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Product launches, acquisitions and technology in industrial robotics, separate from our long-form guides in our articles.

A white-and-black wheeled robot with a chest-height touchscreen display showing a 'robot stair dashboard' interface, photographed from front and side angles in a studio setting, with glowing blue accent lighting along its torso.
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Toyota Targets 400,000 Factory Robots From 2028, Led by ELEY

Toyota says it could spend ¥1 trillion ($6.4B) a year from 2028 deploying 400,000 wheeled ELEY robots that learn tasks by imitation, not teleoperation.

Category

industry

Date

Sep 29, 2026

Status

Developing

A lineup of about eight humanoid robots with different colored torsos and limbs (white, pink, blue, orange, red) standing on an event stage in front of a Chinese-language launch banner.
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AGIBOT's 20,000th Robot Goes to a Chinese Theme Park, Not a Factory

AGIBOT and Chimelong deployed 300+ robots across seven scenarios at Chimelong Spaceship Park, delivering AGIBOT's 20,000th unit off the production line.

Category

product

Date

Sep 28, 2026

Status

Developing

An orange-and-black ANYmal quadruped robot walking through an industrial facility corridor past blue structural beams, safety signage and a grey electrical cabinet.
Developing technology
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ANYmal Robots Can Now Badge Through Locked Doors

A dormakaba, ANYbotics and LEGIC pilot lets ANYmal robots trigger unlocked doors via radar and badge into secured ones with a digital, audited credential.

Category

technology

Date

Sep 28, 2026

Status

Developing

A white six-axis collaborative robot arm with the EPSON logo on its wrist and a blue status ring at the tool flange, shown against a plain white background
Developing product
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Epson's First Cobot, the AX6, Goes on Sale in the US

Epson Robots launched the AX6, its first collaborative arm (900 mm reach, 6 kg payload), in the US on Sept 22, 2026, more than a year after Europe's preview.

Category

product

Date

Sep 26, 2026

Status

Developing

Orange KUKA industrial robot arms on both sides of an unfinished car body shell on an automotive welding line
Weekly Recap
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Five Million Robots Counted; the Rest Is Still Claimed

IFR counted 5 million working robots this week. Boston Dynamics, FANUC and TLD Robotics offered plans and claims, and only some came with a base.

Category

digest

Date

Sep 26, 2026

Status

Analysis

A red six-axis Comau industrial robot arm with its gripper extended over a wooden platform in a workshop
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IFR: Global Robot Stock Hits 5 Million as China Takes 59%

IFR: working industrial robots hit a record 5 million in 2025. China took 59% of 600,000+ new installs, and the US passed Japan for second place.

Category

industry

Date

Sep 25, 2026

Status

Developing

Several humanoid Atlas robots with glowing amber head lights work at tables and parts racks beside a blue vehicle body on a factory floor.
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Boston Dynamics Opens Atlas Training Center at Hyundai Metaplant

Boston Dynamics says its Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia Metaplant is running, with 25,000 units planned for Hyundai and Kia plants.

Category

industry

Date

Sep 24, 2026

Status

Developing

A white FANUC CRX collaborative robot with green banding arc-welds on a perforated black steel table, a bright blue arc glare at the torch tip, with a gas cylinder standing at the left of the frame
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FANUC's AI Welding Agent Reads a Drawing, Then Welds

FANUC says its Google-built AI Welding Agent turns a drawing photographed by a CRX pendant into weld parameters and a robot program, shipping by December.

Category

product

Date

Sep 20, 2026

Status

Developing

Aerial view of two white driverless airport ground-support vehicles branded TLD and TractEasy on an airfield apron: a low cargo dolly carrying a loaded cargo container beside a tow tractor with a roof-mounted sensor array
Developing acquisition
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ALVEST Folds EasyMile Into New Driverless-Vehicle Firm TLD Robotics

ALVEST bought EasyMile and launched TLD Robotics, claiming 35+ driverless operations in 10 countries. Price, closing date and fleet size undisclosed.

Category

acquisition

Date

Sep 19, 2026

Status

Developing

A technician in a light-blue shirt holds a Universal Robots SP7 Smart Panel displaying the PolyScope X interface with a 3D robot-arm visualization, next to a Universal Robots collaborative robot arm in a workshop setting.
Weekly Recap
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IMTS Week: The Layer Around the Arm Was the News

IMTS 2026 was about the software and controllers around the arm, and each headline number came labeled: company-stated, milestone-gated or unfinished.

Category

digest

Date

Sep 19, 2026

Status

Analysis

A teal-and-black bipedal humanoid robot with human-like legs stands facing forward against a plain gray studio backdrop, its chest display reading '1024 AUTO' and three-fingered grippers hanging at its sides.
Developing product
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Agility Unveils Digit 5, Discloses $300M+ in Orders

Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 on Sept. 15 with new legs, a 50 lb payload and 10:1 charge ratio, plus $300M+ in orders contingent on milestones.

Category

product

Date

Sep 18, 2026

Status

Developing

Close-up of a teal-and-white Exotec 'Zore' goods-to-person robot branded EXOTEC and GXO lifting a cardboard shipping box onto a conveyor turntable, with a warehouse worker in an orange vest and additional Skypod robot towers with green status-light arcs visible in the blurred background.
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Exotec, GXO Deploy 127-Robot Skypod System for Guess in Venlo

GXO and Exotec's 127-robot Skypod AS/RS now runs Guess's EMEA/Asia fashion fulfillment in Venlo, Netherlands, handling up to 70,000 pieces a day.

Category

industry

Date

Sep 17, 2026

Status

Developing

A technician in a light-blue shirt holds a Universal Robots SP7 Smart Panel displaying the PolyScope X interface with a 3D robot-arm visualization, next to a Universal Robots collaborative robot arm in a workshop setting.
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Universal Robots Unveils Gen 7 Platform at IMTS 2026

UR unveiled Gen 7 at IMTS 2026: three new g-Series cobot arms plus a new OS, controller, tool flange and pendant, all launched as one platform.

Category

product

Date

Sep 16, 2026

Status

Developing

A white robotic arm branded DÜRR in blue lettering, working on a silver automotive body-in-white inside a factory bay with yellow safety railing and a green roll-up door in the background.
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Dürr Launches EcoRS Generation 2 Sealing-Robot Platform

Dürr introduced a four-model EcoRS Generation 2 robot line for paint-shop sealing, cleaning, and handling, moving axis 3-6 motors and cabling inside the arm to cut its footprint and simplify service.

Category

product

Date

Sep 15, 2026

Status

Developing

A Cobot Painter arm, labeled 'Cobot Painter' on its forearm, mounted on a black control cabinet inside a paint booth, with overspray stains visible on the booth's white walls and a metal grate floor beneath it.
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Hirebotics Adds Line Tracking, Linear Rail to Cobot Lineup at IMTS

Hirebotics unveiled conveyor line tracking for its Cobot Painter and a modular linear rail for its whole cobot family at IMTS 2026, aimed at parts too large or too mobile for a fixed work envelope.

Category

product

Date

Sep 15, 2026

Status

Developing

A robotic gripper arm reaching down into small parts bins on an industrial automation cell, with a second robotic arm visible in the dimly lit background
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Vention's MachineAgent Pairs Physical, Agentic AI at IMTS

Vention unveiled MachineAgent, an AI system that turns plain-language prompts into automation programs, timed to IMTS 2026's opening in Chicago.

Category

technology

Date

Sep 14, 2026

Status

Developing

A full-body studio product photograph of Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid robot against a plain gray backdrop, showing its teal torso, white head unit with a dotted LED display, black-and-silver articulated arms with three-fingered grippers, and digitigrade silver-and-black legs.
Developing earnings
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Agility's S-4 Shows $1.8M Sales Against $2.5B SPAC Valuation

Agility Robotics' SEC filing discloses $1.8 million in 2025 net sales, a $138-140M operating loss and going-concern language, versus its SPAC deal's $2.5 billion price tag.

Category

earnings

Date

Sep 12, 2026

Status

Developing

A technician in a black polo shirt holds a robot teach pendant while operating a yellow-branded Yaskawa six-axis robotic arm performing arc welding inside a yellow-curtained safety cell, with a Miller welding power supply visible in the foreground.
Weekly Recap
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Three Robotics Stories This Week, All Asking for Receipts

Only 3 robotics stories ran this week, but Agility's SPAC filing, Maven's funding round and a defense grant all test claims against real numbers.

Category

digest

Date

Sep 12, 2026

Status

Analysis

Maven Robotics co-founders Hamza and Khalid Derbas stand on either side of the company's wheeled, dual-arm industrial robot in an office space, the robot's dark mobile base topped by two articulated arms ending in lime-green gripper housings, a line-art wall mural behind them.
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Maven Robotics Emerges With $100M Series A, Nasdaq Fund Leading

Maven Robotics left stealth with a $100M Series A led by Nasdaq-listed RoboStrategy, backing a dual-arm robot already on Fortune 250 warehouse shifts.

Category

industry

Date

Sep 11, 2026

Status

Developing

A technician in a black polo shirt holds a robot teach pendant while operating a yellow-branded Yaskawa six-axis robotic arm performing arc welding inside a yellow-curtained safety cell, with a Miller welding power supply visible in the foreground.
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ARM Institute Gets Nearly $90M to Modernize Military Manufacturing

The Department of War is funding 10 robotics and AI projects across 12 aging military plants — no per-project dollar breakdown has been disclosed.

Category

industry

Date

Sep 7, 2026

Status

Developing

A white and green FANUC CRX-3iA collaborative robot arm posed against a plain white studio background, with a FANUC Robot CRX-3iA nameplate visible on its forearm
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FANUC Previews IMTS 2026: Battery-Ready CRX, New CNC Line

FANUC says it will show a DC controller letting CRX cobots run off battery power on mobile robots, plus new machining, paint and CNC hardware at IMTS 2026.

Category

product

Date

Sep 5, 2026

Status

Developing

Hyundai Motor Company president and CEO Jose Munoz speaks on stage at an investor-day presentation in front of a large screen reading Hyundai x Boston Dynamics, showing an on-screen photo of a humanoid robot doing parts-sequencing work on a factory floor.
Weekly Recap
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Three Ways to Scale a Robotics Business, One Week Apart

Hyundai, NEURA and Corvus chose three different ways to scale robotics this week, while a patent fight escalated and humanoids went live in Korea.

Category

digest

Date

Sep 5, 2026

Status

Analysis

A red-and-silver six-axis collaborative robot arm on a white studio pedestal, with the JAKA logo visible on two of its joints.
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JAKA Counter-Sues Teradyne Robotics Over Patent Dispute Claims

JAKA is seeking an injunction against Teradyne Robotics' public statements, says no infringement suit has actually reached it, and cites 300+ patents and two clean FTO reviews in its defense.

Category

industry

Date

Sep 4, 2026

Status

Developing

A stationary dual-arm humanoid robot branded CJ Logistics and Robotis uses one gripper to insert crumpled brown cushioning paper into an Olive Young-branded shipping box on a roller conveyor packaging line, with automated parcel sorters visible in the background.
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CJ Logistics Puts Humanoid Robots on a Live Packing Line

CJ Logistics has deployed two humanoid robots to pack boxes at an Olive Young warehouse near Seoul, a company-claimed first for live Korean logistics.

Category

product

Date

Sep 3, 2026

Status

Developing

A two-panel press photo joined by a Qualcomm Dragonwing logo mark: on the left, a worker in orange hi-vis and a white hard hat operates an orange industrial robot arm with a handheld teach pendant; on the right, a customer pays at a tablet-based point-of-sale terminal while holding a coffee cup. The photo illustrates the chips' target use cases and does not depict the IQ-2390 chip itself.
Developing technology
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Qualcomm's New Industrial Chip Bets on -30°C to 115°C Toughness

Qualcomm's IQ-2390 chip trades raw AI horsepower for a -30°C to 115°C rating and deterministic Ethernet, aimed at PLCs, gateways and machine vision.

Category

technology

Date

Sep 2, 2026

Status

Developing

An overhead view inside a distribution center showing multiple parallel yellow, CIMCORP-branded overhead gantry rail robots picking black plastic tote crates above rows of warehouse racking.
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REWE Adds a Maintenance Contract to Keep Its Grocery Robots Running

German grocery group REWE added Cimcorp's Success Services support contract to the gantry-robot system already moving fresh produce through its Berlin-area hub.

Category

industry

Date

Sep 2, 2026

Status

Developing

A researcher uses a handsaw jointly gripped with an orange KUKA collaborative robot arm during a human-robot-collaboration lab demonstration.
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Intel Study Finds a Robotics Readiness Gap, and Humanoid Doubt

Intel's 800-leader survey finds 60% expect a robot fleet within 5 years, only 40% have a workforce strategy, and 4 in 10 doubt humanoids will scale.

Category

industry

Date

Sep 1, 2026

Status

Analysis

A field service engineer in a full cleanroom suit stands with a tablet beside a large white ABB IRB 7600 six-axis industrial robot arm inside an ISO 14644-1 Class 6 cleanroom.
Monthly Highlights
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August 2026: ABB Exits Robotics as NVIDIA's Safety Stack Spreads

ABB posted record orders while exiting robotics; the FCC barred new foreign mobile robots; NVIDIA safety chip reached three integrators at once.

Category

digest

Date

Sep 1, 2026

Status

Analysis

Three executives standing together in front of a NEURA Robotics-branded backdrop, marking the Adlatus Robotics acquisition
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NEURA Robotics Buys Adlatus, Its Fifth Deal in 16 Months

NEURA Mobile Robots is acquiring 100% of German cleaning-robot maker Adlatus Robotics, folding a 20-year sweeping-robot business into NEURA's Neuraverse platform in its fifth acquisition since May 2025.

Category

acquisition

Date

Aug 31, 2026

Status

Developing

An orange-and-black Corvus One quadcopter drone hovers at height in a dim warehouse aisle between tall pallet racking loaded with shrink-wrapped cartons, with skylights and ceiling lighting visible above.
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Corvus Robotics Names New CEO, Raises $20M, Shows Real Data

Corvus Robotics' co-founder Mohammed Kabir becomes CEO and the warehouse-drone startup raises $20M, but the more telling number is 300+ drones now flying 1M-plus locations a month.

Category

industry

Date

Aug 30, 2026

Status

Developing

Hyundai Motor Company president and CEO Jose Munoz speaks on stage at an investor-day presentation in front of a large screen reading Hyundai x Boston Dynamics, showing an on-screen photo of a humanoid robot doing parts-sequencing work on a factory floor.
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Hyundai Commits to 30,000 US-Built Robots a Year by 2028

Hyundai will start US robot production in 2028 at 30,000 units annually, and its Georgia robot testing center is expanding tenfold this year with 25,000 orders already booked.

Category

industry

Date

Aug 30, 2026

Status

Developing

A yellow robotic arm reaching into a shipping container full of cartons to unload a boxed case onto a roller conveyor.
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BAUHAUS Automates Goods Receiving With XYZ Robotics in Krefeld

BAUHAUS is running XYZ Robotics' RockyOne and RockyOne SE mobile manipulators around the clock at its Krefeld, Germany warehouse, unloading containers across 10,000+ SKUs unattended.

Category

product

Date

Aug 29, 2026

Status

Developing

A KUKA robotic arm unloading boxed cases from inside a semi-trailer next to a States Logistics control panel, with a roller conveyor in the foreground.
Developing product
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KUKA and Contoro Robots Now Unload 4-5 Trailers a Shift

A KUKA arm running Contoro Robotics' AdaptAI software is unloading floor-loaded trailers at States Logistics' California DC, lifting shift throughput from 2-3 trailers to 4-5.

Category

product

Date

Aug 29, 2026

Status

Developing

A white and silver bipedal humanoid robot with an AVIC logo on its chest is suspended by an overhead rigging harness at a WRC 2026 trade-show booth, aviation-themed graphics visible on a screen behind it, yellow-and-black caution tape in the foreground.
Weekly Recap
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WRC Disclosure Gap Meets IP Escalation as Deployments Scale

Three WRC exhibitors' unaudited claims, Teradyne's second Chinese-cobot suit, and Brightpick's verified fleet growth mark a week of uneven proof.

Category

digest

Date

Aug 29, 2026

Status

Analysis

A technician in a UR / MiR / Teradyne Robotics branded shirt stands beneath a raised Universal Robots collaborative arm, programming it with a handheld blue teach pendant.
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Teradyne Robotics Sues JAKA at Europe's Unified Patent Court

Teradyne Robotics filed a patent infringement case against JAKA's German unit at the UPC on August 27 — its second European IP fight of 2026, and one that could touch 19 countries at once.

Category

industry

Date

Aug 28, 2026

Status

Breaking

A tracked excavator digging into an earthen embankment.
Developing product
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Bedrock Robotics' Excavators Now Dig With No One in the Cab

Bedrock Robotics says its retrofit kit now runs 20-to-80-ton excavators with nobody in the cab on live U.S. job sites, not supervised trials.

Category

product

Date

Aug 27, 2026

Status

Developing

An NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 module connected to a small robotic arm on a workbench, next to a laptop running motion-planning code.
Developing product
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NVIDIA's New Entry-Level Robotics Chip Doubles Edge AI Power

NVIDIA's Jetson Orin Nano 2 delivers 78 TOPS, twice its predecessor's inference speed, at 40% less power, shipping in developer kits in H1 2027.

Category

product

Date

Aug 27, 2026

Status

Developing

An angled overhead view of a Brightpick Autopicker mobile robot with an articulated arm placing a package into an orange tote, positioned in front of rows of shelved storage bins in a warehouse.
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Brightpick Cuts Pharmacy Picking Staff From 15 to 0.5 a Shift

Brightpick is adding 44 Autopicker robots for Dr. Max Group, bringing its pharmacy-network fleet to 74 as Prague reports a 95% cut in picking labor.

Category

industry

Date

Aug 26, 2026

Status

Developing

A white four-legged quadruped robot with dark leg joints and a sensor head, shown in a studio product photo against a plain white background.
Developing technology
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DEEP Robotics Debuts Full DR02/Lynx/X30 Line at WRC 2026

DEEP Robotics showed its complete humanoid-wheeled-quadruped hardware line and six packaged industry solutions at WRC 2026, alongside a self-reported, unaudited 'No.1' revenue claim.

Category

technology

Date

Aug 25, 2026

Status

Developing

A flat-lay product photo on a light gray background showing the contents of Loomia's Smart Skin Tactile Sensing Dev Kit: a black three-finger tactile glove, a square mega pressure matrix and smaller mini pressure matrix printed with X-shaped sensor pads, serpentine and linear tactile sensor strips, a four-point tactile sensor, a stack of calibration weights with a 3D-printed weight jig, and a green Arduino Uno board, each item labeled with a callout line and the LOOMIA logo in the bottom-left corner.
Developing acquisition
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Unichem Buys Tactile E-Skin Maker Loomia for $6M

South Korean automotive-leather maker Unichem is acquiring Brooklyn's Loomia Technologies for ~$6M, betting flexible pressure-and-shear sensors — already proven on a 2018 Festo gripper — become standard on robot hands.

Category

acquisition

Date

Aug 24, 2026

Status

Developing

A white and silver bipedal humanoid robot with an AVIC logo on its chest is suspended by an overhead rigging harness at a WRC 2026 trade-show booth, aviation-themed graphics visible on a screen behind it, yellow-and-black caution tape in the foreground.
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AVIC's Fengxing-001 Humanoid Debuts for Aviation Manufacturing

AVIC unveiled its 1.8-meter, 80kg Fengxing-001 humanoid at WRC 2026, claiming 2-3 units replace 4-6 workers on a task two state outlets describe differently.

Category

product

Date

Aug 23, 2026

Status

Developing

A white Zoomlion-branded robotic arm with a drill-tipped end effector performs precision assembly on a workpiece at a WRC 2026 trade-show booth, with two smaller humanoid robots and a video display in the background.
Developing technology
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Zoomlion's Z01, Z03 Humanoids Handle Wire Harnesses, Mirrors

Zoomlion showed Z01 and Z03 humanoids running wire-harness and mirror-preassembly tasks at WRC 2026, with no independent productivity figures disclosed.

Category

technology

Date

Aug 23, 2026

Status

Developing

Two Delta Electronics executives in blue Delta-branded polo shirts stand beside the company's Embodied AI Dual-Arm Robot Platform display at Automation Taipei 2026, with a white dual-arm cobot and Delta and NVIDIA logos visible behind them.
Developing technology
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Delta's Dual-Arm Cobot Takes Voice Commands, Not Code

Delta Electronics debuted an Embodied AI Dual-Arm Robot Platform at Automation Taipei 2026 that plans and self-corrects from voice commands using an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin stack, aimed at high-mix assembly work like AI servers.

Category

technology

Date

Aug 22, 2026

Status

Developing

Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid — a bipedal robot with a teal torso, a white LED face panel and articulated black-and-silver arms — carries a large gray warehouse tote against a plain studio backdrop.
Weekly Recap
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This Week: Safety Gets a Chip, Capital Gets Real

NVIDIA's SIL 3 safety hardware appeared in three stories this week, while Unitree's IPO and FORT's SPAC priced robotics capital two different ways.

Category

digest

Date

Aug 22, 2026

Status

Analysis

Two yellow FORT Wireless E-Stop handheld devices, each with a red emergency-stop button, antenna and LCD screen, on a light gray background beside the FORT Robotics logo.
Developing acquisition
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FORT Robotics to Go Public via SPAC at $556.6M Valuation

FORT Robotics will list on Nasdaq as FROB via a merger with Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp, valuing the safety-infrastructure maker at $556.6M as it reports 62% revenue growth alongside real margin compression.

Category

acquisition

Date

Aug 20, 2026

Status

Developing

Unitree's G1 humanoid robot, with UNITREE branding and a glowing blue face display, standing on a trade-show expo floor.
Breaking acquisition
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Unitree Shares Soar 629% at Open in Shanghai STAR Market Debut

Unitree Robotics began trading on Shanghai's STAR Market at 150.80 yuan, opened 629% higher, then retreated to close up roughly 460% — becoming mainland China's first listed humanoid robot maker.

Category

acquisition

Date

Aug 19, 2026

Status

Breaking

A white wheeled robot with articulated arms and a rounded head displaying two 'C' shaped digital eyes, an LG logo on its torso, folds a towel on a countertop next to two front-loading washing machines and a stack of folded towels in a home laundry room.
Developing technology
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LG's CLOiD Robot Graduates From CES Demo to Factory Pilot

LG will pilot its CLOiD robot on a real Tennessee factory line in 2026 and previewed a bipedal humanoid built on NVIDIA chips for a 2027 reveal.

Category

technology

Date

Aug 18, 2026

Status

Developing

Numbered red-and-black AutoStore robots sit atop an aluminum storage grid in a warehouse, with rows of storage bins visible beneath the grid cells.
Developing industry
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AutoStore Signs Global Supply Framework With Amazon

AutoStore signed a global strategic supply agreement with Amazon on Aug. 13 — a non-binding framework with no purchase volumes or timeline disclosed.

Category

industry

Date

Aug 17, 2026

Status

Developing

Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid — a bipedal robot with a teal torso, a white LED face panel and articulated black-and-silver arms — carries a large gray warehouse tote against a plain studio backdrop.
Developing technology
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Digit v5's Safety Claim Rests on an NVIDIA-Certified Chip

Agility Robotics calls Digit v5 'cooperatively safe.' That claim rests on an NVIDIA IGX Thor chip with a SIL 3-certified functional-safety island.

Category

technology

Date

Aug 16, 2026

Status

Developing

Two orange KUKA industrial robot arms palletizing bread and toast crates onto a conveyor line in a bakery warehouse
Developing industry
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Robot Orders Rise 4.3% in Q2 as Electronics, Cobots Lead

North American robot orders rose 4.3% in units, 21.3% in value in Q2 2026 as electronics and life sciences offset automotive OEM's decline, per A3.

Category

industry

Date

Aug 12, 2026

Status

Developing

A Universal Robots-based cobot arm labeled 'Cobot Welder' performs MIG welding on small cylindrical metal parts on a perforated welding table, sparks flying, with welding gloves and a wire brush resting nearby and a metallic welding curtain in the background.
Developing industry
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Tate Deploys 58 Hirebotics Cobot Welders, Lifts Output 12x

Tate Inc. has fielded 58 Hirebotics Cobot Welders across three US plants, citing 12x per-welder throughput gains — and more welders hired, not fewer.

Category

industry

Date

Aug 11, 2026

Status

Developing

A technician's hand positions a white and green FANUC CRX collaborative robot arm mounted on a blue-and-silver Thomson Movotrak linear rail unit, with THOMSON branding visible on the rail.
Developing product
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Regal Rexnord's Thomson CTU Wins FANUC Approval for CRX Cobots

Thomson's Movotrak Cobot Transfer Unit is now FANUC-approved for CRX cobots, extending horizontal reach up to 10 meters with built-in collision detection.

Category

product

Date

Aug 9, 2026

Status

Developing

Exterior street-level view of the FCC headquarters building in Washington, D.C. — an art-deco-influenced modern office building with cars parked out front and bare winter trees.
Developing industry
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FCC Adds Foreign-Made Mobile Robots to Its Covered List

A July 28 FCC notice bars new foreign-made AMRs, quadrupeds and humanoids from US authorization — the first time mobile robots hit this security list.

Category

industry

Date

Aug 8, 2026

Status

Developing

Two robotic welding arms on a rail-mounted gantry system welding a large steel ship structure inside a fabrication bay, with red safety curtains and visible weld sparks.
Weekly Recap
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FCC Restricts, HII Invests: Policy Reshapes Robot Supply Chains

FCC restricts foreign mobile robots while HII commits $900M to domestic shipbuilding, as this week's AI claims span wildly different evidence tiers.

Category

digest

Date

Aug 8, 2026

Status

Analysis

Two robotic welding arms on a rail-mounted gantry system welding a large steel ship structure inside a fabrication bay, with red safety curtains and visible weld sparks.
Developing technology
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HII Signs Up to $900M Milestone-Gated Deal With Two Robotics Startups

HII will award Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics up to $900M in Navy shipbuilding work over seven years — but only as each clears staged technology and performance milestones.

Category

technology

Date

Aug 7, 2026

Status

Developing

A four-legged Unitree-style quadruped robot standing on a gray tile floor against a stone-tile wall, with a boxy computing module mounted on its back bearing a plate labeled 'Powered By AVNET Weston Robot' in the Avnet and Weston Robot logos.
Developing technology
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Avnet, Weston Robot Launch Quadruped Inspection Platform

Avnet and Singapore's Weston Robot unveiled an edge-AI inspection platform on a Unitree quadruped, a 50-TOPS 'backpack' that lines up with AMD's new X100 chip family.

Category

technology

Date

Aug 6, 2026

Status

Developing

Orange KUKA industrial robot arms positioned along an elevated automotive body-in-white production line, with a catwalk and metal railing visible in the foreground.
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KUKA's AMP Orchestration Platform Goes Live at Ohio Jeep Plant

KUKA's new AMP software platform is live at KTPO, the Ohio plant building every Jeep Wrangler body since 2006, starting with AMR fleet orchestration.

Category

technology

Date

Aug 4, 2026

Status

Developing

A dark grey Doosan collaborative robot arm, branded 'DOOSAN' along its forearm, posed with its wrist and gripper mount extended against a navy background.
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Doosan Robotics Posts 290% Q2 Revenue Growth, Loss Narrows

Doosan Robotics grew Q2 2026 revenue 290% YoY to ₩17.7B on its ONExia buyout and 127% US growth, but the cobot maker still posted a ₩14.4B operating loss.

Category

earnings

Date

Aug 3, 2026

Status

Analysis

A man wearing a VR headset and white glove-based teleoperation controllers, reaching toward a white-and-black six-axis robotic arm fitted with a dexterous gripper, in an office/lab setting.
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mimic robotics' FLUX-mimic Video-Action Model Goes Live at Audi

Swiss startup mimic robotics built FLUX-mimic on Black Forest Labs' video model, and it's now running soft-body assembly tasks at Audi's Production Lab.

Category

technology

Date

Aug 3, 2026

Status

Developing

A field service engineer in a full cleanroom suit stands with a tablet beside a large white ABB IRB 7600 six-axis industrial robot arm inside an ISO 14644-1 Class 6 cleanroom.
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ABB Posts Record $12B Orders, Advances $5.5B Rotork Deal

ABB booked record Q2 2026 orders of $12.04B (+28% comparable) and 20.2% EBITA margin, as its $5.5B Rotork deal and robotics divestment both advance.

Category

earnings

Date

Aug 1, 2026

Status

Analysis

Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid — a bipedal robot with a teal torso, a white LED face panel and articulated black-and-silver arms — carries a large gray warehouse tote against a plain studio backdrop.
Monthly Highlights
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July 2026: Humanoids Hit Inflection — $6B Sovereign, $2B Capital

Japan's trillion-yen Noetra bet, a US SPAC debut, and China's IPO wave mark humanoid robotics' July shift from moonshot to funded infrastructure.

Category

digest

Date

Aug 1, 2026

Status

Analysis

A field service engineer in a full cleanroom suit stands with a tablet beside a large white ABB IRB 7600 six-axis industrial robot arm inside an ISO 14644-1 Class 6 cleanroom.
Weekly Recap
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Robotics Earnings Split: Cobots Surge, Yaskawa Stumbles, ABB Exits

Teradyne Robotics grew 33%, Yaskawa's robot profit fell 82%, and ABB's robotics exit firmed up — three earnings that show hardware money chasing data centers, not arms.

Category

digest

Date

Aug 1, 2026

Status

Analysis

Several blue Yaskawa Motoman industrial welding robot arms, branded 'MOTOMAN robotec,' displayed side by side on a showroom floor.
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Yaskawa Q1 Profit Falls 19% as Robotics Unit Absorbs ERP, Reform Costs

Yaskawa's Q1 FY2026 revenue rose 10.6% to ¥139B, but profit fell as Robotics profit collapsed 82% on ERP and reform costs; Motion Control profit rose 50%.

Category

earnings

Date

Aug 1, 2026

Status

Analysis

A Universal Robots UR16e collaborative robot arm mounted on a fixturing table, with its gray controller box behind it and a teach pendant showing the robot's joint positions and an emergency-stop button in the foreground.
Developing earnings
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Teradyne Robotics Posts 5th Straight Growth Quarter, Up 33%

Teradyne Robotics — Universal Robots' cobots and MiR's AMRs — booked $100M in Q2 2026 revenue, up 33% year-over-year, a fifth straight growth quarter.

Category

earnings

Date

Jul 31, 2026

Status

Developing

A white Techman TM12 collaborative robot arm posed on a white studio background, its integrated camera-and-screen end effector visible near the wrist.
Developing industry
Industrial Robotics Hub News Desk

Techman's AI Cobots Run Automotive AOI at Quanta's Germany Plant

Techman's AI cobots now run optical inspection on ADAS/EV ECU lines at parent Quanta's German plant, though neither firm named the model deployed.

Category

industry

Date

Jul 28, 2026

Status

Developing

A rendered close-up of an AMD Ryzen AI Embedded processor package, showing the chip die stamped 'AMD RYZEN AI Embedded' at the center of a green substrate surrounded by surface-mount components, against a black background
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AMD Launches Open Robotics Partner Network, Ryzen AI X100 Chips

AMD unveiled an open Robotics Partner Network and Ryzen AI Embedded X100 processors — up to 16 Zen 5 cores, 40 GPU CUs, 50 TOPS — aimed at physical AI.

Category

technology

Date

Jul 27, 2026

Status

Developing

A technician fits cabling to one of a row of orange KUKA six-axis robot arms on a factory assembly line, with overhead crane rails and workstation monitors visible behind.
Developing technology
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KUKA's iiQKA.OS2 First Robot OS Certified to IEC 62443-4-2 SL2

iiQKA.OS2, KUKA's robot operating system, earns Security Level 2 cybersecurity certification under IEC 62443-4-2, aligned with EN ISO 10218-1:2025.

Category

technology

Date

Jul 26, 2026

Status

Developing

Exterior view of Eclipse Automation's Cambridge, Ontario headquarters building, a dark-paneled office and manufacturing facility with the Eclipse Automation logo on the corner tower.
Developing industry
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Eclipse Automation Gets $6M Federal Grant for Digital Mfg Hub

Ottawa is putting $6 million CAD into Eclipse Automation's new Neuron Centre, part of a $40.5M regional package backing the Cambridge, Ontario integrator's push into digital twins and Apple Vision Pro-based factory simulation.

Category

industry

Date

Jul 25, 2026

Status

Developing

A white Elite Robots collaborative arm with an illuminated gripper picking a wired connector from a workbench next to a blue parts bin, with an on-screen caption reading 1x speed, fully autonomous.
Developing technology
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Elite Robots Backs Generalist AI's GEN-1 With Cobot Validation

Chinese cobot maker Elite Robots says its arms ran 1,800+ zero-intervention block stackings for Generalist AI's GEN-1 foundation model, largely repackaging figures from Generalist's own April model launch rather than new independent results.

Category

technology

Date

Jul 25, 2026

Status

Developing

An empty industrial interior space with concrete floors and support columns, marked out with illuminated white wireframe cube outlines suspended from the ceiling, inside the NEURA Gym RWTH Aachen facility.
Developing technology
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NEURA Robotics Opens 3,000m² Physical AI Gym With RWTH Aachen

NEURA Robotics and RWTH Aachen University are building a 3,000-square-meter Physical AI training facility on Aachen's Hightech Campus Melaten, one of ten NEURA Gyms the German robotics firm says it has under development worldwide.

Category

technology

Date

Jul 25, 2026

Status

Developing

AGIBOT's X2 humanoid robot, a white and dark bipedal robot with a rounded head and slim torso, standing on display at a trade-show booth.
Weekly Recap
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Humanoid Capital Chases Proof, Not Specs, as Data Becomes the Moat

Three China humanoid raises target IPO or deployment proof, while NEURA, Generalist AI and Kawasaki treat data and integration as the real bottleneck.

Category

digest

Date

Jul 25, 2026

Status

Analysis

A row of white Kawasaki robot arms, each labeled Dexterity and fitted with green multi-cup suction grippers, mounted on dark wheeled mobile bases in a studio with blue-to-green gradient lighting; a Dexterity-branded cart sits in the background.
Developing product
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Kawasaki's RL030N 8-DoF Arm Powers Dexterity's Physical-AI Warehouse Push

Kawasaki Robotics and Dexterity are expanding their collaboration around the RL030N, an 8-degree-of-freedom arm built specifically for Dexterity's AI-trained warehouse manipulator, targeting trailer loading and unloading at production scale.

Category

product

Date

Jul 24, 2026

Status

Developing

AGIBOT's X2 humanoid robot, a white and dark bipedal robot with a rounded head and slim torso, standing on display at a trade-show booth.
Developing product
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AGIBOT Debuts Four Robots at WAIC, Points to a Factory Deployment as Proof

AGIBOT unveiled four new robots at WAIC 2026 and leaned on a real deployment, not a demo, for credibility: 3,000 G2 units per shift on a Longcheer tablet line, per the company.

Category

product

Date

Jul 21, 2026

Status

Developing

Unitree's G1 humanoid robot, a small white and black bipedal robot, standing on display at a trade exposition.
Developing acquisition
Industrial Robotics Hub News Desk

Unitree Clears $618M STAR Market IPO as China's Humanoid Funding Race Accelerates

China's securities regulator approved Unitree Robotics' roughly $618M Shanghai IPO, a rare profitable humanoid maker going public days after two more Chinese and Toyota-backed humanoid startups closed nine-figure rounds.

Category

acquisition

Date

Jul 21, 2026

Status

Developing

Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid — a bipedal robot with a teal torso, a white LED face panel and articulated black-and-silver arms — carries a large gray warehouse tote against a plain studio backdrop.
Weekly Recap
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Humanoid Capital Surge and Japan's $6B AI Bet

Agility and AI² raise over $1.3B while Japan commits $6.1B to Noetra — industrial humanoids and sovereign physical AI reshape the mid-2026 capital stack.

Category

digest

Date

Jul 18, 2026

Status

Analysis

A four-panel press collage: FANUC's yellow industrial arms on an automotive assembly line, a Fujitsu digital-twin simulation of a robot inspecting a cart, a person wearing a Kawasaki wearable exoskeleton walking rocky terrain, and a white Yaskawa dual-arm robot manipulating a blue cylinder in a lab setting
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FANUC, Yaskawa, Kawasaki, Fujitsu Join NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition

FANUC, Yaskawa, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and Fujitsu will integrate NVIDIA's Cosmos physical-AI stack, backed by Japan's ¥387.3B robotics AI investment.

Category

technology

Date

Jul 17, 2026

Status

Developing

Front view studio photograph of OMRON's LD-300 autonomous mobile robot, a low gray platform with a glowing blue status strip and the OMRON logo printed on its front panel
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OMRON Expands LD Series AMRs: 150kg and 300kg Payloads for Q4 2026

OMRON's LD-150 and LD-300 AMRs bring 150kg/300kg payloads, 30-minute wireless charging, and ISO 3691-4 compliance to logistics floors in Q4 2026.

Category

product

Date

Jul 17, 2026

Status

Developing

A white OB7 collaborative robot arm reaching into an active CNC milling machine coated in coolant spray, tending a vise-held workpiece
Developing product
Industrial Robotics Hub News Desk

Productive Robotics Brings 7-Axis OB7 Family to IMTS 2026

Productive Robotics will show its five-model OB7 collaborative robot line at two IMTS 2026 booths, pitching zero-programming setup and a 7th axis for CNC-heavy manufacturers.

Category

product

Date

Jul 16, 2026

Status

Developing

A perception engineer in a lab coat stands beside a white-and-black humanoid collaborative robot in a research lab, adjusting its arm at a workstation.
Analysis industry
Industrial Robotics Hub News Desk

Japan Launches $6B Noetra Consortium to Deploy 10M Robots by 2040

Japan's METI is backing the SoftBank-led Noetra group with up to ¥1 trillion ($6.1B) over five years, targeting 10 million AI robots deployed by 2040.

Category

industry

Date

Jul 15, 2026

Status

Analysis

A humanoid robot platform used to demonstrate Robostral Navigate, showing its dark rounded head unit with dual front-facing cameras and silver-and-black torso, photographed indoors in an office setting with a small Mistral mascot sticker on its shoulder
Developing technology
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Mistral's Robostral Navigate Guides Robots With a Single Camera

Mistral AI's first embodied-navigation model, Robostral Navigate, moves robots through complex spaces using only a plain RGB camera, no LiDAR or depth sensors required.

Category

technology

Date

Jul 14, 2026

Status

Developing

Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid — a bipedal robot with a teal torso, a white LED face panel and articulated black-and-silver arms — carries a large gray warehouse tote against a plain studio backdrop.
Developing acquisition
Industrial Robotics Hub News Desk

Agility Robotics to Go Public in $2.5B SPAC Deal

Agility Robotics will list via a Churchill Capital Corp XI SPAC merger at a $2.5B valuation, taking its Digit warehouse humanoid to public markets.

Category

acquisition

Date

Jul 13, 2026

Status

Developing

AI2 Robotics' AlphaBot — a white humanoid upper body with a dark visored head and two dexterous arms, mounted on a wheeled mobile base instead of legs — posed against a plain white studio backdrop.
Developing acquisition
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AI² Robotics Raises $735M for Wheeled Humanoid

China's AI² Robotics raised about $735M at a $2.8B valuation to scale AlphaBot, a wheeled humanoid built for factories and warehouses, not homes.

Category

acquisition

Date

Jul 13, 2026

Status

Developing

A white ABB Flexley Stack F712 autonomous forklift raises its mast to place a pallet of ABB-branded cardboard boxes onto steel warehouse racking, with more loaded racking to the left and robotics cells visible in the background.
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ABB's Flexley Stack F712 Completes Its vSLAM AMR Line

ABB Robotics launched the Flexley Stack F712, a camera-navigated autonomous forklift rated for 2,000 kg loads, completing its visual-SLAM AMR portfolio.

Category

product

Date

Jul 11, 2026

Status

Developing

A man in a black t-shirt physically guides a Universal Robots cobot arm at a trade-show booth, capturing real-world motion data, with a second cobot arm and a monitor beside him under a Teradyne Robotics banner reading 'Train. Deploy. Scale. On an industrial platform.'
Weekly Recap
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Robotics' Week: Real-World Data and the Move to Fleets

Two launches this week chase real-world data over curated setups, autonomy scales from cell to fleet, and the week's boldest promise still has not shipped.

Category

digest

Date

Jul 11, 2026

Status

Analysis

A man in a black t-shirt physically guides a Universal Robots cobot arm at a trade-show booth, with a second cobot arm and a monitor beside him under a Teradyne Robotics banner reading 'Train. Deploy. Scale. On an industrial platform.'
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UR AI Trainer: Closing Robotics' Lab-to-Factory Data Gap

Universal Robots and Scale AI's leader-follower cobot system captures real factory data to train robot AI models. The promised dataset has not shipped yet.

Category

technology

Date

Jul 10, 2026

Status

Analysis