PDW’s $820M Package Expands US Drone Manufacturing
A conditional $300 million government loan and $520 million in private capital would expand PDW’s Huntsville production base for small drones and critical components.
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Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Whole-Body Control to Apollo 2
Google DeepMind’s new VLA extends manipulation into walking and full-body humanoid control, while an on-device model targets faster adaptation across embodiments.
DoorDash Air Moves Into Aircraft Operations
Part 135 certification brings DoorDash closer to commercial drone delivery as Wing, Walmart and Flytrex widen the network around it.
EngineAI Adds a Second T800 Production Base
The first Zhengzhou-made units follow its Shenzhen production launch in May.
AgiBot Joins China’s Robotics IPO Pipeline
The company has started a Hong Kong listing process as China’s robotics sector moves toward public markets.
Humanoid Production Update
Figure reaches 1,000 robots, EngineAI activates a second production base and Humanoid funds a partner-led manufacturing plan.
Mimic brings FLUX-mimic to industrial dexterity
The video-action model runs locally on an RTX 5090 and is already being tested with Audi across flexible industrial tasks.
Figure builds its 1,000th F.03 humanoid
BotQ has reached 1,000 completed units, up from 350 in April, though Figure has not disclosed customer fleet sizes.
Vicarious Surgical shareholders approve dissolution
The surgical-robotics company is winding down five years after a $1.1B SPAC deal, without reaching commercial sale.
Gritt launches with $32.4M for solar construction
The company’s equipment-mounted robots are already handling utility-scale solar panels across more than seven jobsites.
Humanoid raises $152M at $1.35B valuation
The UK company will fund beta deployments and mass manufacturing for its wheeled and bipedal robot platforms.
Kratos prepares Chaparral for production
Elroy Air’s autonomous cargo aircraft will enter manufacturing at Kratos’ Sacramento facility, with first production units planned for late 2026.
World Labs acquires robotics simulator SceniX
The deal connects Marble’s generated 3D worlds with robot-data creation, policy training, evaluation and deployment.
AgiBot brings G2 Max to JD Logistics
The wheeled dual-arm robot is intended to automate depalletising, tote movement and palletising inside JD warehouses.
China’s Dexterous-Hand Suppliers Are Becoming Unicorns
Xynova’s second major financing in seven weeks adds to a surge of capital, production capacity and standalone suppliers around one of the humanoid’s most difficult components.
UK Capital Is Forming Around Autonomous Systems
Cambridge Aerospace’s reported financing adds to a rapid concentration of capital around British counter-drone, uncrewed maritime and autonomous-systems companies.
Saronic selects Brownsville for Port Alpha
The company plans more than $3B for a software-defined shipyard designed to build autonomous and crewed vessels at scale.
Agility opens Fremont physical AI facility
The 60,000-square-foot site adds software, testing and field-operations capacity alongside Digit manufacturing at RoboFab.
Germany’s Robotics Funding Run Is Spreading Across the Stack
MicroAGI’s record $55 million seed adds to a German cluster spanning robot deployment infrastructure, humanoids, drones and autonomous systems.
Machina enters JASSM qualification
A robot-formed assembly is moving into Lockheed Martin qualification, marking Machina’s first defence-missile production milestone.
Walden launches with a $300M seed
The Toyota Research Institute spinout is already deploying full-stack physical AI systems inside Toyota manufacturing.
BRINC raises $125M for emergency-response drones
The capital will expand US manufacturing and deployment of drones, charging stations and fleet software across public-safety agencies.
TerraFirma raises $115M for robotic construction
The former SpaceX team is scaling remote-operated heavy equipment, command centres and vertically integrated construction projects.
LimX’s $200M Pre-IPO Round Adds to China’s Robotics Listing Wave
The Shenzhen humanoid company has raised roughly $400 million in five months as private robotics funding increasingly moves toward the public markets.