Robotics Two robots now unload the truck and stack the pallet, no human between
Ambi Robotics and Pickle Robot integrated their systems to fully automate warehouse receiving, from trailer unloading through palletizing, with no human handoff.
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Robotics Ambi Robotics and Pickle Robot integrated their systems to fully automate warehouse receiving, from trailer unloading through palletizing, with no human handoff.
Robotics UMA, led by ex-Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadène, unveiled Northstar, a 40kg humanoid built in Paris and aimed at Europe first.
Robotics Agility Robotics will merge with Churchill Capital Corp XI at a $2.5B valuation, becoming the first U.S.-listed pure-play humanoid company with paying customers.
Robotics At Automate in Chicago, perennial vaporware artist Faraday Future priced a 5-foot-8 humanoid at $89,900 — and the unsettling part is the spec sheet is real.
Robotics AGIBOT will stream its G2 humanoids doing quality inspection on a live consumer-electronics mass-production line for six days straight — the job, not a demo.
Robotics Automate 2026's opening day skips the humanoid theater: Kawasaki ships an 8-axis arm and ABB ships a training toolchain, both aimed at the boring 99 percent of factory work.
Robotics Sanctuary AI reports a 99.5%+ success rate on a contact-rich wire-plugging task at a Tier 1 auto supplier — and quietly admits the win required no humanoid at all.
Robotics At VivaTech, Foxconn showed a humanoid doing the pick-and-place and screw-fastening that defines its assembly lines — trained on simulation, not a salaried worker's months of practice.
Robotics Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raised $12B at a $41B valuation to build an 'artificial general engineer' — pointing physical AI at high-end engineering work, not the factory floor.
Robotics German firm Neura Robotics closed a record Series C of up to $1.4 billion on June 10, targeting 5 million robots by 2030 — the largest round ever for a full-stack robotics company.
Robotics Generalist AI announced a $400M round led by Radical Ventures on June 4, pushing total funding past half a billion to scale GEN-1, its hardware-agnostic robot foundation model.
Robotics David Park has folded napkins at Lotte Hotel Seoul for nine years. Once a month now, RLWRLD straps body cameras to his head, chest, and hands, records finger angles and force, and feeds the data into the AI brain of the humanoid that's supposed to replace him by 2028. The same data pipeline runs at CJ Logistics warehouses and Lawson stores in Japan. The Korean government is bankrolling a $33M parallel database of 「master technicians.」