Robotics News This Week This week's robotics & AI news — the biggest robot, humanoid, automation and AI stories published in the last 7 days (Nov 4–Nov 10, 2026) on The Robotics Media.
PORT Raises €14.5 Million to Push Urban Logistics From E-Bikes to Robots — Nov 10, 2026 — UK urban logistics firm PORT raised €14.5 million led by the EBRD to fund autonomous delivery vehicles, building on a network of 3,500 e-bikes and 24...Glasgow Children's Hospital Launches World-First Robotic Surgery Program — Nov 10, 2026 — Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow became the first children's hospital to own a surgical robot exclusively for pediatric care, completing over 30 op...Lootah Robotics Opens Dubai's First Humanoid Robot Showroom — Nov 10, 2026 — Lootah Robotics opened the UAE's first dedicated humanoid robotics showroom in Dubai with 28 robots priced up to $817,000, tied to a 200,000-robot nat...Wing Commits $125 Million to Build Delivery Drones in Fort Worth, Texas — Nov 10, 2026 — Alphabet's Wing will spend up to $125 million over two years on a 15,000-square-foot Fort Worth facility capable of building tens of thousands of deli...EABOT Raises $56M to Scale Driverless Heavy Trucks Across China's Mining Routes — Nov 10, 2026 — Shanghai's EABOT has raised roughly 400 million yuan ($56.1M) across two rounds to expand its autonomous heavy-duty trucking fleet, which already runs...TensorWorld Raises $105M Seed to Build Physics-Native AI Models for Robots — Nov 10, 2026 — China's TensorWorld (WuYuan Technology) has raised over $100 million across two seed rounds backed by Sequoia China, Ant Group and Meituan, to build f...OpenAI Raises $11B at $1.25T Valuation, Fueling Its Push Into Humanoid Robots — Nov 10, 2026 — OpenAI has closed $11 billion of a new round at a $1.25 trillion valuation, led by SoftBank and MGX, as the company builds toward a 2027 humanoid robo...NXP Launches a Unified Robotics Platform That Can Get a Drone Flying in 30 Minutes — Nov 10, 2026 — NXP Semiconductors debuted chip-and-software reference kits built on its Neural Axis Architecture, aiming to cut autonomous-drone development time wit...Tel Aviv's Sheba Medical Center Doubles Its Delivery Robot Fleet to Six as Deliverz.AI Expands — Nov 10, 2026 — Israel's largest hospital ordered three more autonomous delivery robots from Gix Internet's Deliverz.AI, doubling its fleet to six after the originals...Nvidia's GR00T 2 Lets Robots Learn New Skills From a Single Demo, No Retraining Required — Nov 10, 2026 — Nvidia unveiled GR00T 2 and Isaac Lab 3.0 at CoRL 2026, claiming a robot foundation model that hits 95% task success with just five demonstrations.Boston Dynamics Puts Atlas on Scooter Wheels to Push Its Humanoid Control Software to the Breaking Point — Nov 10, 2026 — Boston Dynamics bolted scooter rims onto Atlas's ankles to find out whether its learned whole-body controller still holds up when actuators are pushed...Puxing Aerospace Raises $42M Series A to Build a 1,024-Satellite Hyperspectral Constellation — Nov 9, 2026 — Chinese satellite startup Puxing Aerospace raised roughly 300 million yuan ($42 million) in combined Pre-A+ and Series A rounds to build optical paylo...EOS-X Space Raises $120M to Push Its Stratospheric Balloon Flights Toward a 2026 Launch — Nov 9, 2026 — Spanish space-tourism firm EOS-X Space raised €110 million ($120 million) led by Global Emerging Markets at a $1.2 billion valuation, funding a US exp...Nominal Raises $240M Series C to Build an AI Platform for Hardware Engineering — Nov 9, 2026 — Nominal tripled its valuation to $3 billion in eight months, landing $240 million led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Insight Partners to grow its...ABB's AI Robot Trainer Cuts Vision-System Setup Time by 90% — Nov 9, 2026 — ABB Robotics launched AI Robot Trainer for its OmniCore EyeMotion platform, claiming a 90% cut in commissioning time and 50% faster cycle times for ro...Physicl Raises $10 Million to Fix Physical AI's Edge-Case Data Problem — Nov 9, 2026 — Paris-based Physicl raised a $10 million seed round to build synthetic training data that targets the specific scenarios where physical AI models fail...Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Nears 1,300 Vehicles as San Antonio Launch Opens Its Biggest Geofence Yet — Nov 9, 2026 — Tesla launched robotaxi service in San Antonio on November 9 with a 272-square-mile geofence, its largest yet, as its Texas fleet closes in on Waymo's...Machina Labs Wins $9 Million Pentagon Deal to Build Attack-Drone Factories in a Month — Nov 9, 2026 — Machina Labs will use AI-guided robotic arms to press metal airframes for the Pentagon's LUCAS attack drone under a new $9 million, 18-month contract.Theseus Robotics' Theo Promises 400 Shelf Restocks an Hour, No Retrofit Required — Nov 9, 2026 — YC-backed Theseus Robotics exited stealth with Theo, a wheeled-humanoid system that claims to restock supermarket shelves overnight at up to 400 units...UniX AI Raises $70.5M Pre-Series A to Scale Humanoid Robots for Hotels and Retail — Nov 9, 2026 — Shenzhen-based UniX AI raised 500 million yuan, about $70.5 million, to scale its Wanda and Panther humanoid robots, already shipping over 100 units a...