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D.R. Horton signs multi-year deal to have Promise Robotics' robotic factories supply 1,250-plus homes

Promise Robotics said in a press release on Oct 13 that D.R. Horton, the largest US homebuilder by volume, has signed a multi-year commercial agreement to use its Factory-as-a-Service platform for more than 1,250 homes, making it the first major US builder on the system. The service takes a builder's existing house designs, uses AI to turn them into production plans and robot instructions, manufactures components such as walls and floors robotically and links that output to on-site installation, so builders add capacity without running their own factories. Financial terms were not disclosed. In MEKAWIRE's database the largest disclosed construction robotics round so far in 2026 is Bedrock Robotics' $270 million Series B in February, which targets autonomous heavy equipment rather than prefabrication.

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5 hours ago
PartnershipUS

Zimmer Biomet keeps THINK Surgical's handheld TMINI knee robot for several more years

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.

1 sourceZimmer BiometTHINK SurgicalMonogram Technologies
13 days ago
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SoftBank puts $225 million behind ASI's brand-agnostic autonomy for heavy construction fleets

SoftBank Group is providing $225 million to Autonomous Solutions Inc. (ASI) under a joint venture to commercialize autonomous heavy equipment for large infrastructure projects, The Robot Report reported on Sept. 30. ASI, founded in 2000 and based in Mendon, Utah, makes the Mobius fleet orchestration system, which works across equipment brands and runs haul trucks, dozers, loaders and compactors. The partners are targeting roadways, airports, railways, waste management, earthmoving and vertical construction. ASI CEO Mel Torrie said labor-intensive methods are struggling to keep up with the speed and complexity of today's large infrastructure builds.

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13 days ago
PartnershipIT

Eni offers Italy's Generative Bionics its plants, polymers and supercomputers in a humanoid robot pact

Eni signed a memorandum of understanding with Genoa start-up Generative Bionics on 30 September 2026 to test the GENE.01 humanoid in inspection and remote assistance and to study producing, testing and recycling the robots' batteries at Eni sites. Chemicals arm Versalis and its subsidiary Finproject will work on the robot's feet, and Eni will assess opening its high-performance computing to Physical AI training. No financial terms were disclosed.

6 sourcesGenerative BionicsEniAMDTactile SensingTeleoperation
13 days ago
PartnershipJP

Hitachi and FANUC pair edge AI chips with industrial robots, aiming for a global physical AI rollout from fiscal 2027

Hitachi and FANUC signed a strategic partnership on Sept. 30 to commercialize physical AI jointly, combining Hitachi's HMAX Industry software and in-house edge AI semiconductor with FANUC robots. Trials start in Hitachi's Ibaraki-area plants as “Customer Zero,” with global sales planned from fiscal 2027. No financial terms were disclosed.

4 sourcesFANUCHitachiYaskawa ElectricEdge AI ComputeDepth Vision
14 days ago
PartnershipJP

Hitachi and Agile Robots agree to build a shared physical AI brain for factories, sold through HMAX Industry

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.

11 sourcesHitachiAgile RobotsFANUCRobot Foundation ModelsEdge AI Compute
15 days ago
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Gecko Robotics adopts NVIDIA's agent safety stack to fence in the AI that drives its inspection robots

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.

1 sourceNVIDIA
20 days ago
PartnershipCN

AGIBOT puts more than 300 robots on permanent duty at Chimelong's Hengqin park and delivers its 20,000th unit

AGIBOT and Chimelong Group opened Chimelong Spaceship Park in Hengqin, Zhuhai, on 24 September 2026 with more than 300 AGIBOT humanoids and quadrupeds working daily at over 100 interaction points. AGIBOT handed over its 20,000th production robot, an Expedition A3 Ultra, 88 days after its 15,000th, and the partners launched a joint research institute and a 5G-A network with China Mobile.

5 sourcesAgiBotChimelong GroupFleet Orchestration SoftwareEdge AI Compute
Sep 3, 2026
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Figure commits $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs to train its Helix robot model

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.

4 sourcesFigure AINVIDIASkild AIVLARobot Foundation Models
Aug 14, 2026
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LG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027

LG Group and NVIDIA signed a strategic collaboration MOU on Aug. 13 covering robots, AI factories and mobility, LG Corp. said. LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid on Jetson Thor and Isaac GR00T in the first quarter of 2027 using LG Electronics actuators, LG Innotek sensors and LG Energy Solution batteries, and will test its wheeled CLOiD on a Tennessee washing-machine line this year.

2 sourcesLG ElectronicsNVIDIAHyundai Motor GroupRobot Foundation ModelsEdge AI Compute
Jul 30, 2026
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FedEx takes Dexterity's Mech trailer loaders beyond the pilot stage at its Hagerstown hub

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.

12 sourcesDexterityFedEx Corp.Boston DynamicsWorld ModelsDexterous Manipulation
Jul 16, 2026
PartnershipJP

Fujitsu enlists FANUC, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to build a sovereign physical AI platform on NVIDIA technology

Fujitsu said on July 16 it had begun exploring physical AI businesses with three of Japan's largest robot makers, FANUC, Yaskawa Electric and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, using NVIDIA Cosmos, Omniverse, Isaac and the Newton physics engine. Fujitsu will build a common software platform and hardware interfaces, with manufacturing, retail and logistics, and healthcare as first targets. No timeline or financial terms were given.

4 sourcesFujitsuFANUCYaskawa ElectricWorld ModelsSim-to-Real Transfer
Jul 15, 2026
PartnershipJP

Yaskawa puts Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 inside MOTOMAN NEXT to build an agentic industrial robot

Yaskawa Electric said on July 15 it had developed an agentic robot system with Google DeepMind that uses Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 as the decision layer for its MOTOMAN NEXT robot. The system plans and executes tasks from high-level instructions without detailed teaching and recovers from errors on its own. Applications and delivery timing will be announced later.

1 sourceYaskawa ElectricGoogleFANUCRobot Foundation ModelsVLA
May 22, 2026
PartnershipJP

Kawasaki opens a physical AI centre in San Jose with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Analog Devices and Fujitsu, starting with hospital robots

Kawasaki Heavy Industries opened the Kawasaki Physical AI Center San Jose on May 21 to develop AI-driven robot systems with NVIDIA, Analog Devices, Microsoft and Fujitsu, with healthcare and elderly care as the first focus. President Yasuhiko Hashimoto said the goal is a hospital one-stop solution covering patients from arrival to post-operative care. The move comes as Kawasaki plans to lift robot sales 24% this year, led by car body and semiconductor equipment lines.

3 sourcesKawasaki Heavy IndustriesNVIDIAFujitsuRobot Foundation ModelsEdge AI Compute
May 15, 2026
PartnershipJP

FANUC opens its robots to Google's Intrinsic and Gemini and deepens NVIDIA ties in a two-day physical AI push

FANUC said on May 13 that all of its robots will be fully supported on Intrinsic's enterprise software platform and that it has joined Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics trusted tester programme, after shipping more than 1,000 robots for physical AI uses since December. Two days later it expanded its NVIDIA work, linking ROBOGUIDE with Isaac Sim, training a dual-arm robot with Isaac GR00T N and moving a collision-avoidance system to Jetson Thor.

2 sourcesFANUCGoogleGoogle DeepMindVLARobot Foundation Models
Apr 19, 2026
PartnershipDE

Wandelbots, SCHUNK and EY team up on NVIDIA-based physical AI for Germany's Mittelstand as Gessmann brings NOVA to Hannover Messe

Dresden software firm Wandelbots, gripper and automation maker SCHUNK and consultancy EY said on April 19, 2026 they would combine SCHUNK's GROW automation cell, Wandelbots' NOVA platform and NVIDIA Omniverse into a standardised physical AI offer for mid-sized European manufacturers. The same day, W. Gessmann GmbH said it would show NOVA-based mobile robots at Hannover Messe.

4 sourcesWandelbotsNVIDIANeura RoboticsSim-to-Real TransferFleet Orchestration Software
Mar 30, 2026
PartnershipGB

London's Humanoid hands its HMND 01 robot to SAP's AI agent in a live car-parts plant, the first outside control of its KinetIQ stack

UK robotics start-up Humanoid said on 30 March 2026 that its wheeled HMND 01 Alpha completed a January to February proof of concept with SAP and Turkish seat maker Martur Fompak, taking orders from SAP's AI agent in live production. It was the first time an enterprise system controlled a Humanoid robot externally, through the four-layer KinetIQ AI framework the company unveiled on 5 February.

4 sourcesHumanoidSAPMartur Fompak InternationalVLARL
Mar 24, 2026
PartnershipDE

Agile Robots signs Google DeepMind research pact to run Gemini Robotics models on its industrial robots, widening Google's hardware bench

Munich-based Agile Robots said on 24 March 2026 it had formed a strategic research partnership with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics foundation models with its hardware, starting with manufacturing use cases. The German company, which says it has installed more than 20,000 robotic solutions, becomes the latest hardware maker in Google's orbit after Boston Dynamics and Apptronik. No financial terms were disclosed.

6 sourcesAgile RobotsGoogle DeepMindGoogleRobot Foundation ModelsVLA
Feb 27, 2026
PartnershipDE

BMW brings a humanoid into German car production for the first time, putting Hexagon's AEON on battery work in Leipzig

BMW Group said on 27 February 2026 that Plant Leipzig will pilot Hexagon Robotics' wheeled AEON humanoid in high-voltage battery assembly and component production, after a first test in December 2025 and with the pilot phase set for summer 2026. It also set up a Munich-based Center of Competence for Physical AI in Production and published the results of its 2025 Figure 02 pilot in Spartanburg, where the robot moved more than 90,000 parts in about 1,250 hours.

6 sourcesBMW GroupHexagonFigure AIElectric ActuatorsBattery Systems
Feb 25, 2026
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Physical Intelligence pitches its π models as a shared robot brain, with Weave and Ultra as first proof at 96.4% autonomy

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.

5 sourcesPhysical IntelligenceWeave RoboticsUltraVLARobot Foundation Models