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Multiply Labs said in a press release on Oct 6 that it raised a $75 million Series B led by Patrick Soon-Shiong, with AstraZeneca, Lingotto, Teradyne and Strange Ventures joining as new investors. The San Francisco company, which automates GMP manufacturing of cell and gene therapies, said total funding now exceeds $100 million and the money goes to manufacturing capacity, product work and engineering, regulatory and commercial hiring.

Hitachi has reached a basic agreement with Munich's Agile Robots to fuse their AI models into a robot "brain" for factory work and pair it with Hitachi's edge AI chips, then sell the results globally through HMAX Industry. No financial terms or launch dates were disclosed, and the deal came a day before Hitachi's separate physical AI partnership with FANUC.

Barcelona-based THEKER has raised US$85 million in a Series A led by CRV, with Samsung, LVMH, Henkel, Mercadona and others joining, according to investor Cathay Innovation. The four-year-old company builds AI-native generalist robots that it says already run in live European production lines, but it has not named customers or disclosed a valuation.

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.

Generalist AI introduced GEN-0 on November 4, 2025, a family of embodied foundation models that the company says improves predictably with more physical interaction data. It reported a capacity threshold at 7 billion parameters, models scaled past 10 billion, and a pretraining corpus of more than 270,000 hours growing by over 10,000 hours a week. The findings were published as a company blog post, not a peer-reviewed paper.

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.