robotics

According to official news, the American robotics company Nidus announced the completion of a $30 million financing round, led by Kleiner Perkins and Costanoa, with participation from Ludlow Ventures, SF1, Absolute Partners, Tau, and angel investors, including Chris Power, founder of Hadrian, Adrian Aoun, co-founder of Dulo, and Nikhil Goel, Chief Business Officer of Archer.Nidus develops and deploys foundational robotic models that enable traditional industrial robots to perform precision assembly tasks, utilizing a sovereign AI training approach that allows clients to retain their own knowledge. The company currently delivers customized models for harness processing automation on its proprietary platform, which is built according to the security requirements of the U.S. Department of Defense. Nidus claims that its revenue has surpassed seven figures within the first four months of its establishment. This round of funding will be used to expand the engineering team, extend automation from harness processing to more factory processes, and scale deployments with U.S. defense manufacturers.

According to Bloomberg Technology, Path Robotics has secured $300 million in new funding, raising the company's valuation to $2.45 billion, nearly four times its previous valuation.The company develops software for autonomous manufacturing robots.

According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily," Ant Lingbo Technology has recently open-sourced the tactile foundation model LingBot-Touch. This model is pre-trained on nearly 5000 hours of real tactile data, covering three mainstream sensing principles: magnetic tactile, visual tactile, and piezoresistive.LingBot-Touch aims to convert signals from different sensors into the same set of tactile representations, allowing for reuse by various dexterous hands and motion models. This open-source initiative helps address current issues in the robotics field, such as the lack of standardization in tactile data and difficulties in cross-hardware generalization.

According to reports from Beijing News and Beike Finance, Youliqi Robotics announced the completion of 500 million yuan in Pre-A round financing. Existing shareholders Xie Nuo Investment and Yonghua Investment have continuously increased their investments in multiple rounds, while new investors include Greenland Group, Keli Sensor, Huagong Venture Capital, New Scene Fuying, Hongniao Qihang Fund, and other industrial and financial investors.Youliqi focuses on the research and commercialization of embodied intelligent robots, and has currently developed replicable solutions in scenarios such as building security, hotels, supermarkets, and retail, with monthly shipments exceeding 100 units. Greenland Group will join as a strategic investor, and both parties will collaborate to promote the implementation of robot models, bodies, data, and solutions in security, hotel, and health care scenarios. Other new investors will provide support in areas such as hardware supply chain collaboration, university innovation ecosystems, and local industrial resources.

ABB stated that the Chinese government has blocked SoftBank Group's acquisition of its robotics business for $5.4 billion. SoftBank indicated that the Foreign Investment Security Review Office under the National Development and Reform Commission has prohibited its acquisition of ABB's robotics business in China.ABB and SoftBank are currently communicating about the deal and seeking ways to advance the transaction. ABB's robotics business employs over 7,000 people, supplying robotic arms and industrial machinery to manufacturers like BMW, and has a large-scale operation in China. SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son previously listed this acquisition as part of his strategy to expand into the artificial intelligence industry.

According to the information disclosed by the Beijing Municipal Market Supervision Administration, China National Petroleum Corporation Kunlun Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and its concerted action party Kunlun Capital plan to jointly establish a new joint venture with Yushu Technology and Beijing Panjie Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., focusing on industrial embodied intelligent robot solution business. The simplified case of operator concentration has entered the public announcement period, which is from November 4, 2026, to November 13, 2026.According to the announced equity structure, after the transaction is completed, Kunlun Manufacturing and its concerted action parties will hold a total of 60% of the shares in the joint venture, while Yushu Technology and Panjie Intelligent will each hold 20% of the shares, with the three parties jointly controlling the joint venture. The joint venture will provide industrial embodied intelligent robot solutions for fields such as oil and gas, refining and transportation scenario inspections and emergency rescue, as well as applications in gas stations and comprehensive energy stations for charging and swapping. Previously, Kunlun Capital participated as an important investor in the strategic allocation of Yushu Technology's IPO on the Sci-Tech Innovation Board, and the two parties signed a strategic cooperation memorandum regarding the application of robots in oil and gas scenarios. The establishment of the joint venture marks the transition of cooperation from capital connection to the stage of physical operation.

Yushu Technology founder Wang Xingxing stated at the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit Internet Entrepreneur Forum that next year (2027) is likely to be a critical point for the robotics industry or robotic models.Wang Xingxing pointed out that embodied intelligence is very close to the "ChatGPT moment," but the alignment issue of the "last few millimeters" in the physical world still needs 1 to 3 years to break through. If this subtle operational alignment challenge is resolved, next year is expected to witness an explosive deployment of generalized embodied intelligence.

According to The Information, Meta Platforms (META.O) has collaborated with the Chinese startup Fourier to create a humanoid robot prototype, aiming to expand its presence in the robotics field. The two parties developed this humanoid robot, which weighs approximately 106 pounds, in just three months, with the internal code name "Max."

Axis Robotics issued a statement regarding the massive sell-off of AXIS tokens from October 28 to 29, stating that no team or investor tokens were sold. The team, investors, and other locked allocations total 835 million AXIS, accounting for 83.5% of the total supply, and remain in a custody contract co-managed with Binance, with no tokens transferred out, and they will not be unlocked before the end of the 12-month lock-up period.The project party stated that the tokens sold this time came from a portion of the ecological allocation in the initial circulating supply, which was originally delivered through a single over-the-counter (OTC) trading counterparty, and the relevant written agreement includes lock-up terms. The project party believes that the trading model indicates that this counterparty may sell the tokens on the open market, which, if true, would violate the agreement. They have currently suspended further transactions with this counterparty and are reviewing the agreement with legal counsel to seek remedies; the remaining ecological tokens will only be distributed through on-chain custody mechanisms in the future.ChainCatcher previously reported that, according to on-chain detective ZachXBT, insiders from Axis Robotics (AXIS) obtained over 76 million AXIS tokens (worth over 12 million USD) from a multi-signature wallet, which were then sold off through a DEX, with some tokens transferred to Bitget exchange. As a result, the AXIS price plummeted by 40% in the past 24 hours.One insider sold 42 million AXIS tokens and currently holds over 5.04 million USDC across their 8 wallet addresses.

According to on-chain detective ZachXBT, insiders at Axis Robotics (AXIS) obtained over 76 million AXIS tokens (worth over 12 million USD) from a multi-signature wallet, then sold them off via DEX and transferred some tokens to Bitget exchange. As a result, the AXIS price plummeted by 40% in the past 24 hours.One of the insiders sold 42 million AXIS tokens and currently holds over 5.04 million USDC across their 8 wallet addresses.

At the 2026 Intelligent Innovation Day launch event, Peng Zhihui, co-founder, president, and CTO of Intelligent Robotics, announced that the revenue of Intelligent Robotics in the first half of 2026 approached 2 billion yuan. It was disclosed that the cumulative offline deployment of Intelligent General AI Robots reached 20,000 units.

Key hardware manufacturer Foundry Robotics founder and CEO Adarsh Kulkarni announced that the company has completed a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Marlinspike VC, with continued participation from Khosla Ventures.Kulkarni stated that the company will build a 130,000 square foot factory in Emeryville, California, to produce critical hardware domestically in the United States. The company has delivered products to paying customers in the energy, telecommunications, autonomous driving, and defense sectors.

According to Crunchbase data, global venture capital investment in robotics startups reached $9.9 billion in the third quarter of 2026, more than doubling from $4.3 billion in the third quarter of 2025, with a year-on-year growth of approximately 185%. In the first three quarters of 2026, financing in the robotics sector grew by about 185% year-on-year, with several consecutive quarters approaching or exceeding $10 billion.This year's robotics financing is largely concentrated in China and the United States, with China receiving $13.2 billion and the United States $12.1 billion, while Germany ranks third with $1.7 billion. The largest financing in China includes $900 million for Guangzhou Xiaopeng Robotics and $736 million in Series C funding for Shenzhen AI² Robotics. In the United States, Travis Kalanick's Atoms and Pittsburgh's Skild AI both completed billion-dollar financing, with Skild AI raising $1.4 billion for its robotics foundation model Skild Brain. Germany's Neura Robotics raised $1.4 billion for cognitive robotics.

American construction robotics startup Bedrock Robotics announced the completion of a $600 million Series C financing round, with a post-money valuation of $4.1 billion, a significant increase from the $1.75 billion valuation during the financing in February of this year, bringing the total financing amount close to $1 billion.This round of financing was co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, with participation from Valor Equity Partners, 8VC, NVIDIA's venture capital arm NVentures, Eclipse, Georgian, Perry Creek Capital, and Temasek.

FORT Robotics, Inc., dedicated to developing a "Physical Artificial Intelligence Trust Layer" security platform, announced that existing investors have committed to an additional investment of approximately 20 million dollars. Among them, Tiger Global led a financing round of about 10 million dollars (Mark Cuban Companies also participated), and this round of financing is expected to be completed this week.In addition, Tiger Global has also committed to invest 10 million dollars in the previously announced common stock PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equity); this PIPE is expected to be completed concurrently with the proposed business combination of FORT and Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: NTWO). Including the previously announced PIPE commitments, as of today, the total committed capital related to the proposed business combination with FORT has exceeded 50 million dollars.

According to Bloomberg, informed sources revealed that humanoid robot manufacturer Noetix Robotics has secretly submitted an initial public offering (IPO) application in Hong Kong, aiming to raise hundreds of millions of dollars.The company's official name is Songyan Power Beijing Technology Co., and it may go public as early as next year.

According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX will open AXIS/USDT spot trading and grid trading on October 21 at 21:30 (UTC+8). The AXIS deposit service is now open, and the withdrawal service will open on October 22 at 21:30.It is reported that Axis Robotics is a decentralized robot data collection and training platform. It allows global participants to remotely control virtual robots to complete operational tasks through a browser, collect high-quality trajectory data, and use simulation to enhance and generate diverse training samples for training robot operation models. Users do not need specialized equipment; they can participate with just a keyboard, and data is on-chain to ensure traceability. The technical mechanisms include MuJoCo simulation, IsaacSim enhancement, and more.