Robotics News The Robotics category covers news and analysis on industrial automation, humanoid and mobile robots, drones, surgical and service robotics, and the AI systems that power them. Readers find reporting on product launches, funding rounds, research breakthroughs, and regulatory developments from companies, startups, and labs worldwide. Coverage spans manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, agriculture, and defense applications.
Faraday Future Carves Out 25% Of FF EAI Robotics For Employee Stock Options — Sep 27, 2026 — Faraday Future has reserved roughly 25% of FF EAI Robotics' fully diluted equity for a core-team stock-option pool, an unusually large stake meant to...Agility Robotics Says Digit Won't Be Its Last Form Factor As It Weighs Wheeled Robots — Sep 27, 2026 — Digit maker Agility Robotics is quietly exploring wheeled robot form factors as CEO Jonathan Hurst argues customers need bots in operation now, not tw...Amazon Commits $100M To Build Fulfillment And Robotics Gear In Greenwood, Indiana — Sep 27, 2026 — Amazon will spend more than $100 million on a 585,000-square-foot factory in Greenwood, Indiana that starts producing fulfillment and robotics equipme...Skydio Debuts 100 MPH F10 Lightrunner Fixed-Wing Drone And MegaDock At Ascend 2026 — Sep 27, 2026 — Skydio pushed beyond quadcopters at its Ascend 2026 conference, unveiling the 100 mph F10 Lightrunner fixed-wing drone, a robotic MegaDock that launch...Amazon Pitches 1,000 Prime Air Drone Flights A Day From North Haven, Connecticut — Sep 27, 2026 — Connecticut Airport Authority briefed on Amazon Prime Air's plan to fly up to 1,000 MK30 drone deliveries a day from a North Haven warehouse pending F...Tesla Ramps Optimus To Hundreds Per Week As Hands And Generalization Still Bottleneck — Sep 27, 2026 — Tesla has scaled Optimus output from a few dozen units per week in Q2 to several hundred per week in August 2026, but hand assembly, sensor reliabilit...AGIBOT drops 300 humanoids into Chimelong Spaceship Park, hits 20,000-robot mark — Sep 27, 2026 — AGIBOT has integrated more than 300 embodied AI robots across Chimelong Spaceship Park in Zhuhai — the largest single-site rollout of humanoids to dat...RobotPlusPlus Brings HighMate Robots to SMM 2026 in Hamburg — Sep 26, 2026 — RobotPlusPlus unveiled an expanded HighMate line of coating, cleaning and surface-preparation robots at SMM 2026, days after closing its Series C.Zoox Grounds Atlanta Toyota Highlander Test Fleet After Toxic-Gas Symptoms — Sep 26, 2026 — Zoox has grounded its Atlanta Toyota Highlander test fleet after employees reported vomiting and lightheadedness; OSHA is investigating what looks lik...Zipline Asks FAA To Clear 220,000 Drone Deliveries A Day Across Texas — Sep 26, 2026 — Zipline is asking the FAA to sign off on 220,000 daily drone deliveries across five Texas metros - Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Amarillo and El Paso...Tesla Finally Puts The Semi Into Volume Production, Nine Years Late — Sep 26, 2026 — Tesla says it will build 50,000 electric Semis a year at a new factory next to the Reno Gigafactory, kicking off customer deliveries after nine years...Aurora Aims For 20 Driverless Trucks A Week As DaaS Pivot Takes Shape — Sep 26, 2026 — CEO Chris Urmson told a Morgan Stanley conference Aurora is spinning up 20 driverless-truck deliveries a week, cutting hardware costs in half and shif...FCC's Carr Claims $5B Drone Investment — The Math Mixes Cash, Valuations And Pledges — Sep 26, 2026 — FCC Chairman touts $5B into US drones at SBA summit, but the filing bundles cash, market caps and five-year promises.Seyond Pushes Hummingbird D1R LiDAR From Cars Into Robots At IROS 2026 — Sep 26, 2026 — The former Innovusion, having shipped 1M+ automotive LiDARs, scales the compact D1R for AMRs, forklifts and humanoids.CNH Bets Autonomous R4 Robot Can Ease Farmers' Labor And Cost Squeeze — Sep 26, 2026 — CNH's Luca Ferrari says agentic AI machines like the R4 vineyard robot can help farmers do more with fewer resources.Agility Robotics Explores Wheeled Robots Beyond Humanoid Digit — Sep 26, 2026 — CEO Jonathan Hurst confirms Agility is prototyping wheeled robots to widen its addressable market beyond the bipedal Digit platform.Modal Motors Bids To Cut China Out Of Drone And Actuator Motors — Sep 26, 2026 — US electric-motor startup Modal Motors unveiled its rare-earth-free Hybrid Enigma Drive at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on September 23 as a supply-chain a...Nexterity Debuts Bolted-Flange Robot To Automate Dangerous Pipefitting — Sep 26, 2026 — Ex-ExxonMobil engineer Lindsey Elliott unveiled Nexterity's battery-powered bolted-flange robot at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to take on the physically b...Toyota To Spend $6.4B A Year Deploying 400,000 Robots From 2028 — Sep 25, 2026 — Toyota will spend roughly 1 trillion yen a year from 2028 rolling out 400,000 humanoid and specialist robots across 60 global plants, using 18,000 tak...5 Million Industrial Robots Now In Factories Worldwide, IFR Says — Sep 25, 2026 — IFR says 5 million industrial robots are now installed globally, with China at 354,000 new units in 2025 and the US passing Japan for the number-two s...