Household electrification is becoming mainstream in parts of Europe. According to the European Heat Pump Association, Lithuania recorded Europe’s highest heat pump sales rate in 2025, with 46 units per 1,000 households. Each new unit adds another controllable load to the grid. Utilities, building owners, and energy startups need software that coordinates these loads with […]
AGIBOT unveiled its AHA3 integrated platform, GO-3 Preview, and WITA-Omni 1.0 model, as well as the G2 Max robot and Link-U OS 1.0 framework. The post AGIBOT introduces Worken to measure robot productivity at AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report .
Faraday Future is best known as an electric vehicle company, but it is increasingly positioning robotics as a major part of its future, describing itself more broadly as a “physical AI ecosystem company”. The California-based company is now trying to build a US robotics business around technology and products that currently rely substantially on Chinese […]
Neura Robotics and the Technical University of Munich have opened a €17 million robotics research and training center near Munich Airport, while unveiling the latest generation of Neura’s 4NE1 humanoid robot. The TUM RoboGym powered by Neura covers more than 2,300 square meters at LabCampus and combines robotics research, training and industrial applications. Built in […]
Maxinsights has raised $30 million in seed funding to expand its physical AI data platform, which pays people to record everyday activities such as cooking, cleaning and other work to generate training data for robots and AI models. The company was founded by robotics and autonomous-driving veterans, with its wider engineering team including former employees […]
Robot demand from automotive component manufacturers nearly doubled in Q3, as other sectors posted strong gains, reported A3. The post North American robot orders climb 24.8% in Q3 of 2026, says A3 appeared first on The Robot Report .
Symbotic’s growth with Walmart shows how an anchor customer can fund a robotics startup’s scale while creating risks around customer concentration, contractual restrictions and the challenge of building a diversified, repeatable business. The post What Symbotic’s Walmart growth teaches robotics startups about anchor customers appeared first on The Robot Report .
Robotics companies are continuously expanding into new markets. As a result, many businesses are setting up offices in multiple countries or hiring remote international workers to accommodate their growth. While this is helping robotics businesses scale their operations, it does come with its fair share of challenges. One of the biggest is managing payroll. So, […]
By Nathan Spitalny, CEO of RDE Technologies Walk through most small and mid-sized plants and you’ll find them: the Windows box running the HMI on line two, the SCADA workstation in the control room, the engineering laptop that only comes out when a PLC program needs changing. They keep production moving, and they are often […]
Warp Sciences has co-founders from OpenAI, Meta, and more, plus funding to build infrastructure for automated drug discovery in the U.S. The post Warp Sciences emerges from stealth, to apply robotics to drug research appeared first on The Robot Report .
In one case showcased by WorldOracle, a robot's grasp missed, yet the world model predicted that the robot had successfully picked up the fruit. The post WorldOracle Tests Whether World Models Can Reliably Predict Real-World Executions appeared first on The Robot Report .
Fort Robotics, a developer of security systems for physical AI, has announced approximately $20 million in new commitments from existing investors, expanding the capital available to support Fort’s next phase of growth. Tiger Global is leading an approximately $10 million financing, with participation from Mark Cuban Companies, that is expected to close this week. Tiger […]
