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MEKAWIRE has published 16 stories about Amazon since Jan 15, 2025; the latest is from Oct 12, 2026.

Data as of Oct 13, 2026. Included: company announcements, regulator filings and reported rounds; estimates and sample rows are excluded, and undisclosed amounts are never estimated.

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Jan 15, 2025

Latest story

Oct 12, 2026

Stories about Amazon

Highlanders shows a production prototype of its humanoid N at CEATEC as it readies 2027 shipments with Mitsubishi Motors
Date
Oct 12, 2026
Type
Product
Agility unveils Digit 5 humanoid for barrier-free work, with $300 million in orders tied to contractual milestones
Date
Sep 15, 2026
Type
Business
Standard Bots raises US$200 million at a US$1 billion valuation to build AI-taught factory robots in New York
Date
Jun 9, 2026
Type
Funding
Amazon FAR's OmniRetarget takes ICRA 2026's top paper prize for turning human motion into humanoid training data
Date
Jun 4, 2026
Type
Research
Amazon unveils a next-generation Proteus robot that takes spoken instructions, tied to a €10 billion upgrade of its European warehouses
Date
Jun 4, 2026
Type
Business
Stuttgart's Sereact raises US$110 million led by Headline to sell one robot brain for any machine, starting with the US
Date
Apr 27, 2026
Type
Funding
Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the 107 cm Sprout humanoid, less than two months after the robot's launch
Date
Mar 24, 2026
Type
M&A
Toyota's Canadian car plants sign Agility Robotics to a paid Digit humanoid service after a pilot
Date
Feb 19, 2026
Type
Business
iRobot files for Chapter 11 as Chinese supplier Picea takes 100% of the Roomba maker
Date
Dec 14, 2025
Type
M&A
NVIDIA pitches factory digital twins and Thor robot computers as the toolkit for US reindustrialization, enlisting Foxconn, Siemens, FANUC and four robot developers
Date
Oct 28, 2025
Type
Industry
Amazon unveils Blue Jay, a multi-arm robot that merges three workstations, and Project Eluna, an agentic AI for warehouse managers
Date
Oct 22, 2025
Type
Product
Dyna Robotics raises US$120 million Series A from Robostrategy, CRV and First Round to scale its DYNA-1 robot foundation model into paid laundry and restaurant work
Date
Sep 15, 2025
Type
Funding
NVIDIA puts a Blackwell brain inside robots with the $3,499 Jetson Thor as Figure, Agility and Boston Dynamics sign on
Date
Aug 25, 2025
Type
Product
Amazon puts its millionth robot to work in Japan and launches DeepFleet, an AI model it says cuts fleet travel time by 10%
Date
Jul 1, 2025
Type
Business
Amazon unveils Vulcan, its first robot with a sense of touch, to pick and stow about 75% of warehouse items
Date
May 7, 2025
Type
Product
NEURA Robotics raises EUR 120 million Series B led by Lingotto as it reports a EUR 1 billion order book
Date
Jan 15, 2025
Type
Funding

Headline	Date	Type
Highlanders shows a production prototype of its humanoid N at CEATEC as it readies 2027 shipments with Mitsubishi Motors	Oct 12, 2026	Product
Agility unveils Digit 5 humanoid for barrier-free work, with $300 million in orders tied to contractual milestones	Sep 15, 2026	Business
Standard Bots raises US$200 million at a US$1 billion valuation to build AI-taught factory robots in New York	Jun 9, 2026	Funding
Amazon FAR's OmniRetarget takes ICRA 2026's top paper prize for turning human motion into humanoid training data	Jun 4, 2026	Research
Amazon unveils a next-generation Proteus robot that takes spoken instructions, tied to a €10 billion upgrade of its European warehouses	Jun 4, 2026	Business
Stuttgart's Sereact raises US$110 million led by Headline to sell one robot brain for any machine, starting with the US	Apr 27, 2026	Funding
Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the 107 cm Sprout humanoid, less than two months after the robot's launch	Mar 24, 2026	M&A
Toyota's Canadian car plants sign Agility Robotics to a paid Digit humanoid service after a pilot	Feb 19, 2026	Business
iRobot files for Chapter 11 as Chinese supplier Picea takes 100% of the Roomba maker	Dec 14, 2025	M&A
NVIDIA pitches factory digital twins and Thor robot computers as the toolkit for US reindustrialization, enlisting Foxconn, Siemens, FANUC and four robot developers	Oct 28, 2025	Industry
Amazon unveils Blue Jay, a multi-arm robot that merges three workstations, and Project Eluna, an agentic AI for warehouse managers	Oct 22, 2025	Product
Dyna Robotics raises US$120 million Series A from Robostrategy, CRV and First Round to scale its DYNA-1 robot foundation model into paid laundry and restaurant work	Sep 15, 2025	Funding
NVIDIA puts a Blackwell brain inside robots with the $3,499 Jetson Thor as Figure, Agility and Boston Dynamics sign on	Aug 25, 2025	Product
Amazon puts its millionth robot to work in Japan and launches DeepFleet, an AI model it says cuts fleet travel time by 10%	Jul 1, 2025	Business
Amazon unveils Vulcan, its first robot with a sense of touch, to pick and stow about 75% of warehouse items	May 7, 2025	Product
NEURA Robotics raises EUR 120 million Series B led by Lingotto as it reports a EUR 1 billion order book	Jan 15, 2025	Funding

Data as of Oct 13, 2026

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