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AnAn Biomimetic Panda Robot Lands In Europe At IFA Berlin 2026 — Sep 4, 2026 — Mind With Heart Robotics is bringing its emotionally intelligent AnAn panda companion robot to European buyers at IFA 2026, with distributor deals in...MOVA Kicks Off M∞VA Universe At IFA 2026 With 22 Products And Embodied AI — Sep 4, 2026 — Dreame-affiliated MOVA used IFA 2026 to launch The M∞VA Universe, unveiling 22 products and 15 technologies including TactiPercept touch-sensing vacuu...iRobot Debuts Two-Robot Roomba Duo Concept At IFA 2026 — Sep 4, 2026 — iRobot's Roomba Duo pairs a heavy floor-scrubbing main robot with an ultra-slim 8.35cm companion cleaner that rides on top and drops down to reach und...Roborock Rolls Saros Rover Into Europe At IFA 2026 Alongside Pool And Lawn Robots — Sep 4, 2026 — Roborock made its stair-climbing Saros Rover the star of its IFA 2026 stand while adding the RockAqua P1 pool cleaner, the RockNeo Q2 LiDAR mower and...Ex-Meta Scientists' Perceptron Ships Isaac 0.5 and $21M Bessemer Round for Factory Vision AI — Aug 30, 2026 — Perceptron, founded by ex-Meta FAIR scientists Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, disclosed a $21M Bessemer-led round alongside Isaac 0.5, an op...Mech-Mind Robotics Prices Hong Kong IPO At Top Of Range At HK$101.70 — Aug 30, 2026 — Beijing-based industrial AI vision leader Mech-Mind Robotics closed its Hong Kong Main Board IPO subscription at the top of its price range at HK$101....Bedrock Robotics Deploys Fully Autonomous Excavators on U.S. Infrastructure Sites — Aug 25, 2026 — San Francisco startup Bedrock Robotics has moved retrofitted excavators to full autonomy on live U.S. jobsites for Sundt Construction, Champion Site P...Gecko Robotics Opens Sewickley Manufacturing Hub To Speed U.S. Navy Component Production — Aug 1, 2026 — Pittsburgh unicorn Gecko Robotics is opening a 10,000-square-foot manufacturing and integration facility in Sewickley, Pennsylvania to help defense ma...Enigma Emerges From Stealth With $71M Seed To Let Anyone Control Its Robots Online — Jul 29, 2026 — Israeli-founded, San Francisco-based Enigma exited stealth with a $71M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, letting anyone online remotely c...SoftBank Weighs Deal For Swiss Excavator-Autonomy Startup Gravis — Jul 24, 2026 — SoftBank is weighing a deal for Swiss ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics, whose retrofit Rack and Slate kits give standard excavators autonomous earth...Ocado Wins New European Robotic Warehouse Deal — Jul 24, 2026 — Ocado will build a fully automated grocery fulfilment centre for an unnamed European retailer, using its 600 Series bots and On-Grid Robotic Pick — se...Genesis AI In Talks To Raise ~$500M At $3B Valuation — Jul 24, 2026 — Bloomberg reports the physical-AI startup behind the GENE foundation model and Eno robot is negotiating a $500M round at a $3B pre-money valuation, ro...Galbot G1 And S1 Show Off Breakfast, Retail And Factory Chops At WAIC 2026 — Jul 20, 2026 — Galbot used WAIC 2026 to demonstrate its general-purpose G1 and heavy-duty S1 humanoids across breakfast, retail and CATL factory tasks powered by its...X-Humanoid Debuts Tiangong Platform For Dirty, Dangerous, Dull Work At WAIC 2026 — Jul 20, 2026 — Beijing startup X-Humanoid used its WAIC 2026 debut to unveil solutions for five 'dirty, dangerous, dull' work scenarios built on its Embodied Tiangon...Waabi Driver Transfers Zero-Shot to Volvo VNL Autonomous Truck — Jul 6, 2026 — Waabi's Physical AI virtual driver, trained on a Peterbilt 579, drove Volvo's VNL Autonomous safely on highways and city streets on the first mile — w...Hyundai to Buy Out SoftBank's Boston Dynamics Stake for $325M — Jul 2, 2026 — Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, making the Atlas maker a wholly owned subsidiar...Accenture Invests in General Robotics to Scale Physical AI Robots — Jul 1, 2026 — Accenture has invested in AI-native General Robotics and will partner to deploy its GRID intelligence platform for physical AI across manufacturing an...Faraday Future Launches Futurist Humanoid and Faber Manipulator — Jun 29, 2026 — Faraday Future unveiled the second half of its EAI Robot World at Automate, launching the All-New Futurist humanoid and the FF Faber mobile manipulato...Mantis Robotics Launches MR-X Fenceless Dual-Arm Robot — Jun 29, 2026 — Mantis Robotics unveiled the MR-X, a biomimetic dual-arm robot with embedded physical AI that runs at industrial speeds without safety fences.Mind Robotics Raises $400M to Scale Physical AI in Factories — Jun 27, 2026 — Rivian's physical-AI spin-out Mind Robotics has raised $400 million led by Kleiner Perkins, topping $1 billion in total funding as it deploys AI robot...