer and Schaeffler committing to buy up to 2,000 robots.
Jul 22, 2026
The private-equity giant is buying control of a South Korean maker of precision actuators — the physical bottleneck in scaling humanoid and industrial robots — in a deal valuing the company near $700 million.
Jul 20, 2026
The European fashion platform joined the German startup's round as a strategic investor, drawn by a problem it knows well: roughly half of everything ordered on Zalando comes back as a return.
Jul 20, 2026
On the closing day of Shanghai's World AI Conference, the Chinese humanoid maker detailed an upgrade to its physical-world foundation model and a push abroad — showcasing its MATRIX-3 robot, priced from around $81,000.
Jul 20, 2026
The Cambridge startup using AI to design new materials quintupled its valuation in ten months and pulled in Jeff Bezos, AMD and 45 organizations for a coalition aimed at chipmaking's rare metals.
Jul 20, 2026
