Robotics stories on funding, deployments, policy and competition. Filter by category or company.
Policy
Neutral
Beijing Municipal Government
Nov 11, 2026
· today
The plan, issued by Beijing's economy and IT bureau, runs to the end of 2028. It aims for at least 5 internationally leading and 10 domestically leading humanoid makers, more than 50,000 PFlops of new compute dedicated to embodied AI, and over 1 million hours of data from at least 100 real settings. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is meant to reach 25% of China's whole-robot capacity with over 60% of key parts sourced locally.
Funding
Positive
Path Robotics
Nov 10, 2026
· yesterday
Georgian led the round, with Addition, Drive Capital, Tiger Global, Yamaha Motor Ventures, D. E. Shaw Ventures and NAVER Ventures. The Columbus company says annual recurring revenue grew 17-fold in 18 months and that it has raised more than $610M in total. Named customers include HII, Lockheed Martin and Saronic. The money goes to model training, new tasks beyond welding and new form factors such as Rove, its welder on a quadruped.
Research
Positive
Google DeepMind
Nov 10, 2026
· yesterday
DeepMind says the model beats its previous baseline by 30% to 100% in success rate across 200 tasks and finishes them 20% to 30% faster. In a proof of concept at Mercedes-Benz plants in Kecskemét, Hungary and Sindelfingen, Germany, Apollo 2 robots sorted metal brackets from bulk bins into sequencing trays with a 96% success rate. Access is limited to partners.
Policy
Neutral
Federal Register
Nov 10, 2026
· yesterday
The exclusions now run through 11:59 pm ET on January 9, 2027 (91 FR 72610). A second notice suspends the Section 301 action on China's maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sector to January 10, 2027 (91 FR 72608). Both are the U.S. side of the two-month trade-truce extension, which also covers China's rare-earth export-control pause.
Supply Chain
Positive
Hesai Group (SEC 6-K)
Nov 10, 2026
· yesterday
The Chinese lidar maker reported RMB 1,068.3M in quarterly revenue and 729,673 lidar units shipped. Its actuation modules, used in robot hands and now full-body joints, are in mass production. Hesai says it has partnered with JD.com, which plans to deploy more than 4 million robots, on lidar and perception.
Funding
Neutral
SEC EDGAR
Nov 10, 2026
· yesterday
One S-1 covers up to 160.9M shares held mostly by pre-merger holders (146.3M) and the SPAC sponsor. The other covers 20,102,500 shares that PIPE investors bought at $10, or $201M. About 242.1M shares are outstanding. Registration lets these holders sell once any lock-up ends.
Deployment
Neutral
Amazon
Nov 10, 2026
· yesterday
Ring Rover Cam, a robot that patrols a business on its own and streams up to 4K video, ships in the U.S. on December 16, 2026 for $999. Ring Drone Cam, which flies custom routes inside a home, ships on January 27, 2027 for $249. Both run Ring's AI Pilot software, which maps the space and plans routes using on-device sensors and cloud processing.
Policy
Negative
Medium confidence
TechCrunch
Nov 9, 2026
· 2 days ago
The Office of Defects Investigation filed the recall query on November 6 to assess whether the remedy was adequate, after most reported school-bus passing incidents came after Waymo finished its software update on November 17, 2025. The Austin school district reported at least five. Waymo says it has received no citations since March 2026 and will respond once it receives the query.
Research
Neutral
Medium confidence
Anthropic
Nov 9, 2026
· 2 days ago
In Anthropic's runs, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 29.8%, Google's Gemini 4 Argon 34.2% and Anthropic's earlier Opus 5.5 39.4%. RoboDojo is a simulated benchmark, and these scores come from Anthropic's internal runs. Robotera's VPP2 topped that leaderboard in October.
Deployment
Positive
Low confidence
Unite.AI
Nov 9, 2026
· 2 days ago
The agreement with Tianyi Telecom Terminals covers a joint lab, coordinated buying, rentals, bundled AI services and robot trials in China Telecom stores. The stated three-year goals are more than 1 million household companion robots and more than 100,000 humanoid or wheeled humanoid units across the industry. These are targets, not orders.
Competitive
Positive
Medium confidence
Pandaily
Nov 9, 2026
· 2 days ago
The Consumer Technology Association says nearly 4,000 products were entered and robotics entries rose 74%. ET1 is the only Best of Innovation winner among 21 robotics honorees. More honorees are due to be named when CES opens in Las Vegas in January.
Research
Neutral
The Robot Report
Nov 9, 2026
· 2 days ago
GR00T 2 is a 2B-parameter model that predicts video frames and actions together. NVIDIA reports 71% average success across 50 tasks from one demonstration each and 95% from five. A Turbo variant runs on a Unitree G1. The training data, SimFoundry and hardware designs are out now. Weights are due in December. Foxconn is testing it for server assembly and Siemens across industrial uses.
Research
Neutral
Robbyant (GitHub)
Nov 9, 2026
· 2 days ago
Ant Group's embodied-AI unit published code and two small checkpoints under Apache 2.0. The model learns one representation from magnetic, piezoresistive and camera-based touch sensors, and the team says it transfers to new sensors and robot hands without retraining. Only the inference encoder is released. Robbyant's LingBot-VLA already ships inside Hugging Face's LeRobot.
Funding
Neutral
Low confidence
Pedaily
Nov 9, 2026
· 2 days ago
The company was founded in November 2025 and an unnamed Asian private-equity fund led the round. Its Z100 is a wheeled two-arm robot with touch sensors in the gripper, aimed at plugging connectors on optoelectronics, electronics and chip lines. The company says one unit is already working on a production line. One outlet reports it.
Research
Neutral
The Robot Report
Nov 9, 2026
· 2 days ago
A Boston Dynamics engineer fitted wheels to Atlas's feet and trained rolling, pirouettes and switches between rolling and walking in simulation, then ran them on the robot. The company says a wheeled Atlas is a research testbed, not a product.
Geopolitics
Neutral
Reuters
Nov 9, 2026
· 2 days ago
The Commerce Ministry extended the pause on its October 2025 export controls, which were due to lapse on Nov 10, by two months. The extra 24% tariff on U.S. imports stays suspended (the 10% rate remains) and port fees on U.S.-linked ships stay waived. Trump is due in Shenzhen for APEC later this month.
Funding
Positive
NVIDIA
Nov 9, 2026
· 2 days ago
NVIDIA announced an investment in Point2 and planned investments in Motif Technologies, RLWRLD and Upstage, with no amounts given. RLWRLD builds foundation models for humanoid and industrial robots (part insertion, nut threading, kitting from moving conveyors). A second NVIDIA post says LG ran GR00T-trained manufacturing tasks on its CLOiD robot in a real factory.
Funding
Positive
Medium confidence
36Kr
Nov 9, 2026
· 2 days ago
Existing backers Xienuo and Yonghua followed on, and new investors include Greenland Group and Keli Sensing; the use of funds was not given. A March 36Kr profile put the Shanghai company, founded in 2024 by ex-DeepMind researcher Yang Fengyu, at a 1.8 billion yuan valuation with more than 100 home robots delivered a month.
Supply Chain
Neutral
Medium confidence
Seoul Economic Daily
Nov 9, 2026
· 2 days ago
The aim is to bring humanoids, mobile manipulators and AMRs into older fabs that still move wafer carriers on manual carts, then link charging data to manufacturing execution systems. The report gives no timeline, specification or robot suppliers.
Geopolitics
Neutral
CNBC
Nov 8, 2026
· 3 days ago
Independent directors and outside counsel will run the probe. The board says it has no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised. In an email to staff, Huang acknowledged an affair and said he will cooperate. The shares fell 4.3% on Nov 9, and members of Congress have asked questions.
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