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MEKAWIRE has published 30 stories about Kawasaki Heavy Industries since Jan 15, 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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Jan 15, 2025

Latest story

Oct 1, 2026

Stories about Kawasaki Heavy Industries

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
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
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
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
Fujitsu enlists FANUC, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to build a sovereign physical AI platform on NVIDIA technology
Date
Jul 16, 2026
Type
Partnership
NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4 billion in Series C as Tether, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch and the EIB back Germany's physical AI bet
Date
Jun 10, 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
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
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
Japan approves AI robotics strategy targeting a 30% global share and 20 trillion yen market by 2040
Date
Mar 26, 2026
Type
Policy
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
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
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
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
Japan's robot exports jump 36% in 2025 as home demand shrinks, JARA data show
Date
Jan 23, 2026
Type
Market
Intuitive passes $10 billion in revenue as da Vinci 5 takes half of its robot shipments, but guides procedure growth lower
Date
Jan 22, 2026
Type
Business
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
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
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
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
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says	Sep 30, 2026	Market
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act	Sep 29, 2026	Funding
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
Fujitsu enlists FANUC, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to build a sovereign physical AI platform on NVIDIA technology	Jul 16, 2026	Partnership
NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4 billion in Series C as Tether, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch and the EIB back Germany's physical AI bet	Jun 10, 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
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
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
Japan approves AI robotics strategy targeting a 30% global share and 20 trillion yen market by 2040	Mar 26, 2026	Policy
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
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
LimX Dynamics raises $200 million Series B as JD and SAIC-backed capital bet on its robot operating system	Feb 2, 2026	Funding
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
Japan's robot exports jump 36% in 2025 as home demand shrinks, JARA data show	Jan 23, 2026	Market
Intuitive passes $10 billion in revenue as da Vinci 5 takes half of its robot shipments, but guides procedure growth lower	Jan 22, 2026	Business
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
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
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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