New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.
Robotics The International Federation of Robotics released its World Robotics 2026 report on September 24: China installed 354,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 20% and 59% of the global total, while the EU's installations fell 11% and the US, up 12% to 38,500 units, passed Japan into second place worldwide.
Robotics Reimagine Robotics emerged from stealth on August 3, founded by former DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, with robots workers train by demonstration.
Robotics New IFR figures show US industrial-robot installations up 11% to 38,000 units, with the fastest growth in food plants — while America's total still trails China's volume by an order of magnitude.
Robotics Standard Bots raised a $200M Series C at a $1B valuation, expanding its New York plant and pitching American-made robots — plus a ban on Chinese ones — as the fix for U.S. manufacturing.
Robotics Fanuc announced a Google Cloud + Intrinsic partnership to bring Gemini Enterprise and Flowstate to its 1.1M installed industrial robots — Tokyo shares rallied +15.6% to a record ¥8,880, validating the brownfield retrofit thesis.