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Doosan Robotics consortium selected for AI welding research project
- The 45-month project targets at least 95% alignment with skilled-worker paths, path error within ±3 mm, automated welding of five or more layers, and more than 50% shorter working time.
- DEEPX will develop NPU-based edge hardware and a vision pipeline; SAGE will handle 3D recognition and defect models, while Changwon contributes path generation and physics-based digital twins.
- Planned trials at Doosan Enerbility’s Nuclear Center will cover tack welding, preheating and welding before broader application to shipbuilding, plant equipment and defence.
TIER IV selected for METI grant supporting Saudi autonomous-bus trials
- An unnamed European automaker will work with TIER IV to integrate the automated-driving system and adapt it using local data.
- Testing will start in closed environments before progressing to public roads.
- The programme includes cooperation with local operators, government and educational institutions on autonomous-driving and STEM skills.
ANRA and other UAS developers receive FAA research awards under $12 million programme
- ANRA’s four listed projects cover air-taxi integration, common altitude references, airport traffic-system integration and AI drone classification.
- Other work includes ground and airborne detect-and-avoid, satellite communications, drone identity, passive radar and mission coordination.
- Recipients will work with FAA-designated UAS Test Sites through the UAS Broad Agency Announcement programme.
Sierra Base selected for Scale-up TIPS infrastructure-inspection R&D
- The project targets automated mapping, damage analysis, inspection reports and digital infrastructure management.
- SLAM-based navigation is intended to support GPS-denied inspection beneath bridges.
- IBK Venture Investment will support growth, with Seoul Facilities Corporation participating as a testbed and prospective demand partner.
Rosota selected for TIPS surgical robot training-data R&D
- SurgiLogger attaches sensors to existing laparoscopic instruments to capture pose, insertion depth, gripper state and force alongside video.
- The system is under development, with instrument compatibility, sterilisation and usability being validated.
- The programme aims to produce structured surgical data for robot learning and future assisted or autonomous surgical systems.
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.
U.S. Army names five xTechHumanoid winners, including Hydroplane and Ras Labs
- ACES Group and Hydroplane presented scalable energy storage and lightweight mobile power generation.
- IHMC presented Alex humanoid technology; Ras Labs showed force, form and slip sensing; Velocity Explorations demonstrated command-and-control software.
- Competition selection supports further exploration; it is not a procurement contract or deployment award.
T-Robotics leads KRW4.5B manufacturing-humanoid R&D programme
- The programme includes approximately KRW4.5 billion of government funding and is administered through KEIT.
- KAIST and a major Korean display manufacturer are participating in the project.
- TR-WORKS is planned for progressive validation and application in core manufacturing processes over five years.
Neuromeka selected to lead KRW17.5B autonomous-welding programme
- The project has a total budget of KRW17.5 billion, including KRW10.5 billion in government R&D support.
- Work covers multimodal welding datasets and a Large Action Model that selects welding paths and conditions.
- Commercialisation is intended for shipbuilding, steel and other heavy-industry settings after hardware validation.
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.
Amprius secures up to $75 million grant for American drone battery production
- The converted line is planned to support Group 1, 2 and 3 UAS with approximately 12 million cells of annual capacity.
- The approximately $100 million conversion project targets completion in early 2028.
- Most of the award remains subject to future appropriations, programme milestones and other funding conditions.
MagLev Aero receives dual DARPA awards for drone-propulsion development
- The MVP award funds a full-scale, flight-relevant propulsion demonstration intended to reach Technology Readiness Level 6 in a relevant operational environment.
- The EEI award supports an embedded business leader to advance federal-acquisition strategy and transition opportunities.
- MagLev Aero says its rim-driven HyperDrive platform is designed to improve payload, range and acoustic performance for autonomous and crewed aircraft.
Anduril wins XPRIZE autonomous wildfire-response award
- XPRIZE awarded Anduril $1.2 million for first place and a separate $1 million Accurate Detection & Intelligence bonus.
- Its Lattice-based system linked cameras, sensors and drones in a detection-to-suppression workflow.
- Finalists were tested on detecting and suppressing high-risk fires within ten minutes across challenging terrain.
Avular founder Albert Maas receives 2026 Changemaker Award
- The award winner was selected through a combination of audience voting and jury judgement from three finalists.
- Avular designs its robotics hardware, software and AI in house at a 6,500-square-metre headquarters in Eindhoven.
- The announcement also describes Avular work with Heijmans on an autonomous asphalt roller and with SGL on a UVC turf-care robot.
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Tommoro Robotics selected for Korea’s Scale-up TIPS programme
- The programme work targets a robot foundation model and field-operations software that can run across humanoid manufacturers and model types.
- Tommoro plans validation with manufacturing and logistics customer companies to improve task speed and stability while reducing human intervention.
- The company’s HABILIS stack combines high-level reasoning, perception, control and self-refinement for deployable physical-AI agents.
ROBROS receives M.AX commendation for IGRIS-C commercialization
- The commendation was presented at the 2026 M.AX Awards on September 17.
- The recognition cited IGRIS-C commercialization for manufacturing and logistics workflows.
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.
WeRide WRD 3.0 wins eighth China intelligent-driving contest
- WRD 3.0 uses a single end-to-end model across perception, prediction, decision-making, driving, parking and active safety.
- WeRide reports that vehicles using its assisted-driving technology have now won eight rounds of the competition.
- The company also disclosed roughly 30,000 WRD 3.0 shipments during the second quarter of 2026 and more than 30 vehicle production nominations.
OSCP qualifies for Canada’s Defence Drone Initiative Marketplace
- The supply arrangement runs through July 31, 2031.
- OSCP qualified under Streams 1, 2 and 5.
- Qualification allows OSCP to bid when task solicitations are issued but does not itself guarantee work.
Yuil Robotics consortium selected for standardized humanoid-battery R&D programme
- The programme covers high-power all-solid-state cells and packs, battery-management systems and hot-swapping.
- SK On participates as the battery-technology partner in the Yuil-led consortium.
- The resulting power system will be installed in physical humanoids for performance and safety validation.
Flexion ranks sixth in 2026 Top100 Swiss Startup Award
- The Top100 programme ranks eligible Swiss startups through a jury of investors and startup experts.
- Flexion was the highest-ranked robotics company in the 2026 ranking.
- The award does not represent a financing round, customer order or deployment milestone.
Excelland AI receives national specialized Little Giant designation
- The designation recognizes Excelland AI's work in autonomous commercial-vehicle technology and intelligent logistics.
- The company says its T6 autonomous commercial vehicle entered small-batch delivery after its April 2026 release.
- The recognition follows Excelland AI's development of domestically sourced L4 driving and logistics-automation systems.
AgiBot A3 wins IFA emerging-technology award
- The award was decided through IFA’s official 2026 awards programme.
- A3 received the category’s top recognition and X2 received separate honoree status.
- The company disclosed the recognition after the Sept. 4 award decision.
DJI ROMO P2 wins IFA 2026 Best in Home Appliances award
- The official IFA 2026 winners list names DJI ROMO P2 as a Best in Home Appliances winner.
- IFA says entries were reviewed by an independent expert panel from submitted materials rather than physical product testing.
NC AI and LG Electronics selected for Korean on-device humanoid project
- The consortium is developing an autonomous humanoid that runs on a Korean on-device AI semiconductor.
- NC AI owns the motion-retargeting pipeline and initial training-data work package.
- The programme combines robot hardware, data, AI models and low-power domestic compute in one development system.
BionicM receives 2026 Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award
- Forty-one university ventures applied and six were selected as finalists before the programme’s major awards were decided.
- The award was presented at Tokyo Big Sight during University Fair 2026 – Innovation Japan.
- The judges recognised BionicM’s translation of University of Tokyo robotics and biomechanical research into the commercial Bio Leg powered prosthesis.
AgiBot tops 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games with 46 medals
- AgiBot’s competition lineup earned 18 gold, 16 silver and 12 bronze medals, placing the company first on both the gold-medal and overall tables.
- OmniHand reached the finals in all eight dexterous-hand events and won seven golds, while X2 won the 100-metre obstacle race and A3 won the Tai Chi event.
- G2 contributed to five scenario-event golds in hotel service, library operations and emergency response, and the lineup consisted of robots already in production or real-world deployment.
X-Humanoid Tiangong teams record 45 medals at 2026 Robot Games
- The Tiangong team finished with 15 gold, 12 silver and 18 bronze medals—45 in total—at the second World Humanoid Robot Games.
- Tiangong Ultra won the large-robot 100 metres in 8.64 seconds and also took the large-robot 400 metres in 38.15 seconds, while Tiangong Omni won the small-robot 400 metres in 45.66 seconds.
- The results included additional jumping, obstacle, weightlifting and scenario-event performances across the five-day competition, extending the team’s evidence beyond a single sprint result.
Galbot wins three fully autonomous scenario golds at 2026 Robot Games
- Galbot won the household, food-service and retail scenario events in fully autonomous mode, finishing with three golds, one silver and one bronze.
- The household task allowed up to 30 minutes for tidying, laundry handling, door opening, carrying items and an unexpected parcel task; Galbot recorded the fastest and highest score at 305 points.
- It completed the food-service workflow in 6 minutes 55 seconds without an error and swept gold, silver and bronze in the retail scenario while handling changing orders, shelf locations and stock conditions.
Teledyne FLIR OEM selected for U.S. Army DUTCH thermal-imaging award
- The programme targets improved uncooled thermal-sensor performance and high-volume production readiness.
- Teledyne links the work to uncrewed aircraft, loitering munitions and other Army sensing priorities.
- No award value was disclosed; the record is an R&D programme selection, not a quantified procurement contract.
ISICO selects MoveEz for all-weather autonomy R&D support
- The project covers sensing that remains usable in rain and snow plus more efficient two-dimensional mapping for autonomous vehicles.
- The programme can support up to two-thirds of eligible costs, subject to a JPY30 million cap over as many as three years.
- The JPY30 million figure is a programme ceiling; MoveEz's exact award amount was not disclosed.
China Rare Earth Group magnetic ring selected among central-enterprise robotics innovations
- The ring was developed by Zhongxi Ruida Mei in Shenzhen, a subsidiary under the group’s innovation company.
- The radial and flux-concentrating designs target frameless torque motors and miniature motors for dexterous hands.
- The group describes applications in humanoid joints, collaborative robots and industrial precision motors.
TIER IV joins JST programme to develop an open autonomous-driving SoC
- The University of Tokyo team led by Professor Yoshihiro Kawahara is researching use-case-driven physical-AI chip design.
- TIER IV is designing an Autoware-compatible accelerator for end-to-end inference and plans to open-source its logic, compiler and toolchain.
- The architecture targets Transformer inference across embedded devices operating at several watts and vehicle ECUs operating at several tens of watts.
KingKong Technology wins Beijing regional innovation competition first prize
- The project was the ultra-compact, high-precision, force-sensing hollow patterned-magnetic encoder platform.
- The regional contest was guided by the Torch High Technology Industry Development Center and co-hosted by Beijing municipal science and technology authorities and Zhongguancun.
- KingKong linked the award to its work on compact precision sensing and core robotic components, with further product iteration and volume delivery planned.
Aurrigo awarded £1.43m for SENTRY autonomous-airport programme
- SENTRY will use Auto-Shuttle vehicles for perimeter security patrols and runway or taxiway inspection.
- The programme is planned to progress from controlled testing into live airport operations at Teesside International Airport and later Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
- The award funds a defined operational programme rather than representing general corporate financing.
Calyo secures £1.25m for all-weather 3-D ultrasound programme
- DRIVEN BY SOUND+ combines Calyo PULSE sensing, PxAI edge compute, AI perception and multisensor fusion with vehicle control.
- The programme targets on-road validation at TRL 6–7 in rain, fog, spray, glare and low-light conditions.
- The work is intended to demonstrate ultrasound as a complementary perception layer rather than replace the full vehicle sensor suite.
Gravis Robotics and Flannery funded for multi-excavator autonomy programme
- The programme covers autonomous trenching, bulk excavation and truck loading.
- Testing will extend Gravis’s retrofit autonomy stack into a six-excavator, multi-machine trial with UK plant-hire company Flannery.
- The funded work is designed to validate coordinated autonomous earthmoving in operating conditions.
Fusion Processing and Alexander Dennis receive £3.88m for Level 4 Connector programme
- An existing Enviro100AEV will receive dual-redundant actuation for no-user-in-charge operation.
- A larger Level 4 Enviro200AEV will be added to the Connector fleet.
- The programme advances an existing public-road service toward a repeatable commercial vehicle and autonomy package.
ROBROS joins Crest-led KIRIA humanoid battery-system demonstration
- The demonstration will run through the end of 2026 and cover Crest's intelligent BMS, hot-swappable battery pack and charging-station architecture.
- ROBROS will provide the IGRIS-C industrial humanoid as the exact validation platform.
- A three-year results-utilisation period is intended to move the validated component system toward commercialisation after the demonstration.
Kanagawa selects AssistMotion physical-AI robot project for development support
- The prefectural programme provides support of up to ¥15 million per selected robotics-development project.
- AssistMotion will apply its wearable-robot and movement-assistance expertise to an assistive physical-AI system.
Reach Power and NIMBUS Lab win AFWERX study for wirelessly powered perched drones
- The programme combines Reach Power wireless energy delivery with NIMBUS research on aerial robots that can perch on structures.
- Perching reduces propulsion demand while wireless power can extend the duration of communications and ISR missions.
- The Phase I award funds feasibility work rather than a production purchase or operational deployment.
ResilienX receives AFWERX award for explainable UAS model-health monitoring
- The programme focuses on detecting when deployed AI models degrade or behave outside expected operating conditions.
- ResilienX will examine explainable monitoring that can support real-time assurance across multi-vendor UAS ecosystems.
- The Phase I award was made on 30 June 2026 and first publicly disclosed by the company on 3 August.
PrimeBOT T1 receives Silver at A' Design Award
- PrimeBOT said T1 received Silver and Q1 received Gold at the A' Design Award ceremony in Milan on July 17, 2026.
- The company describes T1 as its latest model, with a body that transforms between bipedal and quadrupedal modes for home environments.
- The release said PrimeBOT had begun market development in North America and Europe after receiving five awards at CES 2026.
KONGSBERG and Oceaneering selected for DIU CAMP XLUUV design
- The work covers concept definition, system architecture and design trade studies.
- The team is emphasizing modularity, interoperability and rapid integration for future Navy missions.
- The initial design is expected in the third quarter of 2026; the selection is a design-phase award, not a production order.
EXEDY joins Morita firefighting-drone research programme
- EXEDY is providing the drone-development platform while Morita contributes firefighting-system and operating expertise.
- Earlier testing validated stable flight during water discharge and compatibility with Morita’s compressed-air-foam system.
- The current milestone is continued government-backed research and validation, not commercial deployment.
Humanoid and Schaeffler win Plug and Play Global Innovation Award
- The award was presented through STARTUP AUTOBAHN powered by Plug and Play following the Expo 2026 programme.
- Schaeffler describes the collaboration as supporting scalable humanoid robotics for industrial use.
- The recognition follows the companies' phased deployment and supply agreement for humanoids in live manufacturing operations.
ARPA-H awards Philips up to $33.7M for autonomous stroke robotics
- Philips is working with Johns Hopkins University and Boston University.
- The team will combine image-guided therapy infrastructure, imitation learning and a multi-channel fluid-driven steerable catheter.
- The programme targets autonomous mechanical thrombectomy and other neurointerventional procedures.
Department of War invests USD 25 million in ReElement expansion
- The agreement funds equipment, installation and working capital for domestic rare-earth and defence-critical mineral refining.
- The expanded lines will process end-of-life magnets and other recycled feedstocks into high-purity rare-earth oxides, yttrium, gadolinium, germanium and gallium.
- The agreement includes safeguards restricting transactions with foreign entities of concern and is government industrial-base support, not an equity round.
ABB names Radian Robotics Best Service Partner
- ABB selected Radian as Best Service Partner in its Americas Value Provider Awards.
- The award recognized service support, customer-success investment, technical training and reliability programs.
- Radian described the honor as validation of its long-term post-installation support strategy.
Atlas Copco XB assembly tools receive 2026 Red Dot Design Award
- The award covered the Atlas Copco XB range developed by the Industrial Technique business area.
- Atlas Copco positions the range around tightening accuracy, connectivity, reliability and operator ergonomics.
- The Red Dot ceremony took place in Essen on 7 July 2026.
Parallel Robotics receives $305,000 NSF SBIR Phase I award
- Contract 2507711 runs from July 6 through December 31, 2026.
- The work covers preclinical prototype fabrication, mechatronic and software development, and surgeon evaluation in a simulated environment.
- The award supports technical feasibility work and does not establish commercial availability or regulatory clearance.
FORMOVE signs EUR300,000 EIC grant agreement
- The European Commission signed FORMOVE's EUR300,000 EIC grant agreement on July 3.
- The funded project will build a robot-agnostic pipeline for human-motion and interaction data.
- CORDIS lists project work from September 2026 through May 2027.
Aurova selected for ARM Hub Propel-AIR programme
- The programme combines an Australian accelerator sprint with a potential MassRobotics residency in Boston.
- Participants receive support from robotics, AI, venture and intellectual-property specialists.
- Aurova was selected for its autonomous vegetation-management systems.
ProxGrid selected for ARM Hub Propel-AIR programme
- The programme combines an Australian accelerator sprint with a potential MassRobotics residency in Boston.
- Participants receive support from robotics, AI, venture and intellectual-property specialists.
- ProxGrid develops aerial systems for inspection and maintenance near energized transmission infrastructure.
Acumino, DXC and Schaeffler win STARTUP AUTOBAHN anniversary award
- Corporate partners selected the project from 12 previous Plug and Play Innovation Award winners.
- The collaboration applies Acumino's skill-specific AI models to packaging automation in Schaeffler production.
- DXC Technology contributes industrial deployment and integration expertise to the joint project.
Robomation signs EUR 499,800 EU palletizing grant
- The European Commission signed the two-year project grant on 30 June 2026.
- EUR 499,800 will advance Robomation's multi-brand palletizing platform from TRL 4 to TRL 6.
- Planned pilots span food, packaging, logistics and automotive settings, targeting at least 10 picks per minute.
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.
UON Robotics wins ₩2.7B government-backed Physical AI robotics project
- The project targets smart logistics robot automation for APC produce distribution sites.
- The system scope includes vinyl small-package stacking, pan-cap individual packaging and mixed-SKU palletizing.
- Participating partners include CSI for APC equipment and Nonghyup Information System for control and IT systems.
Nanoflex Robotics awarded €12.5 million EIC blended financing
- The package comprises a €2.5 million grant and €10 million equity investment from the EIC Fund.
- Funding supports clinical validation and work toward CE marking in Europe.
- Nanoflex was the only medical-technology company among the selected Swiss applicants.
LUCID Atlas25 receives Gold Innovators Award
- Atlas25 uses a 25GigE interface with RDMA support for high-bandwidth industrial imaging.
- The award programme evaluates originality, innovation and practical impact for vision-system designers and users.
- LUCID announced the Gold recognition during the 2026 Vision Systems Design awards cycle.
ROEQ Lift n Roll wins SupplyTech robotics solution award
- The TLR module supports payloads up to 1,190 kg and a 70 mm lift stroke.
- Compatibility covers MiR and OMRON AMRs, with ROEQ Assist for setup.
- GuardCom uses coded light to coordinate safe pallet transfer with conveyor lines.
Verity wins 2026 IERA Award for autonomous warehouse drones
- The award recognizes Verity’s development and market launch of a warehouse intelligence system.
- The system uses autonomous indoor drones for GPS-free inventory scanning and automated return-to-charge workflows.
- The recognition validates Verity's work in warehouse automation and material-handling workflows.
SEER Robotics receives 2026 IEEE Robotics and Automation Product Innovation Award
- SEER Robotics received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Product Innovation Award at ICRA 2026.
- The award ceremony was held in Vienna on June 4, 2026, and SEER Robotics published the announcement on June 12, 2026.
- The company linked the award to its low-level control technology, software platforms and global deployment experience.
Breaker awarded AU$1.2 million Industry Growth Program grant for Avalon
- Breaker and its investors are matching the grant dollar-for-dollar for an AU$2.4 million project.
- Avalon installs on existing onboard compute and works alongside a robot's current autonomy, sensors and software.
- The programme supports allied-market commercialisation following field validation and selection for the Crucible 2 Swarm Forge initiative.
TERN named a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
- TERN joined the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Technology Pioneer cohort.
- The recognition covered TERN’s infrastructure-free positioning approach.
- The company framed the milestone around resilient navigation for vehicles and autonomous systems.
Staer joins Google DeepMind Robotics Accelerator
- Staer was one of 15 early-stage European robotics companies selected for the cohort.
- The programme runs from June through September 2026 and includes dedicated Google mentorship.
- Participants receive hands-on access to Gemini Robotics models and Google Cloud infrastructure.
Asilla selected for GENIAC security-specific video foundation-model project
- The project uses more than eight million anonymised proprietary video records accumulated through Asilla's operations.
- Asilla plans two model scales: a four-billion-parameter model for edge use and a 27-billion-parameter cloud model.
- The programme covers dataset construction, foundation-model development and work toward real-world security deployment.
Blue Yonder named a leader in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for warehouse management systems
- The evaluation covers Blue Yonder's Warehouse Management Solution for complex, high-volume and highly automated warehouse environments.
- The platform combines warehouse management with embedded warehouse-execution functionality, analytics and AI/ML optimization.
- Blue Yonder says its Robotics Hub supports multi-vendor automation environments and centralized visibility and control.
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.
Atomatika receives Compasso d'Oro ADI honourable mention
- Atomatika is an autonomous tracked multi-tool robot developed for vineyards and orchards.
- The platform is designed to reuse conventional implements through a three-point hitch and power take-off connection.
- Operators can assign missions and monitor work through the MyAgricobots mobile application.
FORMOVE places third in BayStartUP competition
- FORMOVE placed third in BayStartUP's 2026 Phase Two business-plan competition.
- The company ranked within the top 1.6 percent of 192 participating startups.
- FORMOVE said its Physical AI data-foundation vision convinced the competition jury.
Innok Robotics receives IFOY jury verdict for INDUROS
- The verdict evaluated INDUROS as an autonomous mobile robot for outdoor industrial logistics.
- The event is classified as an award signal, not a deployment.
- The event adds operating or commercial context for warehouse automation and material-handling robotics.
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.
ROKAE earns AgiBot Outstanding Supplier Partner award
- The recognition was presented at AgiBot’s second supplier conference in Shanghai.
- AgiBot credited ROKAE’s technology, product quality, delivery efficiency and service in the supplier relationship.
- ROKAE says its AR humanoid arms use HSA force-controlled joints and cover payloads from 3 kg to 10 kg.
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.
U.S. Space Force awards Quindar Golden Dome capability contract
- The U.S. Space Force selected Quindar to rapidly design and deliver mission-operations capabilities supporting the Golden Dome programme.
- The award extends Quindar's automation-first command, planning and spacecraft-operations work into a national-security programme.
- Quindar's announcement identifies the government customer and programme purpose but does not disclose a contract value.
Axomind named a 2026 Automation Startup Challenge finalist
- Axomind was selected from a global applicant pool for the Automate 2026 competition.
- The company presented its AI-driven robot-orchestration platform for factory automation.
- Finalists pitched live at the Automate Show in Chicago.
CeiliX named a 2026 Automation Startup Challenge finalist
- CeiliX participated in the 2026 Automation Startup Challenge.
- The programme brought robotics companies into a structured accelerator, mentorship or industry-competition setting.
- The company was presented alongside the other cohort members or finalists on the announcement date.
Copper Robotics named a 2026 Automation Startup Challenge finalist
- Copper Robotics was selected as one of ten finalists in the 2026 Automation Startup Challenge.
- Finalists were invited to pitch at Automate 2026 before an industry judging panel.
- The programme highlighted Copper's deterministic robotics runtime and developer-infrastructure approach.
Daxo Robotics named a 2026 Automation Startup Challenge finalist
- Daxo Robotics participated in the 2026 Automation Startup Challenge.
- The programme brought robotics companies into a structured accelerator, mentorship or industry-competition setting.
- The company was presented alongside the other cohort members or finalists on the announcement date.
Mowito Robotics named a 2026 Automation Startup Challenge finalist
- Mowito Robotics participated in the 2026 Automation Startup Challenge.
- The programme brought robotics companies into a structured accelerator, mentorship or industry-competition setting.
- The company was presented alongside the other cohort members or finalists on the announcement date.
Hardhat Robotics named a 2026 Automation Startup Challenge finalist
- Hardhat Robotics participated in the 2026 Automation Startup Challenge.
- The programme brought robotics companies into a structured accelerator, mentorship or industry-competition setting.
- The company was presented alongside the other cohort members or finalists on the announcement date.
KoiReader Technologies named a 2026 Automation Startup Challenge finalist
- KoiReader Technologies was named one of ten finalists in the 2026 Automation Startup Challenge.
- The competition highlights early-stage automation companies presenting solutions to industry judges and investors.
- KoiReader advanced with its KoiVision digital-operations platform for logistics and manufacturing workflows.
ReOps Intellitech named a 2026 Automation Startup Challenge finalist
- ReOps Intellitech participated in the 2026 Automation Startup Challenge.
- The programme brought robotics companies into a structured accelerator, mentorship or industry-competition setting.
- The company was presented alongside the other cohort members or finalists on the announcement date.
SkyDrive receives Japan ADO certification for planned 2028 eVTOL launch
- has received Approved Design Organization (ADO) certification from the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB).
- The company is the first dedicated eVTOL developer in Japan to earn this designation.
FOCUS Integration receives 2026 robotic palletizing recognition
- The company designs modular palletizing cells for rapid installation and commissioning at manufacturing sites.
- Its CARBON architecture connects robot cells, conveyors and pallet-handling units for centralized palletizing across multiple lines.
- FOCUS says its systems are assembled, programmed and factory-tested before shipment to reduce onsite commissioning time.
LexxPluss selected for AWS Japan Physical AI support program
- The program provides AWS credits for training physical-AI models and enhancing simulation environments.
- LexxPluss said the resources will support synchronized limb movement, large-scale digital-twin training and fleet-management infrastructure.
- The announcement links the programme to the company's target of supplying 10,000 industrial robot workers by 2033.
Salem Robotics wins $25,000 RAVA accelerator investment prize
- Rice named Salem Robotics the recipient of non sibi ventures' $25,000 RAVA Accelerator Investment Prize.
- The award followed the April 9-11 competition, where 42 student-led startups pitched in Houston.
- Salem represented the University of Texas at Austin among teams competing for investment and cash prizes.
7X Robotics wins UCalgary Launchpad best-prototype award
- University of Calgary listed 7x robotics as the Best Prototype award winner in its Launchpad Liftoff results.
- The award named Rimoon Koryal, Usman Roshan and Yunzhe Xue as the 7x robotics team.
- The result came through Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking startup programming at UCalgary.
CRG Automation receives FANUC Outstanding Growth Award at the 2026 ASI Conference
- FANUC cited CRG's growth in deployments of its robots during 2025.
- CRG's customer applications included high-speed SCARA systems and six-axis robots for heavy material handling.
Anduril wins Tactical Missile Innovation Prize Challenge
- • Anduril Industries won the Tactical Missile Innovation Prize Challenge, announced by the Naval Postgraduate School and the Office of Nava...
- • The competition, launched in January 2026, sought innovative methodologies for developing next-generation tactical missiles.
- • Anduril's proposal was selected for its compelling approach to affordable and scalable missile development.
MindOn wins EAI-100 recognition and two embodied AI awards
- MindOn said it was selected to the EAI-100 embodied AI annual list on the strength of its dexterous-manipulation algorithms and VLA model work.
- The same event also recognized co-founder Chen Yuanpei in the EAI Pioneer 20 list and awarded the company's mahjong robot demo as one of the annual top ten demos.
- The post ties the recognition to MindOn's software-toolchain strategy, joint lab work, and data-collection / long-horizon execution positioning rather than a hardware product launch.
FieldAI wins SIA award for security and patrol foundation models
- The NPS programme used 38 industry judges to assess entries across 23 product and service categories.
- Field Foundation Models for Security and Patrol was FieldAI’s named entry in the Drone and Robot Solutions for Security category.
- Winning entries remained on display in the NPS area at ISC West through March 27.
Infravision ranks No. 4 in Fast Company Robotics and Engineering list
- Infravision was named No. 4 in Fast Company's 2026 Robotics and Engineering Most Innovative Companies list.
- The recognition highlighted Infravision's drone-enabled TX system for grid construction.
- Infravision said its system had installed more than 2,000 miles of line with over 50,000 miles in backlog.
Fieldwork Robotics receives ReFED Catalytic Grant Fund support
- ReFED announced support for Fieldwork Robotics through its Catalytic Grant Fund.
- The funding supports Fieldwork Robotics' food-waste and labor-shortage focused harvesting automation work.
- This is grant-style funding, not a procurement award or commercial order.
Connect names HyperKelp among 24 Cool Companies
- HyperKelp was one of 24 companies named to the 2026 class.
- The programme highlights startups positioned for institutional-scale growth.
- The recognition added a regional commercialization milestone to HyperKelp's defense and ocean-sensing work.
ZF recognizes Shuanghuan with VAVE supplier award
- ZF selected Shuanghuan as one of nine award recipients across four categories at its global supplier conference.
- The VAVE Award recognized technical optimization, localization and resource coordination.
- Shuanghuan's contribution included localization work for Traxon shaft assemblies and planetary carriers.
Volatus Aerospace receives NRC-IRAP funding to support Condor XL development
- Volatus Aerospace received NRC-IRAP support of up to CAD 320,000 for Condor XL heavy-lift UAS development.
- The funded work covers avionics architecture, autonomy integration, and flight validation.
- Volatus framed the project around sovereign Canadian autonomous aerospace capability and future government applications.
AFRL network recommends Drone City for $100,000 Stage 1 award
- The selected project covers autonomous drone airdrop and advanced stabilization.
- Drone City founder Mehdi Salehi is principal investigator, with AFRL researcher Elizabeth Bentley serving as co-principal investigator.
- The work sits within the network's Quantifying Performance in Extreme Environments programme.
WIRobotics is selected for the Physical AI Fellowship powered by AWS, NVIDIA, and MassRobotics
- WIRobotics said it was selected for the Physical AI Fellowship, a program backed by AWS, NVIDIA, and MassRobotics.
- The fellowship includes AWS credits, support from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, access to NVIDIA's physical AI stack, and ecosystem support from MassRobotics.
- WIRobotics positioned the program as support for advancing ALLEX and its broader humanoid robotics roadmap for real-world industrial, logistics, and service use cases.