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May 7, 2026
BusinessUS

Symbotic turns a profit as revenue rises 23% and systems in deployment jump to 70

Symbotic reported fiscal second-quarter 2026 revenue of $676.5 million, up 23%, and net income of $9.4 million against a loss a year earlier, in results filed with the SEC on May 6, 2026. Adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to $77.8 million, systems in deployment rose to 70 from 52 a quarter earlier, and the company guided third-quarter revenue to $700 million to $720 million.

May 1, 2026
BusinessUS

1X opens a 58,000-square-foot NEO factory in Hayward with capacity for 10,000 home humanoids a year and a goal of 100,000 by 2027

1X Technologies said on April 30, 2026 that its Hayward, California plant can build up to 10,000 NEO home humanoids a year and that it plans to scale toward more than 100,000 units annually by the end of 2027. The company makes its own motors, batteries, hands and structures in-house, said a year of production was booked within five days of opening preorders, and reaffirmed that first deliveries start in 2026.

Apr 29, 2026
BusinessKR

Doosan Robotics sets 2028 for an industrial humanoid after NVIDIA talks, then rebuilds its Europe base in Frankfurt

Doosan Robotics said on April 29 that it will launch robot solutions on its Agentic Robot O/S in 2027 and an industrial humanoid in 2028, after hosting NVIDIA's Madison Huang to discuss linking that software with NVIDIA's simulation and training stack. In May it moved its European office to Frankfurt with local repair and training, and in June it unveiled the PalletizHD+ palletiser in Chicago.

Apr 29, 2026
BusinessDK

Universal Robots wins a German injunction against Chinese cobot rival Elite Robots as Teradyne's robotics sales reach $91 million

The Hamburg Regional Court on April 21, 2026 granted Teradyne Robotics a preliminary injunction barring Elite Robots Deutschland from distributing software that allegedly copies Universal Robots code. A week later Teradyne reported $91 million of first-quarter robotics revenue, about 7% of a record $1,282 million group total.

Apr 24, 2026
BusinessJP

FANUC posts record ¥857.8 billion sales as robot revenue rises 15% and China orders jump 55% in the final quarter

FANUC said on April 24 that sales for the year to March 2026 rose 7.6% to a record ¥857.8 billion and operating profit rose 15.7% to ¥183.8 billion, with robots now 44.1% of revenue. Fourth-quarter orders climbed 19.2% to ¥252.0 billion, led by a 55.2% jump in China, and the company guided for another record year while authorising a buyback of up to ¥50 billion.

Apr 23, 2026
BusinessNO

AutoStore nearly doubles first-quarter revenue to $165.8 million as adjusted EBITDA margin jumps to 44%

AutoStore reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $165.8 million on April 23, 2026, up 92.9% from an unusually weak quarter a year earlier, with order intake up 27.0% to $179.4 million. Adjusted EBITDA more than tripled to $72.9 million, but the Norwegian cube storage maker warned that uncertainty over global trade could make customers more cautious and limit near-term visibility.

Apr 23, 2026
BusinessUS

Tesla will retire Model S and X lines in Fremont for an Optimus line designed for 1 million robots a year, and plans a 10 million-unit line in Texas

Tesla said in its first-quarter 2026 shareholder update that its first-generation Optimus line, designed for 1 million humanoid robots a year, will replace the Model S and Model X lines at its Fremont factory. It is also preparing Gigafactory Texas for a second-generation line designed for long-term annual capacity of 10 million robots, while reporting revenue of $22.4 billion and $44.7 billion in cash and investments.

Mar 31, 2026
BusinessCN

UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million

UBTech Robotics said in its 2025 annual results that revenue from full-size humanoid robots rose 2,203.7% to RMB820.6 million on 1,079 units, lifting group revenue 53.3% to RMB2.0 billion. The net loss narrowed to RMB789.8 million, while three share placings raised RMB5.78 billion to fund capacity for more than 6,000 robots a year.

Mar 30, 2026
BusinessCN

Geek+ turns an adjusted profit in 2025 as US sales overtake China

Hong Kong-listed warehouse robot maker Geek+ reported 2025 revenue of RMB3.17 billion, up 31.6%, and its first full-year adjusted net profit of RMB43.8 million, while its IFRS loss narrowed to RMB10.4 million. The United States became its largest single market and new orders rose 31.7% to RMB4.14 billion as the company pushes a warehouse foundation model and a wheeled humanoid toward production.

Mar 30, 2026
BusinessCN

AgiBot rolls out its 10,000th humanoid robot, doubling its fleet in 112 days

Shanghai-based AgiBot said on 30 March 2026 that its 10,000th humanoid robot had come off the production line, 112 days after it announced its 5,000th. The company said the step from 5,000 to 10,000 units ran four times faster than earlier phases, but its own December breakdown shows that only about a third of its fleet is full-size.

Mar 26, 2026
BusinessCN

MicroPort MedBot doubles revenue to RMB551 million as Toumai exports reach 73% of 2025 sales

Shanghai MicroPort MedBot said revenue rose 114.2% to RMB551.1 million in 2025, with overseas sales of RMB400.2 million accounting for 73% of the total. The Hong Kong-listed surgical robot maker cut its net loss by 60.7% to RMB254.1 million as cumulative orders for its Toumai laparoscopic robot reached about 220 units.

Mar 26, 2026
BusinessKR

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

Doosan Robotics reported 2025 consolidated revenue of KRW 32.98 billion, down 29.6%, and an operating loss of KRW 59.47 billion, according to its DART filings. Sales of its core cobot arms roughly halved as North American demand fell about 50% under tariff uncertainty. On 26 March 2026 the board approved a USD 16.0 million capital injection into Doosan Robotics Americas, the former ONExia, to expand its factory on the back of a USD 14.9 million order backlog.

Mar 25, 2026
BusinessCN

RoboSense posts its first quarterly profit as lidar sales to robot makers jump to 303,000 units

Hong Kong-listed RoboSense earned RMB103.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, its first profitable quarter, as robotics revenue more than tripled over the year to RMB709.8 million. Robot lidar shipments rose to about 303,000 units from 24,400, outpacing rival Hesai's 239,273, while revenue from car sensors fell 17.2%.

Feb 27, 2026
BusinessKR

Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre

Hyundai Motor Group agreed on February 27, 2026 to invest about 9 trillion won from 2026 in a robotics, AI and hydrogen hub at Saemangeum in North Jeolla. The plan includes a 400 billion won robot cluster with a finished-robot factory sized for about 30,000 units a year, a contract-manufacturing foundry and a parts complex, due in 2029, next to a 5.8 trillion won AI data centre scaled in phases to 50,000 GPUs.

Feb 26, 2026
BusinessGB

Ocado pockets £261 million from Kroger site closures and cuts £150 million of costs to turn cash positive

Ocado Group's technology unit lifted revenue 13% to £561.2 million and its EBITDA margin to 25% in the year to November 2025, but Kroger closed three US fulfilment centres in January and paid £261 million in closure fees. The British automation group guided technology revenue down to about £500 million for FY26, plans to cut about £150 million of costs with significant job losses, and expects to turn cash flow positive in the second half.

Feb 19, 2026
BusinessCA

Toyota's Canadian car plants sign Agility Robotics to a paid Digit humanoid service after a pilot

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada has signed a Robots-as-a-Service agreement with Agility Robotics to deploy Digit humanoids in manufacturing, supply chain and logistics work at its Cambridge and Woodstock plants in Ontario, following a pilot. Neither company disclosed fleet size, contract value or term. The deal adds a Toyota vehicle plant to a Digit customer list that already includes GXO, Schaeffler, Amazon and Mercado Libre, as rivals tie up with BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai.

Feb 12, 2026
BusinessJP

Nabtesco's robot gear orders rise for a fourth straight quarter, doubling component profit as China and Korea EV projects return

Nabtesco, which estimates it supplies about 60% of the joint reducers in medium and large industrial robots, said component segment orders rose 16.2% to ¥82.4 billion in 2025 and operating income more than doubled to ¥5.4 billion. The Tokyo-listed company forecasts precision reduction gear sales of ¥88.2 billion in 2026, with robot demand recovering mainly in the second half, while its Changzhou plant already runs at 115% utilisation.

Feb 5, 2026
BusinessUS

Symbotic lifts revenue 29% to $630 million and swings to profit, but Walmart still supplies 86% of sales

Symbotic reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $629.9 million on 4 February 2026, up 29% from a year earlier, with net income of $13.4 million and adjusted EBITDA of $66.9 million. Its backlog stood at $22.3 billion and it guided second-quarter revenue to $650 million to $670 million. Walmart accounted for 85.6% of revenue, and a change in stock-compensation accounting added $9.3 million to profit.

Feb 3, 2026
BusinessUS

Teradyne's robotics arm shrinks 16% to $308 million in 2025 and restructures about 400 jobs as AI test demand lifts the group

Teradyne said its Universal Robots and MiR unit booked $89 million of revenue in the fourth quarter of 2025, up about 19% on the third quarter but below $98 million a year earlier. Full year robotics revenue fell to $308 million from $365 million, and restructuring in the unit affected about 400 employees, while group revenue rose 44% in the quarter on AI chip test demand.