Robotics

Latest: Skild AI Hits $100M Revenue Run Rate 10 Months After First Deployment, Grows to 60+ Customers · bloomberg.com, Sep 10, 2026

Topic Tracked keywords: robot, humanoid, autonomous robot

23 AI Weekly issues and 76 live stories from the last 30 days mention Robotics.

227 total mentions 8/20 recent issues -100% vs. baseline peak 41/issue tracked since 2026-02-19

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Live Stories (76)

Skild AI Hits $100M Revenue Run Rate 10 Months After First Deployment, Grows to 60+ Customers

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 22

Ex-Apple Special-Projects Team's Maven Robotics Exits Stealth With $100M Series A for Palletizing Bots

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 25

Mach Industries Doubles Valuation to $3.7B With $600M Series C Extension After June's $300M Raise

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 23

Show-Harness Paper: Off-the-Shelf VLMs Can Control Robots Zero-Shot via a Semantic Action Interface

arxiv.org · 2026-09-09 · Score: 18

ALERT Analog Devices to Buy Edge-AI Chipmaker Alif Semiconductor for $1.35B Plus $200M Earnout

thenextweb.com · 2026-09-09 · Score: 30

TANGO Ships First Whole-Body 29-DoF VLA for Humanoid Navigation, Deployed Zero-Shot on Unitree G1

huggingface.co · 2026-09-09 · Score: 22

China's CSRC Informally Curbs Humanoid IPO Approvals After Unitree's Volatile Trading Debut

theinformation.com · 2026-09-09 · Score: 22

Antioch Closes $32M Series A Led by Greylock for High-Fidelity Physical-AI Simulation

forbes.com · 2026-09-08 · Score: 19

Alibaba Ships Qwen-Drive-1.0, an Apache-2.0 4B Vision-Language Model for Autonomous Driving

technode.com · 2026-09-07 · Score: 26

Ukrainian Drone Maker UForce in Talks to Raise ~$500M at $5B, Led by Valor Equity

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-07 · Score: 21

FT: Kalanick's Atoms Is Building Robotaxi Tech, Hired Levandowski, Received $100M From Uber

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-06 · Score: 25

FT: Kalanick's Atoms Turns to Robotaxi Tech After Pronto Buy, Uber Confirms $100M Investment

ft.com · 2026-09-05 · Score: 22

China's D-Robotics Sunrise Chips Ship in TCL, Vbot and xLean Home Robots at IFA 2026

prnewswire.com · 2026-09-04 · Score: 17

ALERT Figure AI Signs $3.5B Nscale Compute Deal for 100,000 Vera Rubin GPUs, Scalable to $6B

prnewswire.com · 2026-09-03 · Score: 29

PUBG Maker Krafton Pledges Another $250M for India Over 3-4 Years, Pushing Beyond Gaming Into AI, Robotics

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-04 · Score: 17

PlusAI Goes Public via $800M Pre-Money SPAC Merger with Texas Ventures Acquisition III

stocktitan.net · 2026-09-03 · Score: 22

Aitan Emerges From Stealth With $41M From Deep33 and Dell for Robotic Weapon Systems

prnewswire.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 16

DroneCATS Benchmark Finds 2B MLLMs Fly Better Than Frontier Models But Fail to Terminate Episodes

huggingface.co · 2026-09-02 · Score: 18

Ex-Apple Face ID Team's Lyte Raises $165M at $1.6B to Build a 'Visual Brain' for Robots

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 23

Tencent-Backed H3-World Turns MiniMax-H3's 33B Video Model Into a Language-Controlled Interactive World Model

huggingface.co · 2026-09-02 · Score: 21

Waymo Opens Paid Robotaxi Rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa; Zoox Begins Houston and San Diego Testing

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-01 · Score: 23

LightNav-0 Paper: Compact VLM Hits SOTA on 10 Navigation Sim Benchmarks With Dual-Channel Pointing

arxiv.org · 2026-08-31 · Score: 22

NavMCP Scaffolds VLM + Navigation Foundation Model, Gets 78.3% Success on Unitree Go2

huggingface.co · 2026-09-01 · Score: 16

Reframe Systems Raises $40M Series A Extension to Scale Robotic Home-Building Microfactories

theinformation.com · 2026-08-31 · Score: 20

ALERT Andreessen Horowitz Fifth Growth Fund Closes at $8.5B, Targeting Enterprise AI, Robotics and AI Compute Stack

a16z.com · 2026-08-31 · Score: 28

TechCrunch: Caterpillar Applies Mining Autonomy Playbook to Enterprise AI Rollout Across 118,000 Workers

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-30 · Score: 19

WSJ: Chinese Robot Makers Now Run on Nvidia Silicon as Physical AI Hits $10B Annual Revenue

wsj.com · 2026-08-29 · Score: 21

Hugging Face Ships $399 Microduck, a 25cm Open-Source Bipedal Robot for RL Experiments

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-28 · Score: 22

Andreessen Horowitz Closes $1.1B 'Machine Age' Fund for AI Chips, Data Centers and Robots

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-28 · Score: 26

BBC Feature: China Now Runs Over 2 Million Factory Robots as Aging Workforce Fuels Automation Push

bbc.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 18

ALERT Skild Unveils S1 Robotics Foundation Model That Learns 10-Minute Tasks From One Video, No Fine-Tuning

skild.ai · 2026-08-25 · Score: 32

Autonomous Trucking Startup Gatik Raises $200M Led by QIA and Koch, Two Months After PepsiCo Deal

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 25

Waymo Plans Munich Robotaxi Launch by End of 2027, Its First European Market

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 23

Nvidia Debuts Jetson Orin Nano 2 Edge Module at 78 TOPS, Doubling Inference Perf for Robotics and VLMs

therobotreport.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 25

India's Airbound Bags $37M Series A Led by Greenoaks for Rocket-Like Autonomous Cargo Drones

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-24 · Score: 19

WSJ Feature: World-Model Startups Like General Intuition Train on Videogames to Pilot Real Robots

wsj.com · 2026-08-24 · Score: 19

Generalist AI Adds $200M 8VC-Led Round Just Two Months After $400M June Raise at $2B

axios.com · 2026-08-24 · Score: 21

ALERT General Intuition Nearing $6B Pre-Money Round, Nearly Tripling Its $2.3B June Valuation

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-24 · Score: 28

XPeng Robotics Raises $900M+ at $6.3B Valuation in First External Round Led by IDG and Gaorong

reuters.com · 2026-08-24 · Score: 22

Beijing Humanoid Robot Runs 100m in 9.39 Seconds, Beating Usain Bolt's Human World Record

fortune.com · 2026-08-22 · Score: 24

FT: Unitree Founder Wang Xingxing Says Humanoid Robot Industry's 'ChatGPT Moment' Hasn't Arrived Yet

ft.com · 2026-08-22 · Score: 18

Nevada Approves Up to 8,000 Robotaxis From Tesla, Waymo and Uber for Clark County

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-21 · Score: 27

Reuters: US Army-Funded Research Seeded Unitree's Robot Dogs, MIT Engineer Says Dimensions Match 'to the Millimetre'

reuters.com · 2026-08-19 · Score: 23

Xiaomi Debuts First Full-Size Humanoid Robot at World Robot Conference, Cites 98% Precision on Auto Line

technode.com · 2026-08-19 · Score: 17

Amazon to Expand Prime Air Drone Delivery to Chicago, Atlanta and Three More Metros, Targeting ~500 Cities by Year-End

engadget.com · 2026-08-19 · Score: 18

ALERT Unitree Robotics Surges 629% on Shanghai Debut, Valuation Jumps From $9B Pricing to $66B

scmp.com · 2026-08-19 · Score: 29

Crunchbase: Physical AI Startups Raised $47.4B Across 521 Deals in H1 2026, Nearly 2x H1 2025

news.crunchbase.com · 2026-08-18 · Score: 22

CNN: Unitree Prices Record-Breaking Shanghai IPO at $9B Valuation Ahead of STAR Listing

cnn.com · 2026-08-18 · Score: 21

DEEP Robotics Deploys X30 Quadruped and Lynx M20 Robots for Chinese Fire and Hazmat First Response

interestingengineering.com · 2026-08-17 · Score: 17

SoftBank Leads $200M Series A Into ETH Zurich Spinout Gravis Robotics for Autonomous Excavators

siliconangle.com · 2026-08-17 · Score: 26

Wired: Unitree's G1 and R1 Humanoid Robots Fuel a Wave of Viral Social-Media Influencer Accounts

wired.com · 2026-08-15 · Score: 18

Tau Robotics Opens $30/Hour Humanoid Cleaning Pilot in San Francisco With Teleop Backup

cbsnews.com · 2026-08-11 · Score: 18

Uber Divests From Serve Robotics in Q2 as Delivery-Robot Partnership Unravels

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-11 · Score: 20

Alibaba DAMO releases RynnValue, a robotic value foundation model trained without preference labels

huggingface.co · 2026-08-10 · Score: 22

Chinese Firms Shipped 97% of the World's Humanoid Robots in H1 2026 as Volumes Nearly Quadrupled

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-10 · Score: 23

DeepSeek Buys $20.8M Stake in Unitree Shanghai IPO, Signs Joint Humanoid-Brain Pact

reuters.com · 2026-08-06 · Score: 23

BridgeVLA++ Paper Adds Spatio-Temporal Memory to 3D VLA, Hits 90.5% RLBench and 96% RMBench With 10 Demos

huggingface.co · 2026-08-05 · Score: 21

ALERT Amazon's Zoox Begins Charging for Robotaxi Rides in Las Vegas on August 10, First Paid Service

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 28

Uber Commits $10B+ to Roll Out 120K Driverless Vehicles Across 15+ Cities in 2026

cnbc.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 26

Moove Raises $250M at $2.1B Led by Mubadala to Build 'Nests' for Waymo Robotaxi Fleets

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 21

TfL Grants Wayve Robotaxis Private Hire Licenses, Clearing Uber's London Trial for Launch

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 22

Waymo opens driverless robotaxis to all Dallas residents, five months after invite-only launch

waymo.com · 2026-08-04 · Score: 18

Korean AI Chip Designer DeepX Closes Series D Tranche at $2.2B, Roughly 4x Prior Valuation

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-03 · Score: 21

Nikkei: Japanese Startups Rush Into Defense Drones as Tokyo Targets 91% Chinese Market Share

asia.nikkei.com · 2026-08-03 · Score: 18

Chinese VC Firms Rush to Raise New Funds After Three-Year Drought, Riding AI and Robotics Enthusiasm

ft.com · 2026-08-02 · Score: 19

Foundational Industries Raises $25M Seed to Build AI-Native Factories Starting With Data-Center Racks

fortune.com · 2026-07-30 · Score: 16

ShadowDancer Trains Video World Models on 'Shadow Pairs' of Same Dynamics, 86% Average Win Rate vs Olaf-World, Yume-1.5 and LingBot-World

huggingface.co · 2026-07-30 · Score: 20

ALERT Google DeepMind Ships Gemini Robotics 2, a Whole-Body VLA Suite With On-Device Variant That Adapts to New Robots in Hours

deepmind.google · 2026-07-30 · Score: 34

Amazon's Zoox Wins First US Approval for Paid Steering-Wheel-Free Robotaxis, Up to 5,000 Vehicles Over Two Years

reuters.com · 2026-07-30 · Score: 23

Huazhong-Huawei TurboVLA Runs Vision-Language-Action at 32 Hz on an RTX 4090 With Under 1 GB VRAM

huggingface.co · 2026-07-29 · Score: 23

Meta and NTU's HumanCLAW Benchmark Finds Top VLMs Solve Only 16.8% of Embodied 'Find-Navigate-Sit' Tasks

huggingface.co · 2026-07-29 · Score: 22

HKBU's TD-JEPA Mines Directed Temporal Costs From Reward-Free Trajectories, Lifts OGB-Cube 14.2 Points Over LeWM

arxiv.org · 2026-07-29 · Score: 18

Waymo Resumes Freeway Robotaxi Trips After Two-Month Construction-Zone Suspension, Starting in Phoenix

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-29 · Score: 24

HKBU's VisualPatchWorld Induces Executable Code World Models From Trajectories, Beats POMDP-Coder by 23.5 pts

huggingface.co · 2026-07-28 · Score: 18

Simple World Lab Ships HiFi-UMI, Says Robot-Free Human-Video Data Alone Can Train Deployable Manipulation Policies

huggingface.co · 2026-07-29 · Score: 20

Go Inc. Eyes Robotaxis and Acquisitions After Japan's Biggest IPO of 2026

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-19 · Score: 18

Newsletter Issues (23)

#527 Schools are choosing opposite futures for AI

2026-08-30 · 1 mentions

#524 What AI models are actually coming in the next six months?

2026-08-20 · 3 mentions

#517 What Happens When AI Runs Out of Content to Steal?

2026-07-29 · 4 mentions

#512 Robotics Is Moving Fast: IPOs, New Models, and Smarter Robots

2026-07-09 · 41 mentions

#508 The Cutting Edge, Across the Board

2026-06-28 · 13 mentions

World Models: $610M Bets the World Is Not a Token

2026-06-21 · 9 mentions

Robotics: Mobileye decides to compete with its own customers

2026-06-21 · 26 mentions

AI Applications: HSBC will only ship AI that returns $100M

2026-06-21 · 1 mentions

Generative AI: a 1.51TB open model just took the crown

2026-06-21 · 2 mentions

#502 Your AI can now spend your money — Visa wired it into ChatGPT

2026-06-11 · 7 mentions

Robotics: Wayve's end-to-end driver lands in Jeeps and Rams

2026-05-26 · 20 mentions

Machine Learning: a reasoning model just cracked Erdős

2026-05-26 · 2 mentions

World Models: Google Ships Omni, and the LLM Monopoly Cracks

2026-05-26 · 5 mentions

World Models: Google's Genie now simulates real streets, not just dreams

2026-05-21 · 2 mentions

Robotics: capex curve is finally bending toward physical AI

2026-04-25 · 17 mentions

#486 Apple is replacing Tim Cook because of AI

2026-04-22 · 5 mentions

#485 When AI teaches AI, it teaches in secret

2026-04-19 · 13 mentions

World Models: Forrester just made physical AI Tier 1

2026-04-18 · 14 mentions

Robotics: A humanoid you can buy for $42,000

2026-04-18 · 24 mentions

#484 Your AI chats can be used against you in court

2026-04-16 · 4 mentions

#481 Musk wants Altman fired, Anthropic passes OpenAI, Meta goes closed

2026-04-09 · 2 mentions

#458 Issue #458: From

2025-12-16 · 4 mentions

#466 Issue #466: Everything Elon & AI special edition

2026-02-19 · 8 mentions