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Feather Robotics Bags $7.6M Pre-Seed To Sell A $30K Developer Humanoid — Sep 27, 2026 — Feather Robotics raises $7.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Gradient Ventures to sell a $30,000 modular humanoid that developers can customize and...Agility Robotics Says Digit Won't Be Its Last Form Factor As It Weighs Wheeled Robots — Sep 27, 2026 — Digit maker Agility Robotics is quietly exploring wheeled robot form factors as CEO Jonathan Hurst argues customers need bots in operation now, not tw...Tesla Ramps Optimus To Hundreds Per Week As Hands And Generalization Still Bottleneck — Sep 27, 2026 — Tesla has scaled Optimus output from a few dozen units per week in Q2 to several hundred per week in August 2026, but hand assembly, sensor reliabilit...EdgeCortix unveils RAIDEN, a 3.36 PFLOPS Physical AI chiplet platform — Sep 27, 2026 — Tokyo-based EdgeCortix has launched RAIDEN, a modular chiplet-based Physical AI accelerator peaking at 3.36 PFLOPS of FP4 compute, 256 GB memory and 6...Redefine Surgery Closes $10M Pre-Seed, Names Catalyst OrthoScience Partner — Sep 26, 2026 — Redefine Surgery has closed an oversubscribed $10M pre-seed and named Catalyst OrthoScience as its founding partner in shoulder replacement.Skild AI's S1 Robot Brain Taught Itself Football In 140 Simulated Years — Sep 25, 2026 — Skild AI trained its S1 robotics foundation model to play four-a-side football through 140 simulated years of self-play in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, then tran...UAE's Stone Venture Leads GENISOM AI Series B As Robot Output Passes 15,000 — Sep 25, 2026 — Beijing quadruped-robot maker GENISOM AI closed a Series B "in the tens of millions of dollars" led by Abu Dhabi's Stone Venture and Hongshan Capital...LiveKit Buys Loophole Labs To Wire Substrate Under Its AI Agents — Sep 25, 2026 — LiveKit is bringing the Substrate hypervisor and Architect Kubernetes team in-house to give voice, video and physical AI agents live-migration and spo...Feather Raises $7.6M to Build the 'Android of Robotics' — Sep 25, 2026 — Silicon Valley humanoid startup Feather closed a $7.6 million pre-seed round led by Google's Gradient Ventures to scale its open, developer-facing bim...Black Forest Labs Open-Sources FLUX 3 Action, A 7B World-Action Model For Robots — Sep 24, 2026 — Black Forest Labs' first world-action model, FLUX 3 Action, scores 42.92% on RoboLab and 93.3% on a Franka arm — for $0.0018 per successful sample.Qualcomm Buys PickNik Robotics To Own The Physical-AI Manipulation Stack — Sep 24, 2026 — Qualcomm is acquiring MoveIt developer PickNik Robotics to bolt an open-source manipulation stack onto its Dragonwing physical-AI platform.Unitree Puts A 22-DoF Robotic Hand On Every Developer's Desk For $6,500 — Sep 24, 2026 — Unitree's new Dex5-S dexterous hand offers 22 backdrivable joints at 1:1 human size for $6,500, a price point aimed at accelerating manipulation resea...1X Sets 50,000-Robot NEO Shipment Target For 2027 — Sep 24, 2026 — 1X CEO Bernt Bornich says the humanoid start-up will ship 50,000 NEO robots in 2027 from two California factories with combined capacity of 110,000 un...RLWRLD Doubles Down On Factory-First Physical AI For Humanoids — Sep 23, 2026 — Seoul-based RLWRLD laid out a deployment-first Physical AI strategy: put its ALLEX robot into real factories and warehouses with CJ Logistics and Lott...1X's Bernt Børnich Targets 50,000 Neo Robots In 2026 — With Reliability As The Real Gate — Sep 21, 2026 — 1X Technologies CEO Bernt Børnich has publicly set a 2026 shipment target of 50,000 Neo humanoids, saying the harder problem isn't building them but k...X Square's QUANTA X1 Pro Starts Work At Lululemon's Wuhan Warehouse — Sep 21, 2026 — Shenzhen embodied-AI startup X Square Robot has deployed its wheeled dual-arm QUANTA X1 Pro humanoid on live parcel-sorting lines inside lululemon's n...Figure AI's Helix 2.5 Cleans 30 Strangers' Homes It Has Never Seen — Sep 21, 2026 — A single frozen Helix 2.5 checkpoint hit 56% on tidying, towel-folding and bed-making across 30 unseen Bay Area homes, versus 9% without Index pretrai...Dongfeng To Trial-Produce Xiaodong Humanoid By Year-End, Targets Human-Parity In 2027 — Sep 21, 2026 — Dongfeng Motor will begin small-batch trial production of its Xiaodong humanoid robot at the end of 2026 and wants it working alongside plant staff by...Emulate Nears $700M Seed At $3.7B To Build AI World Models — Sep 19, 2026 — British DeepMind spinout Emulate is in advanced talks to raise up to $700 million at a $3.7 billion post-money valuation, in a seed round jointly led...KIDZ AI Bags $1.9M To Push KIDZBot Into U.S. High Schools — Sep 19, 2026 — KIDZ AI has drawn $1.9 million under a $500 million senior secured convertible note facility to expand manufacturing and school rollouts of its KIDZBo...