At the 2026 Abundance Summit, Clone Robotics co-founder Dhanush Radhakrishnan detailed the company’s expansion to Mountain View, a new $50 million funding round, and a 2028 goal for mass-market "Robo Butlers."
A successful logistics pilot at automotive supplier Martur Fompak demonstrates the first real-world integration of Humanoid’s KinetIQ stack with SAP’s enterprise software agents.
Munich-based Agile Robots and Google DeepMind have announced a strategic research partnership to integrate Gemini Robotics foundation models with industrial hardware, aiming to solve the "data bottleneck" through a scalable AI flywheel.
A new lab tour of Flexion Robotics offers a rare look at the software-first strategy attempting to turn off-the-shelf hardware into capable industrial laborers.
During its futuREady strategy launch, Renault Group announced plans to integrate 350 humanoid robots developed with Wandercraft into its production lines by 2027, marking a major acceleration in the European industrial robotics race.
A global study of 18,000 people reveals that public trust in robotics is inextricably linked to real-world exposure, with security concerns now outweighing the fear of job displacement.
With a massive seed round and a valuation of $3.5 billion, AMI Labs is building a global research powerhouse to prove that "world models" are the true path to human-level intelligence.
A new €17 million "TUM RoboGym" at Munich Airport will deploy a fleet of humanoid robots to bridge the sim-to-real gap, fueling NEURA’s hardware-agnostic Neuraverse platform.
A new strategic collaboration between Neura Robotics and Qualcomm aims to accelerate the commercialization of humanoid robots by combining Dragonwing processors with the Neuraverse ecosystem.
Bloomberg reports that German robotics firm Neura Robotics has closed a €1 billion funding round led by stablecoin giant Tether, valuing the company at €4 billion as it prepares to mass-produce its cognitive humanoids.
Industrial giant Schaeffler has signed its first Chinese humanoid partnership with Leju Robotics and opened a specialized innovation factory in Taicang, even as leadership prepares investors for a conservative 2026 fiscal year.
Industrial giant Schaeffler formalizes its humanoid ambitions by establishing "Schaeffler Embodied Intelligent Robotics (Taicang) Co., Ltd.," a move that integrates hardware manufacturing with a dedicated AI computing hub in the heart of China’s German enterprise cluster.