Industrial
Manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics automation
Avatar Robotics Raises $6.5M Seed Led by AlleyCorp for Industrial Humanoids
The San Francisco startup closed $6.5 million in seed funding to deploy humanoid robots across wareh...
igus Twisterchain Handles 600-Degree Rotation for Palletizing Robots
The Cologne-based supplier introduced a cable management system engineered for industrial arms that ...
Addverb CEO Kumar Declares Physical AI Race Underway as Firm Shifts Toward Humanoids
Sangeet Kumar, CEO of India-based Addverb Technologies, says the competition to deploy embodied AI h...
KUKA Deploys Automation Management Platform at Ohio Facility KTPO
The German robotics manufacturer has installed its centralized control software at KTPO, a critical ...
Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens Robotics Unit Raises $1.7B at $9B Valuation
Andreessen Horowitz led a $1.7 billion funding round for Atoms, the industrial automation subsidiary...
NVIDIA Releases GPU-Native Medical Physics Simulator for Healthcare Robots
The chip designer has shipped a simulation framework built specifically for surgical and rehabilitat...
Semiconductor Assembly Robotics Market Forecast at $17.1B by 2036
Electronics and semiconductor manufacturers will push robotics spending to $17.1 billion over the ne...
Meituan, JD.com Deploy 12,000 Autonomous Delivery Units in Q2 2026
China's largest internet platforms have collectively deployed more than 12,000 autonomous delivery r...
SoftBank Eyes Gravis Robotics Acquisition to Extend Autonomy Push into Construction
Masayoshi Son's investment vehicle is in talks to acquire Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout tha...
Robotics & Autonomous Transportation 2026 Market Report Maps Industry Consolidation
A new industry report profiles the research institutions, robotics manufacturers, and eVTOL develope...
Digua Robot Sunri S600 Platform Targets 100,000 Deployments as Production Ecosystem Scales
Horizon Robotics affiliate Digua Robot announces production milestones for its Sunri S600 robotics p...
Rimnot and Yuantu Plan 10,000-Robot Deployment in Server Manufacturing
A four-month-old physical AI startup founded by Tsinghua University PhD alumni has locked in a 10,00...
Nvidia Expands Japan Robotics Partnerships with Fanuc, Yaskawa, Komatsu
Six major Japanese manufacturers unveiled artificial intelligence initiatives July 16 in coordinatio...
NVIDIA Enrolls 22 Japanese Robotics Firms in Cosmos World Model Coalition
Twenty-two Japanese industrial robotics companies have joined NVIDIA's Cosmos Coalition during CEO J...
Automation Reaches Low-Volume Manufacturing as Vision Systems Drop Below $5K
Industrial robots now operate profitably in factories producing just hundreds of units per year, not...
Generative AI in Robotics Market Reaches Inflection Point in 2026
Industrial automation investments and flexible manufacturing requirements are accelerating generativ...
Mistral AI Releases Robostral Navigate, 8B-Parameter Model for Robotics
The Paris-based AI lab has released an 8-billion-parameter foundation model designed specifically fo...
Manna Opens 1,000-Employee Drone Factory in Tulsa for US Expansion
The Ireland-based autonomous delivery startup is establishing its first American manufacturing hub i...
GMEX Robotics Signs LOI to Acquire California AI Firm for Wireless Fleet Platform
The acquisition targets elimination of wireless communication bottlenecks that currently limit auton...
Honeywell Deploys AI-Enabled Warehouse Orchestration Platform Across 50 Distribution Centers
Honeywell International has begun rolling out its new warehouse orchestration platform across 50 cus...
Symbotic Acquires ARMS Innovations to Layer AI Operations Intelligence Over Warehouse Automation
The warehouse automation provider is adding end-to-end operational intelligence software to its robo...
Ambi Robotics and Pickle Robot Link Systems to Automate Dock-to-Pallet Flow
Two California robotics firms have integrated their warehouse automation platforms to eliminate huma...
Physical AI Market Forecast Reaches $430B by 2030 Across Nine Sectors
A new market analysis projects the physical AI sector will exceed $430 billion by decade's end, driv...
Boston Dynamics CEO: U.S. Manufacturing Reboot Depends on Robots, Not Policy
Robert Playter argues American robotics leadership mirrors past industrial surges, but warns fragmen...
AGIBOT Ships 15,000th Robot as Chinese Manufacturer Scales Production
Shanghai-based AGIBOT reached 15,000 cumulative robot shipments with its industrial-grade G2 model r...
ABB Robotics Tests Prosthetic Hand Sensor Data to Train Factory Grippers
ABB Robotics is feeding tactile feedback data from PSYONIC's bionic prosthetics into machine learnin...
Techman Robot Showcases AI Vision Cobots at Thailand ME Assembly 2026
Taiwan-based collaborative robotics manufacturer Techman Robot is using the ME Assembly & Automation...
STMicroelectronics Joins Oversonic Robotics as Strategic Investor in RoBee Humanoid
The semiconductor giant has taken an equity stake in the Milan-based robotics firm alongside Fondazi...
Vention Partners with FANUC, Universal Robots on Cloud Design Platform
Montreal-based automation platform Vention now integrates design libraries from FANUC and Universal ...
NVIDIA Halos Targets ISO 26262 Certification for Physical AI Safety
NVIDIA's newly detailed Halos system integrates hardware, software, and simulation tools into a unif...
GrayMatter Robotics Targets 174,000-Worker Defense Gap With Finishing Systems
The Navy's industrial base review projects a need for 174,000 new manufacturing workers, a shortfall...
Richtech Robotics to Unveil AI-Driven Pallet Jack at Automate 2026 Keynote
The Las Vegas-based robotics manufacturer will demonstrate its next-generation autonomous pallet jac...
Novarc Technologies, Yaskawa Sign MOU on AI-Powered Welding Automation
Burnaby-based Novarc Technologies and Yaskawa Motoman have formalized a strategic partnership to int...
TM Technology Enters Humanoid Market With Manufacturing-Focused Robot
TM Technology, a Taiwan-based collaborative robot manufacturer, has unveiled its first humanoid robo...
Industrial Robotics Deployment Lags Service Sector Despite Manufacturing Demand
Factories face mounting pressure to automate, but adoption barriers remain steeper than in logistics...
Standard Bots Secures Strategic Investment from GiantLeap Capital
GiantLeap Capital has invested in Standard Bots, the largest American manufacturer of AI-native indu...
Nomagic Shoebox Picker Wins SupplyTech Breakthrough Innovation Award
The compact piece-picking system from Nomagic has taken home Piece Picking Robotics Innovation of th...
FANUC and AMT Demo AI Vision Palletizing System at Automate 2026
Applied Manufacturing Technologies will showcase collaborative robot palletizing with AI-enabled vis...
Nvidia and Doosan Group Expand Partnership in Physical AI, Robotics
Nvidia and South Korea's Doosan Group are broadening their existing collaboration to develop physica...
Global Manufacturing Market Projected at $968.7B by 2030 on Medical Device, Clean Energy Growth
Manufacturing output will expand to $968.7 billion within six years, propelled by medical device fab...
Drones-as-a-Service Market Forecast Shows Multi-Billion Dollar Expansion
Outsourced drone operations are gaining traction across industrial sectors as companies seek to redu...
FORT Robotics acquires Mapless AI for unstructured teleoperation
The Philadelphia-based robotics safety platform provider is absorbing a specialist in GPS-denied env...
ANSCER Robotics raises $5.4M for hybrid automation push
The Michigan-based startup closed a Series A round to expand production of its vision-guided industr...
Samsung foundry builds chiplet platform with Cadence for robotics AI
Samsung Electronics and Cadence Design Systems have built a chiplet platform targeting physical AI s...
Nanoloy Secures Third-Party Validation for High-Energy Battery
The Hague-based Nanoloy has secured independent verification of its battery platform targeting drone...
Robotics Awaits Transformative AI Moment Unlike ChatGPT Path
Physical robots face deployment barriers that software AI sidestepped entirely, creating a valuation...
NASA Robotics Veteran: Adaptability Beats Performance in Robot Race
A former NASA robotics division chief warns that U.S. humanoid robot makers are prioritizing demonst...
August Robotics Raises $30M for Construction Automation
August Robotics secured $30 million from Big Pi Ventures and existing backers to scale robotic syste...
XTEND Opens UK Factory After £1.93M Defense Contract
XTEND will manufacture AI-supervised defense robots in the UK following a £1.93 million British defe...
FANUC Partners with Google to Deploy AI Agents Controlling Industrial Robots
FANUC and Google announced a partnership to deploy AI agents that control industrial robots without ...
AI Investment in Robotics Hits New Heights as Industry Awaits Breakthrough Moment
Robotics companies pulled in record investment during 2025 as AI integration accelerates deployment ...
Locus Robotics Acquires Nexera Robotics to Expand Autonomous Picking Capabilities
Locus Robotics acquired Nexera Robotics, a mobile manipulation specialist, to integrate NeuraGrasp g...
Fanuc Integrates Google's Gemini AI Into Industrial Robots in Major Platform Play
Fanuc, the world's largest industrial robot manufacturer by volume, will embed Google Cloud's Gemini...
