Serve Robotics Inc. said it launched the AV Delivery Developer Portal, giving developers, businesses and AI assistants programmatic access to summon its sidewalk delivery robots. The company also released a public API and a sandbox environment for building and testing applications before using live robots. “You shouldn’t have to start a robotics company to build something useful with robots,” CEO Ali Kashani said. “Opening our fleet gives us an opportunity to serve those needs.” The Redwood City, California-based company, spun out of Uber in 2021, said it has deployed more than 2,000 robots across the U.S. and Australia, reaching about 3 million people and supporting more than 4,000 restaurants. It acquired hospital service robot provider Diligent Robotics earlier this year...
Runway AI has released Praxis-1, a general-purpose robot action model, with open weights available to developers under the Apache 2.0 license. The model is a 27-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts diffusion transformer that predicts video and actions jointly. Praxis-1 is available on GitHub, Hugging Face with native LeRobot support and vLLM-Omni, with inference hosted on Reactor. Runway released weights, inference and fine-tuning code for commercial use, supporting full fine-tuning and LoRA. The model runs out of the box on NVIDIA hardware, from data-center H100 and B200 GPUs to RTX 5090, RTX PRO 6000 and Jetson Thor on robots. Partners Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra have tested the model on a legged humanoid, a six-axis industrial arm and a dual-arm warehouse robot. Runway...
SpaceX and Tesla have made progress in merger talks and could announce a deal as soon as December, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The companies’ boards and advisers are discussing merger terms, equity arrangements and governance of the combined company, according to the report. A backup timeline would push an announcement to early 2027. A merger would create the largest M&A deal on record. The two companies have a combined market value of about $3.4 trillion, and the merged entity would rank around fifth among U.S. listed companies, ahead of Amazon, according to the report. The combined company would bring together rockets, satellite internet, AI, chips, computing, electric vehicles, robots and energy storage under Elon Musk....
RoboScience, a Chinese robotics company, has launched Visics-Agent, a cloud-based embodied AI service that it says allows robots to understand voice commands, remember user habits and learn new skills. The service, offered as an embodied AI service (EaaS), is aimed at robot developers. Developers can connect dexterous hands to its API through Tencent Cloud without collecting data, writing code or fine-tuning models, according to the company. Users can issue instructions directly and the robot will complete tasks autonomously. Visics-Agent separates robot learning into two stages: teaching and execution. In the teaching stage, users can instruct a robot in natural language, correct it if needed and tell it to remember a successful result. The system then turns the experience into a...
Chinese robot service platform SHAREBOT said on Thursday it had completed a strategic financing round in the hundreds of millions of yuan, with Heda Investment, Mango Industrial Investor (Houwei Capital) and Sinounite. The company also completed a brand and business model upgrade, moving from robot rental to “robot productivity services” and from renting equipment to delivering work, it said. It aims to build robot service infrastructure for multiple industries based on its Worken productivity measurement framework, cross-brand fleet scheduling and national fulfilment network. The investors bring content, regional industrial and logistics resources. Heda Investment will support regional expansion and the rollout of the Worken training system. Mango Industrial Investor (Houwei Capital) will link IP content with embodied AI, using robots...
Astribot, a Chinese embodied-AI company, has released CoMind – Be My Eye, a multi-robot collaboration framework it describes as the industry’s first to actively share and curate task context. Astribot said the framework establishes a new collaboration model in which robots do not share everything but actively pass on key information that affects decisions. CoMind has two core features. The first is decentralized active sharing, which allows robots to exchange task context in real time and move away from passive, centralized scheduling. The second is curated information, which filters and compresses decision-relevant information before sharing it, rather than forwarding noise. Astribot said the framework improved coordination in complex household tasks including assembling cardboard boxes and dumbbell plates, folding and storing...
Chinese quadruped robot maker DEEP Robotics has launched the Jueying X50, a new four-legged robot that can carry up to 50 kg across complex terrain, targeting high-risk sectors including emergency rescue, firefighting and energy inspection. The X50 features upgraded perception-control integration and a high-rigidity, high-response joint system, improving payload, traversability and posture stability without increasing body size, the company said. At its rated 50 kg payload, it can run continuously at 3 m/s for more than 2 km, DEEP Robotics said. The robot can carry hydraulic tools, insulator strings and grounding wire sets for power inspection; dozens of kilograms of firefighting equipment and fire hoses for sustained spraying; and life detectors, cutting tools and medical supplies for emergency rescue, according...
Agile Robots said it has raised $500 million in a funding round led by SoftBank Group, with Nvidia, Hitachi and T.Capital participating, valuing the Munich-based robotics company at $8.5 billion. Founded in 2018, Agile Robots is led by founder and CEO Chen Zhaopeng, who holds a bachelor’s degree from the Robotics Institute at Harbin Institute of Technology and previously served as deputy director of a laboratory at the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics. He co-founded the company with Peter Meusel. Agile Robots has built full-stack core hardware and software capabilities spanning motors, reducers and sensors, as well as robotic arms, dexterous hands and humanoid robots, and robot operating systems, foundation models and application algorithms. It has extended...
UBTech Robotics, China’s first listed humanoid robot maker, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hong Kong-listed luxury car dealer Yongda Automobiles Services Holdings, under which Yongda will purchase 400 U1 Pro ultra-bionic humanoid robots, with delivery planned this year. The companies will combine UBTech’s product technology with Yongda’s channel and service resources to develop consumer sales, industry applications, experience and delivery services, and data and ecosystem cooperation, as they seek to commercialize embodied intelligence. UBTech has built four core technology clusters: an embodied brain, a humanoid cerebellum, a high-performance body and swarm intelligence. It offers products and solutions for industrial, commercial and consumer scenarios. Yongda has a multi-city, multi-brand store network in China, an online traffic matrix and a...
Following the official kickoff of CeMAT ASIA 2026 on November 3, Hikrobot (Booth A3-1, Hall N1) continues to highlight its latest breakthroughs under the theme “Embodied Intelligent Manufacturing, Cross-scenario Operations.” Featuring eight dedicated exhibition zones and is showcasing more than 40 exhibits, Hikrobot is presenting its full-chain capabilities—from high-density storage, autonomous handling, high-precision picking, flexible assembly, smart identification, receiving and inspection, and virtual simulation—with several groundbreaking products making their offline debut. At the core of this year’s display is “Embodied Intelligent Manufacturing”. By leveraging a highly flexible intelligent product matrix and scalable, replicable application frameworks, Hikrobot seamlessly connects fragmented operational processes into an end-to-end operational loop—transitioning from swarm intelligence to individual edge intelligence across every workflow step. Smart Retrieval for...
