Robots, drones, autonomous vehicles, wearables, and embodied AI systems that sense, decide, and act in the real world.
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Mytra has raised $120 million in Series C funding to accelerate its deployment of a software-based platform for material movement and storage. The round was led by Avenir Growth with participation from new backers including Kivu Ventures and D. E. Shaw
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Skild AI has raised $1.4 billion in a Series C round led by SoftBank, pushing its valuation beyond $14 billion. The raise included participation from NVentures (NVIDIA), Bezos Expeditions, Macquarie Capital, and returning investors
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WeRide has launched its Robotaxi booking service on WeChat, allowing users to hail autonomous vehicles directly through the app’s "WeRide Go" Mini Program.
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X Square Robot announced a $140 million Series A++ funding round, bringing in new strategic investors including ByteDance and HongShan. The company, founded in December 2023, focuses on general-purpose embodied AI systems and previously received backing from Alibaba Group and Meituan.
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Caterpillar has expanded its partnership with NVIDIA to apply AI across its core operations, including connected machines, autonomous systems, voice interfaces, and manufacturing infrastructure.
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Amazon is deepening its push into physical AI with new updates to Ring and Bee, announced at CES 2026. The changes are part of Amazon’s effort to make its devices more responsive to what’s happening around them.
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At CES 2026, Lucid, Nuro, and Uber showed off the production-intent version of their robotaxi, along with a first look at the in-cabin rider experience. The vehicle is based on Lucid’s Gravity SUV and brings together Nuro’s self-driving tech
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Mobileye has announced that it has agreed to acquire Mentee Robotics for $900 million in cash and stock to expand its presence in physical AI. Mentee’s humanoid platform and AI software will be combined with Mobileye’s production infrastructure and autonomy stack.
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Humanoid robots could become a $5T market by 2050. As China scales manufacturing and the US bets on software, this analysis explores who is winning the race to build the humanoid economy.
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At CES, NVIDIA announced Alpamayo as a complete open platform for building autonomous vehicles that can handle rare and unpredictable driving situations. The release brings together everything needed to build and test AV systems: an AI model that reasons step by step
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Boston Dynamics has introduced the productized version of its Atlas humanoid robot with a focus on factory and warehouse automation. The launch brings Atlas out of the lab and into scaled deployment.
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Zeroth introduced five AI-powered robots at CES 2026, including a compact humanoid for home use and larger systems for commercial tasks.