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Product launches, acquisitions and technology in industrial robotics, separate from our long-form guides in our articles.
FORT Robotics to Go Public via SPAC at $556.6M Valuation
FORT Robotics will list on Nasdaq as FROB via a merger with Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp, valuing the safety-infrastructure maker at $556.6M as it reports 62% revenue growth alongside real margin compression.
Category
acquisition
Date
Aug 20, 2026
Status
Developing
LG's CLOiD Robot Graduates From CES Demo to Factory Pilot
LG will pilot its CLOiD robot on a real Tennessee factory line in 2026 and previewed a bipedal humanoid built on NVIDIA chips for a 2027 reveal.
Category
technology
Date
Aug 18, 2026
Status
Developing
AutoStore Signs Global Supply Framework With Amazon
AutoStore signed a global strategic supply agreement with Amazon on Aug. 13 — a non-binding framework with no purchase volumes or timeline disclosed.
Category
industry
Date
Aug 17, 2026
Status
Developing
Digit v5's Safety Claim Rests on an NVIDIA-Certified Chip
Agility Robotics calls Digit v5 'cooperatively safe.' That claim rests on an NVIDIA IGX Thor chip with a SIL 3-certified functional-safety island.
Category
technology
Date
Aug 16, 2026
Status
Developing
Robot Orders Rise 4.3% in Q2 as Electronics, Cobots Lead
North American robot orders rose 4.3% in units, 21.3% in value in Q2 2026 as electronics and life sciences offset automotive OEM's decline, per A3.
Category
industry
Date
Aug 12, 2026
Status
Developing
Tate Deploys 58 Hirebotics Cobot Welders, Lifts Output 12x
Tate Inc. has fielded 58 Hirebotics Cobot Welders across three US plants, citing 12x per-welder throughput gains — and more welders hired, not fewer.
Category
industry
Date
Aug 11, 2026
Status
Developing
Regal Rexnord's Thomson CTU Wins FANUC Approval for CRX Cobots
Thomson's Movotrak Cobot Transfer Unit is now FANUC-approved for CRX cobots, extending horizontal reach up to 10 meters with built-in collision detection.
Category
product
Date
Aug 9, 2026
Status
Developing
FCC Adds Foreign-Made Mobile Robots to Its Covered List
A July 28 FCC notice bars new foreign-made AMRs, quadrupeds and humanoids from US authorization — the first time mobile robots hit this security list.
Category
industry
Date
Aug 8, 2026
Status
Developing
FCC Restricts, HII Invests: Policy Reshapes Robot Supply Chains
FCC restricts foreign mobile robots while HII commits $900M to domestic shipbuilding, as this week's AI claims span wildly different evidence tiers.
Category
digest
Date
Aug 8, 2026
Status
Analysis
HII Signs Up to $900M Milestone-Gated Deal With Two Robotics Startups
HII will award Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics up to $900M in Navy shipbuilding work over seven years — but only as each clears staged technology and performance milestones.
Category
technology
Date
Aug 7, 2026
Status
Developing
Avnet, Weston Robot Launch Quadruped Inspection Platform
Avnet and Singapore's Weston Robot unveiled an edge-AI inspection platform on a Unitree quadruped, a 50-TOPS 'backpack' that lines up with AMD's new X100 chip family.
Category
technology
Date
Aug 6, 2026
Status
Developing
KUKA's AMP Orchestration Platform Goes Live at Ohio Jeep Plant
KUKA's new AMP software platform is live at KTPO, the Ohio plant building every Jeep Wrangler body since 2006, starting with AMR fleet orchestration.
Category
technology
Date
Aug 4, 2026
Status
Developing
Doosan Robotics Posts 290% Q2 Revenue Growth, Loss Narrows
Doosan Robotics grew Q2 2026 revenue 290% YoY to ₩17.7B on its ONExia buyout and 127% US growth, but the cobot maker still posted a ₩14.4B operating loss.
Category
earnings
Date
Aug 3, 2026
Status
Analysis
mimic robotics' FLUX-mimic Video-Action Model Goes Live at Audi
Swiss startup mimic robotics built FLUX-mimic on Black Forest Labs' video model, and it's now running soft-body assembly tasks at Audi's Production Lab.
Category
technology
Date
Aug 3, 2026
Status
Developing
ABB Posts Record $12B Orders, Advances $5.5B Rotork Deal
ABB booked record Q2 2026 orders of $12.04B (+28% comparable) and 20.2% EBITA margin, as its $5.5B Rotork deal and robotics divestment both advance.
Category
earnings
Date
Aug 1, 2026
Status
Analysis
July 2026: Humanoids Hit Inflection — $6B Sovereign, $2B Capital
Japan's trillion-yen Noetra bet, a US SPAC debut, and China's IPO wave mark humanoid robotics' July shift from moonshot to funded infrastructure.
Category
digest
Date
Aug 1, 2026
Status
Analysis
Yaskawa Q1 Profit Falls 19% as Robotics Unit Absorbs ERP, Reform Costs
Yaskawa's Q1 FY2026 revenue rose 10.6% to ¥139B, but profit fell as Robotics profit collapsed 82% on ERP and reform costs; Motion Control profit rose 50%.
Category
earnings
Date
Aug 1, 2026
Status
Analysis
Robotics Earnings Split: Cobots Surge, Yaskawa Stumbles, ABB Exits
Teradyne Robotics grew 33%, Yaskawa's robot profit fell 82%, and ABB's robotics exit firmed up — three earnings that show hardware money chasing data centers, not arms.
Category
digest
Date
Aug 1, 2026
Status
Analysis
Teradyne Robotics Posts 5th Straight Growth Quarter, Up 33%
Teradyne Robotics — Universal Robots' cobots and MiR's AMRs — booked $100M in Q2 2026 revenue, up 33% year-over-year, a fifth straight growth quarter.
Category
earnings
Date
Jul 31, 2026
Status
Developing
Techman's AI Cobots Run Automotive AOI at Quanta's Germany Plant
Techman's AI cobots now run optical inspection on ADAS/EV ECU lines at parent Quanta's German plant, though neither firm named the model deployed.
Category
industry
Date
Jul 28, 2026
Status
Developing
AMD Launches Open Robotics Partner Network, Ryzen AI X100 Chips
AMD unveiled an open Robotics Partner Network and Ryzen AI Embedded X100 processors — up to 16 Zen 5 cores, 40 GPU CUs, 50 TOPS — aimed at physical AI.
Category
technology
Date
Jul 27, 2026
Status
Developing
KUKA's iiQKA.OS2 First Robot OS Certified to IEC 62443-4-2 SL2
iiQKA.OS2, KUKA's robot operating system, earns Security Level 2 cybersecurity certification under IEC 62443-4-2, aligned with EN ISO 10218-1:2025.
Category
technology
Date
Jul 26, 2026
Status
Developing
Eclipse Automation Gets $6M Federal Grant for Digital Mfg Hub
Ottawa is putting $6 million CAD into Eclipse Automation's new Neuron Centre, part of a $40.5M regional package backing the Cambridge, Ontario integrator's push into digital twins and Apple Vision Pro-based factory simulation.
Category
industry
Date
Jul 25, 2026
Status
Developing
Elite Robots Backs Generalist AI's GEN-1 With Cobot Validation
Chinese cobot maker Elite Robots says its arms ran 1,800+ zero-intervention block stackings for Generalist AI's GEN-1 foundation model, largely repackaging figures from Generalist's own April model launch rather than new independent results.
Category
technology
Date
Jul 25, 2026
Status
Developing
NEURA Robotics Opens 3,000m² Physical AI Gym With RWTH Aachen
NEURA Robotics and RWTH Aachen University are building a 3,000-square-meter Physical AI training facility on Aachen's Hightech Campus Melaten, one of ten NEURA Gyms the German robotics firm says it has under development worldwide.
Category
technology
Date
Jul 25, 2026
Status
Developing
Humanoid Capital Chases Proof, Not Specs, as Data Becomes the Moat
Three China humanoid raises target IPO or deployment proof, while NEURA, Generalist AI and Kawasaki treat data and integration as the real bottleneck.
Category
digest
Date
Jul 25, 2026
Status
Analysis
Kawasaki's RL030N 8-DoF Arm Powers Dexterity's Physical-AI Warehouse Push
Kawasaki Robotics and Dexterity are expanding their collaboration around the RL030N, an 8-degree-of-freedom arm built specifically for Dexterity's AI-trained warehouse manipulator, targeting trailer loading and unloading at production scale.
Category
product
Date
Jul 24, 2026
Status
Developing
AGIBOT Debuts Four Robots at WAIC, Points to a Factory Deployment as Proof
AGIBOT unveiled four new robots at WAIC 2026 and leaned on a real deployment, not a demo, for credibility: 3,000 G2 units per shift on a Longcheer tablet line, per the company.
Category
product
Date
Jul 21, 2026
Status
Developing
Unitree Clears $618M STAR Market IPO as China's Humanoid Funding Race Accelerates
China's securities regulator approved Unitree Robotics' roughly $618M Shanghai IPO, a rare profitable humanoid maker going public days after two more Chinese and Toyota-backed humanoid startups closed nine-figure rounds.
Category
acquisition
Date
Jul 21, 2026
Status
Developing
Humanoid Capital Surge and Japan's $6B AI Bet
Agility and AI² raise over $1.3B while Japan commits $6.1B to Noetra — industrial humanoids and sovereign physical AI reshape the mid-2026 capital stack.
Category
digest
Date
Jul 18, 2026
Status
Analysis
OMRON Expands LD Series AMRs: 150kg and 300kg Payloads for Q4 2026
OMRON's LD-150 and LD-300 AMRs bring 150kg/300kg payloads, 30-minute wireless charging, and ISO 3691-4 compliance to logistics floors in Q4 2026.
Category
product
Date
Jul 17, 2026
Status
Developing
FANUC, Yaskawa, Kawasaki, Fujitsu Join NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition
FANUC, Yaskawa, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and Fujitsu will integrate NVIDIA's Cosmos physical-AI stack, backed by Japan's ¥387.3B robotics AI investment.
Category
technology
Date
Jul 17, 2026
Status
Developing
Productive Robotics Brings 7-Axis OB7 Family to IMTS 2026
Productive Robotics will show its five-model OB7 collaborative robot line at two IMTS 2026 booths, pitching zero-programming setup and a 7th axis for CNC-heavy manufacturers.
Category
product
Date
Jul 16, 2026
Status
Developing
Japan Launches $6B Noetra Consortium to Deploy 10M Robots by 2040
Japan's METI is backing the SoftBank-led Noetra group with up to ¥1 trillion ($6.1B) over five years, targeting 10 million AI robots deployed by 2040.
Category
industry
Date
Jul 15, 2026
Status
Analysis
Mistral's Robostral Navigate Guides Robots With a Single Camera
Mistral AI's first embodied-navigation model, Robostral Navigate, moves robots through complex spaces using only a plain RGB camera, no LiDAR or depth sensors required.
Category
technology
Date
Jul 14, 2026
Status
Developing
AI² Robotics Raises $735M for Wheeled Humanoid
China's AI² Robotics raised about $735M at a $2.8B valuation to scale AlphaBot, a wheeled humanoid built for factories and warehouses, not homes.
Category
acquisition
Date
Jul 13, 2026
Status
Developing
Agility Robotics to Go Public in $2.5B SPAC Deal
Agility Robotics will list via a Churchill Capital Corp XI SPAC merger at a $2.5B valuation, taking its Digit warehouse humanoid to public markets.
Category
acquisition
Date
Jul 13, 2026
Status
Developing
ABB's Flexley Stack F712 Completes Its vSLAM AMR Line
ABB Robotics launched the Flexley Stack F712, a camera-navigated autonomous forklift rated for 2,000 kg loads, completing its visual-SLAM AMR portfolio.
Category
product
Date
Jul 11, 2026
Status
Developing
Robotics' Week: Real-World Data and the Move to Fleets
Two launches this week chase real-world data over curated setups, autonomy scales from cell to fleet, and the week's boldest promise still has not shipped.
Category
digest
Date
Jul 11, 2026
Status
Analysis
UR AI Trainer: Closing Robotics' Lab-to-Factory Data Gap
Universal Robots and Scale AI's leader-follower cobot system captures real factory data to train robot AI models. The promised dataset has not shipped yet.
Category
technology
Date
Jul 10, 2026
Status
Analysis
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