Vatn Systems and Taiwan's NCSIST signed an agreement to explore autonomous underwater vehicles, AI enabled command and control, systems integration, and local sustainment for Taiwan's naval defense work.
Inturai said its proposed DomeCommand acquisition would add counter drone planning, AI reasoning agents, and audit trail tools to its infrastructure security capabilities.
Dyna Robotics announced DYNA-2, a robot foundation model trained on more than 1 million hours of egocentric human video. The company says the model improves task success rates and can adapt to several robot platforms with limited local training data.
Animotion Robotics has shared the first details of Éloi, a bionic robot with an AI core, autonomous motion systems, and a digital phase that lets users build interaction history before the physical robot ships.
Avatar Robotics raised a $6.5 million seed round led by AlleyCorp to expand deployments of humanoid robots for warehouse and manufacturing work.
The firefighting drone market is projected to grow from about $2.5 billion today to more than $8 billion by 2032, as emergency agencies use drones for wildfire detection, thermal imaging, live video, and disaster response.
Autodesk and the University of Florida opened the Autodesk Design and Make Laboratory in Gainesville with a $1 million donation to support robotics research and training for industrialized construction.
American Rheinmetall has received an 18 month U.S. Army contract to deliver autonomous, hybrid powered uncrewed ground vehicles for Project Sustainment.
GeoComm and SkyfireAI have connected emergency call data to Drone as First Responder operations using GeoComm DFR Routing and SkyfireAI drone response tools.
NARMA has launched PXN in the U.S., a security hardened flight control software platform built for drone manufacturers, integrators, and enterprise operators.
Lantronix and DoD Solution have completed integration of DoD Solution's AURA AI autonomy platform with Lantronix's Open-Q 6490CS edge compute solution, with initial production now underway for drone systems used in Ukraine.
LG Innotek and TDK Corporation have partnered to develop vision and tactile sensing modules for physical AI systems, including robot modules that detect contact and pressure.
Tacta Systems has unveiled TactaBot, a robotic hand system for high value manufacturing tasks. The system combines the Tacta Hand, Skill Capture, and a Dexterous Intelligence AI model, with shipments planned for early 2027.
Enigma has raised a $70 million seed round to test how people communicate with robots through an online experiment using more than 100 proprietary robots.
deliverz.ai has introduced its AI powered hospital logistics orchestration platform to healthcare organizations in the United States.
Shanghai Electric showed humanoid robots, pipe processing robots, robot components, and 51 industrial AI agents at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai.
BAUHAUS has deployed an XYZ Robotics goods receiving automation system at its central warehouse in Krefeld, Germany, using Rocky robots to unload, sort, and palletize incoming cartons.
Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung presented a Physical AI strategy at the San Francisco AI Summit, covering vehicles, robots, AI factories, and city level systems.
Skydio's X10, Dock for X10, and R10 have been added to the Blue UAS Cleared List, making the systems eligible for federal procurement and grant programs without additional waivers.
HDT Robotics, doing business as BLADE, was selected as one of five partners for the U.S. Army Project Sustainment initiative and will propose its Dire WOLF unmanned ground vehicle.
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