Agility Robotics is opening a research center in Fremont, California, to develop AI and robotics technologies for its humanoid robot Digit. The company plans to hire 200 workers and has secured over $…
Neura Robotics closed a $1.4 billion Series C at a ~$7 billion valuation, backed by Amazon, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Bosch, Schaeffler, and the European Investment Bank. The EIB's participation marks the fir…
AI² Robotics raised $735 million at a $2.8 billion valuation for its wheeled humanoid robots, positioning the Shenzhen-based company among leaders in China's physical AI sector. The funding, backed by…
NVIDIA's GR00T N1.6 introduces a reasoning-before-action architecture for robots, shifting from reactive to planning-based AI. Unitree's humanoid robot price dropped to $25,000 in 2026, down from $85,…
Three humanoid robotics companies moved toward public markets in a single week: Agility Robotics filed to go public via SPAC at $2.5 billion, Unitree cleared its Shanghai IPO, and Tesla began converti…
The Automate 2026 trade show highlighted the robotics industry's shift from humanoid hype to practical deployment of physical AI and edge computing, with companies like ABB, FANUC, and Siemens showcas…
Humanoid robots and large funding rounds dominated robotics news in June 2026, with Agility Robotics announcing a SPAC merger to go public, NEURA Robotics raising up to $1.4B for physical AI, and Stan…
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot 'Robot Park' in Austin to train its Apollo humanoid robots, backed by $1 billion from investors including Google and Mercedes. The robots are already working in M…
Apptronik, a Texas-based humanoid robotics startup valued at over $5.5 billion, has opened a 90,000-square-foot 'Robot Park' in Austin where its Apollo robots practice tasks like loading boxes and sor…
Physical AI raised $55.8 billion in H1 2026, nearly double the full-year record from 2025, with 12 commercial humanoid platforms available and Figure AI delivering 350+ units. NVIDIA released new Visi…
Bear Robotics acquired Kinisi Robotics to boost its physical AI capabilities, as announced on The Robot Report Podcast. Kinisi Robotics founder Bren Pierce, a humanoid robotics Ph.D. from TUM, has rai…
AGIBOT Innovation Technology Co. announced the production of its 15,000th robot, a milestone in scaling embodied AI systems from batch production to larger-scale deployment. The company's G2 wheeled m…
OpenAI unveiled its custom inference chip Jalapeño, built with Broadcom, to reduce reliance on Nvidia's dominant AI chips. The move follows similar strategies by Google, Apple, and SpaceX to gain more…
Agility Robotics goes public at $2.5B via SPAC, raising $620M to fund Digit v5 production and a 30+ enterprise customer pipeline. OpenAI and Broadcom unveil the Jalapeño inference chip, reducing Nvidi…
Agility Robotics, a maker of humanoid robots for warehouses, announced a $2.5 billion merger with Churchill Capital Group to go public. The company's Digit robot is already deployed in warehouses, bac…
Humanoid robot startup Agility Robotics plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $2.5 billion valuation, making it the first humanoid-focused company to list in the US. The deal, led by former Citigr…
NVIDIA announced Halos for Robotics, the industry's first full-stack safety system for physical AI, extending its autonomous vehicle safety architecture to robotics. The system includes NVIDIA IGX Tho…
NVIDIA launched Halos for Robotics, a full-stack functional safety system for physical AI, extending its autonomous vehicle safety technology to industrial robots, humanoids, and autonomous mobile rob…
Companies across manufacturing, logistics and construction are increasingly deploying physical AI-powered robots to cope with persistent labor shortages, with the Manufacturing Institute projecting 2.…
Tech leaders Dave Bozeman of C.H. Robinson and Peggy Johnson of Agility Robotics argued Tuesday at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Aspen that AI's immediate future lies in task augmentation rather than mas…