Browse page 35 of the Korthos verified robotics events archive, with dated funding, deployment, product, partnership, acquisition, and research records.
Generalist introduced GEN-1 as its latest milestone in scaling robot learning and positioned it as a general-purpose AI model for simple physical tasks.
The company said GEN-1 reached 99 percent success rates on the showcased tasks, ran roughly 3 times faster, and adapted in real time to unexpected scenarios.
Generalist also said the displayed results used only about one hour of robot data, presenting GEN-1 as a step down in task-specific data requirements.
Tokyo Robotics published a new demonstration showing a full-body humanoid prototype performing human-like walking, push recovery, and real-time whole-body teleoperation.
The company's latest humanoid materials also show reinforcement-learning-based bipedal walking workflows tied to Isaac Sim and MuJoCo, indicating the prototype is being developed through simulation-trained control rather than only scripted motion.
In the company's announcement, Tokyo Robotics said it is currently developing a full-body humanoid and plans to improve hardware and software stability while adding autonomous task AI.
Serendix used an ABB IRB 6700 with Vertico's two-component nozzle technology to robotically print structural elements for JR West's Hatsushima station, which was assembled onsite in one night.
The operating scope and metrics apply to the named installation or programme rather than every product, site or customer.
· research publication · Spirit AI · Foundation Models
Evidence notes
Spirit AI updated the Spirit-v1.5 repository in April 2026 with fine-tuning code, separating the training release from the January initial model and benchmark release.
The repository documents training requirements, dataset loading, distributed training utilities, and a fine-tuning launcher for adapting Spirit-v1.5 to robotic manipulation datasets.
The release matters because it makes Spirit-v1.5 more reproducible as a developer resource for embodied-AI research rather than only a checkpoint and benchmark artifact.
NVIDIA released G1 Locomanipulation Dataset v1 with synthetic demonstrations of a Unitree G1 performing pick, navigation, and place loco-manipulation tasks.
The Hugging Face dataset card says it was created in April 2026 using NVIDIA Isaac Lab synthetic data generation and includes LeRobot-compatible HDF5 data.
The dataset gives G1 a synthetic loco-manipulation benchmark covering pick, navigation, and place workflows.
Quantum Frontline Industries completed production of its first drone batch for delivery to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Quantum Systems said the milestone marked the transition from production setup to sustained serial output under the German-Ukrainian co-production model.
The venture is focused on scaling capacity and accelerating deliveries throughout 2026.
Bulwark Dynamics completed a maiden unmanned resupply demonstration of its 15-foot Caravel autonomous landing vessel, showing autonomous beach landing and cargo offload without human intervention.
The company said the vessel was built specifically for contested littoral logistics and designed around sea-to-shore delivery on austere coastlines without port infrastructure or external handling equipment.
Bulwark framed the test as proof of a practical logistics concept shaped by operator feedback from the Indo-Pacific rather than a purely experimental autonomy exercise.
Manna announced a $50 million Series B to scale its autonomous drone delivery network across the United States and Europe.
The company said the financing brought total funding to $110 million and highlighted more than 250,000 flights completed to date.
Manna tied the round to expansion plans including 40 bases in the United States and recently broadened platform partnerships with Uber alongside Deliveroo, Just Eat, and DoorDash.
Agile Robots said it successfully completed the acquisition of thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering assets in Europe and North America.
The acquired business continues within the group as Krause Automation, preserving the automation-engineering business under a new ownership structure.
Agile framed the closing as a step toward broader end-to-end industrial automation capability, spanning AI-powered robotics, plant integration, and expansion into sectors including consumer electronics, medical technology, and logistics.
TRATON and Applied Intuition announced TRATON ONE OS after more than a year of co-development, incorporating Applied Vehicle OS for Trucking, with first hardware tests in April 2026 and vehicle rollout targeted for 2028.
Co-development had already run for more than a year, while hardware tests and vehicle rollout remained scheduled future milestones.
Applied Intuition launched Applied Edge, an available-now mobile operations centre packaging rugged compute, communications and Axion tooling for field development, testing and operation of autonomous systems.
Applied Edge was launched as available-now field infrastructure; the announcement is a product-availability milestone, not a customer deployment.
Rheinmetall is to act as a German system integrator, incorporating locally sourced sensors, effectors, communications and mission systems around Boeing’s MQ-28 platform.
The partnership is structured to support German requirements and sovereign integration work rather than simply importing a fixed aircraft configuration.
The March announcement preceded later additions to the German industrial team; it is not a new 10 August event.
The CU-172 is Canada's designation for the RQ-21A Blackjack, the programme lineage represented by Insitu's current Integrator platform.
The base award covers programme management and airworthiness services, with additional budget available for spares, repairs and authorised follow-on work.
Potential follow-on activity includes resilience features and updated capabilities from the current Integrator configuration.
Planet Ventures announced a US$100,000 investment on March 31, 2026 at a US$40 million post-money valuation.
General Astronautics was founded in 2025 and joined the Winter 2026 Y Combinator batch and NVIDIA Inception programme.
Its robots are intended to automate orbital laboratory work including pipetting, sample preparation, plate handling and reagent mixing without crew support.
Unitree published an expanded UnifoLM_G1_Dex1_Dataset collection on Hugging Face for the G1 platform, grouping multiple dexterous manipulation datasets under a single first-party release.
The collection spans a range of G1 tasks including table wiping, block stacking, towel folding, packing, and tool organization, with multiple datasets updated together on March 31, 2026.
The release adds another product-specific public data asset for G1 and broadens the first-party training corpus available for dexterous manipulation research.
Honeywell and Odys Aviation announced a collaboration to deliver an airborne counter-UAS defence solution for critical infrastructure and strategic assets.
The system adapts Honeywell SAMURAI autonomous airborne platform for deployment on Odys Aviation long-range Laila UAV.
Honeywell said SAMURAI provides a modular counter-UAS architecture incorporating customer-selected sensors and effectors.
NUBURU said its subsidiary Lyocon received an initial order from a tier-one government defence electronics organization in Asia-Pacific for a portable directed-energy laser dazzler system.
The company framed the award as an entry point into the regional counter-drone market after prototype and production-level validation work.
Clayton Controls was named an authorized distribution partner for Epson robotics solutions across the Southwest region of the United States.
The alliance expands regional access to Epson's robot lineup, including SCARA, 6-axis, and all-in-one systems, along with development and integrated software offerings.
Clayton brings local automation distribution, engineering, panel shop, and systems capability to the partnership, making this a channel-and-implementation expansion rather than a new product launch.
Gasgoo reported that Vbot signed a strategic partnership with JD Retail''s intelligent robot unit on March 31.
The deal was framed around mass adoption of the Vbot Super Robot Dog, with JD contributing technology, data, content, traffic, and offline channel support.
The article said the partnership targeted sales of more than one million units within three years and would also use JD''s JoyAI and JoyInside capabilities to improve voice interaction.
TechCrunch reported that Nomadic raised an $8.4 million seed round at a $50 million post-money valuation.
The company said the capital would be used to onboard more customers and continue refining its platform for turning robot and vehicle video into structured, searchable datasets.
The report also noted customer usage across companies including Zoox, Mitsubishi Electric, Natix Network, and Zendar.
The company said the round would accelerate Port Alpha development and the broader expansion of its shipbuilding enterprise across Louisiana and Texas.
Saronic also said the capital would support scaled production of its ASV portfolio and development of larger maritime autonomy capabilities beyond Corsair and Marauder.
The announcement named several new and returning investors and valued the company at $9.25 billion.
Positronic launched PhAIL as a real-hardware benchmark for foundation models in robotics, focused on throughput, reliability, and failure modes rather than simulation-only success rates.
The company said leading models including OpenPI 0.5, GR00T, DreamZero, and SmolVLA were evaluated on physical robots doing commercial tasks, alongside human and teleoperated baselines.
Positronic framed PhAIL as both a benchmark and proof point for its broader infrastructure layer covering data pipelines, unified inference, and evaluation across model vendors and hardware.
Apium will operate as an independent Red Cat company, continuing to develop and scale its multi-agent autonomy architecture for integration across Red Cat’s Family of Systems.
Apium successfully demonstrated autonomous multi-agent missions using Red Cat’s drones at the Army’s 2025 ACM-UAS Industry Day and Red Cat’s Innovation Day in February 2026.
Applied Intuition and LG Innotek formed a strategic AV-development partnership: LG sensors will run on Applied's autonomous development fleet, digital sensor models will enter simulation, and LG plans its own Korean autonomous test vehicles.
The strategic partnership is active, while vehicle-fleet sensor use, simulation integration and LG test vehicles were described as planned work.
The updated range reaches 5,000 cycles per revolution, equivalent to 20,000 pulses per revolution with quadrature.
The encoder supports 12 shaft sizes from 2–8 mm and 1/8–5/16 inch and mounts to NEMA 17 through NEMA 34 and larger motors.
Lower resolutions continue to use the EM1 optical module while higher-resolution variants use the EM2; the expanded range became available for worldwide shipping immediately.
A new drone-components line, Hoverfly Motors - Powered by KRM, was announced for the UAS component market.
The launch includes BLDC motor classes, ESC systems and related propulsion components, with KRM designated as exclusive manufacturer for Hoverfly core propulsion components.
KRM backing is tied to a Gumi facility capacity of 300,000 units annually, with infrastructure described as scalable to 500,000 units.
Icarus selected Voyager to manage the mission for Joyride, its free-flying robotic platform, on an upcoming International Space Station demonstration planned for early 2027.
Voyager's role includes payload integration, safety certification, launch coordination, and real-time mission execution support for the flight.
The demonstration is intended to validate autonomous navigation, maneuverability, and operational performance in a live space-station environment.
Nature Robots announced a €4 million seed round to scale its modular autonomy software for agricultural machinery.
The company said the funding will be used for team expansion in Osnabrück, an additional office in Munich, and faster design-in and market rollout work with machinery customers.
The announcement frames Nature Robots around autonomous agriculture across open fields, vegetable farming, orchards, vineyards, specialty crops, agri-photovoltaics, and agroforestry systems.
AGIBOT announced the rollout of its 10,000th humanoid robot, marking one of the first scale production milestones of this size in embodied robotics.
The company said the move from 5,000 to 10,000 units took roughly three months, versus about one year to go from 1,000 to 5,000, reflecting faster manufacturing ramp and supply-chain maturity.
AGIBOT framed the milestone as a shift from initial commercial rollout toward broader multi-industry deployment at scale.
The line can complete one humanoid every 30 minutes while using digital management and quality traceability.
Its process includes 24 assembly stages and 77 inspection and testing checks; the 10,000-unit figure is annual design capacity, not realized output.
AI-based central control coordinates materials and production cadence; efficiency exceeds manual assembly by more than 50%, with automotive-grade key quality indicators.
MindOn said it was selected to the EAI-100 embodied AI annual list on the strength of its dexterous-manipulation algorithms and VLA model work.
The same event also recognized co-founder Chen Yuanpei in the EAI Pioneer 20 list and awarded the company's mahjong robot demo as one of the annual top ten demos.
The post ties the recognition to MindOn's software-toolchain strategy, joint lab work, and data-collection / long-horizon execution positioning rather than a hardware product launch.
NYU researchers released RUKA-v2, an open-source tendon-driven humanoid hand with wrist mobility and finger abduction-adduction for robot-learning research.
The arXiv version was first posted on 27 March 2026.
The release includes open hardware, controller software, CAD and assembly documentation.