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MEKAWIRE has published 30 stories about Rainbow Robotics since Dec 31, 2024; 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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First story

Dec 31, 2024

Latest story

Oct 1, 2026

Stories about Rainbow Robotics

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
US Army names IHMC's Alex humanoid and four component makers as xTechHumanoid winners
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Policy
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
Korea plans to put 200,000 AI robots into service by 2030, starting with more than 1,700 government purchases in 2027
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Policy
Korea names Daegu–Gyeongbuk a national advanced-industry zone for robotics
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Policy
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
Korea plans more than fivefold rise in humanoid core-parts budget to 62 billion won for 2027
Date
Sep 10, 2026
Type
Policy
Korea's National Growth Fund puts 150 billion won into robot-hand maker Wonik Robotics in a 350 billion won raise
Date
Aug 28, 2026
Type
Funding
LG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027
Date
Aug 14, 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
Korea's AI robot alliance reaches 280 members in its first year, with shipyard and refinery humanoids aimed at 2027 and 2028
Date
May 29, 2026
Type
Industry
Doosan Robotics sets 2028 for an industrial humanoid after NVIDIA talks, then rebuilds its Europe base in Frankfurt
Date
Apr 29, 2026
Type
Business
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
Doosan Robotics' 2025 loss widens to 59.5 billion won as cobot arm sales halve, and it puts $16 million more into its US solutions arm
Date
Mar 26, 2026
Type
Business
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
Korea opens bidding for a 9.7bn won humanoid robot safety certification centre in Daegu
Date
Mar 23, 2026
Type
Policy
Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes
Date
Mar 12, 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
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive
Date
Jan 6, 2026
Type
M&A
LG enters the robot joint business with its AXIUM actuator brand as the CLOiD home robot makes its CES debut
Date
Jan 4, 2026
Type
Product
Physical Intelligence raises $600 million at $5.6 billion as CapitalG leads bet on a shared robot brain
Date
Nov 20, 2025
Type
Funding
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
Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028
Date
Apr 10, 2025
Type
Policy
LG Electronics takes 51% of Bear Robotics and hands it the CLOi service robot business, four weeks after Samsung moved on Rainbow
Date
Jan 24, 2025
Type
M&A
Samsung takes 35% of Rainbow Robotics for 267.5 billion won and puts a humanoid office under its CEO
Date
Dec 31, 2024
Type
M&A

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
US Army names IHMC's Alex humanoid and four component makers as xTechHumanoid winners	Sep 30, 2026	Policy
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says	Sep 30, 2026	Market
Korea plans to put 200,000 AI robots into service by 2030, starting with more than 1,700 government purchases in 2027	Sep 30, 2026	Policy
Korea names Daegu–Gyeongbuk a national advanced-industry zone for robotics	Sep 30, 2026	Policy
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers	Sep 17, 2026	Funding
Korea plans more than fivefold rise in humanoid core-parts budget to 62 billion won for 2027	Sep 10, 2026	Policy
Korea's National Growth Fund puts 150 billion won into robot-hand maker Wonik Robotics in a 350 billion won raise	Aug 28, 2026	Funding
LG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027	Aug 14, 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
Korea's AI robot alliance reaches 280 members in its first year, with shipyard and refinery humanoids aimed at 2027 and 2028	May 29, 2026	Industry
Doosan Robotics sets 2028 for an industrial humanoid after NVIDIA talks, then rebuilds its Europe base in Frankfurt	Apr 29, 2026	Business
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
Doosan Robotics' 2025 loss widens to 59.5 billion won as cobot arm sales halve, and it puts $16 million more into its US solutions arm	Mar 26, 2026	Business
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
Korea opens bidding for a 9.7bn won humanoid robot safety certification centre in Daegu	Mar 23, 2026	Policy
Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes	Mar 12, 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
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive	Jan 6, 2026	M&A
LG enters the robot joint business with its AXIUM actuator brand as the CLOiD home robot makes its CES debut	Jan 4, 2026	Product
Physical Intelligence raises $600 million at $5.6 billion as CapitalG leads bet on a shared robot brain	Nov 20, 2025	Funding
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
Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028	Apr 10, 2025	Policy
LG Electronics takes 51% of Bear Robotics and hands it the CLOi service robot business, four weeks after Samsung moved on Rainbow	Jan 24, 2025	M&A
Samsung takes 35% of Rainbow Robotics for 267.5 billion won and puts a humanoid office under its CEO	Dec 31, 2024	M&A

Data as of Oct 13, 2026

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