Browse page 4 of the Korthos verified robotics events archive, with dated funding, deployment, product, partnership, acquisition, and research records.
Two investors exercised certain December 2025 warrants at a reduced price of $1.65 per share, producing approximately $1.0 million in immediate gross proceeds before fees and expenses.
Exercises of remaining warrants within 30 trading days could add up to $1.1 million, but that amount remained contingent.
AMC said proceeds would support its planned robotics manufacturing facility in Vietnam, working capital and continued product and service development.
Vectus will design, integrate and continuously operate layered air-defense systems for governments and critical-infrastructure operators under multi-year agreements.
Its technology-agnostic architecture can combine detection and tracking, electronic warfare, interceptor drones and large-calibre guns from allied suppliers.
Swarmer will provide autonomy and interceptor-swarming technology and co-develop counter-UAS systems; no customer deployment was disclosed at launch.
NSK actuators will be installed on ATOM Humanoid robots for joint evaluation, with results intended to improve performance and address mass-production challenges.
The companies will collect physical-AI data using ATOM Humanoid robots in NSK manufacturing environments to improve ATOM's foundation model.
ATOM Humanoid says it develops both a bipedal, dual-arm robot and its physical-AI foundation model in-house.
The startup is building a unified control layer for kitchen robots and automation equipment from multiple manufacturers.
Its compact AIoT modules feed equipment status and operating data into a tablet interface, with remote control supported where hardware permits.
Free Kitchen Lab is discussing proof-of-concept projects with restaurant franchises and food-service operators; no production deployment was disclosed.
· research publication · Lightwheel · Data Infrastructure
Evidence notes
The collection spans seven environment categories, 128 scene classes, more than 15,000 collection scenes and more than 15,000 tasks.
Head- and wrist-mounted views are paired with depth, hand-pose, full-body-pose and event-level semantic annotations for manipulation, coordination and task-sequence learning.
The first tranche is distributed through Hugging Face and AtomGit, and Lightwheel said the project will be donated to the OpenAtom Foundation for incubation.
The framework covers joint integration, demonstrations, proof-of-concept programmes, customer evaluations and potential commercialization.
Foresight will support VARAN business development in South Korea, Japan, India and Singapore; VisionWave may promote approved integrated military solutions globally.
Specific customer programmes, production commitments and commercial terms still require separate definitive agreements.
The closing completes the transaction first announced on June 1, 2026; it is not a new acquisition agreement.
D-Fend says its counter-drone technology is deployed in more than 30 countries across airports, borders, military sites, critical infrastructure and public venues.
Zohar Halachmi remains D-Fend chief executive and becomes Motorola Solutions senior vice president of counter-drone solutions.
B21 weighs 700 g and combines 15 N fingertip force with up to 5 kg of grip force.
The five-finger hand is designed for pinching, enveloping grasps and object rotation, with tactile sensing distributed across the hand for force feedback.
ZWHAND rates the hand for up to one million operating cycles and provides multiple communications interfaces for robot integration and secondary development.
SWM's share of the fleet increases from five to 13 vehicles, while Kakao Mobility increases from two to six.
Passengers continue to hail the taxis through Kakao T across the Gangnam operating area using the service's fixed overnight fare structure.
The programme is seeking approval for autonomous operation across the full service area, including school zones, before considering later daytime expansion.
The service uses Kakao Mobility's internally developed autonomy stack and operates through the Kakao T app.
The company added control logic that reduces speed below 80% of the posted limit and restricts rapid acceleration in child and other vulnerable-user protection zones.
Daytime data collection is continuing alongside the overnight public service to improve the end-to-end driving model across a wider range of traffic conditions.
The lifting column uses a 150 × 150 mm aluminium body, a 20 × 25 mm internal cable-chain cavity, an integrated servo drive and DC48V power, with full-load lifting speed up to 200 mm/s.
The seven-in-one swerve module combines travel and steering motors, a reducer, absolute encoder and drive electronics; it carries 60 kg per wheel and is rated IP67.
The WRC launch focused on new component variants; JIECANG had already presented robot lifting-column and frameless torque-motor products at WAIC in July.
· research publication · Generalist · Foundation Models
Evidence notes
Across 10 tasks, Generalist reports 59% average success from one 3–12 second in-context demonstration and 83% after 10 gradient steps on five minutes of task data.
The multimodal model maintains 30 seconds of video context alongside sensor, language and proprioceptive inputs, and produces action trajectories at 100 Hz.
The release also shows prompts transferring from simulation to a physical robot and, in some cases, from human-hand demonstrations to immediate robot execution.
Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures backed the financing; neither investor was identified as the lead.
Co-founders Sanja Fidler, Zan Gojcic and Huan Ling are former Nvidia researchers working across spatial intelligence, three-dimensional vision and world modelling.
Veeda is building simulated environments in which embodied agents can learn through repeated interaction, feedback and failure before transferring behaviours to physical systems.
The agreement covers humanoid robots, human–robot collaboration and electronics-manufacturing automation.
The partners plan to evaluate Agile Robots humanoids within USI’s manufacturing network.
They will also explore development and mass production of robot products and components; the MoU is an exploratory framework, not a disclosed order or deployment.
Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Ports and Civil Aviation and the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka are targeting initial sandbox commercialization within four months, contingent on completing mandatory assessments.
The roadmap covers regulatory alignment, sandbox infrastructure, validation flights and commercial launch, with the initial zone planned around Port City in Colombo.
EHang will provide aircraft, operating systems, technical services and training; passenger transport and unmanned maritime cargo logistics are among the contemplated uses.
Delta lists the dual-arm platform among the exhibition's featured new products and solutions, alongside its wider smart-manufacturing and robotics portfolio.
The platform is presented as an embodied-intelligence system that connects AI inputs with coordinated two-arm robot execution.
The public debut opened with Automation Taipei on 19 August 2026 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center.
Wave SE retains 22 independently actuated degrees of freedom in a human-scale hand intended for embodied-AI research and robot integration.
The SE configuration is rated for a 24 kg payload, 90 N grip force, 12 N fingertip force and operation at 2 Hz.
Its tactile configuration provides a 60 × 60 array, 0.05 N force sensitivity, 2 mm spatial resolution and onboard inference at up to 30 frames per second.
Half of the robot's 66 degrees of freedom are concentrated in its hands; Xiaomi continues to describe the platform as a prototype.
At the Embodied Garden booth, the robot grasps scented paper, scatters it as decorative petals, hands pieces to visitors and performs handshakes and fist bumps.
The booth opens to the general public on 20 August, and Xiaomi says the prototype will be shown in Europe after its China debut.
Physis 257g combines stereo RGB imaging with AI depth processing; the compact monocular Physis 157g shares its imaging, synchronisation and software architecture for multi-camera robot perception.
The new Gemini 338Le and 338Lg stereo 3D cameras add stronger ambient-light resistance, using industrial Gigabit Ethernet and GMSL2/FAKRA interfaces respectively for industrial and logistics settings.
Orbbec also presented its EGO, UMI, WristCam and Hub bodyless data-collection hardware as a complete matrix; the underlying platform had been announced before WRC.
Prime Air currently serves 10 metro areas from 11 U.S. sites, each covering approximately 175 square miles.
Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland, Syracuse and Boise are among the next planned metro areas, with the service focused primarily on suburban communities.
Amazon says Prime Air has delivered hundreds of thousands of packages during 2026 and offers millions of eligible items with delivery in as fast as 30 minutes.
The technical scope includes drone-in-a-box orchestration, fleet and site control, AI-assisted image review and enterprise-system integrations through Timed Automation's SkyStream platform.
The companies will evaluate non-exclusive product distribution, joint drone development and participation in domestic and international projects.
The MoU also covers prospective pilot deployments in Australia and New Zealand for agriculture, infrastructure inspection and remote operations.
Participants include Shenzhen Press Group Yiben Fund, Orient Securities, Shaanxi High-Tech Industrial Investment, Anyu Fund, Tianmeng Investment and Jianyuan Tianhua, alongside follow-on capital from Chuanghehui, Xuhui and Gengxin.
The company plans further work on robot-native models, edge intelligence and adaptation to domestically produced compute platforms.
Its World Motion Model approach covers motion representation, generation and control across different robot embodiments, supported by internet video, motion-capture and physical-robot training data.
Seligman Ventures led the round, with Capricorn Investment Group joining Mayfield, Maverick Silicon, MARA, Premji Invest, Samsung Catalyst Fund and StepStone Group.
The capital supports Titan Core commercialization, engineering and customer-facing hiring, and collaborations with Physical-AI system developers.
Velaura says Titan Core targets a 2-4x improvement in performance per watt for mathematical operations used in AI accelerators.
· research publication · Skild AI · Foundation Models
Evidence notes
S1 applies in-context learning to seen and unseen manipulation tasks, including plant potting, pancake preparation, pour-over coffee and kit assembly.
Skild reports unseen tasks lasting up to 10 minutes and a sevenfold improvement over language-only prompting on its evaluation set.
The official release demonstrates transfer from a human video example to robot execution, including an 11-minute demonstration-to-execution plant-potting workflow.
The offering comprised 8,571,609 common shares or pre-funded warrants priced at $1.40 each, with Maxim Group acting as sole placement agent.
Wrap said proceeds would support working capital and general corporate purposes, including potential expansion of WrapShield and its public-safety business.
Oriental Fortune Capital led the financing, with Legend Star and Tianqi Capital participating and FlowCapital acting as financial adviser.
The company plans to use the proceeds for production and delivery of CyboPal ONE and iteration of its embodied-interaction system.
One report described the transaction as an Angel+ round while other coverage used a Series A label; no exact amount beyond hundreds of millions of RMB was disclosed.
The basic agreement sets pricing and a delivery schedule targeting two aircraft in 2028 and three in 2029, but remains a letter of intent rather than a firm aircraft order.
The partners plan to launch sightseeing flights in 2028 from the existing Marina Mirage heliport on the Gold Coast.
Preparatory work includes aircraft certification plus a dedicated vertiport and maintenance, repair and overhaul facility at Southport Airfield.
New robotics-lidar orders and JT128 adoption include Unitree, Robbyant, Galbot, Galaxea and Dexmal.
After Kosmo prototype deliveries in July 2026, orders were secured from humanoid-robot companies including Galbot, with initial revenue expected in Q3.
The robotic-actuation production line is operational, dexterous-hand module shipments are underway and Sharpa is an actuation-module customer.
Smith+Nephew engineers and clinicians will work directly with Imperial researchers to co-develop less invasive and more broadly usable robotic-surgery techniques.
Research topics include markerless registration and tracking and computer vision that adapts to patient anatomy in real time.
At full capacity, the centre is expected to support one senior postdoctoral researcher and up to seven fully funded PhD students.
The phased rollout begins in September 2026 and runs for 24 months across freight corridors in California, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois and Georgia.
Einride says the 500-truck addition will roughly triple its deployed electric-truck fleet and convert signed shipper contracts into revenue-generating capacity.
The autonomy relevance is Saga AI fleet orchestration and optimisation; the announcement does not describe the Tesla Semis themselves as driverless or autonomous vehicles.
The proposed transaction values the combined company at a $556.6 million pro forma enterprise value and FORT at a $500 million pre-money equity value.
FORT expects about $201 million in gross proceeds assuming no shareholder redemptions, including more than $31 million of signed PIPE and non-redemption commitments; closing is targeted for Q4 2026 and remains subject to approvals and other conditions.
FORT disclosed more than 600 cumulative customers and deployment across more than 19,500 units globally; the agreement does not yet make FORT a listed company.
AT-Dock integrates WiBotic transmitter and receiver hardware with ROS 2 control for charging start, stop, voltage and current.
The system supports 150 W to 1 kW configurations for drones, UGVs, AMRs and USVs.
It provides coupling feedback, live voltage/current/temperature/error telemetry, battery-specific settings and IP67-rated transmitter and receiver hardware.
The Yangjae R&D Campus facility is planned to be fully operational by the end of 2026, with several hundred robots in replicated home and factory environments.
LG targets 100,000 hours of real and synthetic training data by year-end using NVIDIA Cosmos, Isaac and Omniverse.
The programme includes LG CLOiD home robots, LG CNS logistics robots and LG Innotek robotic hands and expands the Aug. 13 LG Group–NVIDIA MOU into a specific operating programme.
The planned integration covers the Variant 7 and future Blue Ops platforms, supporting coordinated multi-vessel operations for U.S. and allied defense customers.
The companies plan operational fleets at Havoc's Rhode Island headquarters and Blue Ops' Florida headquarters for demonstrations, testing, training and operational evaluation.
Blue Ops and Red Cat will introduce Havoc's autonomy stack to their customers, while Havoc will market Blue Ops vessels and the parties will jointly pursue integrated maritime-system opportunities.
A new episode format with topic-group chunking reduced storage by about 68% and made sample reads approximately 2.9 times faster.
An Airflow-based ingestion architecture increased throughput from 14,000 to 440,000 episode-hours per week, cutting million-hour processing from roughly 16 months to under three weeks.
Warehouse-backed curation and memory-mapped tables reduced time to first training batch from about 48 hours to under one minute across a 43-million-episode dataset.
The vendor-agnostic orchestration layer is designed to work across government and OEM platforms without requiring hardware or software modifications to the underlying systems.
NODA combines its URZA orchestration platform with a software-defined-effects engine to translate commander intent into actions across manned and unmanned teams.
NODA reports integrations with more than 30 OEM-specific vehicles and control systems, spanning subsurface platforms to space and supporting degraded or denied communications.
Gravis retrofits excavators and other existing heavy machinery with perception, compute and control systems rather than requiring purpose-built autonomous equipment.
The company reports deployments across four continents, with customer and partner work involving Holcim, Taylor Woodrow and HD Hyundai, including autonomous excavation at Manchester Airport.
Gravis describes the transaction as the largest Series A financing completed by a construction-robotics company.