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A former German defence adviser runs Europe's $18B drone maker. Its AI strike drones are already flying for Ukraine.
  1. A former German defence adviser runs Europe's $18B drone maker. Its AI strike drones are already flying for Ukraine.
  2. Boston Dynamics wants a $74,500 Spot to deliver two parcels. Genius, or absurd?
  3. Is Korea playing catch-up on humanoids?
  4. Old muscle, new giant: Beijing bets on the hydraulics Boston Dynamics dropped
  5. Real kung fu robot, or the best robot ad of the year?
  6. ideaForge enters combat drones. The specs are claimed. The shift is real.
  7. Farms may automate before factories. The money hasn't noticed.
  8. Mecka's $60m round puts the chipmakers into robot training data

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SEP 16Germany Starts Mass-Producing Long-Range Strike Drones for Ukrainesource →SEP 7Galbot ET1 pre-orders open. More than 200 on day one.source →AUG 26Chinese makers accounted for more than 97% of global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026source →AUG 23Another Robot Company to cash in big: Mech-Mind Robotics opens order book for $300M Hong Kong IPOsource →AUG 22World Robot Conference 2026 opens in Beijing with battlefield, aviation robotssource →

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Defense
BY CHRISTIAN CONNOLLY · OCT 28
No GPS. Still hunting: 1,070 Skydio Docks vs viral GPS-free demos
Lab GPS-free demos go viral — Skydio already has 1,070 Docks flying routes (Confirmed); Anduril shows 428 on the US FAA civil register (Reported).
Defense
BY CHRISTIAN CONNOLLY · OCT 28
A former German defence adviser runs Europe's $18B drone maker. Its AI strike drones are already flying for Ukraine.
Helsing co-CEO Gundbert Scherf is a former special adviser at Germany's defence ministry. Helsing's AI strike
Civil
BY CHRISTIAN CONNOLLY · OCT 27
Waymo ~4,000 robotaxis vs Cybercab 300+: Musk still says nobody can match Tesla
Waymo ~4,000 (reported) vs Cybercab 300+ (Tesla claim) — about 13× by our calc, not like-for-like. Waymo repor
Civil
BY CHRISTIAN CONNOLLY · OCT 27
$600M for diggers that drive themselves: Bedrock Robotics' autonomous excavators
Bedrock Robotics raised $600M at $4.1B (Feb: $1.75B) to retrofit excavators contractors already own. Paid auto
Civil
BY CHRISTIAN CONNOLLY · OCT 27
October’s biggest robot check went to a digger, not a humanoid
Bedrock Robotics raised $600M at $4.1B to make contractors’ existing excavators dig on their own, up from $1.7
Civil
BY CHRISTIAN CONNOLLY · OCT 26
Boston Dynamics wants a $74,500 Spot to deliver two parcels. Genius, or absurd?
July 2026 Spot doorstep demo Confirmed (BD blog). Price ~$74,500 Reported (The Verge). 3→+1 van maths, $90B la

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Home and commercial cleaning robots.
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