Every funding round, launch and paper, as it's reported.
Zimmer Biomet and THINK Surgical said in a joint press release on Oct 13 that they have extended their Limited Exclusive Distribution and Supply Agreement for several years. Zimmer Biomet will keep selling an exclusive version of the wireless, handheld TMINI robot that works with its Persona Knee System. Neither company disclosed the length of the extension or any financial terms.
Gecko Robotics is integrating NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform into its infrastructure inspection robots, The Robot Report reported on Sept. 28. The platform pairs open-source OpenShell software, which enforces policy limits on NVIDIA Vera CPUs while agents run, with Sentry, a reference design on BlueField-4 data processing units that watches agents and quarantines those breaking policy within milliseconds. In Gecko's systems, AI agents start and stop data collection, plan robot paths and raise or lower payloads but do not handle data uploads. The robots inspect fuel tanks, nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers for Fortune 100 energy companies, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy.
Figure AI said on September 3, 2026 that it signed a strategic partnership with Nscale for up to 100,000 GPUs on Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform in Barstow, Texas, starting with a $3.5 billion compute commitment that the companies intend to scale beyond $6 billion. Nscale is also making a strategic investment in Figure, which says the capacity will train Helix on data from its crowdsourced Index program.
FedEx and Dexterity said on 30 July 2026 that they are expanding autonomous trailer loading at the FedEx Hagerstown Hub in Maryland, moving Dexterity's dual-armed Mech robot and its Foresight world model from an earlier pilot site to a significantly larger operation. Neither company disclosed robot numbers, financial terms or a completion date.
Physical Intelligence on February 24, 2026 laid out its plan to sell general-purpose robot models as a ready-made ‘physical intelligence layer’ for other robot makers, the way developers call language models through an API. It named home robot maker Weave and warehouse robot maker Ultra as partners, reporting a full packing shift at 96.4% autonomy and a 50% cut in laundry-folding interventions, but gave no pricing or access terms.
1X Technologies said on 11 December 2025 that it would make up to 10,000 NEO humanoid robots available to companies owned by its investor EQT between 2026 and 2030. Pilots start in the United States in 2026 before scaling into Europe and Asia, with each portfolio company deciding whether and how to deploy. No prices or binding order volumes were disclosed.
Figure AI said on 17 September 2025 that Brookfield, owner of more than 100,000 residential units, will help it build what it calls the world's largest humanoid pretraining dataset and will explore GPU data center and deployment work, and that Brookfield invested in its Series C. A day later Figure detailed Project Go-Big and said its Helix model had learned to navigate homes from first-person human video alone, without a single robot demonstration.