Browse page 34 of the Korthos verified robotics events archive, with dated funding, deployment, product, partnership, acquisition, and research records.
Autonomous indoor flight for critical asset inspection presents fundamental challenges in perception, planning, control, and learning. Despite rapid progress, there is still a lack of a compact, active-sensing, open-source platform that is reproducible across simulation and real-world operation.
Experiments use Skydio X10 as the physical evaluation platform.
The evaluation connects the reported method to Skydio X10 hardware in perception and planning tasks.
Chef Robotics announced that its robots can now automate meatpacking tray assembly for raw, frozen, and precooked proteins.
The new application extends Chef's existing piece-picking capability to products such as pork loin filets, chicken breasts, lamb chops, steaks, sausage links, and bratwursts.
Chef said the capability supports higher throughput, lower labor dependency, and more consistent presentation across meatpacking and tray assembly lines.
BrainCo released Revo 3 as a 21-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand built on direct-drive, backdrivable joints for higher-precision robotic manipulation.
The company said the hand combines full-palm tactile sensing with fingertip visuotactile sensing, targeting stable in-hand manipulation rather than simple grasping alone.
BrainCo positioned Revo 3 as a deployment-ready hand stack with support for multiple control modes, mainstream industrial communications, and broader embodied AI integration workflows.
Futuring Robot introduced Futuring 2 as its next-generation all-purpose home robot and opened reservations for real-home trial use.
The company positioned the robot for household chores, childcare support, pet care, and elderly companionship, including appliance operation, simple meal support, reminders, and interactive assistance.
Futuring Robot said the platform includes 21 degrees of freedom, dual-arm tactile manipulation, multimodal perception, and 360-degree omnidirectional sensing, with a starting price of CNY 36,000.
U.S. Air Forces Central awarded Kraus Hamdani Aerospace a $270 million single-source IDIQ rapid deployment contract tied to the K1000ULE unmanned aerial system.
The company framed the award around faster fielding of long-endurance ISR and resilient connectivity capabilities for U.S. forces and partner nations operating in contested Middle East conditions.
The post says the K1000ULE is integrated into the U.S. Army's Next Generation Command and Control environment through Anduril's Lattice platform.
The round totals about $200M in new capital, joined by a wide syndicate including Luxshare Precision, Henan Investment Group Huirong Fund, Zhongchuang Zhiling, Cornerstone Capital, Longgang Financial Holdings, and more than a dozen additional named investors.
EngineAI said the financing takes its post-money valuation above RMB 10 billion.
The company said it will use the proceeds for core technology iteration, expanding production and delivery capacity, and wider scenario deployment.
Bulwark Dynamics announced Caravel 35, a 35-foot autonomous landing craft built for contested littoral logistics and sea-to-shore resupply missions.
The company positioned Caravel 35 as a mission-relevant scale-up from its earlier 15-foot Caravel demonstration, with support for modular containerized payloads up to a full 20-foot ISO container as well as vehicles and UGVs.
Bulwark said the craft's ultra-shallow six-inch draft and beach-landing design are intended to reach austere shorelines inaccessible to most conventional vessels.
Alva added the STM-190-35 to the SlimTorq range as a larger frameless slotless motor designed for higher-torque direct-drive applications.
The new size expanded the commercial envelope of the SlimTorq family for customers needing more torque without giving up compact form factor and design flexibility.
The release showed continued expansion of Alva's standardized motor portfolio rather than one-off custom-only commercialization.
Nantul combines computer vision, thermal processing and precision robotics to identify and remove up to 300 intact RAM integrated circuits per cell per hour.
Tuurny said it had secured its first six-figure commercial contract and a separate six-figure deal with UK electronics recycler Areera.
The company describes the cell as software-defined and component-agnostic, allowing extraction targets to change without dedicated fixed tooling.
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EgoVerse introduced a collaborative platform for human data-driven robot learning with 1,362 hours of egocentric human demonstrations.
The release covers 80,000 episodes across 1,965 tasks, 240 scenes, and 2,087 demonstrators, with manipulation-relevant annotations.
The study reports that policy performance generally improves with more human data, while emphasizing that human data must align with robot learning objectives.
Differential Robotics completed a Series A1 round described as hundreds of millions of RMB.
The company says its P300 Pro and related autonomous flying robots can operate without GPS, external communications, external compute or manual control.
Funding coverage names Huakong Fund as lead investor, with Lenovo Capital, CCTV Fund and several returning investors participating.
Released FluxVLA Engine as an open-source VLA framework covering data, training, simulation, and deployment for embodied systems
Uses a unified data format and modular architecture allowing vision, language, and action components to be swapped without modifying the training pipeline
Reports trajectory smoothing (RTC) and 5–10× inference speed improvements for real-time robot control, with support for Isaac Sim, LIBERO, and multiple VLA models
ABB Robotics will integrate Jacobi's OmniPalletizer AI software into its robotics hardware and software portfolio.
The collaboration gives ABB's integrator network a productized path to mixed-case palletizing without upstream sequencing infrastructure, facility redesign, or custom engineering.
The agreement is a real integration partnership, but the announcement does not disclose deployment scale, customer volume, or financial terms.
Sea Machines appointed Tokyo-based Shintoa Corporation as its authorized value-added reseller in Japan
Under the agreement, Shintoa will market, sell, and support Sea Machines' unmanned surface vessel autonomy and commercial ship optimization products in-country
The partnership establishes a formal channel for Sea Machines technology across Japanese commercial and defense maritime markets
RoboSense said total LiDAR sales reached 330,300 units in the first quarter of 2026, up 204.1% year over year.
The company said robotics and other LiDAR shipments rose to 185,500 units, up 1,458.8% year over year, while ADAS shipments totaled 144,800 units.
RoboSense said the robotics segment became its larger shipment engine in the quarter and cited leadership across lawn-mowing robots, delivery robots, humanoids, embodied-AI robots, and commercial cleaning robots.
Skydio announced an order exceeding $9 million from U.S. Air Forces Central for Skydio Dock and X10 systems to support security operations at U.S. airbases across the Middle East.
The deployed setup uses docked X10 drones for fully remote launch, patrol, threat verification, and incident response, with one operator able to manage multiple drones at once.
Skydio framed the award as its first overseas force-protection mission using dock-based autonomous security infrastructure for the U.S. Air Force.
Fieldwork Robotics raised £3 million to scale autonomous raspberry-harvesting robots and move from technology validation toward commercial farm adoption.
The funding includes a £2.2 million equity round led by Elbow Beach, supplemented by £1.7 million in project grants, including non-dilutive Innovate UK support.
The company said the capital will support commercial trials and deployment activity in the UK, with additional trials planned in Portugal and Australia.
The ILCB converts an analogue mV/V load-cell signal into a digital device and can be integrated with existing sensors.
The release includes a next-generation wireless handheld, a three-channel CAN bus and USB strain-gauge amplifier, and a stainless-steel beam load cell and mount assembly.
Three complete weighing systems are calibrated at system level and use interchangeable components to simplify setup.
SAFELOG is extending its existing control system as the software provider while SEW-EURODRIVE focuses on mobile, stationary and drive-based automation hardware.
SEW-EURODRIVE plans to market the software independently, bundle it with drive technology and integrate it through the MAXOLUTION business.
The partners also plan progressive deployment inside SEW-EURODRIVE facilities to validate the system in live factory operations.
Spirit AI announced a new RMB 1 billion financing round, with Shunwei Capital and Yunfeng Capital named as co-lead investors.
Additional support in the round was reported from Fortune Capital, Galaxy Yuanhui, Turing Fund, Xinding Capital, and Gengxin Capital.
The raise followed the company's earlier nearly RMB 2 billion financing disclosed in February 2026, extending a rapid capital formation burst around its embodied-intelligence platform.
Kodiak completed an autonomous trucking program in Ohio with DriveOhio, marking its first operational deployment outside the Sunbelt.
The program included Interstate 70 stakeholder rides and real-world Level 4 demonstrations at the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty, Ohio.
Kodiak used the program to show its trucking stack operating beyond southern highway conditions and to expand its operational design domain into the Midwest.
UBTECH, through its smart logistics subsidiary UQI, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Honda Trading (China) Co., Ltd. focused on embodied AI deployment in industrial environments.
The two sides said they will explore the use of humanoid robots and autonomous logistics vehicles across manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics scenarios tied to industrial supply-chain operations.
AgiBot released AGIBOT WORLD 2026, a real-world embodied AI dataset intended to support multiple research directions in embodied intelligence.
According to the dataset card, the data comes from real commercial, home, and general-purpose environments and was collected on the AgiBot G2 platform with structured, high-quality annotation.
The release begins with an imitation-learning phase and is planned to expand over time into broader real-world scenario coverage.
Dwbrobot announced the launch of its industrial robotics solutions platform, positioned around a zero-upfront-cost Robotics as a Service model for factory automation.
The company said the offer is aimed at robotic systems used in assembly, welding, packaging, and other repetitive industrial processes where automation typically requires meaningful capital expenditure.
The release also introduced an extended RaaStp model that lets individual investors participate in deployed robotic equipment and share in revenue generated from industrial operations.
UVify's company history records a successful 10,000-drone show in Texas in 2026.
The company identifies the flight as a Guinness record, demonstrating operation of a swarm an order of magnitude larger than many conventional commercial displays.
The milestone followed UVify's separate 2024 Guinness achievement for the world's largest cluster-drone performance and supports its positioning as both a platform developer and show operator.
This paper presents a safety-critical centralized nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) framework for cooperative payload transportation by two quadrupedal robots. The interconnected robot-payload system is modeled as a discrete-time nonlinear differential-algebraic system, capturing the coupled dynamics through holonomic constraints and interaction wrenches.
Experiments use Go2 as the physical evaluation platform.
The reported results provide an independent evaluation on Go2 hardware.
IEC 62443 was developed specifically to address such risks in industrial settings, establishing globally recognized requirements for secure system design and lifecycle management
IEC 62443-4-1 focuses on the secure development process of industrial products
IEC 62443-4-1 is part of the broader IEC 62443 industrial cybersecurity framework
EagleSight Dynamics completed seed and angel financing rounds totaling tens of millions of yuan within a year.
The seed round was exclusively backed by MiraclePlus, while the angel round was led by QiGao Capital with continued participation from MiraclePlus and follow-on support from Hanyuan Assets, Shanghai Jiao Tong University's parent fund.
The company said funds would support core technology R&D, fluid simulation engine iteration and commercialization of its first consumer-grade product.
DroneQ Robotics and Mark Offshore agreed to deploy the DP1 ROV support and survey vessel R/V Mintis as an integrated offshore platform for inspection and survey operations.
Under the agreement, DroneQ secured exclusive rights to use the vessel for its own projects, Intertek projects, and third-party work.
The vessel is being positioned around subsea inspection, survey work, ROV services, magnetic crawler operations, and offshore drone inspection.
CRG Automation announced that FANUC America honored it with the Outstanding Growth Award at the 2026 ASI Conference.
The award recognized CRG as part of a select group of integrators and automation partners acknowledged by FANUC.
The recognition is relevant to CRG's robotics profile because it reflects momentum in industrial robot integration rather than a generic business ranking.
AMP said its Portsmouth, Virginia facility is now operating at 108,000 tons of annual municipal solid waste processing capacity under its long-term agreement with the Southeastern Public Service Authority.
The company said the broader system being deployed under the agreement, including additional mixed-waste sortation lines and an organics management system, is designed to process up to 540,000 tons annually once fully scaled.
AMP framed the site around its AI-based sorting stack, which uses cameras, robotics, and pneumatic jets to identify and recover recyclables and organics from bagged trash.