Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
Sharpa outlines 30,000-robot commercial deployment target
- The company intends to let operators collect small amounts of task data to adapt robots to their businesses.
- The approach emphasizes working in existing environments and sustaining continuous operation.
- Xiang described human demonstrations, simulation and real-robot interactions as complementary training data.
YYForce opens Singapore robotics training and experience centre
- Simulated hospitality environments cover housekeeping, restroom maintenance and banquet workflows, alongside a live security command centre.
- The facility supports robot-data collection and testing before deployment in customer environments.
- YYForce is evaluating Robotics-as-a-Service, leasing and managed-service models through the centre.
BeeX wins DIU and U.S. Navy mine-countermeasures prize
- The drones reacquired and neutralized bottom and volume mine threats from a safe standoff distance.
- Evaluations included high-latency, low-bandwidth over-the-horizon communications and untethered reacquisition of moored mines.
- The platforms operated independently of a dedicated mine-countermeasures vessel.
Primech Holdings unveils Primech Vision with headquarters fleet pilot
- Facility issues detected by robots, cameras or personnel become tasks assigned to robots or human team members, with completion tracked centrally.
- The pilot combines delivery, reception and cleaning robots with Primech AI’s HYTRON restroom-cleaning robot.
- Live customer demonstrations for visitors from Asia, Europe and the United States are planned to begin in October 2026.
Sharpa launches D01, W02 and AE01 tactile-manipulation platform products
- D01 combines body electronic skin with arm-end speed above 10.5 m/s and 0.2 mm repeat positioning accuracy.
- W02 integrates 21 active degrees of freedom, visual fingertip tactile sensing and electronic skin across the rest of the hand.
- AE01 uses 22 encoders to capture hand motion and provides 256 levels of continuous haptic feedback per fingertip.
Refined Robotics begins two-legged parcel-delivery trial with Evri in Barnsley
- The trial platform carries parcels up to 15 kg and travels at up to 6 km/h.
- It can operate autonomously or under remote control and is being evaluated as support for couriers.
- The trial will assess how the system fits into existing parcel delivery networks.
Sharpa Wave completes autonomous cube solves in UC San Diego’s FINGR study
- FINGR achieved 297 successful layer turns out of 300 attempts, compared with 79.7% success for the base flow policy.
- The Sharpa Wave and xArm7 system demonstrated dexterous manipulation by solving all ten scrambled 2×2×2 cubes in approximately 137 seconds on average, including pickup, table-supported changes of grasp and final placement.
- The released dataset contains 36 operator-recorded sequences and 576 turns, with tactile measurements, joint states, tracked cube geometry and turn annotations.
TacnIQ.ai secures pre-seed backing from In Group Holdings
- The company plans to expand its tactile foundation model, engineering team and commercial deployments.
- It reports more than 5,000 hours of tactile interaction data from experiments and commercial settings.
- Its Backy wearable data node is used with paying customers across five industries.
ST Logistics unveils operating 14-shuttle Clementi AS/RS
- ST Logistics has trained 40 of about 100 workers identified for redesigned roles as automation expands.
- Reported capacity is up to 10,600 pallets, more than 20% above the previous layout, with throughput above 70 pallets per hour versus about 10 previously.
- ST Logistics invested at least S$10 million and worked with Lenovo on shuttle orchestration software; expansion to other sites is under consideration.
Light Origins releases Light-O1 embodied foundation model
- Six pretraining runs span 3.75 billion to 120 billion multimodal tokens; the largest corresponds to 100,000 hours of human action.
- Adaptation and evaluation use the Nymeria human-action data, Unitree G1 HIW-500 teleoperation data and in-house LightBot data.
- Light-O1 reports 79.3% macro success across 24 simulated RoboCasa GR-1 tasks at 50 episodes per task, and the release includes preview weights, code and a hosted playground.
Nexdata wins 2026 Global Generative AI Award for AI Data Infrastructure
- Nexdata describes a Physical AI data factory exceeding 10,000 square metres.
- Its collection stack includes more than 300 teleoperation systems and more than 1,000 wearable devices.
- The validation environment includes eight RTX 4090 servers and 300 equipment sets.
Grab plans to grow Punggol AV fleet from 10 to 50
- The existing 10 WeRide GXRs had logged more than 110,000 autonomous kilometres and served over 12,000 unique riders.
- Grab and Singapore’s Land Transport Authority are preparing an on-demand, point-to-point service across selected Punggol locations.
- Grab reported 30 certified safety operators, including six trained remote operators.
YYForce and Integral Cleaning form Facadevision AI drone-services joint venture
- YYForce owns 70% of the venture and Integral Cleaning owns the remaining 30%.
- The planned system combines enterprise drones with AI image analysis for cracks, spalling, sealant failure and water ingress.
- Commercial deployment is scheduled to begin in Singapore in the third quarter of 2026.
QuikBot and talabat launch high-rise delivery-robot pilot in Dubai
- talabat riders hand orders to QuikBot robots at the building.
- The robots navigate the high-rise and use elevators to complete door-to-door delivery.
- Recipients collect orders through a controlled handoff using a one-time password.
Hivebotics raises $6M Series A led by Vertex Ventures
- Fareast Land Development, part of Farglory Group, and restroom-products manufacturer Rigel participated in the round.
- Abluo has logged nearly 10,000 operating hours over 12 months at more than 20 sites across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America.
- The financing also supports distributor expansion in four core markets and further development of the HiveIntelligence physical AI platform.
Sharpa robot begins live DQ Blizzard service in Shanghai
- The robot handles cup retrieval, ingredient dispensing, mixing and inverted handoff without continuous teleoperation, using vision, touch and force feedback to correct errors.
- The disclosed cycle time is about six minutes per Blizzard, compared with roughly two to three minutes for a human worker.
- The installation operates alongside the human service counter during the store's daily 10:00-22:00 opening hours.
Sharpa discloses RMB4.5B+ cumulative financing and RMB22B valuation
- Named investors include Alibaba, Meituan, Tencent, JD.com, Transsion, Sequoia China, Qiming Venture Partners, Meituan DragonBall and Guanghe Venture Capital.
- The disclosure covers cumulative financing rather than one current round, and no individual-round amounts were reported.
- Sharpa was founded in late 2024 by Hesai co-founders Yifan Li, Shaoqing Xiang and Kai Sun.
Menlo demonstrates zero-shot sim-to-real locomotion on Asimov 1
- The same policy reproduced its simulated joint-level behaviour on the physical robot.
- Tests covered flat-ground walking, mild terrain variation and recovery from small disturbances; they did not establish fleet-scale or complex locomotion-manipulation performance.
- Simulation models and actuator configurations are available to preorder customers and research collaborators.
Nexdata releases multimodal egocentric dataset suite for Physical AI
- Modalities include video, IMU, SLAM and depth data, hand keypoints and semantic annotations.
- The suite is designed to support foundation-model training through fine manipulation and embodied task learning.
- Nexdata offers global collection alongside hardware procurement, annotation, preprocessing and quality validation.
Ropedia launches HOMIE Gen2 for Physical AI data capture
- Four wide-angle cameras provide 360-degree coverage alongside spatial audio and inertial sensing.
- Ropedia states that the streams are synchronized within 50 microseconds and can produce more than ten processed modalities.
ComfortDelGro signs two autonomous-mobility infrastructure MoUs in China
- The China Construction Science and Industry agreement combines transport operations with engineering for robotaxi hubs and supporting infrastructure.
- The Guangdong Zhenghe agreement covers automated parking, new-energy infrastructure and low-altitude mobility facilities.
- The parties plan a first pilot project in Guangzhou during 2026.
Sharpa launches Wave SE dexterous hand and opens pre-orders
- 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.
Light Origins raises several hundred million yuan in Pre-A
- China Merchants Venture Capital, Xiang He Capital and other institutional investors participated.
- Capital is allocated to large-scale model training, multimodal data infrastructure, full-stack hardware and software R&D, and team expansion.
- The issuer disclosed only a qualitative several-hundred-million-yuan range.
Certis and SUPCON partner to scale frontline robotics
- Certis dated the agreement 12 August 2026.
- The work covers live validation for patrol, guidance, anomaly alerts, remote collaboration and facility operations.
- The announcement is a partnership and deployment programme, not evidence of a completed fleet rollout.
Acrab raises $130 million Series B
- Existing investors Vertex Ventures SEA & India and Vertex Growth participated alongside institutional investors from Europe and Southeast Asia.
- Capital will support product scaling, ecosystem expansion and development of Acrab's next-generation computing platform.
- Industrial deployments are becoming visible after the launch of the GΞLIX 1-powered Agent Box platform, with revenue expected during 2026.
Weston Robot and Avnet unveil autonomous industrial-inspection platform
- The platform combines AMD edge-AI compute with visual and thermal analytics for on-robot anomaly detection.
- Its navigation stack uses 3D-LiDAR SLAM to operate in GPS-denied industrial environments.
- Avnet supplies the compute and integration stack while Weston Robot contributes the autonomous robotic platform and deployment engineering.
Light Origins publishes Light-Loco-Parkour for whole-body humanoid locomotion
- The policy uses only onboard depth sensing and a velocity command to select walking, balancing, climbing, stepping down or vaulting without a runtime skill label, state machine or motion graph.
- A Real2Sim2Real pipeline expands sparse human-motion seeds across terrain variations, unifies multiple experts and distils privileged geometry into a recurrent depth policy.
- The same policy transferred without real-world fine-tuning to indoor and outdoor tests on Lightbot 0, including unseen obstacle variations.
Grab announces on-demand autonomous vehicle pilot for Punggol
- The planned service would let riders request autonomous vehicles through the Grab app.
- Grab said public commercial fares were targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026.
- The operating plan included more than 20 safety operators, six remote operators and a dedicated depot.
Ropedia raises US$22M new Pre-A round, taking Pre-A funding to US$30M
- The current disclosed financing is US$22 million; the US$30 million headline combines it with an US$8 million March round.
- Ropedia is scaling physical-AI data infrastructure around its HOMIE wearable collection device.
- The company says Xperience-10M contains more than 10 million interaction episodes and over 10,000 hours of multimodal real-world data.
Augmentus 3.1 expands path planning, scanning and robot support
- Path Optimizer Global identifies failure locations and lets operators steer unresolved paths.
- Rotary Scanning captures a full 360-degree mesh and is available in the Pro configuration.
- The release added Techman robot support, custom colliders and concurrent positioner motion.
dConstruct raises $125M for spatial-intelligence robotics software
- The financing supported dConstruct autonomous navigation and spatial-intelligence software.
- The company work spans autonomous navigation, 3D reality capture and spatial-intelligence systems.
- The round added private growth capital for dConstruct's autonomous navigation and spatial-intelligence work.
OMOWAY raises Series A and A+ funding as OMO-X deliveries begin
- OMOWAY completed consecutive Series A and Series A+ rounds that together raised tens of millions of U.S. dollars.
- Lochpine Capital led the Series A+ round; Monolith led the Series A, with CICC Capital and existing investor ZhenFund also participating.
- The company began OMO-X customer deliveries in Indonesia in June 2026 and said the product ranked first among Indonesian electric-motorcycle brands by order volume in its first month.
Refined Robotics is named a Toyota Woven City pitch finalist
- Its pitch covered delivery across rough terrain, snow and transitions between outdoor and indoor spaces.
- The presentation described layered on-device safety architecture for autonomous systems sharing public space.
BeeX raises $7.7M Series A for autonomous underwater drones
- The round supports expansion of autonomous underwater drone fleets and operations across APAC and Europe.
- BeeX targets marine inspection and survey workflows with autonomous underwater systems.
- Monk's Hill Ventures led the Series A.
DDB acquires Infinium Robotics for up to €20.5M
- DDB acquired all 2.39 million Infinium Robotics shares in the completed transaction.
- Consideration consisted of up to 20.54 million newly issued DDB shares priced at €1 each.
- The transaction value is stored as an upper bound of €20.5 million, not as an exact $22 million amount.
Refined Robotics joins Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators APAC
- The cohort comprised 15 startups in Japan, Singapore and South Korea selected from more than 100 applications.
- The programme offered Snapdragon, Dragonwing, Arduino UNO Q and Qualcomm AI Hub access plus six months of engineering mentorship.
- A fourth-quarter Demo Day, patent-filing incentives and a completion grant were included in the programme.
H3 Zoom raises US$3.6M Series A for AI inspection intelligence
- The Series A was oversubscribed and totaled US$3.6 million.
- The platform combines AI inspection intelligence, computer vision and VLM-based workflows for building and infrastructure assets.
- The company plans to use the round to scale across Asia.
ComfortDelGro launches Zig Driverless public rides in Punggol
- ComfortDelGro announced the launch of public rides on Zig Driverless shuttles in Punggol from June 22, 2026.
- The service is ComfortDelGro's second autonomous public service globally, following its robotaxi pilot in Guangzhou, China.
- Passengers can book the currently free rides through the Zig app or BookingSG at designated Punggol pickup and drop-off points.
YY Group completes $20M at-the-market equity offering
- The completed program raised $20 million gross and about $19.1 million net after commissions and estimated expenses.
- YY Group plans to retire higher-cost short-term business loans and invest most remaining capital in YY Circle, regional IFM services, AI software, physical-AI training data factories and robotics initiatives.
- The event is a financing milestone; the robotics relevance is the stated use of proceeds and YY Group’s separate Unitree G1 facility-workflow data program.
CAIP study evaluates dual Sharpa Wave hands across six manipulation tasks
- The setup paired Dexmate Vega arms with two 22-DoF Wave hands, a ZED X Mini head camera and two ZED X One wrist cameras.
- CAIP used 200 demonstrations per task, with 150 for pouring, and exceeded the strongest reported baseline by more than 30 percentage points on average.
Nexdata and Linkerbot form Physical-AI data alliance
- The collaboration combines Linkerbot dexterous-hand hardware with Nexdata collection, annotation and quality-control infrastructure.
- The combined data-factory footprint exceeds 10,000 square metres, including an 8,000-square-metre dexterous-hand facility.
- Planned dataset work spans task instructions, process actions, object handling and scene changes.
YY Group deploys humanoids for cleaning and training-data collection
- Initial deployments place Unitree G1 Edu humanoids in malls and hotels for repetitive sanitation and maintenance work.
- Human cleaners will record workflows through YY Circle and 24IFM, building training data for later robot autonomy.
YY Group began using Unitree G1 Edu Ultimate B-U4 robots as the hardware foundation for…
- YY Group uses Unitree G1 Edu Ultimate B-U4 robots as its facility-management hardware base.
- The programme collects operating data for later automation development.
YY Group launches Singapore humanoid lab and service-robot pilots
- The lab uses NVIDIA accelerated computing to support humanoid robotics training data workflows.
- The pilots place humanoid robots in commercial retail and hospitality settings alongside human staff.
- The deployment places YY Group's technology into robot manipulation, haptics or human-assistive robotics workflows beyond a lab-only setting.
Sharpa Wave tactile hands join NVIDIA Isaac GR00T humanoid reference design
- NVIDIA announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot using a Unitree H2 Plus body, Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, Jetson Thor onboard compute, and Isaac GR00T software workflows.
- Sharpa Wave supplies dexterous tactile manipulation hardware for academic humanoid robotics research and physical-AI development.
- The reference design gives Sharpa a high-visibility integration point in the humanoid research ecosystem.
Certis and IntBot partner on socially intelligent robots
- The collaboration combines IntBot's General Social Intelligence with Certis' operational expertise.
- Initial applications focus on enterprise and public-facing environments.
- The partners aim to integrate socially intelligent robots into live workflows with practical safety and reliability requirements.
Doozy Robotics announces seed backing for industrial workforce platform
- Doozy Robotics announced seed backing from Cocoon Capital.
- The company tied the funding announcement to global expansion plans for its industrial robot workforce platform.
- The capital supports robot manipulation, haptics or human-assistive robotics workflows as The company moves toward broader commercial use.
Certis joins Singapore Physical AI testbed as design partner
- The live mixed-use testbed is expected to launch later in 2026.
- Certis will help co-design operating conditions for safe and commercially viable services.
- Planned use cases include security patrol, facilities inspection, cleaning support and incident escalation.
Sensory AI moves Ella robot to an Intel-only edge architecture
- The system-on-chip combines CPU, GPU and neural-processing functions for vision, language and motion workloads.
- Ella runs Avatar, store-operations and system-health agents concurrently without sending the control loop to the cloud.
- Removing the discrete graphics processor reduces heat, hardware cost and maintenance complexity for deployed coffee kiosks.
Clobotics reports Sparrow offshore blade-repair records at Horns Rev 2
- A 27-minute repair was completed on one blade under campaign conditions.
- The campaign completed repairs on up to eight blades in one day under suitable operating conditions.
- The result describes a named commercial campaign; speed and cost comparisons remain specific to the disclosed operating conditions.
Primech AI signs three-year Hytron leasing deal for Singapore public-sector facility
- Primech AI signed a three-year leasing agreement to deploy one Hytron autonomous restroom cleaning robot at a high-traffic public-sector facility in Singapore.
- The company said deployment will commence no later than May 31, 2026, with a three-month onboarding phase covering installation, setup and operator training.
- Primech described the agreement as Hytron move from product showcase to live, revenue-generating commercial deployment with recurring monthly revenue.
Nanoveu signs binding agreement to acquire Spinoff Robotics
- Nanoveu signed a binding sale and purchase agreement to acquire all of Singapore-based Spinoff Robotics.
- The proposed transaction covered the commercially deployed ALICE tethered aerial platform and METRON inspection system, together with Spinoff's engineering capability.
- Nanoveu said the acquisition would integrate Spinoff's airframes and sensing systems with its ECS-DoT edge-AI silicon.
Augmentus 3.0 adds one-click path generation and adaptive vision
- AutoEdge and AutoSurface generate waypoints from selected CAD or scanned geometry.
- The release added native STEP import alongside OBJ and STL files.
- Vision-guided functions adapt robot motion to measured part position and geometry.
Certis and Ensign partner on cyber-secure AI robotics
- Certis will lead safety and ethics fail-safes and human-in-the-loop interfaces.
- Ensign will lead cybersecurity requirements for communications, reasoning and decision-making.
- A joint Safety and Security Review Board will oversee implementation.
Asimov open-sources v1 humanoid robot hardware and software
- Asimov’s official project pages identify Asimov 1 as open-sourced on 27 April 2026, with a full-body humanoid intended for builders to assemble, customize and program.
- The v1 repository provides mechanical and electrical CAD, a simulation model and onboard software for a 1.2 m, 35 kg robot with 25 actuated degrees of freedom plus two passive joints.
- The release is an open hardware/software research platform rather than a conventional sales launch, exposing the design and build path for engineers and researchers.
Water Linked Sonar 3D-15 integrated into BeeX underwater drone autonomy stack
- Sonar 3D-15 streams real-time three-dimensional data into BeeX's onboard autonomy system through the Water Linked API.
- BeeX uses the data for object detection, tracking and scene understanding around complex subsea structures.
- The integration supports autonomous inspection in turbid water and reduces repeat deployments for anomaly follow-up.
Hesai filing discloses April 2025 CNY100M investment in Sharpa
- Hesai made the investment indirectly through a partnership and recorded it as an equity security without a readily determinable fair value.
- Hesai sold its entire Sharpa stake to two independent third-party investors in August 2025 for RMB275.6 million, or US$38.4 million.
- A separate May 2025 agreement transferred RMB37 million of Hesai-developed know-how to Sharpa, with completion in August 2025.
MPA selects AliciaBots for robotic hull-cleaning trials
- The programme provides close to SGD 3.7 million in shared R&D co-funding across six selected partners.
- AliciaBots will develop and trial robotic hull inspection and cleaning under the MINT Fund call.
- Initial field trials were scheduled from April 2026, with project demonstrations planned in Singapore.
Neptune Robotics invests $12 million in Singapore hull-cleaning factory
- The USD 12 million site will expand local robotics and AI research while targeting a fivefold increase in autonomous hull cleanings.
- Neptune’s cleaning robots remove biofouling at berth or anchorage without damaging protective hull coatings.
DroneDash and GEODNET launch GEODASH Aerosystems for map-free AI-driven precision spraying
- DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET announced the formation of GEODASH Aerosystems Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-incorporated joint venture focused on agricultural spraying drones for large-scale industrial farming.
- The venture combines GEODNET's centimetre-level GNSS-RTK positioning network with DroneDash's autonomous drone and AI vision stack to remove repeated manual pre-mapping before spraying operations.
- The companies said the platform is being built for plantation-scale agriculture and is targeting commercial deployment in the third quarter of 2026.
BitRobot Network introduces SN/08 RoboPlayground on TeleArms
- BitRobot Network introduced SN/08, called RoboPlayground, as a new simulation-based training experience on its TeleArms platform.
- The post described RoboPlayground as turning robotic arm manipulation tasks into mini-games for browser-based robotics training and evaluation.
- The announcement expanded TeleArms from remote robot access into a more explicit simulation and training layer, but the source does not clearly establish broad public availability or commercial rollout.
Primech AI deploys HYTRON in Singapore school pilot under government innovation challenge
- Primech AI announced deployment of HYTRON in a multi-storey school environment as part of a 12-month pilot at Dunman High School.
- The project followed selection in the MOE-MDDI Innovation Challenge launched on IMDA’s Open Innovation Platform.
- Primech AI said it also received prize funding for prototype development and pilot testing.
Augmentus and iRobotics launch turnkey automation partnership in India
- Augmentus contributes its AutoGen no-code programming and 3D-vision software.
- iRobotics provides system integration, on-site setup and local service.
- The combined offer targets variable welding and surface-finishing work with lower implementation risk.
Refined Robotics demonstrates IRIS with a 10 kg load in Akihabara
- The route linked Sabonius Square and Akiba Square amid dense moving crowds.
- IRIS paused and resumed as the route slowed, with repeated runs and no major interruptions.
GEODNET reports its largest monthly GEOD buyback and burn to date for March 2026
- GEODNET said March produced its largest GEOD buyback to date, with $630,751 worth of GEOD bought back and burned.
- The post framed the burn as a direct result of network usage and revenue generation rather than speculative treasury action.
- The milestone was presented as evidence that real network demand is scaling the protocol's buyback-and-burn mechanism.
Grab and WeRide launch Ai.R autonomous public ride service in Punggol
- Grab said the service had completed more than 30,000 kilometres of autonomous testing before launch.
- More than 1,000 early riders had used Ai.R during the initial phase.
- Vehicles operated with onboard safety operators and remote operational support.
Refined Robotics demonstrates IRIS in Mitsui Fudosan proof of concept
- The two-day public demonstration involved more than 200 participants and a company-stated 95% uptime.
- Its participant survey found that 96.2% wanted permanent delivery service; 79 children contributed drawings.
- The partners planned a second phase focused on autonomous navigation.
Primech AI signs South Korea distribution agreement for HYTRON
- Primech AI signed a distribution agreement to expand HYTRON into South Korea.
- The agreement established an initial trial phase with a path to a larger multi-year distribution arrangement.
- Primech AI said the deal was expected to generate approximately US$4.08 million over three years.
OMOWAY unveils Mobility One multipurpose wheeled robot
- Mobility One is a modular two-wheel robot designed to move across roads, hallways, narrow alleys and office elevators.
- The company said it carries forward balance-control and obstacle-avoidance algorithms developed through the OMO-X intelligent motorcycle program.
- The launch extended OMOWAY's architecture from personal mobility into service uses spanning logistics, domestic environments and public services.
Ropedia raises $8M first Pre-A tranche for physical-AI data infrastructure
- The March financing contributed US$8 million toward Ropedia’s two-tranche Pre-A programme.
- A later US$22 million tranche brought combined Pre-A funding to US$30 million.
- The capital supports physical-AI data infrastructure, including real-world multimodal interaction collection for robotics training.
Ropedia releases Xperience-10M multimodal physical-AI dataset
- The release synchronizes video, audio, depth, camera pose, motion capture, inertial sensing and language annotations around real-world human activity.
- Ropedia designed the records to preserve the connection between perception, action, intent and physical consequence rather than isolated frames.
- The dataset is offered for foundation-model pretraining, task-specific adaptation, evaluation and real-to-simulation transfer workflows.
MoDE-VLA study evaluates contact-rich manipulation with Sharpa Wave
- IMCopilot supplied reinforcement-learning skills for in-hand rotation during data collection and execution.
- MoDE-VLA separated visual, force and tactile processing and reported a 73% peel-completion ratio on repeated apple-peeling cycles.
Certis and FieldAI partner on autonomous security operations
- FieldAI autonomy will integrate with Certis command, fleet-management and operational workflows.
- Initial applications include autonomous patrol, incident detection, remote supervision and coordinated human-robot response.
- The partners will also work on training, safety validation and operational frameworks for deployment at scale.
SimToolReal: An Object-Centric Policy for Zero-Shot Dexterous Tool Manipulation
- The evaluation covered 120 physical rollouts across 24 tasks, 12 objects and six tool categories.
- The object-centric policy exceeded retargeting and fixed-grasp baselines by 37% while requiring no object- or task-specific training at test time.
BitRobot launches its Ambassador Program to expand contributor growth for the open robotics network
- BitRobot launched an Ambassador Program aimed at growing contributor participation in its open robotics network
- The program targeted community expansion around real-world data collection and ecosystem development
- The move reflects a network-scaling step rather than a core technical milestone
Augmentus receives ABB Value Provider award for innovation
- The award came through ABB's partner programme.
- Augmentus tied the recognition to automation for high-mix and high-variability manufacturing.
- The company highlighted deployments across aerospace, automotive, oil and gas, marine and metal fabrication.
Nexdata brings a 4,000-square-metre embodied-intelligence data factory into operation
- The factory spans more than 4,000 square metres and recreates settings including supermarkets, pharmacies, factories and auto-repair shops.
- It includes more than 100 humanoid-robot models and more than 50 robotic-arm models from multiple brands.
- Nexdata says the facility supports navigation, human-robot collaboration, single- and dual-arm operation, force-feedback interaction and long-sequence tasks.
Certis and H2O.ai partner to industrialise AI for operations
- The programme covers AI models for orchestration, prediction and operational decision support.
- The partners plan to validate AI-enhanced systems, including robotics, in operational settings.
- Workforce readiness is included through AI-literacy and ethical-AI knowledge sharing.
Botsync secures additional extended Series A funding from SGInnovate
- Botsync said the investment would support expansion in the United States and Australia and scale customer deployments.
- The company also plans further development of its MAG AMRs and SyncOS platform, including broader integrations and AI analytics.
Sharpa Robotics Introduces CraftNet VTLA Model for Fine Manipulation
- Sharpa introduced CraftNet, a hierarchical vision-tactile-language-action model for fine manipulation.
- Its System 0 contact-control layer operates at about 100 Hz using tactile and force feedback.
- A CraftNet-powered North robot performed autonomous card dealing and paper-folding tasks at CES 2026.
Sharpa's North Robot Demonstrates Windmill Assembly at CES 2026
- • Sharpa unveiled its full-body robot, North, at CES 2026 in Las Vegas.
- • North autonomously assembled over 300 paper windmills during the event, each requiring more than 30 consecutive manipulation steps.
- • The demonstrations highlighted North's dexterous manipulation capabilities and sustained precision over extended tasks.
Refined Robotics demonstrates robot delivery on snow in Yamanakako
- The robot carried BBQ supplies from a parked car over icy roads and snow-covered paths.
- Its control system reduced speed on difficult terrain; planned work included improved balance, sensor fusion and power management.
GEODNET launches GEO-MEASURE GNSS RTK device on Amazon
- • GEODNET launched the GEO-MEASURE GNSS RTK device on Amazon on December 20, 2025.
- • The handheld receiver offers centimeter-level positioning accuracy and integrates with the GEODNET decentralized RTK network.
- • Early buyers received one year of free GEODNET RTK access and a ruggedized Pelican protective case.
Momenta brings factory-integrated autonomous-driving programme to Grab
- Momenta vehicles are planned for integration with Grab’s platform.
- The programme covers both mass-production ADAS and L4 robotaxi approaches.
- Initial work concerns regional testing and commercialization pathways rather than an already-live Momenta service.
Ropedia introduces HOMIE human-experience capture platform
- HOMIE combines a lightweight head-mounted form factor with multimodal sensing, ego-motion tracking, localization and synchronized data capture.
- Its software uses spatial foundation models to structure raw recordings with depth, hand-object interaction, body-motion and panoramic-scene annotations.
- Ropedia designed the resulting data for world models, real-to-simulation workflows and vision-language-action model training.
Refined Robotics demonstrates lunch delivery at Y Combinator Demo Day
- The crowded-venue trial completed dozens of deliveries without manual intervention.
- Lightberry's conversational AI handled greetings, delivery confirmation and questions while the robot performed physical delivery.
Primech AI receives NEA approval for HYTRON under Singapore’s Environmental Services Productivity Solutions Grant
- Primech AI said HYTRON was approved as supportable equipment under Singapore’s Environmental Services Productivity Solutions Grant by the National Environment Agency.
- The approval created a government-backed route for eligible customers to adopt the robot.
- Primech AI framed the decision as an adoption accelerator for autonomous cleaning in Singapore.
Tashi Network closes oversubscribed funding round
- Tashi Network announces an oversubscribed funding round co-led by Blockchain Founders Fund and Exponential Science Capital
- Company positions its technology as distributed consensus infrastructure for machine coordination, including robots and AI agents
- Funding supports expansion of the network and coordination stack
Primech AI secures army-camp deployment for HYTRON in Singapore
- Primech AI signed a lease agreement to deploy HYTRON in one of Singapore’s army camps.
- The company framed the deployment as an expansion into public-sector and institutional facilities.
- Primech AI used the site to extend HYTRON into another high-traffic operational environment.
Akribis Systems introduces APC Z-axis actuator
- The actuator uses an ALM-T coreless linear motor and reaches acceleration of 2 g on the vertical axis.
- Its Z axis provides 30 millimetres of travel and can be configured in a dual-axis arrangement.
- An optical encoder provides position feedback, while the standard mechanical interface supports vacuum grippers.
GEODNET revenue grew 217% YoY in Q3 2025, crossing $1.2M
- • GEODNET's revenue increased from $388,600 in Q3 2024 to over $1.2 million in Q3 2025, marking a 216.9% year-over-year growth.
- • The company expanded its network to over 19,800 active Satellite Miners across more than 5,000 cities and 148 countries.
- • Additionally, GEODNET migrated from Polygon to Solana, consolidating liquidity and aligning with Solana's DePIN ecosystem.
Applied Ventures makes strategic investment in Augmentus
- The investment supports Augmentus development of its AutoPath perception, planning and adaptive-motion stack.
- Applied Ventures framed the investment around AI, automation and advanced manufacturing.
- No investment amount was disclosed in the company announcement.
Grab and May Mobility form Southeast Asia AV partnership
- The companies will integrate May Mobility’s autonomous-driving technology with Grab’s fleet management, matching and routing systems.
- May Mobility plans to use GrabMaps for localized navigation and mapping support.
- Planning for the partnership’s first Southeast Asian deployment was already under way.
KABAM Robotics collaborates with NVIDIA for Matrix at ROSCon 2025
- Pre-ROSCon 2025 posts outline NVIDIA Inception collaboration around Matrix, KABAM's outdoor security robot, ahead of the Singapore program.
- Technical copy cites Jetson AGX Orin, Triton Inference Server, and ROS 2 Jazzy for on-premise video analytics, tracking, and robot control.
- Forward-looking notes reference deeper NVIDIA Isaac simulation and video-search workflows for autonomous security analytics.
BitRobot Foundation launches a $5M Grand Challenges Fund for robotics and embodied AI
- BitRobot Foundation launched a $5M Grand Challenges Fund to support robotics and embodied AI competitions
- Initial challenges included navigation, robotic origami, and furniture assembly, with prizes of up to $1M
- The program signaled BitRobot's push to become an organizing layer for open benchmarking and external participation in embodied AI
Neptune Robotics raises US$52 million Series B led by Granite Asia
- Series B funding was led by Granite Asia.
- The company said the capital will fund R&D, new robotic systems, AI-driven service platforms, and expansion into 20 markets worldwide.
- Neptune framed the round around scaling robotics-driven vessel cleaning and energy-efficiency services globally.
NYK and Neptune Robotics sign hull-cleaning decarbonisation MoU
- Signed an MoU with NYK to expand robotic hull cleaning across NYK's global fleet.
- Neptune said NYK had already been working with the company since 2022, making it one of the earliest adopters of its robotic hull-cleaning system.
- The agreement extends the relationship from earlier deployments into a broader fleet decarbonisation partnership.
Refined Robotics reveals its first working delivery-robot prototype
- The prototype carried up to 5 kg and was designed for two Yamato Size 60 packages.
- In-house walking and system-integration algorithms supported stairs, flat ground and rough terrain.
- The next prototype targeted a 30 kg payload.
ST Engineering Aethon and Oracle integrate hospital AMRs with Oracle Cloud SCM
- ST Engineering Aethon and Oracle partnered to integrate Aethon autonomous mobile robots with Oracle Cloud Advanced Inventory Management.
- The integration links hospital inventory picking workflows to AMR transport, vision-based logistics control and delivery-status updates.
- The collaboration positions ST Engineering Aethon around robot-ready healthcare supply-chain infrastructure.
Refined Robotics announces investment from Antler Japan
- CEO Nick joined the Antler Japan programme in April 2025 and met co-founder and CTO Yui during the programme.
- The founders passed Antler's Investment Committee in June 2025 after developing their initial business model during the programme.