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Sensofusion (SENSO) began Nasdaq Helsinki main-market trading on 13 Oct 2026 after raising ~EUR 259M (~$300M) at EUR 16.41. Company/unaudited: EUR 49.4M (~$57M) revenue, EUR 30.1M

VCs, YC, SoftBank, Lockheed, endowments and pensions are still funding robots, drones and physical AI in 2026. The money is concentrating in fewer winners across the US, Europe

Anduril Short: $61B valuation, Fury CCA, Roadrunner-M, Ghost Shark — how a 9-year-old startup took fighter-jet work from the primes.

Artem Sokolov seeded Humanoid after jewellery. $1.35B unicorn, Siemens tote pilot, Schaeffler 1,000+ deal. Watch the Short.

Shenzhen Intermediate Court accepted Yinghe's bankruptcy case （2026）粤03破454号 in late Aug 2026; first creditors' meeting is Oct 19. The firm raised >RMB 600M (~$85M est.) and once

On 6 Oct 2026, India's largest drone maker launched ZOLT UCAV and ZOLT Hybrid. Manufacturer specs: UCAV 2–3 h endurance and 30–50 km LOS; Hybrid >6 h and up to 100 km. The Indian

Beijing's 9 October Opinions put robotics in emerging industries, embodied intelligence in future industries and humanoids in the AI Plus action. Here is what that split means,

About 400,000 DJI spray drones were in use worldwide by the end of 2024, yet farm robotics drew $788M of the $83.8B in robotics rounds we track, 0.9%.

Ranked: the 29 Chinese robotics companies that raised $40M or more so far in 2026. AI² Robotics' $735M Series C leads; humanoid makers account for 11 of them.

Sequoia leads, but the signal is the cap table: Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung and Microsoft are buying into the data robots train on.

Ultra and Extend are moving robots onto their own books. Antobot is moving them off. The releases leave out the numbers a lender would ask for.

Figure 02 helped build 30,000 BMWs and led Figure's line for 14 months. Then it jumped into a Finnish furnace on camera.

The AX-1 gets Kubota's dealers and parts warehouse. Kubota gets the farmer relationship.

The Pentagon wants 1,320 more F10 strike drones by November. The contract value is undisclosed and Kyiv still has to sign the export permit.

16 humanoids whose makers say how they measure payload, plus Figure 03, ranked from 60 kg to 6 kg. Peak, per arm and two-arm figures are not the same thing.

Behind Robotics tracks 97 humanoid models. Only 7 have a public list price, and five of those stand 132 cm or shorter.

The U502 is the product news. The switch from a service model to direct equipment sales is the business news.

Domestic Shield put $4.15 billion of ceiling on the table and obligated about $50 million. Read the vehicle, not the number.

The code is free. Where the training runs, how models reach the fleet and whose simulation stack sits underneath are not neutral choices.

A £370m Gulf contract that cannot begin until the contractor puts up guarantees and wins export licences.

Germany began mass production of 5,000 attack drones with roughly 1,500km range destined for Ukraine, announced September 4, marking one of Berlin's largest direct

LG Electronics is positioning itself at the center of the humanoid robotics supply chain, development for its launched AXIUM actuators

Days after launching Europe’s first humanoid mass-production line in Serbia, Shanghai-based AGIBOT is now doubling down on commercial readiness across the continent. At IFA 2026,

ET 1 (codenamed "Galaxy Star") is an agile bipedal humanoid robot developed by Galbot Robotics, marking the company's leap from wheeled mobile manipulators to dynamic bipedal

FEAR of Robot IPO Bubble looms Unitree drops -37% since IPO

AgiBot and Minth Group launch production in Šabac, marking a new era for European automation. The partnership brings together AgiBot's advanced robotics platforms with Minth

Behindrobotics.com launches regulations database related to robotics, humanoid, embodied AI & critical components. Visit our link regulations behindrobotics.com and visit our

Definitive comparison of dexterous robot hands from Agile Robots, WUJI Technology, and Mimic Robotics. Specifications, pricing, partnerships, and market analysis for 2026.

Global shipments in H1 2026: roughly 19,100 units, up 272% year-over-year from about 5,100 units in H1 2025. • Chinese vendors supplied more than 97% of the total (implying

The Meituan-backed industrial vision-guided robotics maker is set to open its order book for a roughly $300 million Hong Kong listing, with a debut expected in early September. It

Humanoid · Event · Beijing Faster than Bolt, higher than the world record: inside the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games Over five days in Beijing, more than 2,000 humanoid robots

China's flagship robotics expo opened Aug 20 with humanoid robots boxing, dancing, and demonstrating industrial and even battlefield-adjacent applications, alongside major

Robot Hive · Defense Desk Pocket version Defense · Autonomous Systems · Anduril Industries The unfair fight A homeschooled VR prodigy sold Oculus at 21, was pushed out of Facebook

Unitree has raised 6.1 billion yuan ($905 million) in its IPO, according their prospectus. Shares rose to 968.1 yuan apiece, after hitting as high as 1,100 yuan/share.

https://www.worldrobotconference.com/en/sara/contributions/callforpaper/ * Dates: August 19–23 * Location: Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (Beijing E-Town), China

AgricultureField Robotics/Clarkson's Farm S5/Robot Hive How Clarkson accidentally sold Britain on robot farming In Clarkson's Farm Season 5, a health scare and a budget crisis

Company Deep DiveHumanoids/United Kingdom/Robot Hive The jeweller who built Britain's robot In under two years, a Russia-born jewellery magnate turned ~$30M of his own money into

Capital MarketsRobotics ·China IPO Rush·Robot Hive Data Desk The great robot IPO rush Thirty-plus Chinese robot makers are sprinting to go public at once. Unitree just priced at

Supply ChainTechnology ·Actuators & Reducers ·Robot Hive Data Desk The joint problem: who really controls the robotics race The winner won't be decided by the smartest AI. It'll

China’s humanoid and embodied-intelligence sector has exploded in the mid-2020s, fueled by capital, supply-chain strength, and a wave of exceptionally young founders. A recent

In May 2025, two third-year engineering students at BITS Pilani Hyderabad — Jayant Khatri (mechanical engineering) and Sourya Choudhury (electrical engineering) — founded Apollyon

Behind the polished glass and humming assembly lines of Hefei, a quiet revolution is being packed into shipping containers. At the global manufacturing headquarters of Geek+, the