Yesterday's San Francisco power outage was a reminder that autonomy doesn't operate in a vacuum. With traffic signals down and major disruptions across the city, reports showed some autonomous vehicles coming to safe stops at intersections, and Waymo temporarily paused its SF

The 2025–2026 VEX Robotics Asia Open Signature Event is taking place December 18–21 at Shougang Park in Beijing, China. Recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's largest robotics competition, the VEX Robotics Competition draws more than 600 teams and 3,500+ students

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Robot vacuums just became one of the clearest signals of where AI and hardware are heading. According to reporting this week, Roborock is leaning hard into AI to fill the vacuum left by iRobot's Chapter 11 filing and sale to its own manufacturer, Picea. IDC data puts Roborock at

Grab is moving from riders to robots. On 19 Dec 2025, Grab (NASDAQ: GRAB) agreed to acquire Chinese AI robotics startup Infermove (value undisclosed), as reported by Bloomberg, to bring autonomous delivery into its food and parcel network. Infermove's Carri robots already run

€500m for a pre-launch lab and a €3bn valuation: Yann LeCun is betting that "physical AI" beats yet another round of bigger chatbots. His new venture, AMI Labs, is reportedly raising that round to build world-model systems that learn from video and spatial data, then drive

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A $300M+ round and a 700M RMB robot order on the same day. Galaxy Universal (Galbot) just raised the stakes for humanoid robots in China. The company closed a $300M+ round led by China Mobile's Chain-Leader Fund at a $3B+ valuation, taking total funding to ≈$800M and landing a

An AI tennis robot just pulled Hillhouse and eight other cornerstone investors into Hong Kong's next tech listing. In December 2025, Woan Robotics (SwitchBot) kicked off its HKEX IPO, targeting up to HK$1.8B at HK$63–81 per share and aiming to become the first pure-play AI home

Imagine rewinding a goal from any seat in the stadium. Peripheral Labs has raised a $3.6M seed round led by Khosla Ventures (Dec 18, 2025). Toronto-based Peripheral repurposes self-driving car sensor stacks to generate live 3D replays and stats from 32 cameras instead of 100+

Shipping wastes ~$100bn in extra fuel every year thanks to dirty hulls. Today ScrubMarine raised just over $1m pre-seed (SFC Capital & PXN Ventures) to tackle that. The round will fund the Turtle, a sub-50kg cavitation robot that cleans and inspects, and the Whale, an autonomous

A $7k multi-form robot dev kit just landed from Shenzhen. LimX Dynamics has launched TRON 2, a modular embodied robot that can switch between dual-arm, bipedal, and wheel-leg configurations from a single base, and even reconfigure into humanoid or quadruped modes. Arms with 7

Funding news from the factory floor: Aibuild has closed a new strategic round led by IQ Capital, with 212 NexT and Driventure joining as strategic partners (16 Dec 2025). The London–Silicon Valley team is building "Physical AI" – AI agents that leave the screen and run real

Astrall Dynamics has closed a near-¥100m angel round led by Yuhai Capital with Lanpu Ventures, Ningbo Fengyu Jiaxin and Buchang Family Office to scale heavy-load quadruped robots and axial-flux motors. Founded in 2024 in Shenzhen by former DJI Inspire series lead Oudi, Astrall

Robots that have already assembled 80 million meals just got an upgrade. Chef Robotics just announced Chef+, a new meal-assembly robot for food manufacturing plants. The new unit doubles ingredient pan capacity vs their previous model while keeping roughly the same footprint as

When the world's largest EV battery maker starts testing humanoid robots on its own lines, the signal matters more than the demo. Caixin reports that CATL is piloting humanoids from affiliated startup Spirit AI on battery-pack assembly in Zhongzhou, using them for end-of-line

Big tech is shrinking office footprints - yet Amazon Robotics is about to more than quadruple its Boston-area hub. CoStar reports that Amazon's robotics division is renewing and expanding at the Riverpark campus in North Reading, turning a long-standing R&D base into a much

Engineering AI just landed its next nine-figure round: Lausanne-based Neural Concept has closed a $100M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Total funding now sits at $140M to push AI deeper into CAD and simulation workflows across automotive, aerospace

Reuters reports that Chinese scientists have built a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine in a high-security Shenzhen lab, with testing underway and EUV light reportedly generated (though not yet producing working chips). Why this matters: EUV is the

Manufactured by the innovative French company Nio Robotics, based in Toulouse and founded in 2020 by Titouan Le Marec, Aru is a polymorphic, shape-shifting mobile robot designed for hazardous, confined, or complex environments where human access is risky. What makes Aru stand

A robotaxi fleet of roughly 2,500 cars, running 450,000 paid rides a week, up from 250,000 in April 2025, is now negotiating a ~$100B valuation. That's Waymo. Waymo is reportedly raising more than $15B, led by Alphabet, at a $100–110B valuation - more than 2x its last disclosed

€100m more for embedded IoT security out of Rome. Exein just secured fresh growth capital led by Blue Cloud Ventures, taking its 2025 haul to €170m. On top of July's €70m Series C, this new round gives Exein the firepower to double down on M&A, expand in the US and Asia,