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Mitsubishi Electric opened Serendie Street Boston, the company’s first western digital transformation (DX) hub. The company said that the opening represents a major milestone in Mitsubishi Electric’s global Serendie co-creation initiative which brings together researchers, startups, customers and partners to turn ideas into deployable offerings. Serendie Street Boston details Mitsubishi Electric said that Serendie Street Boston serves as a new…
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Generalist, an embodied foundation model development company, announced a $400 million funding round, bringing its total raised to more than half a billion dollars. The company said that the capital will be used to accelerate its mission of building physical AGI, and making it useful to everyone. Generalist said that its new major investors include Radical Ventures (lead), 8VC, Union…
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A new report from market research firm Interact Analysis found that shipments of collaborative robot (cobots) are predicted to grow at an average annual rate of 17.3% from 2025 to 2030. IA’s latest market report found that cobot shipments will almost double over the forecast period to 128,918 units. This follows a positive 2025, with shipments of cobots increasing 14.5%…
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Autonomous robotic delivery technology company Serve Robotics announced a new partnership with NoScrubs, an on-demand laundry service, marking Serve’s first commercial urban delivery partnership outside of prepared food. Serve said that the pilot, launching in early June in select Los Angeles neighborhoods, will use Serve's existing fleet of autonomous sidewalk robots to deliver NoScrubs laundry orders directly to customers' doors.…
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Robotiq introduced IQ, which the company said is an AI-enabled platform designed to make robotic workcell integration faster, more predictable and easier to scale. The company said that IQ captures unstructured automation project data, coordinates engineering workflows and helps partners generate validated workcell designs based on real customer inputs and historical deployment data from thousands of previous factory installations. Shifting…
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FORT Robotics, a developer of safe control technologies for robots and mobile machines, announced the acquisition of Mapless AI, a Boston- and Pittsburgh-based provider of vehicle teleoperation and autonomy supervision technologies. FORT said that the acquisition represents a significant commercial expansion of its Trust Platform, adding two critical new capabilities: remote human-in-the-loop teleoperation and onboard active safety. Building trust in…
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Real-world AI company Brain Corp announced that its BrainOS autonomy platform has completed a SOC 2 Type II examination - a rigorous, independent audit of how it secures data and operates systems over time. With tens of thousands of autonomous robots already operating in commercial environments worldwide, the company said that the conversation around AI is shifting from proving it…
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Slamcore, a provider of spatial intelligence software, announced a $14 million funding round from top investors, including ROKStar Ventures, a subsidiary of Rockwell Automation, a global provider of industrial automation and digital transformation. The company said that the round brings its total funding to $40M, with backing from investors including Toyota Ventures, Interwoven Ventures, MMC Ventures, Amadeus Capital Partners and…
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Physical AI for manufacturing company Path Robotics announced the launch of Rove, a mobile robotic welding system that pairs the company's Obsidian physical AI model with a quadruped robot. The company said that the Rove launch marks a major expansion - where Obsidian already delivers autonomous, adaptive welding inside fixed cells, Rove extends that capability to the field, bringing intelligent…
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For years, most robotic systems operated comfortably in the millimeter range. If a robot could repeat a position within a few tenths of a millimeter, that was usually good enough. In a lot of industries, it still is. But in others, that level of precision just doesn’t hold anymore. In semiconductor work, medical devices, optics and advanced electronics, tolerances have…
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QNX, a division of BlackBerry Limited, released a new research study examining how robotics development is changing as systems become more software‑driven, AI‑enabled, and increasingly deployed alongside humans at work and in daily life. The research report, “Inside the Robot: Architecture Benchmark Report,” is based on a survey of 1,000 developers from around the world. QNX said that the research…
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BOSTON - Robotics Invest 2026, the fourth annual robotics investment summit hosted by Cybernetix Ventures, kicked off Robotics Tech Week 2026 in Boston. The two-day event featured over 300 investors, entrepreneurs and executives in the robotics sector for keynotes, panels, roundtables and networking opportunities to discuss the ongoing evolution of funding and investment in this space. “Building the next wave…
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OLO Robotics, a Sheffield, U.K.‑based startup that said it is making robotics development accessible to mainstream software developers and domain experts, completed its commercial launch. Additionally, the company announced new manufacturing and distribution partnerships with DEEP Robotics, inMotion Robotic and Fiction Lab as robot companies move to make their hardware accessible to mainstream software teams, not only specialist roboticists. ROS2…
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Rotaku, a Silicon Valley-based startup, has opened reservations for Domo, a compact humanoid robot platform built for hands-on robotics development. The company, and according to its LinkedIn, is “building the world’s first low-cost, high-performance humanoid robot platform designed to become the physical intelligence infrastructure for humanity.” Humanoid robot for under $3,000 Rotaku said that the Domo lineup starts at $2,999…
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Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
