Browse page 30 of the Korthos verified robotics events archive, with dated funding, deployment, product, partnership, acquisition, and research records.
The term sheet grants Arcanus rights to manufacture, commercialize and support Beyond Vision UAV platforms in Canada and on Canadian-funded export sales.
The parties signed the term sheet on 28 and 29 April 2026, before the 30 April announcement.
Definitive licence, supply and manufacturing agreements still had to be negotiated before the arrangement could proceed.
Utah County issued a single-source procurement notice identifying Rapid Imaging Solutions as the only supplier able to meet requirements for a Diamond DA62 MPP aircraft with Mission Equipment Integration camera system.
The procurement supports search and rescue, law-enforcement surveillance, and public-safety operations for the Utah County Sheriff's Office.
The notice cites unique design requirements as the basis for the single-source award path.
AGIBOT Finch published Learning while Deploying as a fleet-scale offline-to-online reinforcement learning framework for continual post-training of generalist VLA policies.
The official page evaluates LWD on a fleet of Agibot G1 dual-arm robots across eight real-world manipulation tasks and reports consistent success-rate and cycle-time improvements over prior post-training baselines.
The release is a strong first-party research publication showing AGIBOT using deployed robot fleets as a training loop instead of treating deployment as a static endpoint.
Neuralink published a video describing its surgical robot work for automating key steps in receiving a Neuralink implant.
The company framed the robot as improving safety, reliability, and scalability for implant procedures.
The update reinforces the R1 surgical robot as a core enabling system for Neuralink's clinical BCI platform rather than a standalone surgical robot product.
Ornadyne launched through Y Combinator with autonomous bird-like drones for military reconnaissance.
The vehicles are described as flapping-wing UAVs designed to look, fly and sound like real birds, reducing acoustic and visual detectability versus many conventional drones.
The positioning emphasizes covert reconnaissance, where low-detectability aerial systems can get closer to targets without the signature of quadcopters or fixed-wing drones.
Textron Systems received a Defense Innovation Unit contract to produce and deliver multiple TSUNAMI uncrewed surface vessels.
The USVs will support the U.S. Navy Fleet Experimentation exercise in Key West, Florida and three months of joint operations with SOUTHCOM and U.S. Navy Fourth Fleet.
Textron will provide long-dwell TSUNAMI interceptor USVs and field service representatives, demonstrating cooperative ISR-T with its Aerosonde 4.7 VTOL UAS from a Littoral Combat Ship.
Eternal.ag introduced an omni-directional greenhouse trolley built with the same advanced mobility system as its Harvester robot.
The trolley is designed to move through greenhouse rows without operators needing to dismount for complex manoeuvres.
Eternal.ag said the trolley can later be upgraded into its fully autonomous Harvester robot, creating a lower-risk adoption path for greenhouse growers.
Auki said it has partnered with CTRL+R to give customers a unified interface for robot control.
The company said current and potential clients have robot teleoperation use cases ranging from security to remote inspections and unmanned-store management.
The partnership adds a unified control layer for remote robot operations across varied deployment contexts.
The Hayward facility commenced full-scale NEO production with more than 200 employees.
1X said it designs and manufactures critical components in-house, including motors, batteries, structures, transmissions, soft goods and sensors; its latest NEO iteration went from CAD to walking in one month.
The factory has capacity for up to 10,000 NEO robots per year, with further automation and a planned San Carlos facility supporting a target above 100,000 annually by the end of 2027.
Delivery: Robinson Unmanned will deliver the first R66 TURBINETRUCK to Sikorsky for integration, test and evaluation, and demonstration.
The R66 TURBINETRUCK will support mission success when ground or manned aviation assets are unavailable and keep personnel out of danger in high‑risk scenarios.
Washington Harbour Partners led the financing, with NEA, Ondas, In-Q-Tel, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, Geodesic Capital and Motley Fool Ventures participating.
Firestorm said the capital will support scaled production and expanded fielding after demonstrations for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army.
The Series B brought Firestorm's reported cumulative funding to USD 153 million.
Zebra Ventures made a strategic investment in Apera AI on April 29, 2026.
Apera AI develops 4D Vision for industrial robots, targeting factory automation workflows where robots need to perceive and act in dynamic manufacturing environments.
Zebra framed the investment around intelligent automation for manufacturing, logistics, and frontline operations.
KULR received initial purchase orders totaling nearly $1 million from a U.S. defense technology company that manufactures FPV unmanned aerial systems for military use.
The company expects total purchase orders from the customer to exceed $5 million in 2026.
KULR said all related orders are expected to be fulfilled and shipped before the end of 2026.
ROBOTIS maintains official ROS 2 packages for OpenMANIPULATOR, including bringup, descriptions, MoveIt configuration, teleoperation, GUI, and controller tooling.
The repository explicitly points developers to physical AI tools plus datasets and pre-trained models for ROBOTIS open-source platforms.
OpenMANIPULATOR is a first-party open platform used for manipulation research, education, and physical AI prototyping.
Arrive AI said it is using NVIDIA Isaac Sim to train AI models in physics-based simulation environments that replicate gravity, friction, collisions, object interaction and ray-traced lighting.
The company said Blackwell-powered GPU workstations support large-scale AI model training and parallel simulation workflows.
The stack is intended to improve computer vision and robotics systems used across Arrive AI autonomous delivery network and Arrive Point infrastructure.
Config demonstrated long-horizon memory capabilities in CFG-1 across piano-playing, shell-game tracking and object-rearrangement tasks.
The company reported 70 percent success on 8-note piano trials, 87 percent success in shell-game trials and 70 percent success on desk-rearrangement trials.
Config framed the work as evidence that robot memory depends on collecting the right long-horizon training data.
Alex Conley, the second Neuralink participant, used the N1 Implant to control a robotic arm at Barrow Neurological Institute.
The robotic arm work is part of Neuralink's CONVOY study, which explores BCI control of assistive devices in real-world use.
The update marks Neuralink's clearest recent robotics milestone beyond digital cursor control, but it remains a clinical feasibility study rather than a commercial assistive-robot deployment.
Align Ventures and Draper Associates co-led the round, with Decisive Point, Booz Allen Ventures, BVVC and other defense-focused investors participating.
Fury translates commander intent into coordinated autonomous action across mixed fleets operating in air, land, sea and space.
Scout secured USD 11 million of defense contracts in its first year and previously demonstrated an autonomous end-to-end strike.
Elbit Systems has been active in Romania for over three decades, employing more than 1,000 Romanian professionals across its facilities.
Developed within the framework of the Watchkeeper XR programme, the facility establishes an integrated capability for the production, integration, testing, and maintenance of advanced UAS platforms in Romania.
Through this agreement, NASA will apply its aeronautics expertise and flight research capabilities to evaluate whether drones can help reduce those delays, improve delivery timelines, potentially improving medical outcomes.
The partnership brings together NASA’s expertise in aviation research and UNOS’ role at the center of the U.S.
Eclipse and Riot Ventures co-led the equity round, joined by new investors Paradigm, Atreides, G Squared, The Private Shares Fund and VanEck alongside returning backers.
The company plans a dozen missions over 18 months, additional LEO and GEO demonstrations, and deliveries of Jackal and Mosaic into U.S. Space Force programmes.
The financing supports expansion from 250 employees at year-end 2025 to more than 500 by year-end 2026, alongside higher spacecraft and software delivery capacity.
The proposed transaction contemplated SIM acquiring 100 percent of AIT's outstanding equity and equity equivalents under definitive documents still to be negotiated.
The parties agreed to an initial 45-day exclusivity period with a possible automatic 15-day extension while negotiations continued in good faith.
The announcement described AIT's Q1 telecommunications operation as spanning manufacturing, logistics, distribution and connected-device ecosystems.
Skyworks announced the Si86Px digital-isolator family with integrated isolated dc-dc conversion and a matched miniature transformer.
The family is designed to reduce PCB area, bill-of-material count and design complexity in industrial and automotive electronics.
Skyworks lists 0.1 percent typical load regulation, up to 150 Mbps data rates and 100 kV/us common-mode transient immunity for noisy motor-drive and industrial environments.
Segway Navimow said it had reached cumulative mass production of 1M robotic lawn mower units globally
The company marked the milestone at its R&D and manufacturing base in Changzhou, China
Navimow cited production capacity across Changzhou and Nantong, with a new Malaysia production line supporting delivery into European and American markets.
AeroVironment announced Halo_Shield, a modular tile-based counter-UAS system for critical-site and expeditionary defence.
The system is designed to predict, detect, track, identify and defeat Group 1–5 drones, coordinated drone swarms and subsonic cruise-missile-style threats.
AeroVironment said it is demonstrating Halo_Shield capabilities and has deployed tiles at select critical sites.
Reflex Robotics selected Manufacturo's cloud-based manufacturing management platform to support production control, quality operations, inventory and unit-level traceability.
The system will act as a single production system of record for robot builds, including standardized execution and as-built history.
Reflex Robotics is using the platform as it scales production of general-purpose humanoid systems for manufacturing and logistics.
A test at Baykar’s flight training and test centre in northwestern Edirne came ahead of platforms’ public debut at the SAHA 2026 defense expo, scheduled for May 5-9 in Istanbul.
Ten Sivrisinek loitering munitions — a new platform developed by Baykar — then joined the operation, forming a swarm beneath the K2 Kamikaze UAVs.
Louis Airport, Missouri, home of Boeing’s production facilities, accompanied by a company-owned TA-4J Skyhawk and a U.S.
The flight, initially planned by the end of 2025, marks a major milestone in the service’s effort to field the first operational carrier-based unmanned aircraft.
· research publication · Axis Robotics · Data Infrastructure
Evidence notes
The repository processes Axis teleoperation trajectories supplied as JSON or CSV, including multi-trajectory and batch inputs.
Its pipeline combines static-frame merging, Savitzky-Golay smoothing and cubic-spline resampling, then reports smoothness and trajectory-deviation metrics.
Offline task checkers and a benchmark script support repeatable validation of cleaned trajectories before training use.
The 2025 annual report says Longxi Bearing was strategically adjusting around joint bearings and high-end mechanical components.
It names humanoid robots and low-altitude economy applications among future-industry markets for key technology and market-development work.
The report frames those applications alongside aerospace, high-speed rail, wind power and nuclear power as target fields for high-end component development.
Asimov released v1 as an open-source humanoid robot containing mechanical CAD, electrical CAD, simulation model, and onboard software.
The public manual positions Asimov v1 as a 1.2 m, 35 kg reference humanoid for builders, engineers, and researchers who want to build and train the robot themselves.
The release is a first-party open hardware/software research platform release rather than a conventional sales launch.
TPC Robotics signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Zhejiang Hechuan Humanoid Robot Co., Ltd., known as HCBOT, on April 27, 2026.
The agreement covers technology transfer, joint development, and production of humanoid robot components including actuators.
The companies had previously signed a strategic cooperation and product supply agreement in February and showcased SCARA robots, humanoid robots, and robot actuators at InterBattery 2026 in Korea.
Industry coverage reported that Natural Will, an embodied intelligence startup founded by Tsinghua University assistant professor Ding Ning, completed angel financing.
Reported investors include IDG Capital, Frees Fund, and ZhenFund.
The company was reported at a post-money valuation of RMB 4 billion, with a focus on embodied AI brain technology.