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Monolithos opens Robot Brain alpha for robot memory

Monolithos launched a public alpha of Robot Brain, a long-term memory system that stores a robot's task histor…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 9, 2026

第一交通産業 and NTTモビリティ tie up on autonomous regional transport

Daiichi Koutsu Sangyo and NTT Mobility signed a partnership on October 8 to test and deploy autonomous vehicle…

AI Watch (Impress)Oct 9, 2026

Danaher launches first AI powered autonomous laboratory

Danaher announced the launch of its first AI powered autonomous laboratory aimed at life sciences research acc…

Top Companies AIOct 8, 2026

SoftBank's 飯田唯史 warns humanoids should not be default

In a SoftBank dialogue, AI governance chief Tadashi Iida and expert Kyoko Yoshinaga said firms must justify hu…

Top Companies AIOct 8, 2026

Renesas develops first low-voltage GaN power semiconductor, targets AI servers and humanoids

Renesas has developed its first low-voltage GaN power semiconductor, working with EPC and drawing on its own d…

Top Companies AIOct 8, 2026Also reported by AI Watch (Impress)

Odyssey-3 world model controls robots and Flexion humanoids

Odyssey announced Odyssey-3, a world model that has shown it can control robots and humanoids, drive vehicles…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 8, 2026

TALOS finishes robot tests at solar plants; regulation is the barrier

The European TALOS project wrapped up three years of testing autonomous robots and AI at solar sites in Spain…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 8, 2026

Robbyant, AFDE sign MoU on robotics in Middle East

Robbyant, Ant Group's embodied AI company, and the Arab Federation for Digital Economy signed a Memorandum of…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 8, 2026

California sends cease-and-desist to Rek over human-vs-robot fight

The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to Rek CEO Cix Liv over a September 18…

The Verge AIOct 8, 2026

Stäubli robots and QING's STAQ grade 100,000 peaches an hour in Greece

At Agrophoenix's Greek plant, eight Stäubli SCARA robots run QING's AI- and vision-based STAQ system, grading…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 8, 2026

AWS launches open-source Physical AI Toolchain

AWS launched the open-source Physical AI Toolchain, bundling AWS services like SageMaker and IoT Greengrass wi…

The Robot ReportOct 8, 2026

Nvidia Halos targets robot safety beyond robotaxis

Nvidia's Halos system monitors "every hardware block" and "every software library" and isolates safety-critica…

Ars Technica AIOct 8, 2026

Lumistar shows TERO Pro AI tennis robot in New York

Lumistar demonstrated TERO Pro, its AI-powered tennis training robot, at the 96th Street clay courts in Manhat…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 8, 2026

Sereact, Zalando, CEVA put robots on returns in Greven, Świebodzin

Sereact, Zalando and CEVA Logistics launched AI-powered automated returns processing at fulfillment sites in G…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 8, 2026

Elon Musk: Optimus humanoid robots on sale by end of 2027

Elon Musk said Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots could go on sale to the public by the end of 2027, priced as li…

MIT Technology Review AIOct 8, 2026

AVEVA's Garg: Industrial AI adoption up 78% in two years

AVEVA chief technologist Arti Garg said industrial AI adoption rose almost 78% over the past two years, driven…

MIT Technology Review AIOct 8, 2026

Mecka AI raises $60 million Series B led by Sequoia

Mecka AI announced a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia, with Nvidia, Microsoft's venture fund M12 and others…

Yahoo Finance AIOct 8, 2026

Honda's P2 and ASIMO legacy explored in seminar with 竹中透

An online seminar, 【オンラインセミナー#31】, will feature Honda developer 竹中透 discussing the traces left by the P2 and A…

Top Companies AIOct 7, 2026

Caterpillar, CoreWeave cut physical AI data loop to hours

Caterpillar and CoreWeave, working with Nvidia, use AI models to annotate and label incoming field data from c…

Top Companies AIOct 7, 2026Also reported by SiliconANGLE AI

Danaher launches AI-powered autonomous lab for drug discovery

Danaher is launching an AI-powered autonomous lab for drug discovery

Top Companies AIOct 7, 2026

Hitachi, Fanuc lead Japan push into physical AI

Hitachi, Fanuc and other major Japanese manufacturers are forming partnerships to develop physical AI, with se…

Top Companies AIOct 7, 2026

Chinese logistics robots spread to Toyota and Komatsu

Chinese logistics robots are expanding their adoption in Japan, and Toyota and Komatsu are among the companies…

Top Companies AIOct 7, 2026

Faraday Future eyes US robot factory by end of 2026

Faraday Future plans a US robotics factory online by the end of 2026, with the first "Built in USA" robot due…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 7, 2026

DataraAI builds robots to cable AI servers, joins Arm Total Design

DataraAI is developing robotic arms to route cables, seat connectors and handle wiring harnesses in AI server…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 7, 2026

HiPHI dataset targets humanoid robot training gap

IEEE Spectrum and Wiley released a white paper on HiPHI, a 617.5-hour whole-body motion dataset with 245.7 hou…

IEEE Spectrum RoboticsOct 7, 2026

LG Electronics 3Q operating profit up 13.5%, misses forecasts

LG Electronics reported third-quarter operating profit up 13.5%, missing forecasts, and said it will direct ea…

DIGITIMES AsiaOct 7, 2026

Plus One CEO Erik Nieves: humans stay in the loop as robots advance

Plus One Robotics CEO Erik Nieves said faster humanoid robots reinforce the need for human oversight, citing a…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 7, 2026

Toyota, Komatsu adopt Chinese logistics robots in Japan

Chinese logistics robots are spreading in Japan, and Toyota, Komatsu and others have adopted them, with the la…

Top Companies AIOct 6, 2026

Daiwa House CVC backs US industrial humanoid maker Persona AI

Daiwa House's corporate venture capital arm invested in Persona AI, a US company developing industrial humanoi…

Top Companies AIOct 6, 2026

TwelveLabs' Pegasus 1.6 reads egocentric video for robots

TwelveLabs released Pegasus 1.6, which it says is its first model built for egocentric video

The Robot ReportOct 6, 2026

UT Austin: drone replanning only two or three times

Research from The University of Texas at Austin, led by Rohan Ghuge, found an autonomous vehicle can get most…

DRONELIFEOct 6, 2026

JEPA-Anything from PhAI Labs spans seven fields

A team led by PhAI Labs, with collaborators from Stanford, Oxford, and Princeton, introduced JEPA-Anything, bu…

THE DECODEROct 6, 2026

ITRI: hardware, AI, sensing to drive robot rollout

ITRI said robotics is shifting from traditional automation equipment into a productivity tool for every indust…

DIGITIMES AsiaOct 6, 2026

Aigen's Alchemy trains farm robots on new crops in under a week

Aigen says Element learned lettuce in its Alchemy simulation, then deployed to the field in under a week

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 6, 2026

Agile ONE enters production as CEO calls physical AI 10x automotive

Agile Robots CEO Zhaopeng Chen said at the company's Physical AI Media Day that "physical AI is going to be 10…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 6, 2026

Physical AI Robotics Drives Massive Memory Demand

On The AI Investor Podcast, co-hosts Eric Bleeker and Austin Smith discussed the future of robotics and how ph…

Yahoo Finance AIOct 6, 2026

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Reactor raises total $74 million with Nvidia backing

Reactor said it added Nvidia's venture capital arm and Sapphire Ventures to its cap table, bringing its total…

Fortune AIOct 6, 2026

Ency Software and Estun launch robot programming partnership

Ency Software and Estun began a technology partnership and completed integration work

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 6, 2026

Charm Care invests ¥300 million in donut robotics for eldercare humanoids

Charm Care Corporation, which runs more than 100 private nursing homes in the Kansai and Greater Tokyo areas…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 6, 2026

Teradyne invests in Bright Machines for AI infrastructure manufacturing

Teradyne announced a strategic investment in Bright Machines and a collaboration to integrate Teradyne robotic…

The Robot ReportOct 6, 2026

SafeWorld raises $12.2 million to simulate robot safety

SafeWorld emerged from stealth with $12.2 million in seed funding co-led by Shine Capital and a16z Speedrun, a…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 5, 2026

Reka AI's Rho-1 omni-model handles text, images, video and robot control

Reka AI released a research preview of Rho-1, a 19-billion-parameter omni-model that processes and generates t…

THE DECODEROct 5, 2026

FCC robot curbs push AI onto the machine

In July, the FCC added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices, including humanoids and quadrupeds, to a lis…

The Robot ReportOct 5, 2026

FAA awards $12 million for 19 drone research projects

The FAA awarded $12 million for 19 projects through its UAS Broad Agency Announcement Program, covering detect…

DRONELIFEOct 5, 2026

Sim-trained model with 90.2% success fails AWSIM, 0/4 finish

KSK's intermediate model, trained in a self-built GPU simulator, hit a 90.2% no-collision rate over 45 seconds…

Qiita 機械学習Oct 5, 2026

Walden Robotics spins out of Toyota Research Institute

Walden Robotics, which spun out of Toyota Research Institute in January 2026 and launched with $300 million in…

SiliconANGLE AIOct 5, 2026

NTT Docomo Business launches MEC×GPUaaS for physical AI

NTT Docomo Business unveiled two physical AI services: MEC×GPUaaS, which pairs a mobile-edge server with its G…

ITmedia AI+Oct 5, 2026

MSDF deploys six V-BAT surveillance aircraft from Shield AI

The Maritime Self-Defense Force introduced the V-BAT uncrewed reconnaissance aircraft and operates six of them…

Japan Times TechOct 5, 2026

Tesla cuts AI5 RAM to 72GB of LPDDR5, Musk says

Elon Musk said on X that Tesla cut RAM in half for AI5, to 72GB of LPDDR5, and by a third for AI6, to 144GB of…

Top Companies AIOct 4, 2026

Anthropic: robots can do 74% of physical tasks

Anthropic's economic research introduces a task-level robot exposure index and finds modern autonomous machine…

Exponential IndustryOct 4, 2026

Foxlink robot dog shows physical AI security push

In his column, Charlie Burgess points to Foxlink's "robot dog" presented at GTC Taipei 2025, which uses smart…

The Robot ReportOct 4, 2026

Yielding robots hit 74–77% on Penrose tiling

On a Penrose tiling floor with 90 tile vertices, robots with only integer addition and comparison guessed unse…

Zenn AI/MLOct 4, 2026

Seoul's Galaxy Robot Park draws crowds to dancing humanoid robots

At Seoul's Galaxy Robot Park in Gangdong district, crowds including small children and foreign visitors gather…

Nikkei AI StocksOct 3, 2026

Lightbringer: physical AI race goes to patent owners

Dominic Davies, CEO of patent firm Lightbringer, said the physical AI race will be won by whoever owns the tec…

The Robot ReportOct 3, 2026

Jev clears Pokémon Red, with Claude Opus 5 behind it

On September 23, 2026, Standard Agents said Jev beat Pokémon Red's Elite Four and Champion for a Hall of Fame…

Zenn AI/MLOct 3, 2026

FieldAI seeks $700 million at reported $10 billion value

FieldAI is reportedly seeking $700 million in funding at a valuation that could reach $10 billion, five times…

SiliconANGLE AIOct 3, 2026

Free 10/5 seminar on physical AI in manufacturing

A free online seminar for manufacturers will be held on Monday, October 5, covering the front lines of physica…

Top Companies AIOct 2, 2026

Daiwa House fund invests in Persona AI Inc

The Daiwa House Group Growth Fund, operated by Ignition Point Venture Partners and backed by Daiwa House Ventu…

Top Companies AIOct 2, 2026

Hitachi and Fanuc form Physical AI partnership, testing starts now

Hitachi and Fanuc announced a strategic Physical AI partnership on September 30, 2026, with internal testing s…

DIGITIMES AsiaOct 2, 2026

ALBATROSS robot autorotates to sea, sails on its own wings

Singapore University of Technology and Design developed ALBATROSS, a hybrid aerial-marine robot that autorotat…

IEEE Spectrum RoboticsOct 2, 2026

Michelle Lu left NVIDIA in 2022 to found Vsim

Michelle Lu, co-founder and CEO of Vsim Technology, appeared on Robot Talk Episode 164 to discuss using simula…

RobohubOct 2, 2026

Neura Robotics launches Neura HealthTech for hospitals

Neura Robotics set up Neura HealthTech, led by Sven Lange, to bring an autonomous mobile robot for empty-bed a…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 2, 2026

Anthropic study: 40 years for robots to take 10% of jobs

Anthropic's new study says that if robot prices decline along past trends, it will take 40 years for robots to…

Yahoo Finance AIOct 2, 2026

Astribot T1 humanoid hits North America at $18,000

Astribot debuted its T1 humanoid to North America at IROS 2026, held September 27 to October 1 in Pittsburgh…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 2, 2026

EQUES opens Naraha Town office to push AI in nuclear sector

EQUES opened its Naraha Town office on September 8, and in 2026 began an 'Energy AI' business applying physica…

AI Watch (Impress)Oct 2, 2026

Agibot, Chimelong put more than 300 robots into theme park

Agibot and Chimelong Group launched the first phase of an embodied AI deployment at Chimelong Spaceship Park…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 2, 2026

Flexiv shows force-controlled robots at IROS 2026

Flexiv demonstrated four force-controlled robot setups at IROS 2026, including a dual Rizon 4 teleoperation sy…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 2, 2026

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra sees humanoid robots as next AI memory driver

On Micron's fiscal Q4 2026 earnings call, CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said humanoid robots are expected to need memory…

Top Companies AIOct 1, 20261 question

RobotPlusPlus raises Series C to scale at-height robots

RobotPlusPlus closed a Series C worth "hundreds of millions of RMB (tens of millions of USD)" led by Qianggang…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 1, 2026

Flytrex rooftop drone docks target 60 percent cost cut

Flytrex launched rooftop docking and predictive AI positioning at active merchant locations across the Dallas-…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 1, 2026

Runway unveils Praxis-1, an open-weight robot AI model

Runway announced Praxis-1, its first open-weight world action model for controlling robots, built on the same…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 1, 2026

Spot 5.2 lets AI agents dispatch robots via MCP layer

Boston Dynamics released Spot 5.2, expanding Orbit fleet software with a Model Context Protocol layer that let…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 1, 2026

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