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Honor used Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona to showcase a new direction for its AI hardware strategy, revealing both a robotic smartphone concept and its first humanoid robot.
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VITURE pulled in another $100 million, matching the round it closed in September and pushing its six-month total past $200 million. Legend Capital, affiliated with Lenovo
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Project Swan could mark a serious step forward in making XR viable for sustained professional use. Display clarity approaching monitor-level density, paired with low-latency mixed reality and a dedicated perception chip
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BMW Group has started testing a humanoid robot at its Leipzig plant, marking the company’s first pilot of this kind in production in Germany. The robot, AEON, was developed by Hexagon Robotics and is being introduced under BMW’s Physical AI program.
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Intrinsic is moving into Google after launching in 2021 as an Alphabet Other Bet focused on robotics. The company says it has built an intelligent robotics platform
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Wayve raised $1.2 billion in a Series D, bringing its post-money valuation to $8.6 billion and total capital secured for commercial rollout to $1.5 billion, including additional milestone-based investment from Uber.
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Harbinger announced it has acquired Phantom AI and entered into a licensing agreement with ZF’s passenger car Advanced Driver Assistance Systems division. ZF will license Phantom AI’s computer vision software for its passenger car ADAS products
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Looper Robotics has debuted Insight9, described as the world’s first Autonomous Spatial AI Camera, which aims to "democratize high-end robot perception." The product will be made available globally on Kickstarter as part of the company’s
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ZaiNar announced it has raised more than $100 million at a valuation exceeding $1 billion as it publicly launches after nine years in stealth with a platform for Physical AI. The company says its technology converts existing wireless networks into a sensing system
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Tesollo, a company specializing in robotic grippers, has officially commercialized the DG-5F-S, a compact and lightweight humanoid robotic hand. The company said it is moving to capture the high-DoF robotic hand market for humanoid robots
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Meta announced it is explicitly separating its Quest VR platform from its Worlds platform. The company said it is doubling down on the VR developer ecosystem while shifting Worlds to focus almost exclusively on mobile.
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VenHub, a Las Vegas–based company that designs and builds fully autonomous Smart Stores, announced a system-wide upgrade to its robotic infrastructure. The update equips every robotic component inside its automated retail hubs with self-diagnostic technology.