Browse page 13 of the Korthos verified robotics events archive, with dated funding, deployment, product, partnership, acquisition, and research records.
The report introduces a latent world-action model that reasons over world dynamics in latent space before generating robot actions.
Astribot says Lumo-2 improves over Lumo-1 through predictive latent dynamics, progressive modality pre-alignment and broader multi-source data scaling.
The official research page highlights real-world evaluations covering temporal reasoning, physical understanding, long-horizon tasks and dexterous manipulation.
The package has been available since July 1, 2026; Chikku announced it publicly on July 13.
The integrated system captures swath bathymetry and displays real-time 3D point clouds for seabed-map production.
Chikku provides installation, network and software configuration, operator instruction, repair and post-deployment maintenance through one point of contact.
MINIEYE will provide production-compliant Bamboo L4 delivery vehicles, its full autonomous-driving software system, technical support and after-sales service.
DiDi Freight will connect customer ordering through the DiDi app and mini-program with its real-time dispatch engine and city logistics network.
The first commercial rollout will offer a unified unmanned-delivery service to business customers in Foshan, with expansion to other cities under consideration.
The July announcement is a later disclosure of two rounds completed in June and is not treated as a third financing or a new numeric amount.
Automotive industry investors named across the B2 and B3 rounds include BAIC Investment, Xingyuan Capital, FAW Fusheng, Great Wall Capital, Shaanxi Auto Capital and Yulon Group.
Qingyan Precision positions the capital behind an industrial Physical AI engineering base spanning real-factory data, validation, compute and embodied-robot workflows.
NAMIB detected, identified and geolocated an electromagnetic emitter several dozen kilometres away, then transmitted the radar position to the Rafale for a simulated strike.
The lightweight payload is designed for quadcopters and fixed-wing UAS, extending electronic-support and targeting functions to autonomous aircraft.
The demonstration follows the companies' January 2026 strategic partnership to integrate autonomous capabilities into next-generation air combat.
Meissa will use aerial spatial data to diagnose wide-area conditions, while X-Up robots will travel to identified points for precision inspection, work execution and result capture.
The first programme is a golf-course-management PoC and integrated course-management package linking aerial diagnosis with ground-level action and verification.
The companies identify agriculture, sports fields, public infrastructure and industrial sites as subsequent application areas.
The round was described as Korea's largest domestic startup Series A and the largest single round for a domestic humanoid company.
Existing investors Stone Bridge Ventures, Atinum Investment, Intervest and Spring Camp returned alongside new financial and venture investors including IMM Investment, SL Investment, KB Investment, Bon Angels, Goodwater Capital, KDB and IBK.
Holiday said FRIDAY is aimed at H2 2026 commercialization, with a 100-unit annual production system in 2026 and a 1,000-unit annual capacity target in 2027.
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Linkerbot established Smart Mind (Lingdong Zhixin), a wholly owned subsidiary in Beijing's Changping district, and built an intelligent production line at Beijing Robot Industrial Park.
The production line has stated annual capacity of 60,000-100,000 dexterous hands, with more than 140 high-precision CNC machines and autonomous assembly robots supporting precision machining and assembly.
The line is slated to begin small-scale production soon and is intended to supply Beijing-made robotic hands for the second World Humanoid Robot Sports Games in August.
HyperLeap launched HyperWall Node for multidimensional warehouse sorting and HyperPick for robotic-arm picking and feeding in logistics workflows.
HyperPick combines AI vision, path planning and robotic-arm control for mixed-SKU grasping; HyperLeap lists it with 1.5-second single picks and 1,200 pph standard throughput.
The release expands HyperLeap beyond modular sorting into an integrated flow spanning mobile delivery, robotic-arm picking and automated sorting.
CDH VGC, Chuxin Capital and SEE Fund jointly led the round, with Shenzhen Angel FOF, Shuimu Tsinghua Alumni Seed Fund, Beiyang Haitang Fund and Xtep family office among the participants.
The capital is for core technology R&D, product iteration and scaled Physical AI deployment.
Xspark AI is building embodied-AI data infrastructure and training pipelines around its X-Ego work for robot model development.
A smartphone sent the operator’s voice command to an AI agent running on the Arduino UNO Q board.
The Forgis foundation model identified the target object and destination, calculated the motion plan, and directed the robotic arm to complete pick-and-place.
UNO Q used a Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 processor and a USB-connected robot camera to run the Forgis model locally.
Horizon will integrate BETA flight-control computers and customized fly-by-wire software into the full-scale Cavorite X7 during development, testing and certification.
BETA says the VTOL-specific platform combines safety-critical software, system redundancy and a flexible architecture, with hardware designed to DAL-A development rigor.
Horizon will use the same flight-control computer hardware as BETA's own aircraft fleet, providing shared manufacturing scale and component-cost benefits.
The contract covers 10 Daimler Truck Zetros vehicles equipped with Quantum Systems MOSAIC Ground Autonomy Kit and 10 MANDRILL unmanned ground vehicles.
Daimler Truck is the platform partner for the autonomous Zetros integration, while the systems will support National Guard of Ukraine frontline validation.
Quantum lists MANDRILL with up to 750 kg payload, 100 km/h top speed and up to 200 km electric range.
The initial Joint Laser Weapon System awards are valued at $86 million, with a total programme ceiling of $847 million.
The work covers containerised high-energy laser systems for defence against UAS swarms and cruise-missile threats.
The awards sit under the SCADE consortium transaction authority and support a next-generation directed-energy architecture for layered air and drone defence.
The round was co-led by UP Partners and Khosla Ventures, with Fusion VC, Stratos Ventures, TBD VC and q Fund also participating.
Skapion is developing a mobile system intended to detect, engage and neutralise coordinated drone swarms.
The company says the system is designed for contested or communications-limited environments, including protection of manoeuvring forces, fixed installations and critical infrastructure.
The test program includes controlled aquatic environments and open water while evaluating stability, maneuverability, sensors and autonomous navigation.
IQ Aqua is aimed at underwater mine detection, ISR, port and harbor threat detection, and maritime infrastructure inspection.
ZenaDrone is also preparing a Version 2 build in the UAE with a different propulsion system intended to improve speed and operational range.
MARIA combines Asylon Guardian sUAS, DroneDog Q-UGV, Range autonomy software and DroneIQ C2/data infrastructure for coordinated autonomous aircraft inspection.
The work covers development, integration and on-site demonstration for repeatable general visual inspection of Department of the Air Force airframes.
Asylon said the system will deliver imagery, LiDAR/point-cloud data, telemetry and metadata into 2D inspection workflows and 3D/digital-twin views.
Kraken Technology Group raised a GBP 130 million Series B round, described by its own feed as $175 million at a $1 billion valuation.
Digital Transformation Capital Partners led the round, with participation from British Business Bank, Rheinmetall, NATO Innovation Fund, Inocea Group, HICO, Thesiger Capital Group, BOKA Capital, Supernova Invest and Hakluyt Capital.
The capital is tied to continued development of Kraken uncrewed surface vessels and payload capabilities, plus expansion of localized manufacturing facilities.
The five-company programme pairs Highlanders with Mitsubishi Motors for humanoid joint development and mass-production planning.
Mitsubishi Motors is considering its Kyoto factory for production and will contribute mass-production design, quality, durability and safety expertise.
The plan calls for initial factory use of the Highlanders N and targets capacity of 1,000 units per month in late 2027.
ROKAE Robotics listed on HKEX on July 9 under stock code 03752.HK.
The industrial and collaborative robot maker priced its IPO at HK$38 per share, with gross proceeds reported at about HK$875M before any over-allotment option.
The listing gives public-market exposure to a Chinese industrial-robot OEM with collaborative robots, industrial arms and embodied-intelligence products.
ABB Robotics and Roche Diagnostics announced a global collaboration to develop and commercialize intelligent robotic solutions for clinical laboratories, initially covering pathology-slide handling and autonomous Core Lab intralogistics.
The collaboration covers development and commercialization of named laboratory workflows; it is not evidence of a completed customer deployment.
Ground Control Robotics was one of seven companies selected under NASA's Science Transport and Robotic Innovation for Deployment and Exploration initiative.
The STRIDE awards support commercial robotic mobility concepts intended to reach difficult terrain, travel farther and access scientifically valuable Mars regions.
NASA stated that the awards have a combined potential value of about $17 million, with work targeted to begin in fall 2026.
The order covers four additional Bayonet 250 AUGVs for the Littoral Explosive Ordnance Neutralization family of systems.
The delivery order is issued under an existing multi-year IDIQ contract supporting mine countermeasures and subsea-threat mitigation in littoral battlespace.
Greensea describes Bayonet 250 as an amphibious AUGV for seabed, surf-zone and coastal missions powered by its IQ Core open-architecture autonomy software.
Hongtai Fund and CDH Baifu co-led the round, with China Chengtong Fund, Dazhong Juding, Guangzhou Suyuan and existing investor Dongjun Capital participating.
The company focuses on industrial embodied robotics for semiconductor, intelligent welding and intelligent assembly scenarios.
The product matrix spans mobile composite robots, teaching-free welding robots and intelligent collaborative robots, with more than 5,000 delivered customer scenarios.
Avocado OS 1.0 gives hardware teams a declarative path from prototype to fleet, producing signed immutable images for real hardware from one configuration file.
The release targets production embedded Linux workflows for robots, medical devices and autonomous systems that need secure boot, OTA updates and vulnerability management.
Peridio said Avocado 1.0 supports more than 20 silicon targets and includes Avocado Desktop plus an agentic toolchain.
The companies will target substations, distribution rooms and other State Grid and China Southern Power Grid operation scenarios.
The cooperation combines UBTECH humanoid robotics with Shenhao Technology's power-industry integration and deployment experience.
The agreement includes plans for soft-hardware integrated power-scenario solutions and a joint innovation laboratory for embodied-intelligence power applications.
Robostral Navigate is an 8B model that uses a single RGB camera and plain-language instruction to guide robots through complex environments.
The launch materials list 76.6% success on the R2R-CE validation-unseen benchmark and simulation-only training before real-world transfer.
The model is designed to generalize across wheeled, legged and flying robots, with applications cited across manufacturing, delivery, logistics and hospitality.
The unnamed Class 1 railroad will deploy trucks using Venti precision-navigation software, sensors and components in operating U.S. rail yards.
Initial deployment covers two major intermodal facilities, with driverless trucks loading, moving and unloading containers in full operational production.
Venti expects 100-plus autonomous container-moving trucks across eight railroad sites by 2027 and more than 600 by the end of the decade.
The Letter of Acceptance covers Volatus' proposed means of compliance for the Canary Remotely Piloted Aircraft System under Canada's new PVD process.
Volatus said Canary meets Transport Canada BVLOS safety requirements for populated-area operations using onboard detect-and-avoid without an external DAA solution.
The acceptance is a prerequisite to completing verification activities and submitting a formal Safety Assurance Declaration under Canada's RPAS Safety Assurance framework.