Browse page 25 of the Korthos verified robotics events archive, with dated funding, deployment, product, partnership, acquisition, and research records.
The round was co-led by Huakong Fund and Beijing High-Tech Industrial Development Fund, with Lenovo Star, Guohai Innovation Capital, and Bank of Communications Capital also participating.
The company said the proceeds will be used to expand its global delivery network, deepen education-focused deployments, and prepare for the launch of a consumer-grade product.
Pudu Robotics announced the first European deployment of its AI-native PUDU BG1 cleaning robot series through a partnership with Dutch cleaning operator Gom Schoonhouden B.V.
The rollout was announced at Interclean Amsterdam 2026 and was facilitated by regional partner Fulin Robot Technologie B.V.
The deployment extends Pudu's commercial cleaning footprint into European enterprise cleaning operations after broader traction in other markets.
The 2025 annual-report summary describes Zhongda Leader as a mechanical transmission and motion-control component supplier.
It says the company formed an integrated product architecture around industrial automation and robotics using reducers, motors and drives.
The named modules include precision planetary reducer plus servo motor and drive, RV reducer plus servo motor and drive, and harmonic reducer plus servo motor and drive.
Physical Intelligence published pi0.7 as a steerable robotic foundation model with stronger generalization and task recombination abilities.
The official release compares pi0.7 against specialist policies on laundry folding, espresso making, and box folding while highlighting cross-platform generalization.
The release is PI's most recent first-party generalist model release and belongs in the company research tab rather than only the generic timeline.
Germany signed a cooperation agreement with Ukraine enabling Auterion Airlogix Joint Venture GmbH to execute its first production contract.
The contract covers thousands of mid-range X-wing and delta-wing unmanned aerial systems manufactured in Germany for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Auterion said the systems use its Skynode flight computer and Nemyx autonomy stack for autonomous navigation, AI guidance, and electronic-warfare resilience.
Sofar Ocean introduced Spotter Scout, a solar-powered uncrewed surface vehicle built by Online Oceans.
The product combines Online Oceans long-endurance USV with Sofar sensing, data and platform layer.
Spotter Scout is designed to station-keep in deep water for months, drift and return to recovery points, or transit between locations for spatial monitoring.
TARS Robotics announced a $455 million Pre-A financing round, setting a new record for the largest single-round raise in China's humanoid robotics sector.
The round was co-led by GL Ventures, HongShan, and Meituan, with participation from Beijing Robotics Industry Development Investment Fund and other financial, industrial, and state-backed investors.
TARS said the capital will be used to advance its embodied foundation model work, expand hiring, and push humanoid robots toward real industrial deployment including flexible wire-harness assembly.
Antioch raised $8.5 million in seed funding to expand its cloud-based simulation platform for robotics and autonomous systems.
The company said the platform lets autonomy teams create digital twins, run large-scale simulated validation, and reduce dependence on expensive real-world testing environments.
Antioch positioned the round around accelerating software-native testing and deployment workflows for physical AI systems.
IRDI Capital Investissement and SWEN Capital Partners jointly led the round, with participation from GSO Innovation and ARIS Occitanie.
Donecle said the financing would accelerate international expansion in Europe and the United States, team growth, AI investment and strategic partnerships.
The CART paper introduces context-aware terrain adaptation using temporal sequence selection for legged robots.
The authors evaluate the method in simulation with Unitree Go2 and ANYmal-C and in real-world experiments with Boston Dynamics Spot.
The results report improved locomotion behavior on varied terrain by linking exteroceptive terrain appearance with proprioceptive physical interaction.
Quantum Systems said Vector AI was selected by the U.S. Army for company-level small UAS capability.
Vector AI combines electric VTOL launch and recovery with fixed-wing endurance, AI-enabled mission planning, electro-optical sensing and vision-based targeting.
The selection gives Quantum Systems a formal U.S. Army programme signal for tactical reconnaissance UAS.
DEEPX and Hyundai Motor Group are expanding their collaboration to develop a generative AI robotics platform built on DEEPX's next-generation low-power DX-M2 chips
DEEPX's current chips already power Hyundai Motor Group delivery robots, including the Robotics LAB's DAL-e Delivery platform
The expanded collaboration builds on the companies' earlier robotics chip work and extends the partnership toward next-generation mass-produced robot systems
Accenture invested in General Robotics through Accenture Ventures.
The companies said they will work together to help manufacturers, logistics operators, and other asset-intensive industries deploy physical AI-powered robotic systems at enterprise scale.
The announcement positions General Robotics' GRID platform as a robot-agnostic intelligence and orchestration layer spanning multiple robot OEMs, AI models, and deployment environments.
SKILD AI announced the acquisition of Zebra Technologies' robotics division, which includes the former Fetch Robotics autonomous mobile robot portfolio.
The deal expands SKILD AI's access to deployed warehouse robots and real-world operational environments for training and deploying its AI systems.
SKILD AI said the acquisition is aimed at combining orchestration software with robot fleets to move toward fully autonomous warehouse operations.
Hyfix Spatial Intelligence raised a $15 million seed round to develop an integrated system-on-chip combining flight control, positioning, communications, and onboard compute for drones and autonomous systems.
The company is positioning the chip as a domestic alternative to fragmented and foreign-dependent drone hardware stacks, with a focus on U.S.-manufactured silicon.
The platform integrates high-precision positioning via GEODNET's RTK network and is designed to operate in GPS-denied or spoofed environments.
Hyfix said it plans to deliver production-ready chips to initial partners and is building a reference drone platform to demonstrate the system.
Through Task Force RAPSTONE, ARX Robotics UK received an initial British Army order for UK-manufactured GEREON uncrewed ground vehicles with ISR payloads and technical support for Recce-Strike experimentation.
The award followed trials and operational experimentation with British Army operators, including exercises in Kenya and the Baltics.
ARX said the contract coincided with the start of UK manufacturing and linked the programme to its wider £45 million UK expansion plan.
Mobile Manipulation (MoMa) of articulated objects, such as opening doors, drawers, and cupboards, demands simultaneous, whole-body coordination between a robot's base and arms. Classical whole-body controllers (WBCs) can solve such problems via hierarchical optimization, but require extensive hand-tuned optimization and remain brittle.
TIAGo is the evaluation platform used to test the method and reported findings.
TECO showcased electric mobility powertrain products at 2026 Taipei AMPA, including UAV powertrain technology for agricultural and commercial drone markets.
The company positioned the UAV system around high-payload drone applications and hairpin motor powertrain design.
The Royal Australian Navy said its Maritime Autonomous Systems Unit would operate Speartooth alongside Ghost Shark and Bluebottle platforms.
The unit moves Speartooth into a formal Navy structure for autonomous maritime capability rather than leaving it as a standalone development programme.
Navy established the unit to accelerate experimentation, doctrine, training and operational employment for maritime autonomous systems.
DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET announced the formation of GEODASH Aerosystems Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-incorporated joint venture focused on agricultural spraying drones for large-scale industrial farming.
The venture combines GEODNET's centimetre-level GNSS-RTK positioning network with DroneDash's autonomous drone and AI vision stack to remove repeated manual pre-mapping before spraying operations.
The companies said the platform is being built for plantation-scale agriculture and is targeting commercial deployment in the third quarter of 2026.
AGIBOT said G2 robots are now deployed at Longcheer Technology's MMIT stations, where they perform tablet pickup, navigation, fixture placement, and finished-versus-defective sorting in a live consumer-electronics production environment.
The deployment was framed as embodied AI entering core precision-manufacturing workflows, with reported line performance of up to 310 UPH, 19 to 20 second cycle time, 99%+ success rate, and roughly 3,000 units per shift.
AGIBOT said the system was integrated onto the line in 36 hours and is operating continuously with minimal human intervention.
UBTECH reported 2025 revenue of RMB 2.001 billion, up 53.3% year over year, with humanoid robots becoming the company''s largest revenue source at 41.1% of total revenue.
Revenue from full-size embodied intelligent humanoid robots reached about RMB 821 million, up 2203.7% year over year, with 1,079 units sold.
The results mark a major commercialization milestone for UBTECH''s Walker humanoid platform, with the company framing itself as the global leader in full-size non-remote-controlled humanoid robot revenue and deliveries.
The companies signed a strategic partnership agreement dated April 13, 2026.
BIRD agreed to support candidate sourcing, investment evaluation, business design and post-carve-out launch for NANO healthcare investments.
The collaboration combines BIRD generative-AI business-development systems with practical expertise in intellectual-property, talent, capital and parent-company transitions.
The Volton XP Companion app combines exoskeleton sensor data with ergonomic analysis, activity profiles and usage trends.
Ottobock said more than 477 hours of workplace measurement informed the platform and reported strain reductions of up to 43 percent in the evaluated tasks.
The company also introduced a new IX SHOULDER AIR generation for overhead work in automotive assembly and other industrial settings.
Comau selected Milvus Robotics as its technology partner for the MyMR autonomous mobile robot portfolio.
The partnership combines Milvus AMR technology with Comau''s industrial automation and digital integration capabilities.
The companies said the joint offering targets infrastructure-free internal logistics automation across manufacturing, 3PL, and e-commerce environments.
Corvus Robotics introduced Corvus Trident, an AI-powered device that mounts to forklifts, reach trucks, and other material handling equipment to capture pallet movement automatically during normal operations.
The company said Trident tracks inventory movement across inbound receipt, putaway, replenishment, picking, and outbound shipment, extending warehouse visibility beyond storage locations.
Corvus said MSI Surfaces recently deployed Corvus Trident at its headquarters in Orange, California, and positioned the product alongside Corvus One as part of a broader warehouse-visibility platform.
Ouster announced the release of the Stereolabs ZED X Nano, a compact wrist-mount stereo camera designed for robotic manipulation, imitation learning, and high-throughput data collection.
The company said the camera delivers 2.3MP RGB, neural depth, zero-copy capture pipeline support, and ruggedized GMSL2 connectivity in a form factor 40% smaller than the ZED X One.
Ouster positioned the launch around physical AI workflows including teleoperation, synthetic-data generation, and close-range robot perception.
· market signal · Humyn Labs · Data Infrastructure
Evidence notes
Humyn Labs announced a $20 million internal capital commitment to expand human data collection and validation infrastructure for physical AI, robotics, and voice-model training.
The expansion will fund data operations across India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and West Asia, with a focus on first-person and real-world human activity capture.
The company also said it is expanding voice capabilities across 33 languages, dialects, accents, and code-switching patterns and plans to launch Robotics Labs for high-fidelity simulation and world-model development.
The order covers heavy engineering vehicles to be delivered by Ondas subsidiary INDO Earth Moving under the first phase of a previously announced multi-year strategic military engineering program.
The systems are designed for military engineering and combat-support use and are intended to integrate autonomy, AI mission control, and aerial ISR and counter-UAS capabilities across the wider Ondas stack.
Initial deliveries are expected in Q4 2026, with follow-on maintenance agreements and fleet-expansion orders anticipated over time.
JODELL CEO Jie Dangyang and Soochow University’s School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering dean Ru Changhai signed the institute agreement on 12 April 2026.
The institute plans to place at least four to five master’s and doctoral students each year in JODELL’s R&D work.
Its stated research directions include tactile-signal processing, grasp-generalization models, dual-arm coordination and edge VLA models.
Toyota Frontier Research Center presented CUE7 as a lighter robot, reducing body weight from 120 kg to 74 kg and adopting an inverted two-wheel structure.
The CUE7 control system combines reinforcement learning with model predictive control for more dynamic movement.
Coverage of the live basketball demonstration described CUE7 standing from a seated posture, dribbling and making a free throw without human input.