Automation News
Latest Automation news and analysis — 112 articles tagged Automation on The Robotics Media.
- DOE Puts $1.9B Federal Cash Behind 23 GW Of Faster US Grid Upgrades — — The US Department of Energy on September 24, 2026 announced $1.9B in federal funding plus $3.35B in cost share for 31 grid projects across 26 states,...
- Modal Motors Bids To Cut China Out Of Drone And Actuator Motors — — 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 — — Ex-ExxonMobil engineer Lindsey Elliott unveiled Nexterity's battery-powered bolted-flange robot at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to take on the physically b...
- 5 Million Industrial Robots Now In Factories Worldwide, IFR Says — — 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...
- Geekplus Opens Its First European Innovation Lab In Dusseldorf — — The Beijing-based mobile-robot maker turns its Dusseldorf EMEA HQ into a full showcase and testing lab for goods-to-person, tote-to-person and Gino 1...
- Locus Robotics And Kimball Midwest Take 2026 Best Use Of Robotics Prize — — The two companies won the Supply Chain Excellence Awards USA's Best Use of Robotics honor for a 100-plus AMR fleet spread across Kimball Midwest's Col...
- Hirebotics Adds Line Tracking And Linear Rails To Its Cobots At IMTS 2026 — — Hirebotics unveiled line-tracking and modular 5-foot linear-rail extensions for its no-code cobot cells at IMTS 2026 in Chicago, letting painters and...
- Kenco Triples Innovation Lab, Anchors On GreyOrange GreyMatter For 3PL Automation — — Kenco's tripled 30,000-sq-ft Innovation Lab in Atlanta showcases GreyOrange's AI-powered GreyMatter orchestration platform as the backbone for 3PL war...
- Yoom Bags ¥700M Series A To Build AI Coworkers For Japanese Enterprises — — Tokyo-based Yoom has raised its first external ¥700 million round led by DUAL BRIDGE CAPITAL to scale a no-code platform that pairs AI agents with det...
- Hai Robotics Wins World's Largest Rack-Climbing Robot Deployment in Europe — — A leading European fashion retailer will install more than 1,500 HaiPick Climb robots in a single integrated 30,000 m² fulfillment center, moving 24,0...
- AfterQuery Hits $3.2B, Becomes Y Combinator's Fastest-Ever Unicorn — — AI training-data startup AfterQuery is now valued at $3.2B five months after a $30M Series A at $300M — Y Combinator's fastest-ever launch-to-unicorn,...
- Conveo Raises $50M Series A For Always-On AI Consumer Research — — Antwerp-based Conveo raised a $50M Series A led by DST Global Partners, with Balderton, Visionaries, 6 Degrees Capital and Y Combinator, to scale its...
- Wonderful Raises $550M Series C At $5B To Scale AI OS For The Enterprise — — Amsterdam-based Wonderful closed a $550M Series C at a $5B valuation led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce joining, to expand its enterprise AI ope...
- Critical Materials Group Raises $10.3M To Automate US Munitions Production — — Texas-based CMG closed a $10.3 million seed round led by Overmatch Ventures to build modular, automation-ready energetics factories and add surge capa...
- HUMAIN Picks Applied Intuition To Build The World's Largest Autonomous Truck Network In Saudi Arabia — — PIF-backed HUMAIN and Silicon Valley physical AI company Applied Intuition unveiled a strategic collaboration to deploy thousands of autonomous trucks...
- Zoox Turns On The Meter In Las Vegas With 2,500-Vehicle NHTSA Exemption — — Amazon-owned Zoox began charging for driverless rides in Las Vegas on August 10 after NHTSA granted a two-year commercial exemption covering up to 2,5...
- IBM Closes HRL Laboratories Buy To Add Silicon-Spin Qubits To Quantum Stack — — IBM has closed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, adding silicon-spin qubit expertise, quantum sensing and advanced cryogenics to a roadmap that alr...
- Anthropic Opens Model Hardware Standard To Let Claude Run Lab Robots — — Anthropic previewed the Model Hardware Standard, a shared driver spec that lets AI agents like Claude discover and safely operate microscopes, liquid...
- CATL Cuts Out Distributors With $63/kWh Direct LFP Cells As 1,800 Firms Join CATL Mall — — China's CATL says over 1,800 energy storage companies have registered on its direct-sales CATL Mall platform, where 314 Ah LFP energy storage cells no...
- SUPCON And Certis Join Forces To Scale Security Robots Into Live Operations — — China's SUPCON Technology and Singapore's Certis Group sign a strategic cooperation to move security robots from stand-alone trials into 24/7 operatio...