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Minerva Humanoids raises $10M for robots that do bomb disposal and rig work

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Minerva Humanoids has raised about $10M in pre-seed funding to build humanoid robots for dangerous jobs. The San Francisco startup works on oil and gas and public safety. General Catalyst led the round, with Long Journey Ventures and Credo Ventures as co-leads, the company said on Tuesday. Hugging Face, Codecademy, RunwayVC and Compound are among […]

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Deliveroo is putting delivery robots on the pavements of five UK towns

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Deliveroo has partnered with the American firm Coco Robotics to run four-wheeled pavement robots in five UK locations, starting in Canary Wharf this month, and says most orders will still go to human riders. Milton Keynes, one of the five, has had robot deliveries since April 2018 through Starship, a company founded in Tallinn and […]

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Robot software startup FieldAI is set to raise $700M at a $10B valuation

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FieldAI is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its mark from just over a year ago, for software designed to run robots it does not build. Europe’s biggest robotics rounds this year funded machine makers, and the nearest European answer to FieldAI was reported at about a third of its valuation. FieldAI is […]

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AMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2bn in stock

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AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the AI model startup led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2bn. AMD announced the deal on Monday. Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting to CEO Lisa Su. AMD expects the deal to close by the end of […]

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SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation for physical AI chips

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SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose startup makes chips and software that let robots, drones and cars run AI on the device itself. Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify co-led the round. Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, […]

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Tesla’s Optimus production hits snags with hands, The Information reports

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Tesla has increased Optimus production about tenfold in recent months. It is still struggling to build the humanoid robots reliably at scale. Qianer Liu and Grace Kay reported for The Information on Friday, citing people familiar with the project, that the hands, factory equipment and suppliers are holding it back. Tesla made several hundred robots […]

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China installs 59% of new factory robots as EU installations fall 11%

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Factories around the world installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, and China accounted for 354,000 of them, or 59%. The figures come from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), which published its World Robotics 2026 report on Thursday. The number of robots at work in factories rose 9% to a record 5 million, […]

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“Supply chains are at risk”: O-ID raises $1.2m for modular humanoid robots

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“When enough factory roles go unfilled at once, entire supply chains are at risk. O-ID’s robots are built to work alongside the people still on the floor, closing those gaps before they become a crisis for a single factory and for the industries Japan depends on,” said Stian Jakobsen, co-founder and CEO of O-ID. Tokyo-based […]

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China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip

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China’s securities regulator has begun steering humanoid robot companies away from the public markets until they can show recurring revenue and a credible path to narrowing losses, The Information reported on 9 September. The direction is being given as window guidance, the informal and unpublished channel the China Securities Regulatory Commission uses when it wants an outcome […]

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Treble raises $18m to give physical AI a sense of hearing

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“AI models and devices that perform well in a laboratory can struggle when they encounter reverberation, background noise, or an unfamiliar physical environment,” said Finnur Pind, co-founder and chief executive of Treble Technologies. The Reykjavík company has raised $18m, about €15m, in a Series A-2 round, it announced on 17 September. Paladin Capital Group led […]

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