FieldAI is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its mark from just over a year ago, for software designed to run robots it does not build. Europe’s biggest robotics rounds this year funded machine makers, and the nearest European answer to Fie…
Flourish says it’s ready to ship the first 50 units starting in December.
AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the AI model startup led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2bn. AMD announced the deal on Monday. Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting to CEO Lisa Su. AMD exp…
SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose startup makes chips and software that let robots, drones and cars run AI on the device itself. Fidelity Management & Research Comp…
Tesla has increased Optimus production about tenfold in recent months. It is still struggling to build the humanoid robots reliably at scale. Qianer Liu and Grace Kay reported for The Information on Friday, citing people familiar with the project, that…
Factories around the world installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, and China accounted for 354,000 of them, or 59%. The figures come from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), which published its World Robotics 2026 report on Thu…
“When enough factory roles go unfilled at once, entire supply chains are at risk. O-ID’s robots are built to work alongside the people still on the floor, closing those gaps before they become a crisis for a single factory and for the industries Japan …
China’s securities regulator has begun steering humanoid robot companies away from the public markets until they can show recurring revenue and a credible path to narrowing losses, The Information reported on 9 September. The direction is being given a…
“AI models and devices that perform well in a laboratory can struggle when they encounter reverberation, background noise, or an unfamiliar physical environment,” said Finnur Pind, co-founder and chief executive of Treble Technologies. The Reykjavík co…
Viabot has raised a $24m Series A led by Walden International for its autonomous outdoor sweeping robot. Each battery lasts about six hours and the machine can autonomously hot-swap batteries to work 12 to 24 hours, correcting TNW’s earlier report of a…