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Field covering robots and control software that automate material handling, sorting, assembly and other tasks in warehouses and factories.
Omron will buy US industrial PC maker Onlogic and its parent Interlogic for $675 million, the company said on Tuesday. Onlogic keeps its brand and management, and Omron says it wants physical AI services and more US customers.
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Boston Dynamics made former Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad CEO from October 7, with Atlas deployments at Hyundai and Google DeepMind scheduled for 2026. His record is in shipping AI software to households, while the job he takes on is getting a humanoid to work reliably through factory shifts.
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RobCo staff sold most of a $40 million share block at terms valuing the Munich robot maker above $1 billion, twice January's price. Most of the cash went to the sellers, so the figure measures demand for physical AI more than it funds RobCo.
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The Google-owned robotics unit put its real-time control, motion planning and pose estimation code under Apache 2.0 at ROSCon, along with a CNC machine tending reference design for Universal Robots and FANUC hardware.
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The Houston startup says energy and construction come next after shipbuilding and steel, though its Korean work so far amounts to two proof-of-concept projects and a $2 million investment from POSCO DX.
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Figure's software finished 56% of chores in 30 unfamiliar homes, Boston Dynamics began training Atlas inside a Hyundai plant, and Unitree priced a 22-joint hand at $6,500.
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Greg Ombach, a senior vice president at Airbus, writes that vision-language-action models force a choice between capability and edge deployment, and that industrial buyers should validate one operating domain before expanding.
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The robotics office Samsung created in July has a single executive running both the drivetrain team and the perception team, which is a cheap piece of optionality against Chinese rivals who took more than 97 percent of first-half humanoid shipments.
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A software-only startup with no robots of its own is betting that open weights and human video can substitute for the fleet it cannot finance.
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