Topic · AI
Robotics
18 developments in the last 30 days.
Robotics AI
12 developments this week
+6 vs last week
Stage: Money
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Last 30 days- Sources: Waymo aims to expand its fleet to 8,000 by the end of 2026, up from 4,000 now, and to 20,000 by the end of 2027, after raising $5B in debt this month (Ellen DiMauro/Semafor)Waymo reportedly plans to double its fleet to 8,000 by end-2026 and reach 20,000 by end-2027 after borrowing $5B. Techmeme · 2026-10-20 GOOGL
- Chinese robovan maker Neolix raised a $400M Series E led by Boyu, taking total funding to $1.4B+; it operates 30K+ vehicles in 300+ cities across 20 countries (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)Chinese robovan maker Neolix raised a $400M Series E and runs 30K+ vehicles in 300+ cities. Techmeme · 2026-10-20
- Has GPT-6-Astra Achieved Embodied Intelligence?An evaluation finds GPT-6-Astra handles robot manipulation and navigation well, challenging the need for task-specific robot models. HF Daily Papers · 2026-10-19
- REKI: Registering Knowledge in VLAsREKI is a 2.4B robot vision-language-action model trained only on public data that is beaten only by models about twice its size. arXiv · 2026-10-18
- SoftBank in talks to buy US security group Allied UniversalSoftBank is in talks to buy Allied Universal, a US security group, as part of its push into robotics and AI. FT Markets · 2026-10-17 9984.T
- Google wants Gemini 4 Argon to be the only AI model robots needGemini 4 Argon targets robot control and simulation generation. The Decoder · 2026-10-17 GOOGL
- Why China Is Racing to Build the Ultimate Robotic HandChina is pouring money and effort into dexterous robotic hands for humanoid robots. Bloomberg Television · 2026-10-17
- Robots That Predict the Future: Dyna-2 & Physical AI — Jason Ma, Dyna RoboticsDyna Robotics trained a world-action model on a million hours of video and has robots folding napkins in production at Din Tai Fung. Latent Space · 2026-10-16
- Gemini 4 Argon for RoboticsGoogle released a robotics version of Gemini 4 Argon. Google DeepMind · 2026-10-15 GOOGL
- Dyna-2: General Purpose Physical Agents with Hour-Long Autonomy — Jason Ma, Dyna RoboticsA podcast with Dyna Robotics' chief scientist on Dyna-2, a general-purpose robot model with hour-long autonomy. Latent Space · 2026-10-15
- Gemini 4 Argon for RoboticsA robotics variant of Gemini 4 Argon extends Google's frontier model to embodied control. Hacker News · 2026-10-14 GOOGL
- Chinese manufacturers dominate humanoid robot production, capturing 97% of global shipments in H1 2026, thanks to government support and vast supply chains (Bloomberg)Chinese manufacturers made 97% of global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026. Techmeme · 2026-10-14
- Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startup Winverse AI's seed funding round of tens of millions of dollars, valuing the startup at ~$400M post-money (Bloomberg)DeepSeek is leading a seed round in robotics AI startup Winverse at about a $400M valuation, showing Chinese labs moving into embodied AI. Techmeme · 2026-10-12
- Stryker To Invest In CMR Surgical; To Serve As U.S. Sales Agent For Versius PortfolioStryker is investing about $400M in CMR Surgical, with an option to acquire the rest of the company. Nasdaq · 2026-10-12 SYK
- Odyssey-3 is a new generative world model that you can try for freeOdyssey-3, a 14B-parameter real-time interactive world model, is free to try as a public research preview. The Decoder · 2026-10-12
- Multiply Labs, which develops robotic systems to automate pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, raised a $75M Series B led by Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)Multiply Labs, which builds robots that automate pharmaceutical manufacturing, raised a $75M Series B led by NantWorks. Techmeme · 2026-10-11
- A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)Walmart's push to automate its roughly 200 US warehouses has hit technical setbacks, which is a risk for partner Symbotic. Techmeme · 2026-10-10 WMT SYM
- Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from SequoiaMecka AI raised $60M from Sequoia to collect human motion data for training robots. TechCrunch Venture · 2026-10-09