Partnerships News
Strategic partnerships, licensing agreements, and joint ventures.
- Mint, Yunji and Rice Robotics Sign Service Robot Development Deal — — Mint's Axonex subsidiary signed a customized development contract with Beijing Yunji Technology and Rice Robotics to co-build a next-generation commer...
- Bear Robotics And BOWE IQ Team Up To Cut Carti 100 Warehouse Integration By 40% — — Bear Robotics has partnered with UK integrator BOWE IQ to slash Carti 100 AMR warehouse integration times by up to 40% across the UK and Europe.
- Anthropic, Macquarie And GIC Launch Theseus Infrastructure To Build Dedicated Claude Data Centres — — Anthropic is teaming with Macquarie Asset Management and Singapore's GIC to establish Theseus Infrastructure, a new platform that will develop, own an...
- Guident Extends 36-Month WatchBot AI Safety Deal With Coastal Waste — — Guident extended a multi-year AI safety agreement with Coastal Waste & Recycling, deploying WatchBot autonomous inspection robots and AI analytics acr...
- Meta Quietly Becomes One of Microsoft's Largest AI Customers on Azure — — Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on AI models via Microsoft's Azure Foundry marketplace, running trillions of tokens each week...
- UK Signs AI Defence Pact With Ukraine, Taps Avengers AI Labs Data — — Prime Minister Andy Burnham and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a 100-year AI defence partnership giving British startups Sintela, Mind Foundry a...
- FormationQ And STFC Hartree Centre Team Up To Push UK Quantum Adoption — — FormationQ and the UK's STFC Hartree Centre sign a strategic partnership to move quantum, AI and hybrid HPC out of pilots and into enterprise deployme...
- SUPCON And Certis Join Forces To Scale Security Robots Into Live Operations — — China's SUPCON Technology and Singapore's Certis Group sign a strategic cooperation to move security robots from stand-alone trials into 24/7 operatio...
- Samsung And Broadcom Ink $200B MOU To Power AI Silicon Through 2030 — — Samsung Electronics and Broadcom expanded their multi-year collaboration to more than $200B across memory, 2nm foundry and advanced packaging, positio...
- Robot.com Locks In Seven-Year Sodexo Deal For Autonomous Campus Delivery — — Robot.com signed a seven-year commercial agreement with Sodexo, its biggest single-enterprise deployment, expanding Level 4 sidewalk delivery across N...
- Elbit-Serbia Joint UAV Factory To Open Near Belgrade In September — — Serbia and Israel's Elbit Systems will inaugurate a majority Elbit-owned UAV manufacturing plant in the Šimanovci industrial zone between September 15...
- NVIDIA Teams With Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone And Three More To Mobilize $500B For AI Compute — — NVIDIA has signed MoUs with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to launch independent AI compute-infrastructure financing...
- NVIDIA Backs Cloverleaf Infrastructure To Fast-Track U.S. AI Factory Sites — — Cloverleaf Infrastructure and NVIDIA formed a strategic partnership on August 21, 2026, with NVIDIA taking a minority stake and standardising on the D...
- AeroVironment To Build UAS And Counter-Drone Plant In Greece Via AV Eagle JV — — AeroVironment will manufacture unmanned aircraft, loitering munitions and counter-UAS systems in Greece through AV Eagle, a majority-owned joint ventu...
- Nvidia Strikes Unusual $6B Poolside Licensing Deal Plus $1B Investment — — Nvidia will pay Poolside $6B in a non-exclusive licensing deal, add $1B in equity at a $12B pre-money valuation and hire 109 of its engineers.
- BASiC Semiconductor And UBTECH Ink SiC Power-Device Pact For Humanoid Robots — — Hong Kong-listed BASiC Semiconductor (9971.HK) and Walker S2 maker UBTECH Robotics will co-develop silicon-carbide power electronics for humanoid robo...
- Marvell Gives Google Option To Buy $12.2 Billion Stake In Custom AI Chip Deal — — Marvell Technology will help design Google's next-generation custom AI chips and has issued the Alphabet unit a warrant to buy up to $12.2 billion in...
- AMD Signs Oxford BOLD Lab MOU, Pledges $6.7M Compute For UK Frontier AI — — AMD will supply up to £5 million (about $6.7M) in compute over 18 months to the University of Oxford-led British Open-ended Learning and Discovery Lab...
- Waymo Named First Autonomous Ride-Hailing Partner Of Las Vegas Raiders — — Waymo becomes the first-ever autonomous vehicle sponsor of an NFL team, giving Allegiant Stadium fans a dedicated robotaxi pickup zone, VIP upgrades a...
- Sony and TSMC to invest $6.4 billion in Kumamoto image sensor joint venture — — Sony Group and TSMC are in talks to invest a combined $6.4 billion in a Kumamoto image-sensor fab, targeting 2029 production for automotive and roboti...