Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
SoftBank verifies airborne mobile coverage using MQ-9B SeaGuardian
- The aircraft flew at 3,000 metres and provided ground coverage exceeding 5 kilometres in diameter.
- Outdoor measurements reached 20 Mbps downlink and 5 Mbps uplink using 5 MHz bandwidth.
- SoftBank built the pod to GA-ASI design and quality requirements; gimballed antennas compensated for aircraft motion.
Advantech launches ASR-D501 AI mission computer for autonomous drones
- The platform offers up to 12 TOPS of AI compute with power consumption below 10 W.
- Five four-lane MIPI-CSI camera interfaces support multi-camera perception.
- ROS 2 software and sensor interfaces support mission development while a separate flight controller handles stabilization.
Mobilint selected for four on-device AI semiconductor programmes
- Mobilint is developing robot-specific AI chips with LG Electronics, Doosan Robotics and Daedong, with validation on the partner platforms.
- The Doosan-led cobot project runs through December 2030; Doosan develops the robot and controller while AIDIN develops sensor-integrated two-finger and multi-finger grippers.
- AIDIN also plans a force-and-tactile data collection SDK, followed by logistics and manufacturing trials before commercialisation.
SiMa.ai raises $150M Series C at $1.45B valuation
- Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Maverick Capital, +ND Capital, Point72 and StepStone Group participated; AllianceBernstein, Baron Capital, J.P. Morgan and the State of Michigan joined as new investors.
- The capital will scale the Palette Neat software environment and fund next-generation Physical AI silicon.
- SiMa.ai targets 1,000 dense TOPS for its next-generation hardware in H1 2028 across robotics, drones, automotive and industrial systems.
AMD agrees $8.2B all-stock acquisition of World Labs
- World Labs develops spatial-intelligence models and interactive 3D world technology used for simulation, robot learning and Physical AI.
- AMD expects the transaction to close by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and customary conditions.
- Following closing, Fei-Fei Li is expected to become AMD's executive vice president and chief scientist for spatial intelligence.
DoD Solution raises €1.8M pre-seed for AURA AI
- Angel One Fund, Better Angle, Defence Builder Fund, Network VC, Newfund, UAID Fund, WildField Ventures and 4C-Next Holding AG participated.
- Draganfly joined as a strategic investor.
- Capital will support next-generation AURA SBC production, AURA OS and onboard-AI development, and integrations across unmanned platforms.
EdgeCortix unveils RAIDEN chiplet platform for Physical AI
- The four-die X4 design targets up to 3.36 PFLOPS FP4 compute, 256 GB of memory and 1.54 TB/s die-to-die bandwidth.
- EdgeCortix says RAIDEN has design wins, including Kawasaki Heavy Industries aerospace and defense products and a Unigen server platform.
- The X1, X2 and X4 configurations share the DNA-X accelerator architecture and MERA software stack; volume production is planned for late 2027.
Radeus Labs secures GA-ASI ground-control-station contracts through 2029
- The work covers both new-build ground control stations and systems already fielded with unmanned-aircraft programmes.
- Radeus has supplied digital flight recorders and mission-computing systems to GA-ASI ground stations during a 25-year relationship.
- The company configures and ruggedizes commercial components to meet defence programme requirements.
Qualcomm agrees to acquire PickNik
- MoveIt 1 and 2 are expected to remain open-source, community-driven and usable on third-party hardware.
- Qualcomm plans tighter MoveIt and MoveIt Pro integration with Dragonwing robotics and Arduino platforms.
- The companies plan to show MoveIt Pro running on VENTUNO Q and Dragonwing platforms at ROSCon Toronto; closing remains subject to customary conditions.
Intel and Comtech launch FoxJack X1 embodied-AI development kit
- Comtech Technology, a Cogobuy/IngDan Innovation subsidiary, developed the kit around Intel's Panther Lake platform.
- The compact 125 x 125 x 57.5 mm system combines CPU, integrated GPU and NPU compute, with up to 180 TOPS INT8 dense throughput claimed for the configuration.
- The kit uses a core-board and carrier-board design with dual-channel LPDDR5X memory and video, networking and control interfaces for integration into robots.
NVIDIA releases Isaac ROS 5.0
- The release adds NVIDIA-built ROS 2 Lyrical packages for Ubuntu 24.04 and updates GPU-backed message exchange through rosidl::Buffer.
- FoundationPose inference runs up to 5.5x faster, alongside a FoundationStereo fine-tuning workflow.
- The release includes a standalone agent-ready pick-and-place workflow and expanded Jetson and RealSense integration.
D-Robotics closes $400M Series C funding round
- The round included a strategic investment from a leading global internet company alongside institutional and returning investors.
- D-Robotics said the capital will expand Sunrise chips across compute tiers and connect data collection, model training, simulation, inference and deployment.
- The company reported cumulative Sunrise-series chip shipments above eight million units in the first half of 2026.
IEI Integration demonstrates edge AI control on CASTEC mobile cobot at AMD summit
- The NANO-X100 single-board computer ran on-device processing on CASTEC's i-Operator mobile collaborative robot.
- AiEi vision software detected people and triggered the arm or AMR platform to stop and resume under predefined safety conditions.
- The Taipei showcase followed a July integration demonstration at AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco.
Preferred Networks discloses ¥10B capital alliance with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- The partners began joint development in June for autonomous machinery used in social infrastructure and national-security settings.
- MHI brings equipment, control and field-operations data; PFN contributes chips, computing infrastructure and foundation models.
- The planned share subscription requires PFN shareholder approval and other procedures.
Ambarella formally launches X7 standalone AI accelerator
- X7 supports CNNs, vision transformers, multimodal transformers and hybrid networks through Ambarella’s Cooper Developer Platform.
- The XCalibur reference design is a 2280 M.2 card with LPDDR5 memory and more than 840 MB/s PCIe throughput.
- X7 is sampling now and XCalibur evaluation kits are available to qualified customers; target applications include robots, drones and industrial systems.
Ambarella and ZEDEDA integrate fleet orchestration on N1 edge AI SoCs
- The integration targets robots, autonomous machines, vehicles, industrial systems and intelligent cameras.
- ZEDEDA’s open-source EVE-OS runs on the N1 family, while its cloud platform manages software and model lifecycle across distributed devices.
- N1-655 early access is available now; preinstalled developer kits and validated deployment blueprints are planned for Q4 2026.
Fortaegis raises oversubscribed $50M Series A
- TEL Venture Capital, TNO, Prodrive Technologies, NP-Hard Ventures, NovaCapital, Access Ventures and Coalition Capital also participated.
- The capital will support commercial FPGA production and deployments across the United States, Europe, Singapore and Japan, alongside development of application-specific integrated circuits.
- Fortaegis says customer-funded programs are advancing from technical validation into production qualification and commercial deployment across AI infrastructure, defence, telecommunications and industrial systems.
D-Robotics and GigaAI integrate embodied models with Sunrise S600
- GigaWorld supplies scene generation, action-consequence prediction, policy evaluation and failure-sample retraining.
- GigaBrain handles language understanding, spatial perception, task decomposition and edge decision-making, while GigaWorld-Policy generates and recovers actions.
- The partners plan model conversion, quantisation, operator adaptation, inference acceleration, memory optimisation and power tuning around GigaBrain-0.7.
MulticoreWare and Micware sign exploratory ADAS and Physical AI MOU
- The work will combine MulticoreWare’s heterogeneous-compute optimisation with Micware’s automotive software experience.
- Technical scope includes embedded performance, vehicle integration and edge deployment of AI workloads.
- No production nomination, named customer or financial terms were disclosed.
Horizon Robotics wins Journey 6P design slot for JD Logistics L4 delivery vehicle
- The vehicle is designed for Level 4 unmanned logistics operations and uses Journey 6P as its intelligent-driving compute platform.
- Horizon chairman Yu Kai said the collaboration could support deployment of about one million unmanned logistics vehicles over the next three years.
- The selection extends Journey 6P into a high-volume autonomous last-mile delivery programme.
Preferred Networks and Preferred Robotics begin PLaMo-SemGround development
- The project targets navigable and prohibited-area understanding plus complex operating conditions to reduce mobile-robot deployment and operating effort.
- The model is planned at roughly two billion parameters or fewer and combines Preferred Networks’ foundation-model work with Preferred Robotics’ field experience operating Kachaka-series AMRs.
- Japan’s METI and NEDO selected the work for the GENIAC robot-foundation-model programme, covering development through practical implementation.
Horizon Robotics passes 15 million Journey SoCs shipped
- Journey-series chips are used in vehicles owned by approximately 8 million customers across more than 40 automobile brands.
- Horizon has secured nominations for 500 production vehicle models, including nearly 130 models with mid- to high-level driver-assistance functions.
- The nominated programmes represent more than 20 million SoC sets, with additional vehicle programmes expected to enter production progressively.
Ambarella appoints Macnica as edge-AI distributor across the Americas and EMEA
- The agreement covers Ambarella CV-series and N-series SoCs, systems-on-module, edge-AI systems, evaluation and development platforms, reference designs and SDKs.
- Macnica will provide product evaluation, design-in assistance, SDK integration and post-sales technical support to OEMs, ODMs and system integrators.
- The relationship begins with a commercial-development and market-validation phase across both territories.
MulticoreWare acquires Simulus Automation
- The combination adds FPGA and RTL design capabilities to MulticoreWare’s existing CPU, GPU, DSP and NPU engineering work.
- MulticoreWare said Simulus brings design and verification expertise in CXL and PCIe connectivity for heterogeneous compute systems.
- The company identified sensor fusion and physical-AI workloads for edge and robotics applications as areas the combined team can support.
MIPS launches Acies, Actus and Aegis Physical-AI platforms
- Acies combines an open standards-based NPU, open software stack and developer form factor for edge inference workloads.
- Actus targets real-time motion control, sensor fusion and predictive-maintenance applications.
- Aegis targets mission-critical systems requiring low-latency and agentic processing.
SiMa.ai and ARK Electronics launch Modalix drone compute bundles
- The packages combine SiMa.ai’s Modalix System-on-Module, built on the Modalix MLSoC, with ARK’s made-in-the-USA drone electronics.
- ARK built and validated the joint solutions for defence, industrial and agricultural UAS applications.
- The bundles became available immediately to qualified drone OEMs and system integrators.
Fixstars joins planned Qualcomm Japan Robotics Center at launch
- The planned center forms part of a long-term investment initiative for intelligent automation and industrial robotics in Japan.
- Fixstars will contribute embedded development, edge-AI inference optimization and performance engineering for applications on Qualcomm platforms.
NVIDIA announces Jetson Orin Nano 2 for entry-level robotics compute
- The platform combines 78 TOPS, 8GB of memory and an 8-core Arm CPU in the Jetson Orin Nano form factor.
- NVIDIA claims 2× the inference performance of Jetson Orin Nano Super and 40% lower power at equivalent performance in 15-watt mode.
- Matic is adopting the platform; Wing plans to evaluate it. Availability remains forward-looking for H1 2027.
SiMa.ai and AVerMedia make integrated drone AI platform available
- The platform combines SiMa.ai's Modalix MLSoC and Palette Neat software with AVerMedia embedded hardware.
- SiMa.ai states 50 TOPS of AI compute at under 10 watts for the integrated configuration.
- Availability began with the announcement; the 27 August Drone Seminar remained a separately scheduled showcase.
SiMa.ai and AVerMedia announce integrated low-power drone AI solution
- The integrated design pairs SiMa.ai’s Modalix MLSoC with AVerMedia’s industrial-grade embedded hardware for drone applications.
- The configuration delivers 50 TOPS of AI compute while operating below 10 watts, targeting tight drone size, weight and power constraints.
- The solution was available for immediate customer evaluation with production quantities supported; the companies also announced a Taipei showcase planned for 27 August 2026.
Huixi Intelligence launches Embodied chips and core modules
- R1 PRO integrates CPU, NPU, GPU and real-time interfaces in a 375 TOPS INT8 system-on-chip.
- R1 MAX provides 500 TOPS INT8 and a 24-core Cortex-A78AE CPU.
- RCM400 and RCM500 core modules share a 699-pin interface and RISE/Robotics SDK.
Velaura AI raises $110M Series A
- 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.
LANCUN closes tens-of-millions-CNY Pre-A
- Wuxi Venture Capital invested; Tuojie Capital served as exclusive financial adviser and is not recorded as an investor.
- The amount is a qualitative tens-of-millions-of-yuan range rather than an exact transaction value.
- LANCUN said the capital would support next-generation embodied-AI infrastructure R&D, core hiring and expansion of its product matrix.
SolidRun and Leopard Imaging validate Hailo-15 edge-AI vision integration
- Leopard Imaging's Sony IMX678- and IMX334-based MIPI CSI-2 camera modules were validated and optimized for SolidRun's Hailo-15 System-on-Module and HummingBoard Hailo-15 AIOT platforms.
- The integrated platform provides dual 12-megapixel image-signal processors and up to 20 TOPS of edge-AI performance for real-time vision workloads.
- The jointly validated solution was available immediately for robotics, autonomous machines, industrial automation, transportation, security and medical-imaging development.
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.
DFI RPP173 runs European 3D warehouse robots
- The board handles navigation compute, motor and sensor I/O, and fleet networking.
- Its 9–36 V input supports battery-powered mobile operation without a separate conversion board.
- The provider is evaluating DFI's Core Ultra-based ARH171/173 as an upgrade path.
One Stop Systems reports record Q2 bookings
- Revenue increased 62.3% year over year to $9.3 million.
- Bookings reached a company record of $15.1 million, producing a 1.6 times quarterly book-to-bill ratio.
- OSS raised its full-year revenue-growth guidance from 20%–25% to 25%–30%.
ASRock Industrial edge controller becomes first O-PAS certified product
- The certification covers conformance to the O-PAS programme for open, interoperable process-automation systems.
- The iEP-5010G family is designed for industrial edge computing, real-time networking and distributed control workloads.
- Certification validates standards compliance; it does not by itself disclose a customer deployment or production order.
NVIDIA releases Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial autonomous-driving use
- The 32-billion-parameter vision-language-action model reasons, plans and acts across the autonomous-driving stack.
- OpenMDW-1.1 permits commercial use, fine-tuning, derivative models and redistribution under a unified model-centric licence.
- NVIDIA positions the release for autonomous vehicles and robotaxis, with inspectable reasoning intended to support development and validation.
Mercury Systems adopts Palantir Foundry workflows for factory planning and automation
- The first workflows are intended to streamline material planning, reduce manual work and improve production predictability across Mercury factories.
- Palantir will help build an enterprise ontology representing Mercury's operations and business practices as a digital twin.
- The effort is sponsored under the U.S. Government's Tradewind Prototype Agreement and targets faster delivery of processing technologies for military programmes.
Lantronix and Swarmer develop Group 1 UAS autonomy compute module
- The custom module combines Lantronix Open-Q 6490CS hardware with preloaded Swarmer OS.
- The companies say the design provides more than four times the onboard processing of current platforms for navigation, targeting and collaborative autonomy.
- The programme targets a production-ready, NDAA-compliant module for small military uncrewed aircraft.
Volkswagen begins Journey 6M vehicle deliveries in China
- The two vehicles launched and entered customer delivery on 23 May 2026.
- Journey 6M powers the delivered vision-only configuration as standard equipment.
- A Journey 6H lidar configuration remained planned for later in 2026 and is excluded from the completed milestone.
Huixi Intelligence and Lightwheel sign embodied-AI partnership
- Joint validation will address synchronous collection, edge processing and transmission of multimodal data.
- The partners plan standardized data interfaces and deployment configurations across robot bodies.
- Initial applications target industrial manufacturing, warehouse logistics and commercial services.
Horizon surpasses 200,000 Journey sets delivered across FAW models
- The milestone counts delivered Journey hardware-and-software sets across more than 20 FAW vehicle models, providing a production-volume measure rather than a future nomination or order target.
- The announcement separates this delivered Journey base from Horizon SuperDrive (HSD) production plans for 2026, which remain forward-looking and are not counted as completed volume.
- The result records Horizon’s growing automotive deployment footprint across FAW programmes while leaving the individual Journey variant and vehicle-level allocations unspecified.
NVIDIA adds agent-ready PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X libraries to Agent Toolkit
- PhysicsNeMo is exposed as agent-callable AI-physics libraries for training and deploying customizable simulation models.
- Updated CUDA-X tools add iterative and direct sparse solvers plus quantum-chemistry capabilities for engineering agents.
- The release targets chip, system and industrial engineering; its relevance to robotics is enabling-stack infrastructure rather than a new robot product.
ARBOR Technology launches COMX-C710 edge AI module for robotic systems
- The module combines CPU, GPU and NPU compute on a COM-HPC Client Size C board, with up to 126 TOPS total AI performance.
- ARBOR identifies AMRs, collaborative robots and robotic arms among its target systems.
- The company presented the module around AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco.
IBASE showcases robotics edge AI computer at AMD Advancing AI 2026
- IBASE specifies up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, 50 TOPS of NPU processing and 60 TFLOPS of graphics compute for the showcased configuration.
- The system combines CPU, GPU and NPU computing for onboard perception and decision-making.
- IBASE identified rugged, always-on physical AI deployment and extended lifecycle support as design priorities for the system.
Horizon Robotics prices $450M zero-coupon convertible bonds
- The offering is expected to generate about $445.5 million in net proceeds, with about $398.9 million allocated to CARIAD-related payments and loan settlement.
- The amended arrangement gives CARIAD a 9.9% holding after early conversion while Horizon redeems excess conversion rights corresponding to about 716 million shares.
- Full conversion of the new bonds would issue about 635.6 million Class B shares; this is a public-market debt transaction, not a private funding round.
Fixstars and AttracLab start application-specific autonomous-drone development
- Fixstars leads perception, edge-AI, path-planning and flight-decision software.
- AttracLab leads aircraft design, small-lot manufacturing, payload design and field operation.
- Planned PoCs and field validation target inspection, surveillance, disaster response, surveying and logistics.
Horizon and Volkswagen deepen AI cooperation for L3/L4 driving
- Under a white-box authorization model, CARIZON will use Horizon’s AI foundation model with its C7H system-on-chip and GAIA world-model data platform to build Volkswagen China’s unified AI-driving solution.
- The stack is intended to support L3/L4 development for passenger vehicles and robotaxis, while Volkswagen says its full-scenario advanced driver-assistance system is already moving into production across seven new electric models in China.
- The announcement records a signed cooperation milestone and a forward-looking development programme; it does not claim that L3/L4 vehicles had already been delivered.
MulticoreWare demonstrates real-time VLA robotics with AMD
- The demonstration ran VLA models on AMD Ryzen AI Embedded integrated GPUs using AMD ROCm software.
- MulticoreWare said its work on the AMD Robotics Software Suite targets latency, reliability and accuracy for production robot applications.
- The robotics presentation builds on more than 15 years of broader MulticoreWare software engineering work across AMD platforms.
congatec launches conga-HPC/cRX1 module for physical AI
- The module uses AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 processors with up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores.
- Its integrated GPU delivers up to 59 TOPS dense INT8 inference, while the NPU provides up to 50 TOPS.
- Industrial variants support operating temperatures from -40°C to +85°C for harsh-edge deployments.
HSD 600 domain controller earns ASIL D certification
- UL Solutions certified the controller at the highest automotive functional-safety integrity level.
- HSD 600 is the central hardware platform for Horizon SuperDrive and uses Journey 6P compute.
- The controller supports highway navigation, urban assisted driving, intelligent parking and active-safety workloads.
SmartSens and D-Robotics integrate robot-vision sensing and edge compute
- SmartSens introduced three 1:1-format global-shutter sensors spanning 1.2 to 4 megapixels and 80 to 130 frames per second.
- The sensors are being adapted to the Sunrise S600 ISP and its 560-TOPS edge-compute platform.
- The combined stack targets V-SLAM, obstacle avoidance, visual navigation and manipulation workloads.
Premio expands edge-AI collaboration with Intel
- Premio’s July 17 announcement formalized the expanded relationship through its appointment to Intel’s U.S. Channel Board of Advisors, represented by Vice President of Product Marketing Dustin Seetoo.
- The board gives Premio a forum to share market intelligence and customer requirements on Edge AI, channel programs and scalable deployment strategies.
- The collaboration combines Intel processor and AI-acceleration technologies with Premio’s rugged edge-computing, manufacturing and lifecycle-management expertise across industrial, transportation, infrastructure, defense and automation markets.
D-Robotics validates Sunrise S600 for mass-production deployment
- The S600 passed production-readiness validation with more than 20 customer programmes cited.
- Integrations span multiple robot categories and embedded physical-AI workloads.
- The milestone supports volume deployment readiness rather than a disclosed shipment total.
NVIDIA and Noetra announce 140MW Vera Rubin AI factory in Japan
- The planned system is specified with 13,750 NVIDIA Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs on the NVIDIA DSX platform.
- Noetra will establish the AI factory as the computing foundation for Japan’s METI-supported FRONTia physical-AI project.
- The partners said pretrained multimodal-model weights will be shared with domestic developers and enterprises for agents, digital twins and robotics applications.
NVIDIA introduces Cosmos 3 Edge and Jetson Thor T2000/T3000
- Cosmos 3 Edge is a 4-billion-parameter open world foundation model for real-time vision reasoning and robot-action generation on edge systems.
- The T3000 combines 865 FP4 teraflops, 32GB LPDDR5X memory and 25GbE; the T2000 provides 400 FP4 teraflops and 16GB memory.
- NVIDIA said T3000 emulation would begin in July 2026, while commercial T2000 and T3000 module availability is scheduled for Q1 2027.
Ebttikar and MemryX target Saudi computer-vision deployments
- Ebttikar contributed local systems-integration and customer-delivery capability.
- MemryX supplied production-proven edge-AI inference accelerator technology.
- The agreement allowed expansion into qualified opportunities elsewhere in the Middle East.
DreamDojo captures action labels for a Fourier GR-1 action space
- Operators used MANUS gloves and a Vive tracker to capture hand and body motion labels.
- The recorded labels were retargeted to a Fourier GR-1 action space for world-model research.
Lingjing Zhiyuan completes more than RMB 100M across angel and angel+ rounds
- Matrix Partners China led the angel and angel+ rounds, with strategic participation from Shanghai Minhang state-backed capital.
- Lingjing is developing a robot-computing stack spanning chips, its MS-OS operating system and coordinated high-level and low-level control models.
- The stack is designed for multiple robot forms, including humanoid, wheeled and quadruped platforms.
Advantech launches AIR-075 on NVIDIA Jetson Thor
- AIR-075 uses NVIDIA Jetson Thor with Blackwell architecture.
- The system provides four native 10GbE ports for multi-camera vision workloads.
- Advantech said AIR-075 was available to order at launch.
XFEON raises more than RMB 300M for physical-AI infrastructure
- The funding will support next-generation physical-AI chips, embodied-intelligence data flywheels and embodied-intelligence brain systems.
- XFEON is a Chengdu company founded in 2021 and is moving from compute services toward physical AGI infrastructure.
NVIDIA and Hugging Face bring Isaac GR00T 1.7 and Isaac Teleop to LeRobot
- The integration gives robotics developers access to NVIDIA Isaac GR00T 1.7, Isaac Teleop and related datasets through LeRobot workflows.
- NVIDIA says Cosmos 3 support is planned for the same open robotics development path.
Nanoveu completes acquisition of Spinoff Robotics
- The completion follows Nanoveu’s earlier binding agreement to acquire Spinoff Robotics.
- The acquired platforms include ALICE for tethered aerial operations and METRON for camera-based 3D inspection.
- Nanoveu positions the deal as vertical integration across edge-AI silicon, airframes, tethered station-keeping and sensing.
Qualcomm raises non-handset target around AI infrastructure expansion
- The company targeted more than $15B of data-center revenue by fiscal 2029 and $5B by fiscal 2027.
- The roadmap included Dragonfly C1000 CPU and AI300 inference accelerator products for AI infrastructure workloads.
- Coverage framed robotics as part of Qualcomm’s broader diversification beyond handsets into automotive, IoT and edge-AI markets.
Advantech and Trossen bring physical AI to Solo AI
- Trossen Solo AI uses the Advantech ASR-A502 robotics controller.
- The ASR-A502 uses an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processor.
- Advantech published the integration on 23 June 2026.
NVIDIA announces Halos for Robotics safety system for physical AI
- Halos for Robotics extends NVIDIA Halos from autonomous-vehicle safety into robotics and physical AI.
- The stack spans NVIDIA IGX Thor, Holoscan Sensor Bridge, Halos OS, Halos Core, the Outside-In Safety Blueprint and the Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab.
- Agility is the first robotics company working with NVIDIA to incorporate Halos for Robotics elements into Digit safety systems for logistics, manufacturing and warehouse operations.
MemryX expands Cascade edge-AI accelerator platform
- Cascade 100P combines 16 MX3 processors for high-density edge-server and multi-camera AI deployments.
- The expanded product line extends MemryX inference hardware from Raspberry Pi and USB systems into server-class edge deployments.
Premio launches rugged RCO and JCO edge-AI mini PCs at Automate 2026
- The RCO-1000-ASL line uses Intel Atom x7000 processors for compact industrial edge computing.
- The JCO-1000-ORN-B/C systems use NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano and Orin NX modules for edge AI and multi-camera deployments.
- The product gives Premio a concrete offering for robot sensing, actuation, compute or communications systems.
HSD development platform earns dual ASIL D certification
- TROS Core and Communication Core were each certified at ASIL D.
- The platform provides distributed middleware for full-scenario assisted-driving applications.
- Communication Core uses zero-copy shared-memory communication while TROS Core supplies the application framework.
Axiomtek makes Jetson Thor AIE015-AT robotics developer kit available
- T5000 and T4000 configurations provide up to 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS on NVIDIA Blackwell architecture.
- Eight GMSL camera channels and QSFP28 networking support high-bandwidth multi-sensor ingestion and fusion.
- The current product page marks the kit available and lists 9–36 VDC input, CAN, DIO, 5G and Wi-Fi expansion for mobile-system integration.
SiMa.ai launches Palette Neat physical-AI development environment
- Palette Neat is built for physical-AI application development at the edge.
- The launch pairs the software environment with SiMa.ai Modalix system-on-module hardware.
- The product gives SiMa.ai a concrete offering for commercial automation and autonomous-system workflows.
SiMa.ai cuts physical AI deployment from months to days with agentic developer tooling
- This is the vision of physical AI , where artificial intelligence models are used to power robotics, autonomous cars, drones, industrial machines, aerospace platforms, smart vision and more.
- SiMa said this lets them reuse application code and preserve 90% of their legacy software investment from other platforms without needing to rewire everything.
D-Robotics and BeingBeyond deploy Being-H-Flash on Ascend S600 edge AI chip
- D-Robotics and BeingBeyond announced a strategic partnership for embodied-intelligence deployment.
- Being-H-Flash was deployed on D-Robotics’ Ascend S600 chip with real-world testing near 20 FPS.
- The companies also optimized the model for Ascend S100 and other platforms.
Neousys showcases rugged Edge AI platforms for physical AI and robotics at Automate 2026
- Neousys announced live demonstrations at Automate 2026 covering rugged Edge AI platforms for inspection, robotics navigation, and physical AI deployment.
- The HRT-300 pairs NVIDIA Jetson Thor computing with a compact rugged form factor for humanoid robots and autonomous machines.
- The showcase also included rugged platforms for real-time object detection and segmentation, AI surface inspection, and autonomous marine navigation.
Dual-critic humanoid loco-manipulation paper trains Unitree G1 policies in NVIDIA Isaac Lab
- The paper compares unified and dual critic architectures for humanoid loco-manipulation reinforcement learning.
- Experiments train Unitree G1 policies through a 13-level curriculum in NVIDIA Isaac Lab.
General Instinct joins NVIDIA Inception
- The company announced its NVIDIA Inception membership on June 10, 2026.
- Its stated focus within the programme was edge-deployed world action models.
- Inception membership provides startup technical resources, training and access to hardware, software and cloud benefits.
Cincoze previews Edge AI and automation solutions for Automate 2026
- Cincoze announced a four-zone Edge AI and automation showcase for Automate 2026, covering DIN-Rail computers, industrial HMI, rugged embedded systems, and GPU computers.
- Its MD-3000 DIN-Rail platform is positioned for machine vision and smart manufacturing, with Intel Core processors, up to 96 GB DDR5, NVMe storage, PoE, and modular I/O.
- The company said the GM-1100 GPU computer is suited to autonomous mobile equipment, vehicle applications, and image recognition in compact, rugged deployments.
NVIDIA and LG Group work on humanoid robots and next-generation data centers
- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said the company is partnering with LG Group on humanoid robots and data centers after meeting LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo in Seoul.
- Huang said the robotics work includes motor technology and mechanical systems, positioning the collaboration around humanoid robot hardware and physical AI infrastructure.
- NVIDIA's related Korea ecosystem update says the companies plan an AI factory to support LG's robotics, autonomous-driving, data-center technologies and GPU development.
WOLF-3184-DAL-C integrated into Mercury Systems ROCK3 mission computer
- Mercury Systems integrated WOLF's 3184-DAL-C XMC module into its ROCK3 SOSA-aligned 3U OpenVPX mission computer.
- The module provides safety-certifiable video capture and processing aligned with DO-254 development processes.
- The combined system supports mission management, sensor fusion, surveillance and avionics workloads for military and advanced-mobility aircraft.
NVIDIA and Hyundai discuss expanding physical-AI cooperation
- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung discussed work across mobility and physical AI at Hyundai's Seoul headquarters.
- Huang said the companies were exploring broader autonomous-mobility technology and safety work, while Chung called NVIDIA an indispensable partner.
- The meeting also covered Hyundai's proposed Saemangeum AI, robotics and data-centre ecosystem; it recorded a direction for expanded cooperation rather than a completed deployment.
NVIDIA and Doosan Group expand physical AI partnership across robotics and AI factory infrastructure
- NVIDIA and Doosan Group expanded their collaboration across physical AI, robotics and AI factory infrastructure.
- Doosan Robotics is integrating Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Cosmos, Newton and Jetson Thor into an Agentic Robot OS for industrial tasks including depalletizing and sanding.
- The programme also covers Doosan Bobcat autonomous equipment, Doosan Enerbility power infrastructure and Doosan electronics materials for AI factories.
General Instinct open-sources InstinctRazor
- The framework quantizes Hugging Face models below four bits and recovers lost quality through on-policy distillation.
- Its published example compressed Qwen3.5-122B-A10B into an approximately 47-gigabyte GGUF artifact.
- The deployment path supports a single 80-gigabyte GPU or expert offload with about eight gigabytes of active GPU memory.
Anchor Lab Dataset: Real-World Measurements for Sim-to-Real Calibration
- Releases a Hugging Face robotics dataset for grounding simulation calibration in real physical measurements.
- Supports zero-shot sim-to-real workflows by providing hardware measurement data for dynamics and calibration pipelines.
- Apache-2.0 dataset surface is live on Hugging Face and is part of NVIDIA physical-AI infrastructure.
DoD Solution secures pre-seed investment from Network.VC Defense
- Network.VC Defense led or provided the financing.
- DoD Solution secured an undisclosed standalone investment from Network.VC Defense within its open pre-seed round to develop onboard AI and autonomy infrastructure for UAVs.
NVIDIA unveils open humanoid robot for university research
- The system combines a Unitree H2 Plus humanoid body, Sharpa five-fingered hands, Jetson Thor onboard computing, and NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T software stack.
- Onboard computing comes from the Jetson AGX Thor T5000, based on NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture.
MICROIP debuts AI vehicle systems group and edge-AI platforms at COMPUTEX
- MICROIP announced the debut of its AI Vehicle System Business Group and edge-AI innovations at COMPUTEX 2026.
- The company said AIVO, its no-code drag-and-drop vision platform, will show applications for public transit monitoring, smart drones, and factory SOP inspections.
- MICROIP said XEdgAI enables deployment across chips including NVIDIA Jetson, Intel Core Ultra, and Axelera AI Metis to reduce vendor lock-in.
Intel launches OpenVINO physical-AI framework and reports 130-plus edge designs
- The Series 3 family, which includes Intel Core Ultra Series 3 and Intel Core Series 3 processors, was launched at CES in January as the debut product on Intel’s 18A manufacturing process.
- Anchoring the design momentum is SensoryAI Inc., which has migrated its multi-agent retail robot Ella to Intel architecture.
GIGABYTE demonstrates Physical AI development workflow
- The showcase linked model development and simulation with edge systems intended for real-world machine deployment.
- GIGABYTE presented computing from data-centre infrastructure through embedded edge hardware as one development chain.
Ambarella signs long-term edge AI agreement with Hanwha
- The agreement is valued at more than $800 million in potential revenue.
- Hanwha intends to use Ambarella technology across robotics, industrial automation and life sciences businesses.
- The agreement followed a memorandum of understanding signed in March 2026.
MICROIP launches AI Vehicle System Business Group with edge-AI partners
- MICROIP introduced its AIVO and XEdgAI platforms for AI vehicles, autonomous drones and industrial robots.
- The company said it is working with AAEON on vertically integrated edge-AI systems covering hardware, software and deployment.
- A strategic partnership with BrainChip applies low-power neuromorphic AI to tasks including tactical-edge radar classification.
Primax and MediaTek demonstrated a jointly integrated robotics perception stack combining…
- The demonstrated stack combines Primax AISF multi-sensor fusion with MediaTek Genio edge compute.
- The integration targets robot perception at the edge.
Innodisk launches APEX Series edge-AI systems
- The APEX Series combines compute, cameras, sensors, storage and I/O for localized industrial AI processing.
- The APEX-A100 supports up to 100 dense TOPS and Vision-Language Model workloads in a compact industrial system.
- Innodisk states that the APEX-A100 is designed for long-term availability and support through 2038.
Stellantis and Qualcomm expand framework for Level 2+ automated driving
- Snapdragon Ride Pilot and Qualcomm system-on-chip technology were added to the future-vehicle programme.
- The scope covers Level 2+ automated-driving functions across Stellantis vehicles.
Journey 6 toolchain receives ISO 26262 certification
- The runtime software achieved ASIL B certification.
- The AI-model development tools achieved ASIL D qualification.
- The toolchain covers model quantization, compilation, deployment and vehicle-side execution.
Synaptics to showcase real-world Edge AI use cases at COMPUTEX 2026
- Synaptics announced it will showcase real-world Edge AI use cases at COMPUTEX 2026 in Taipei.
- The event covers its latest edge AI innovations for intelligent IoT.
- The showcase gives Synaptics a current signal in edge AI platforms used across intelligent devices and embedded systems.
SoftBank Corp., AIST and Mitsubishi Electric win AIRoA robot-model competition
- Six teams trained robot models using an AIRoA dataset containing tens of thousands of hours of robot-motion data.
- The winning team automatically assessed and selected training sequences, then fine-tuned its model on the curated data.
- Evaluation included everyday manipulation such as handling food with utensils and placing clothing on hangers.
General Instinct joins Y Combinator Spring 2026
- The active Spring 2026 company was founded in San Francisco in 2026.
- Its Instinct Edge platform distills and quantizes large models for Jetson, mobile NPU, ARM and Apple hardware.
- A disclosed Jetson Orin NX deployment achieved a 111-millisecond cold start and kept every decision within 150 milliseconds without cloud calls.
GR00T-VisualSim2Real: Visual Sim-to-Real at Scale for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
- Open-source pipeline for visual sim-to-real transfer of humanoid locomotion and manipulation skills.
- Includes training code, simulation assets, and workflows for learning behaviors such as walking and object interaction.
- Targets scalable deployment of humanoid policies without reliance on real-world teleoperation data.