NEURA and SECO Partner on European-Built Robot Compute
SECO will develop and manufacture Qualcomm-powered compute modules for NEURA’s cognitive robots, including the 4NE1 humanoid.
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Galbot Opens ET1 Preorders After 200+ First-Day Orders
The 1.23 m biped extends Galbot beyond wheeled mobile manipulation, with more than 200 orders reported in its first 24 hours.
Wandercraft Says Calvin-40 Has Secured 12 Blue-Chip Customers
The undisclosed customers span automotive, logistics, retail, healthcare and defence as Wandercraft prepares its industrial humanoid for series delivery.
Figure Signs Nscale Partnership for Up to 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs
The multi-year agreement begins with a $3.5 billion compute commitment and could scale beyond $6 billion as Figure expands the data and infrastructure behind Helix.
X Square Robot Introduces TwinDEX for Robot-Free Dexterous Data Collection
The matched wearable-and-robot hand reports 5.3× the throughput of on-robot teleoperation and trained a policy for a 24-step chemistry experiment.
AgiBot-Linked Humanoid Production Starts in Serbia
Minth Group’s €20 million Šabac operation starts with assembly and targets more than 5,000 robots a year before a planned expansion to 20,000.
Microduck Preorders Create a Servo Demand Signal
More than 10,000 orders for the $399 robot imply demand for over 150,000 ROBOTIS DYNAMIXEL servos.
Asimov Begins Shipping Its Open-Source Humanoid
The first Asimov 1 units are leaving the lab for developers and researchers, moving the project from open-reference design into customer hardware.
Dyna Moves Into Scaled Deployment
Din Tai Fung is expanding its use of Dyna robots as the company says production performance has crossed the customer ROI threshold and its deployed fleet is set to reach hundreds by H1 2027.
Lightwheel Opens 100,000 Hours of Physical-AI Training Data
The release sits on top of a commercial data operation reporting 300,000+ hours delivered, 20,000+ hours collected weekly and roughly $100M in Q1 infrastructure orders.
Unitree Debuts as China’s Robotics IPO Queue Grows
Unitree surged on its Shanghai debut as AiMOGA joined a growing group of Chinese robotics companies preparing to list.
PDW’s $820M Package Expands US Drone Manufacturing
A proposed $820 million financing package would expand PDW’s Huntsville production base for small drones and critical components.
Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Whole-Body Control to Apollo 2
Google DeepMind’s new VLA brings walking, manipulation and full-body control to Apollo 2, alongside a faster on-device model.
DoorDash Air Moves Into Aircraft Operations
Part 135 certification brings DoorDash closer to commercial drone delivery as Wing, Walmart and Flytrex widen the network around it.
EngineAI Adds a Second T800 Production Base
The first Zhengzhou-made units follow its Shenzhen production launch in May.
AgiBot Joins China’s Robotics IPO Pipeline
The company has started a Hong Kong listing process as China’s robotics sector moves toward public markets.
Humanoid Production Update
Figure reaches 1,000 robots, EngineAI activates a second production base and Humanoid funds a partner-led manufacturing plan.
Mimic brings FLUX-mimic to industrial dexterity
The video-action model runs locally on an RTX 5090 and is already being tested with Audi across flexible industrial tasks.
Figure builds its 1,000th F.03 humanoid
BotQ has reached 1,000 completed units, up from 350 in April, though Figure has not disclosed customer fleet sizes.
Vicarious Surgical shareholders approve dissolution
The surgical-robotics company is winding down five years after a $1.1B SPAC deal, without reaching commercial sale.
Gritt launches with $32.4M for solar construction
The company’s equipment-mounted robots are already handling utility-scale solar panels across more than seven jobsites.
Humanoid raises $152M at $1.35B valuation
The UK company will fund beta deployments and mass manufacturing for its wheeled and bipedal robot platforms.
Kratos prepares Chaparral for production
Elroy Air’s autonomous cargo aircraft will enter manufacturing at Kratos’ Sacramento facility, with first production units planned for late 2026.
World Labs acquires robotics simulator SceniX
The deal connects Marble’s generated 3D worlds with robot-data creation, policy training, evaluation and deployment.