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Barcelona’s THEKER raises €73M to deploy AI-native factory robots that learn on the job

THEKER, the Barcelona-based AI robotics company, has raised €73 million ($85 million) in a Series A to scale its generalist factory robots across industrial production environments. The round was led by CRV, with participation from Samsung, LVMH, Cathay Innovation, 20VC, Henkel Ventures, Korelya, and Bright Pixel Capital. It marks Samsung’s first-ever investment in a Spanish […]

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Your robot can’t be smart, fast, and free. Evolution solved that already.

Here is a constraint that almost no one building physical AI says out loud, even though every one of them is quietly fighting it. A robot’s intelligence wants three things at once. It wants to be smart, meaning it can reason at the level of a frontier model about an unfamiliar scene. It wants to […]

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NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4B in record robotics round backed by Nvidia, Amazon, and Tether

German robotics company NEURA Robotics has announced up to $1.4 billion in Series C funding to scale its cognitive robotics platform. The round values the company at approximately $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. NEURA says it is the largest funding round ever raised by a full-stack robotics company. The investor list spans crypto, chips, cloud, […]

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Standard Bots raises $200 million to build robotic arms in the US and claims it will handle 10% of industrial deployments by year-end

Standard Bots has raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation to expand US manufacturing of AI-powered robotic arms. The round was led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, a robotics-focused fund, and follows a $63 million raise nearly two years ago at an undisclosed valuation. The New York-based company makes robotic arms for industrial automation, handling tasks […]

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Ambani-backed Addverb wants $100 million to build India’s answer to Unitree and Tesla Optimus

Addverb Technologies, the Indian robotics startup controlled by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, is seeking to raise more than $100 million to fund development of humanoid and quadruped robots and build the AI systems to train them. CEO Sangeet Kumar told Bloomberg the raise is the company’s first major fundraising effort since Reliance’s $132 million investment […]

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MIT’s ultrasound wristband tracks every finger movement and lets you control a robot hand in real time

Engineers at MIT have built an ultrasound wristband that can track 22 degrees of freedom in the human hand and use that data to control a robotic hand in real time, according to research published in Nature Electronics in March 2026. The device uses a ring of small ultrasound transducers worn around the wrist to […]

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Robot-arm maker Standard Bots hits a $1bn valuation to scale US manufacturing

America wants to build robots, not just import them. A New York startup has just raised $200mn to do exactly that. Standard Bots has closed a $200mn round that values the company at $1bn, minting a fresh robotics unicorn. The financing was led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, a fund dedicated to robotics, and marks […]

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Nvidia and Hyundai go deeper on robotics, with Boston Dynamics’ Atlas at the centre

The lobby of Hyundai’s Seoul headquarters now waters its own plants. On Monday it was also handling security and deliveries, a row of robots laid on for one important visitor: Jensen Huang. Nvidia’s chief executive was in the South Korean capital to deepen the chipmaker’s alliance with Hyundai Motor Group, and the pitch on display […]

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Kyle Vogt’s Bot Company is being sued for turning an Airbnb into a robot lab

A San Francisco Airbnb host is suing The Bot Company, the $2 billion robotics startup founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt, for allegedly using his home as a secret robot testing lab. Sean Donovan claims workers booked his Portola neighbourhood property under false pretences in April, posing as remote workers from Thailand. He is seeking […]

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Robot dogs, hunter drones, and AI cameras: the tech securing the 2026 World Cup

The 2026 World Cup kicks off next week across 16 cities in the US, Mexico, and Canada. It is the largest in history: 48 teams, 104 matches, 39 days. It is also the most technologically surveilled sporting event ever staged, with robot dogs, net-shooting hunter drones, and thousands of AI-powered cameras deployed across venues and […]

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