Hyundai Motor laid out plans for AI data collection, Level 2+ autonomous systems, a 100 megawatt AI data center, expanded robotaxi supply to Waymo, and robotics commercialization with Boston Dynamics.
Fixstars Corporation will support the planned Qualcomm Japan Robotics Center as a participating partner from its launch. The company will focus on AI model inference optimization and acceleration for robotics applications on Qualcomm Technologies platforms.
Riverside Research and Tera AI have partnered to bring Tera AI's DeepSLAM mapping technology into Riverside Research offerings for national security customers.
SkyPSI launched in the Dallas Fort Worth area with $5 million from founder Vic Pellicano to provide cleaning drones, training, certification, and commercial contracts to independent operators.
Jack Demmer Automotive Group, blueflite, and Airspace Link have launched an autonomous drone delivery program for automotive parts in metro Detroit with support from a $740,000 Michigan grant.
SiMa.ai and AVerMedia will show an integrated drone AI hardware solution at the August 27, 2026 Drone Seminar in Taipei. The platform combines SiMa.ai's Modalix MLSoC with AVerMedia's industrial platform and delivers 50 TOPS of AI compute under 10W.
TianGong Ultra, developed by X-Humanoid, completed a 100 meter sprint in 9.32 seconds at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.
Galbot humanoid robots completed more than 100 consecutive autonomous tennis rallies against human athletes during a live match at the Second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.
Galileo Robotics unveiled Galileo X at WRC 2026, presenting a ground mobility platform that combines wheeled AGV, vehicle, and legged robot capabilities.
XPENG Robotics raised over $900 million at a valuation above $6.3 billion to fund humanoid robot research, production facilities, and global expansion for its IRON robot.
Galaxea AI demonstrated more than ten robotics systems at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, including a dark store fulfillment system, robot assembly tools, and its Nexo wheeled dual arm robot.
SU Group subsidiary Shine Union Macao has signed an exclusive deal to distribute Green Light Multiplex's Inspec Spider inspection robot in Macao.
The 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games will feature 666 teams and 2,056 robots from 16 countries, with new autonomous races, sports events, and dexterous hand tasks.
Zoomlion is showcasing humanoid and quadrupedal robots for industrial tasks at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing.
Shield AI’s X-BAT has been named the Official Autonomous Aircraft of the Army-Navy Game presented by USAA. The 2026 game will take place Dec. 12 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
Baidu's Apollo Go vehicles are now available through Uber in Dubai. Riders can be matched with a fully driverless vehicle through Uber Comfort, UberX, or the Autonomous option in the app.
Unitree Robotics shares closed up 460.3 percent in their Shanghai STAR Market debut, valuing the company at 341.77 billion yuan.
TIER IV and Renesas Electronics are collaborating on an open AI native computing platform for software defined vehicles using Autoware, reference AI models, and Renesas R-Car Gen 5 automotive SoCs.
SANY Group shipped its first SKT110Ei autonomous electric mining trucks to South America, pairing the vehicles with intelligent dispatch and life cycle operation and maintenance services.
Simple AI has published a tech report for HiFi-UMI and released HiFi-UMI-2K, a 2,000 hour open dataset for robot manipulation learning.
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