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Five Million Robots Now Work in Factories as China Installs 354,000 in a Year
The IFR’s World Robotics 2026 report puts the global operational stock of industrial robots at 5 million, up 9%. China took 354,000…
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Tekever Raises $580 Million at a $6.4 Billion Valuation on 50,000 Drone Flight Hours
The Anglo-Portuguese maker of the AR5 maritime surveillance drone has closed the first tranche of a Series D at a $6.4 billion…
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Boston Dynamics Opens Atlas Training Plant in Georgia Ahead of 25,000-Robot Hyundai Rollout
Boston Dynamics has opened the Robotics Metaplant Application Center inside Hyundai’s Georgia car plant, a permanent facility that trains Atlas humanoids on…
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D-Robotics Raises $400 Million With Sunrise Chip Shipments Past 8 Million
D-Robotics, the chip company spun out of Horizon Robotics, has closed a $400 million Series C — its third round this year.…
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The Four Degrees of Autonomy That Decide Whether a Robot Ship Can Sail
The IMO’s MASS Code took effect on 1 July 2026 as a voluntary instrument, with binding SOLAS amendments scheduled for 1 January…
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UBTECH’s Liuzhou Plant Builds a Humanoid Every 10 Minutes at 10,000-Unit Capacity
UBTECH has started production at a 14,000-square-metre plant in Liuzhou that turns out one industrial humanoid every 10 minutes, with planned annual…
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Agility Unveils Digit 5 With 50-Pound Lift and a $300 Million Order Book
Agility Robotics’ fifth-generation humanoid lifts 50 lb, recharges in 9 minutes and claims 20-plus working hours a day. The company holds over…
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RobotPlusPlus Raises Series C After Derusting 10,000 Ships’ Hulls
Beijing’s RobotPlusPlus has closed a Series C led by Qianggang Capital Fund, on the back of hull-derusting robots deployed at more than…
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The Coming Decade of Home Robotics: What to Expect
A grounded look at the coming decade of home robotics — what the money, the factories and the benchmarks actually say is…
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Figure Lines Up 100,000 Nvidia GPUs in $3.5B Nscale Compute Deal
Figure is buying compute at frontier-lab scale to train Helix, its humanoid AI — up to 100,000 Vera Rubin GPUs, with a…
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FAA Doubles BEYOND Drone Program as BVLOS Rule Stalls
Phase 2 adds up to eight new lead participants testing bigger cargo drones and flights above 400 feet — while the Part…
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Beijing’s Robot Olympics Triples in Size With 2,056 Humanoids
The second World Humanoid Robot Games drew 666 teams from 16 countries to Beijing’s Ice Ribbon — and added 21 real-world “scenario”…