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MEKAWIRE has published 51 stories about FANUC since Apr 17, 2025; the latest is from Oct 1, 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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Apr 17, 2025

Latest story

Oct 1, 2026

Stories about FANUC

Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Industry
Paris-based Inbolt raises $12.5 million to take its AI robot vision from car plants to data centres
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Funding
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Market
Hitachi and FANUC pair edge AI chips with industrial robots, aiming for a global physical AI rollout from fiscal 2027
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Partnership
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Funding
Hitachi and Agile Robots agree to build a shared physical AI brain for factories, sold through HMAX Industry
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Partnership
Watney raises $80 million Series A to put dexterous robots on hyperscale data-centre floors
Date
Sep 17, 2026
Type
Funding
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers
Date
Sep 17, 2026
Type
Funding
Universal Robots launches Gen 7 cobot platform as Teradyne takes its fight with Chinese rivals to Europe's patent court
Date
Sep 14, 2026
Type
Product
FANUC to ship AI Welding Agent that reads drawings and writes robot weld programs, built on Google's Gemini Enterprise
Date
Sep 11, 2026
Type
Product
Harmonic Drive Systems' orders jump 55.7% to ¥24.1 billion as robot, surgical and chip demand returns, and it lifts its profit forecast by 37%
Date
Aug 7, 2026
Type
Business
Teradyne's robotics arm grows 33% to $100 million as AI test demand doubles group revenue
Date
Jul 28, 2026
Type
Market
Fujitsu enlists FANUC, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to build a sovereign physical AI platform on NVIDIA technology
Date
Jul 16, 2026
Type
Partnership
Yaskawa puts Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 inside MOTOMAN NEXT to build an agentic industrial robot
Date
Jul 15, 2026
Type
Partnership
Rokae lists in Hong Kong at HK$38 and raises about HK$1.01 billion including the over-allotment after retail investors cover its offer 156 times
Date
Jul 9, 2026
Type
Funding
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
Yaskawa targets record ¥100 billion operating profit by 2029, betting on physical AI and humanoid actuators after missing its last plan
Date
May 22, 2026
Type
Business
Kawasaki opens a physical AI centre in San Jose with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Analog Devices and Fujitsu, starting with hospital robots
Date
May 22, 2026
Type
Partnership
FANUC opens its robots to Google's Intrinsic and Gemini and deepens NVIDIA ties in a two-day physical AI push
Date
May 15, 2026
Type
Partnership
Doosan Robotics sets 2028 for an industrial humanoid after NVIDIA talks, then rebuilds its Europe base in Frankfurt
Date
Apr 29, 2026
Type
Business
FANUC posts record ¥857.8 billion sales as robot revenue rises 15% and China orders jump 55% in the final quarter
Date
Apr 24, 2026
Type
Business
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows
Date
Apr 22, 2026
Type
Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
Research
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data
Date
Apr 2, 2026
Type
Research
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million
Date
Mar 31, 2026
Type
Business
Huayan Robotics raises HK$1.58bn in Hong Kong debut after retail book is covered 5,059 times
Date
Mar 30, 2026
Type
Market
Japan approves AI robotics strategy targeting a 30% global share and 20 trillion yen market by 2040
Date
Mar 26, 2026
Type
Policy
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move
Date
Mar 16, 2026
Type
Product
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
Funding
EU clears SoftBank's $5.4 billion ABB Robotics deal, a price of 17 times EBITDA to give its robot AI a body
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
M&A
Estun lists in Hong Kong at the bottom of its range, raising HK$1.49 billion as China's top-selling robot brand returns to profit
Date
Mar 9, 2026
Type
Market
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre
Date
Feb 27, 2026
Type
Business
Nabtesco's robot gear orders rise for a fourth straight quarter, doubling component profit as China and Korea EV projects return
Date
Feb 12, 2026
Type
Business
Teradyne's robotics arm shrinks 16% to $308 million in 2025 and restructures about 400 jobs as AI test demand lifts the group
Date
Feb 2, 2026
Type
Business
LimX Dynamics raises $200 million Series B as JD and SAIC-backed capital bet on its robot operating system
Date
Feb 2, 2026
Type
Funding
Munich's RobCo raises $100 million Series C led by Lightspeed and Exor's Lingotto to take factory robots it rents out to the US
Date
Jan 29, 2026
Type
Funding
ABB Robotics ends its last full year under ABB with sales up 2.8% and fourth-quarter operating income halved
Date
Jan 29, 2026
Type
Business
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code
Date
Jan 27, 2026
Type
Research
FANUC robot orders rise 21% as China and Europe pick up, and its CRX cobot draws more than 1,000 physical AI orders after iREX
Date
Jan 26, 2026
Type
Business
Japan's robot exports jump 36% in 2025 as home demand shrinks, JARA data show
Date
Jan 23, 2026
Type
Market
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive
Date
Jan 6, 2026
Type
M&A
FANUC opens its robots to ROS 2 and NVIDIA as a record iREX 2025 turns Tokyo into a physical AI showcase
Date
Dec 3, 2025
Type
Industry
Mujin raises $233 million in Series D first close as NTT and Qatar's sovereign fund bet on its robot operating system
Date
Dec 2, 2025
Type
Funding
Physical Intelligence raises $600 million at $5.6 billion as CapitalG leads bet on a shared robot brain
Date
Nov 20, 2025
Type
Funding
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
SoftBank agrees to buy ABB's robotics division for $5.375 billion, killing the planned spin-off at 17 times EBITDA
Date
Oct 8, 2025
Type
M&A
IFR counts 542,000 factory robots installed in 2024 as Japan, Korea and Germany slip and China takes 54%
Date
Sep 25, 2025
Type
Market
Doosan Robotics pays $27.2 million for 89.59% of Pennsylvania integrator ONExia to sell US packaging cells built around its arms
Date
Jul 28, 2025
Type
M&A
ABB plans to spin off its US$2.3 billion robot business as a separate listed company in 2026
Date
Apr 17, 2025
Type
Business

Headline	Date	Type
Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?	Oct 1, 2026	Industry
Paris-based Inbolt raises $12.5 million to take its AI robot vision from car plants to data centres	Sep 30, 2026	Funding
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says	Sep 30, 2026	Market
Hitachi and FANUC pair edge AI chips with industrial robots, aiming for a global physical AI rollout from fiscal 2027	Sep 30, 2026	Partnership
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act	Sep 29, 2026	Funding
Hitachi and Agile Robots agree to build a shared physical AI brain for factories, sold through HMAX Industry	Sep 29, 2026	Partnership
Watney raises $80 million Series A to put dexterous robots on hyperscale data-centre floors	Sep 17, 2026	Funding
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers	Sep 17, 2026	Funding
Universal Robots launches Gen 7 cobot platform as Teradyne takes its fight with Chinese rivals to Europe's patent court	Sep 14, 2026	Product
FANUC to ship AI Welding Agent that reads drawings and writes robot weld programs, built on Google's Gemini Enterprise	Sep 11, 2026	Product
Harmonic Drive Systems' orders jump 55.7% to ¥24.1 billion as robot, surgical and chip demand returns, and it lifts its profit forecast by 37%	Aug 7, 2026	Business
Teradyne's robotics arm grows 33% to $100 million as AI test demand doubles group revenue	Jul 28, 2026	Market
Fujitsu enlists FANUC, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to build a sovereign physical AI platform on NVIDIA technology	Jul 16, 2026	Partnership
Yaskawa puts Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 inside MOTOMAN NEXT to build an agentic industrial robot	Jul 15, 2026	Partnership
Rokae lists in Hong Kong at HK$38 and raises about HK$1.01 billion including the over-allotment after retail investors cover its offer 156 times	Jul 9, 2026	Funding
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
Yaskawa targets record ¥100 billion operating profit by 2029, betting on physical AI and humanoid actuators after missing its last plan	May 22, 2026	Business
Kawasaki opens a physical AI centre in San Jose with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Analog Devices and Fujitsu, starting with hospital robots	May 22, 2026	Partnership
FANUC opens its robots to Google's Intrinsic and Gemini and deepens NVIDIA ties in a two-day physical AI push	May 15, 2026	Partnership
Doosan Robotics sets 2028 for an industrial humanoid after NVIDIA talks, then rebuilds its Europe base in Frankfurt	Apr 29, 2026	Business
FANUC posts record ¥857.8 billion sales as robot revenue rises 15% and China orders jump 55% in the final quarter	Apr 24, 2026	Business
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows	Apr 22, 2026	Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data	Apr 15, 2026	Research
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data	Apr 2, 2026	Research
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million	Mar 31, 2026	Business
Huayan Robotics raises HK$1.58bn in Hong Kong debut after retail book is covered 5,059 times	Mar 30, 2026	Market
Japan approves AI robotics strategy targeting a 30% global share and 20 trillion yen market by 2040	Mar 26, 2026	Policy
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move	Mar 16, 2026	Product
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake	Mar 11, 2026	Funding
EU clears SoftBank's $5.4 billion ABB Robotics deal, a price of 17 times EBITDA to give its robot AI a body	Mar 11, 2026	M&A
Estun lists in Hong Kong at the bottom of its range, raising HK$1.49 billion as China's top-selling robot brand returns to profit	Mar 9, 2026	Market
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre	Feb 27, 2026	Business
Nabtesco's robot gear orders rise for a fourth straight quarter, doubling component profit as China and Korea EV projects return	Feb 12, 2026	Business
Teradyne's robotics arm shrinks 16% to $308 million in 2025 and restructures about 400 jobs as AI test demand lifts the group	Feb 2, 2026	Business
LimX Dynamics raises $200 million Series B as JD and SAIC-backed capital bet on its robot operating system	Feb 2, 2026	Funding
Munich's RobCo raises $100 million Series C led by Lightspeed and Exor's Lingotto to take factory robots it rents out to the US	Jan 29, 2026	Funding
ABB Robotics ends its last full year under ABB with sales up 2.8% and fourth-quarter operating income halved	Jan 29, 2026	Business
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code	Jan 27, 2026	Research
FANUC robot orders rise 21% as China and Europe pick up, and its CRX cobot draws more than 1,000 physical AI orders after iREX	Jan 26, 2026	Business
Japan's robot exports jump 36% in 2025 as home demand shrinks, JARA data show	Jan 23, 2026	Market
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive	Jan 6, 2026	M&A
FANUC opens its robots to ROS 2 and NVIDIA as a record iREX 2025 turns Tokyo into a physical AI showcase	Dec 3, 2025	Industry
Mujin raises $233 million in Series D first close as NTT and Qatar's sovereign fund bet on its robot operating system	Dec 2, 2025	Funding
Physical Intelligence raises $600 million at $5.6 billion as CapitalG leads bet on a shared robot brain	Nov 20, 2025	Funding
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
SoftBank agrees to buy ABB's robotics division for $5.375 billion, killing the planned spin-off at 17 times EBITDA	Oct 8, 2025	M&A
IFR counts 542,000 factory robots installed in 2024 as Japan, Korea and Germany slip and China takes 54%	Sep 25, 2025	Market
Doosan Robotics pays $27.2 million for 89.59% of Pennsylvania integrator ONExia to sell US packaging cells built around its arms	Jul 28, 2025	M&A
ABB plans to spin off its US$2.3 billion robot business as a separate listed company in 2026	Apr 17, 2025	Business

Data as of Oct 13, 2026

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