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Universal Robots news archive

MEKAWIRE has published 24 stories about Universal Robots since Jan 15, 2025; the latest is from Sep 30, 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

Jan 15, 2025

Latest story

Sep 30, 2026

Stories about Universal Robots

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
Direct Drive Tech and Camsense raise HK$1.76 billion in back-to-back Hong Kong listings, putting the parts inside cheap robots on the market
Date
Sep 30, 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
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
Doosan Robotics sets 2028 for an industrial humanoid after NVIDIA talks, then rebuilds its Europe base in Frankfurt
Date
Apr 29, 2026
Type
Business
Universal Robots wins a German injunction against Chinese cobot rival Elite Robots as Teradyne's robotics sales reach $91 million
Date
Apr 28, 2026
Type
Business
Wandelbots, SCHUNK and EY team up on NVIDIA-based physical AI for Germany's Mittelstand as Gessmann brings NOVA to Hannover Messe
Date
Apr 19, 2026
Type
Partnership
Skild AI buys Zebra's former Fetch Robotics unit for $20 million, five years after Zebra paid $301 million for it
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
M&A
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
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
AutoStore ends 2025 with record quarterly orders and revenue, but full-year sales fall 10% and profit drops 40%
Date
Feb 12, 2026
Type
Market
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
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
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
Microsoft enters the robot model race with Rho-alpha, a Phi-based model that adds touch and learns from human corrections
Date
Jan 21, 2026
Type
Product
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
Generalist AI's GEN-0 claims robotics' first scaling laws, trained on 270,000 hours of real-world manipulation data
Date
Nov 4, 2025
Type
Research
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
Skild AI unveils the Skild Brain, a single robot foundation model it says can drive quadrupeds, humanoids and arms alike
Date
Jul 29, 2025
Type
Product
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
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
Paris-based Inbolt raises $12.5 million to take its AI robot vision from car plants to data centres	Sep 30, 2026	Funding
Direct Drive Tech and Camsense raise HK$1.76 billion in back-to-back Hong Kong listings, putting the parts inside cheap robots on the market	Sep 30, 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
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
Doosan Robotics sets 2028 for an industrial humanoid after NVIDIA talks, then rebuilds its Europe base in Frankfurt	Apr 29, 2026	Business
Universal Robots wins a German injunction against Chinese cobot rival Elite Robots as Teradyne's robotics sales reach $91 million	Apr 28, 2026	Business
Wandelbots, SCHUNK and EY team up on NVIDIA-based physical AI for Germany's Mittelstand as Gessmann brings NOVA to Hannover Messe	Apr 19, 2026	Partnership
Skild AI buys Zebra's former Fetch Robotics unit for $20 million, five years after Zebra paid $301 million for it	Apr 15, 2026	M&A
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
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
AutoStore ends 2025 with record quarterly orders and revenue, but full-year sales fall 10% and profit drops 40%	Feb 12, 2026	Market
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
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
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
Microsoft enters the robot model race with Rho-alpha, a Phi-based model that adds touch and learns from human corrections	Jan 21, 2026	Product
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
Generalist AI's GEN-0 claims robotics' first scaling laws, trained on 270,000 hours of real-world manipulation data	Nov 4, 2025	Research
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
Skild AI unveils the Skild Brain, a single robot foundation model it says can drive quadrupeds, humanoids and arms alike	Jul 29, 2025	Product
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
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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