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TSMC 2027 Capex Seen Reaching $85 Billion As AI Capacity Strain Deepens — Aug 31, 2026 — Wall Street's most bullish TSMC 2027 capex model now points to $85 billion, up from Goldman Sachs' $78B forecast, as leading-edge AI capacity stays co...Eos Energy Consolidates Zinc Battery Manufacturing At Thorn Hill Facility — Aug 31, 2026 — Eos Energy Enterprises will consolidate all zinc-based long-duration energy storage manufacturing at its Thorn Hill facility in Warrendale, Pennsylvan...Renesas Opens Physical AI And Robotics Lab In Beijing, Targets 70% Humanoid BOM — Aug 30, 2026 — Renesas Electronics opened its Physical AI & Robotics Lab in Beijing on August 27, 2026, to demonstrate, validate and co-develop next-generation human...MP Materials Signs Multi-Year Gadolinium Supply Deal With U.S. Aerospace & Defense Customer — Aug 28, 2026 — MP Materials will supply gadolinium oxide to an unnamed major U.S. aerospace and defense customer under a multi-year deal expected to be worth nine fi...Kairos Power Launches NuCAMP Alliance To Fill Advanced Nuclear Workforce Gap — Aug 21, 2026 — Kairos Power has signed an MOU with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee, IACMI and East Tennessee schools to launch NuCAMP, a w...Kodiak AI Wins California Permit to Test Autonomous Heavy Trucks — Aug 19, 2026 — Nasdaq-listed Kodiak AI has been granted a permit under California's newly expanded Autonomous Vehicle Tester program, becoming one of the first heavy...Factorial and SK On Sign MOU to Manufacture Solid-State Batteries — Aug 19, 2026 — US solid-state pioneer Factorial Energy and South Korean cell maker SK On have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly evaluate manufacturing...Essar Unveils GBP 4.3B Hydrogen and CCS Blueprint For UK's Stanlow Refinery — Aug 17, 2026 — Essar Group's UK arm, EET Fuels, has unveiled a GBP 4.3 billion decarbonization pipeline for the Stanlow refinery centered on blue hydrogen, carbon ca...Molex Debuts MiniMix, the World's Smallest Hybrid Connector for Humanoid Robot Joints — Aug 17, 2026 — Molex's new 5.65mm-profile MiniMix combines 15A power and 1Gbps Ethernet into a single interface, targeting the joints of next-generation humanoid rob...Honda's Avatar Robot Brings ASIMO's Humanoid Legacy Back to Life — Aug 16, 2026 — Honda's Avatar Robot and human-scale multi-fingered hand — demoed at Humanoids Summit 2026 — show that decades of ASIMO research have quietly moved in...TechForce Robotics Signs LOI with NBR for Up to 5,000 Factory Robotic Systems — Aug 16, 2026 — TechForce Robotics and Singapore's NBR Intelligence signed a strategic LOI targeting up to 5,000 AI-enhanced robotic systems across NBR-connected fact...Intel Prices Upsized $20B Common Stock Offering At $95 — Aug 16, 2026 — Intel priced an upsized underwritten public offering of 210,526,315 common shares at $95 apiece, raising a gross $20 billion and about $19.7 billion i...Robot Orders Rise 4.3% In Q2 As Non-Auto Demand Broadens, A3 Reports — Aug 14, 2026 — North American companies ordered 8,940 robots worth $622M in Q2 2026, up 4.3% in units and 21.3% in revenue, with semiconductors, life sciences and fo...Qunnect And Monarch Quantum Team To Shrink Entanglement Hardware To Rack Units — Aug 11, 2026 — Qunnect and San Diego's Monarch Quantum announced a partnership on August 10 to combine Qunnect's Carina entanglement platform with Monarch's integrat...South Korea Rolls Out $3.5B Chip Fund To Back Materials, Fabless Firms — Aug 11, 2026 — Seoul will launch a 5 trillion won ($3.52B) fund targeting chip materials, parts, equipment and fabless companies, plus 5 trillion won in trade financ...Tesla And SpaceX Break Ground On $16.8B Terafab Chip Complex In Grimes County, Texas — Aug 10, 2026 — Elon Musk's two flagship companies formally committed $16.8B to Terafab, a vertically integrated 100M-sq-ft semiconductor complex north of Houston tha...Multiway Robotics Automates 5,000-Location Malaysian Warehouse With Autonomous Forklift Fleet — Aug 10, 2026 — Multiway Robotics has completed an intralogistics automation project for a Malaysian manufacturer, running a fleet of MW-K16, X20 and MW-SL14 forklift...Kioxia, Sandisk Unveil 332-Layer QLC 3D NAND For AI — Aug 7, 2026 — Kioxia and Sandisk introduced 10th-generation QLC 3D NAND with 332 layers, over 37 Gb/mm² bit density and a 4.8 Gb/s interface for AI storage workload...Reimagine Robotics Exits Stealth With Pre-Seed To Let Workers Train Robots On The Floor — Aug 3, 2026 — Ex-Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders come out of stealth with a pre-seed round from Fly Ventures and firstminute capital, deploying industrial...Figure Rolls 1,000th Figure 03 Humanoid Off Its BotQ Line — Aug 2, 2026 — Figure CEO Brett Adcock announced on July 23, 2026 that the company's BotQ facility has manufactured its 1,000th Figure 03 humanoid robot, marked by a...