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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13-15 in San Francisco. Over 300 startups will show what they’ve built to 10,000 tech leaders.
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Harmonic Drive to share how integrated actuators can reduce engineering at RoboBusiness
Attendees will learn how integrated actuators can reduce engineering effort by simplifying system integration.
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Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says
Shipments of professional service robots rose 24% to almost 250,000 units in 2025, led by 117,500 transport and logistics robots, the International Federation of Robotics said on 30 September 2026. The IFR counted about 7,000 full-size humanoids sold worldwide and 174 humanoid makers, more than half of them in China, and said most humanoid uses still rely on teleoperation.
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Humanoid shipments jump 432% to nearly 25,000 in the first half as Chinese makers take over 95% of the market, IDC says
Global humanoid robot shipments reached nearly 25,000 units in the first half of 2026, up 432.1% year on year, with market value above $740 million, IDC said on September 29. China took about 77.9% of shipments, Chinese vendors supplied more than 95%, and IDC raised its 2030 forecast by about 50% to more than 750,000 units.
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Unitree lists on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising RMB6.1 billion at 219 times earnings
Unitree Robotics began trading in Shanghai on August 19, 2026 under code 688836 after selling 40.4 million new shares at RMB150.80, raising gross proceeds of RMB6,099.32 million. The issue price values the Hangzhou humanoid and quadruped maker at about RMB60.99 billion, or 219.23 times 2025 earnings, against an industry average of 38.56 times cited in its own listing document.
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Symbotic swings to a $55 million quarterly profit as revenue rises 22% to $721 million
Symbotic reported revenue of $720.8 million for its fiscal third quarter ended June 27, 2026, up 22% from a year earlier, and net income of $55 million against a $21 million loss. The warehouse robotics maker guided fourth-quarter revenue to $760 million to $780 million and adjusted EBITDA to $100 million to $105 million.
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Teradyne's robotics arm grows 33% to $100 million as AI test demand doubles group revenue
Teradyne reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $1,329 million, up 104% from a year earlier, with its Robotics group, home to Universal Robots and MiR, contributing $100 million against $75 million in the second quarter of 2025. The company guided third-quarter revenue to $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion.
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Huayan Robotics raises HK$1.58bn in Hong Kong debut after retail book is covered 5,059 times
Chinese collaborative robot maker Guangdong Huayan Robotics began trading in Hong Kong under code 1021 on 30 March 2026 after pricing its H shares at HK$17.00 and raising HK$1,579.34 million gross. The retail tranche was subscribed 5,059.38 times, while preliminary 2025 results showed revenue up 24.6% to RMB386.9 million and a net loss of about RMB29.9 million.
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Estun lists in Hong Kong at the bottom of its range, raising HK$1.49 billion as China's top-selling robot brand returns to profit
Nanjing industrial robot maker Estun Automation began trading in Hong Kong on 9 March 2026 after pricing 96.78 million H shares at HK$15.36, raising HK$1.49 billion gross, with half of the net proceeds reserved for overseas plants, alliances and acquisitions. Its first annual results as a dual-listed company showed 2025 revenue up 21.93% and a small profit after a RMB810.93 million loss, while stabilisation buying down to HK$11.69 showed weak aftermarket demand.
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China made 773,074 industrial robots in 2025, up 28%, while service robot growth faded into 2026
China's National Bureau of Statistics confirmed on 28 February 2026 that industrial robot output rose 28.0% on a comparable basis to 773,074 sets in 2025, and service robot output climbed 16.1% to 18,581,081 sets. Data for January and February 2026 showed industrial robots accelerating to 31.1% growth while service robots grew only 1.0%.
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AutoStore ends 2025 with record quarterly orders and revenue, but full-year sales fall 10% and profit drops 40%
AutoStore said fourth-quarter 2025 revenue rose 9.0% to $179.7 million and order intake jumped 35.1% to $194.2 million, both company records. Full-year revenue still fell 10.4% to $538.6 million and net income dropped 40.1%, as the Norwegian cube storage maker absorbed longer customer decision cycles, restructuring and a robot write-down.
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Japan's robot exports jump 36% in 2025 as home demand shrinks, JARA data show
Orders for industrial robots from Japan Robot Association members rose 27.8% in value to ¥925.8 billion in 2025, driven by a 36.2% rise in exports while domestic shipments fell 8.9%. The association expects all-industry orders to grow only 3.2% to ¥1.03 trillion in 2026, citing AI-linked demand from semiconductor and electronics makers.
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Edge Medical lists in Hong Kong after retail demand of 1,092 times, betting its surgical robots on export markets
Shenzhen Edge Medical raised HK$1,198.7 million in a Hong Kong IPO priced at HK$43.24 a share and began trading on 8 January 2026, with the retail tranche 1,091.94 times subscribed. Its first annual results showed revenue up 184.8% to RMB455.7 million and 50 of 72 robots delivered in 2025 going overseas.
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Hotel robot maker Yunji debuts in Hong Kong after its retail tranche is covered 5,657 times
Beijing Yunji Technology raised HK$659.6 million in gross proceeds and began trading in Hong Kong on 16 October 2025 after retail investors subscribed for 5,657.20 times the shares on offer. A Suzhou state-owned vehicle took 39.83% of the deal, leaving a small free float behind the frenzy for a company that still loses money and earns most of its revenue from hotels.
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IFR counts 542,000 factory robots installed in 2024 as Japan, Korea and Germany slip and China takes 54%
The International Federation of Robotics said on 25 September 2025 that 542,000 industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2024, the second-highest annual total on record and 2% below 2023. Japan (44,500 units, down 4%), the Republic of Korea (30,600, down 3%) and Germany (26,982, down 5%) all contracted, while China installed 295,000 units and domestic Chinese makers took 57% of their home market for the first time.
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Geek+ raises HK$2.71 billion as the first listed warehouse AMR maker, with Hong Kong retail demand covered 133 times
Beijing Geekplus Technology began trading in Hong Kong on July 9, 2025 under code 2590 after selling 161,405,800 H shares at HK$16.80, raising gross proceeds of HK$2,711.62 million. The retail tranche was subscribed 133.62 times and the international book 30.17 times, while four cornerstone investors led by Xiong'an Intelligent Robotics took about 26% of the deal.