Covariant
Emeryville AI robotics company behind RFM-1, a robotics foundation model for warehouse picking, whose founders moved to Amazon in 2024
- Stuttgart's Sereact raises US$110 million led by Headline to sell one robot brain for any machine, starting with the US
Sereact, the Stuttgart developer of the Cortex robot model, raised US$110 million in a Series B led by Headline on 27 April 2026, citing more than 1 billion production picks and one remote intervention in about 53,000. The money funds Cortex 2.0, which adds a world model to a vision-language-action model, and a first US office in Boston; Zalando later joined, lifting the round to US$116 million.
Mentioned - Amazon unveils Vulcan, its first robot with a sense of touch, to pick and stow about 75% of warehouse items
Amazon introduced Vulcan at its Delivering the Future event in Dortmund, Germany, on May 7, 2025, a fulfillment robot whose grippers carry force sensors so it can feel its way into crowded storage bins. The company said Vulcan can handle about 75% of the item types in its fulfillment centers and was already working in Spokane, Washington, and Hamburg, Germany, with wider rollout in Europe and the United States planned over the next couple of years.
Mentioned