Atom News
Latest Atom news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $38M raised. 12 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Atom
Atom is a Japanese humanoid robotics company founded by Shunsuke Aoki in 2025. The startup develops bipedal humanoid robots designed to operate in environments built for people, combining physical AI software with humanoid hardware for manufacturing, logistics and transportation tasks.Key facts
Funding rounds
- Seed — $19M — 2026 — led by ANRI
- Seed — $19M — 2026 — led by ANRI, Beyond Next Ventures and JAFCO Group
Latest Atom news
- Infleqtion Hits 30 Entangled Logical Qubits On Sqale, A Fault-Tolerance Milestone — NYSE-listed Infleqtion says its Sqale neutral-atom quantum computer produced 30 fully entangled logical qubits from just 80 physical atoms, backed by...
- Boston Dynamics IPO Unlikely In 2027 As Hyundai Prioritises Atlas Rollout — A senior Hyundai executive told Reuters a 2027 IPO for Boston Dynamics 'won't be easy', pushing the listing behind a factory build-out that targets 30...
- Pasqal, LG CNS Sign Three-Year Quantum-AI Data Center Pact — On the sidelines of the France-Korea State Visit, Pasqal signed a three-year MoU with LG CNS to embed neutral-atom quantum computers into LG's AI Haus...
- NSK And Atom Sign MoU To Build Japan's Humanoid Robotics Base — Precision-component giant NSK and Tokyo humanoid startup Atom agreed to jointly test humanoid actuators and collect physical-AI training data inside N...
- Vbot Unveils 1.6-Meter ATOM Humanoid, Opens Pre-Orders At WRC 2026 — Beijing embodied-AI startup Vbot took the stage at WRC 2026 to unveil ATOM, a 1.6-meter, 31-DOF humanoid designed for living spaces, and opened pre-or...
- Nvidia In Early Talks With South Korea's Rebellions For Deal Or Buyout — Jensen Huang met Rebellions CEO Sunghyun Park at Nvidia HQ to discuss investment, partnership or acquisition of the $2.3B Korean AI inference chip sta...
- Sizhen Chip and USTC Demonstrate 16-Qubit On-Chip Photonic Quantum Computing — The Hefei team encoded a 4-photon, 16-qubit GHZ state on a single silicon photonic chip and ran Grover's search at 98.7% accuracy, opening a plausible...
- Infleqtion To Deploy Fault-Tolerant Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer At Illinois Park — Infleqtion said it will deliver a fault-tolerant, NVIDIA NVQLink-integrated neutral-atom quantum computer to the Illinois Quantum & Microelectronics P...
- SAXON Q Ships First 100+ Qubit Room-Temperature Diamond Quantum Computers — Leipzig-based SAXON Q announced commercial availability of the 128-qubit SXQ128 and 512-qubit SXQ512, the first diamond nitrogen-vacancy quantum compu...
- QuiX Quantum Unveils Carina, First Universal Photonic Quantum Computer For Data Centers — Dutch-German QuiX Quantum has delivered Carina, the world's first universal photonic quantum computing architecture designed for customer data-center...
- Japan's Atom Raises $19M Seed for Humanoid Robotics New Species — Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Atom has closed a 3 billion yen (~$19M) seed round co-led by ANRI, Beyond Next Ventures and JAFCO Group to scale...
- Japan's Atom Raises ¥3B Seed to Build Bipedal Humanoid Robots for Industry — ANRI, Beyond Next Ventures and JAFCO co-led the Tokyo startup's seed round to develop bipedal humanoids for manufacturing and logistics.