Airbus News
Latest Airbus news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
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- UBTECH, Galbot, AGIBOT Lock In Factory Orders As VLA Models Reset China Humanoid Race — — As Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games ends, UBTECH, Galbot and AGIBOT hold hundred-million-dollar factory orders from BYD, Foxconn, CATL and...
- Arianespace Sets Aug 27 for Ariane 6's First Geostationary Mission — — Ariane 62 will loft the MTG-I2 weather satellite for EUMETSAT and ESA on August 27, 2026 — Ariane 6's first flight to geostationary transfer orbit.
- P-1 AI Raises $50M Series A Led By NEA, Adds Jeff Immelt To Board — — San Mateo engineering-AI startup P-1 AI has closed a $50 million Series A led by New Enterprise Associates to scale Archie, an agentic AI engineer for...
- flynas Firms Up 5 A330-900s And 20 A321neos At Farnborough Airshow 2026 — — Saudi Arabia's flynas firmed up an additional 25 Airbus aircraft — five A330-900s and 20 A321neos — at Farnborough 2026, taking its total firm Airbus...
- Airbus Unveils €5B Buyback, Nearly Doubles 2029 Profit Target — — Airbus launched a €5 billion three-year buyback and hiked its 2029 core-profit target to €12–€13 billion, sending shares up more than 5% on day three...
- Airbus Launches Three-Year A321neo Flight Test For Wing Of Tomorrow — — Airbus used Farnborough International Airshow 2026 to unveil a three-year A321neo flight test campaign for its Wing of Tomorrow high-span wing program...
- Turkish Airlines Taps CAE For Five Full-Flight Simulators At Farnborough — — Turkish Airlines has signed a multi-year deal with CAE for five Level D full-flight simulators and two A350 training devices, deepening a nearly 30-ye...
- British Business Bank Proposes £100M UK Aerospace Supply Chain Fund at Farnborough — — The British Business Bank formally proposed a £100 million debt fund for UK aerospace suppliers at Farnborough 2026, backed by GKN Aerospace, Airbus,...
- Airbus And Air Canada Launch USD 10M Joint Fund To Scale Canadian SAF At Farnborough — — Airbus and Air Canada unveiled a jointly funded Sustainability Co-Investment Platform at Farnborough 2026, pledging up to CAD 13.7 million to stand up...
- IndiGo Signs Record 1,000-Plus LEAP-1A MoU With CFM At Farnborough 2026 — — IndiGo has signed a landmark MoU with CFM International for more than 1,000 LEAP-1A engines to power 510 A320neo family jets, plus a new India MRO fac...
- Riyadh Air Locks In 28 More Boeing 787s, Converts 20 To Stretched 787-10 — — Saudi Arabia's new flag carrier firms up 28 additional Boeing 787 Dreamliners at Farnborough 2026 and switches 20 of them to the larger 787-10 variant...
- British Airways Picks Pratt & Whitney GTF For Up To 63 Airbus A320neos — — BA opens Farnborough by choosing the GTF over CFM's LEAP-1A to power 33 firm and 30 optional A320neo jets, with a 12-year EngineWise service deal atta...
- BOC Aviation Firms Up 300 CFM LEAP Engines In Largest-Ever Order At Farnborough — — The Singapore-based lessor kicks off the 2026 Farnborough Airshow with a 200 LEAP-1A + 100 LEAP-1B split, its biggest engine transaction ever.
- Honeywell Wins Historic 810-Aircraft IndiGo Deal At Farnborough — — IndiGo has picked Honeywell Aerospace to supply avionics and 131-9A auxiliary power units for its 810 incoming Airbus A320neo family jets, the largest...
- Boeing And Airbus Race To Lock Down SMBC's 100-Jet Narrowbody Order At Farnborough — — One of the marquee deals of Farnborough 2026 lands in Hampshire this week: Dublin-based lessor SMBC Aviation Capital is close to committing to about 1...
- Quantum Systems Closes $1.2B Series D At $8B, Doubles Down On Land And Sea — — Munich-based drone maker Quantum Systems raised $1.2 billion in a Blackstone-led Series D, doubling its valuation to $8 billion and vowing to become E...
- PsiQuantum Bets 100 Cabinets Of Photons Will Beat The Quantum Race — — MIT Technology Review's deep look at PsiQuantum lays out how the company plans to line up 100 refrigerated cabinets of photonic chips into the first u...
- Airbus And MTU Aero Engines Launch Hydrogen Fuel Cell Engine JV — — Airbus and MTU Aero Engines will stand up a joint venture in 2027 to develop and commercialise a fully electric hydrogen fuel cell engine for future a...
- Airbus Wins ESA Contract To Build Aeolus-2 Wind-Profiling Satellite — — The European Space Agency has picked Airbus Defence and Space to build Aeolus-2, the operational follow-on to the pioneering 2018 wind-measuring lidar...
- NATO Buys Up To Five Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton Drones At Ankara Summit — — Denmark, Finland, Germany and Norway will procure up to five MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft as NATO expands its ISR fleet, with Airbus and other Europ...