Agility Robotics to go public through a SPAC merger
Agility Robotics announced it will go public through a SPAC merger, raising $465 million as it works to commercialize Digit robots and launch the next-generation Digit 5.
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Six AGIBOT G2 robots run a 24-hour convenience store trial
Six AGIBOT G2 wheeled humanoid robots worked a 24-hour shift in an operating Shanghai convenience store, completing 1,730 tasks on a livestream, with four of the six passing the final assessment.
AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026
AGIBOT's Innovation Day 2026 in Shanghai on 29 October 2026 introduced the Worken output metric, the AHA3 humanoid hardware architecture, the G2 Max industrial robot, Link-U OS 1.0, the GO-3 Preview and the WITA-Omni interaction model.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary 2
On 28 October 2026 Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight, free speech recognition model covering up to 40 languages, alongside the second version of its Granary speech dataset.
Physical Intelligence opens the Pi API beta
On 13 October 2026, Physical Intelligence opened a beta of the Pi API, a service that lets customers upload their own robot data, fine-tune the company's models and run cloud-hosted inference on their own machines.
Waymo announces its first Canadian service, in Toronto
Waymo said it will launch its autonomous ride service in Toronto, its first Canadian city, with the first passengers planned for 2028.
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay 2026
On 29 September 2026 OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol at its DevDay developer event, saying it nearly matched GPT-6 Astra at lower cost. A planned Astra release was withheld over safety results, and GPT-6.1 Terra followed in October.
Unitree lists on the STAR Market
Unitree, the Hangzhou robot maker, listed on Shanghai's STAR Market on 19 August 2026 at 150.80 yuan per share, opening its first trading day 629.44% higher and valuing the company at 444.9 billion yuan.
Lovable raises a $400M Series C at a $13.3B valuation
Lovable raised a $400M Series C on 12 August 2026 at a $13.3B valuation, led by Menlo Ventures, after users created more than 60 million projects on the platform since its November 2024 launch.
Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber
On 21 July 2026 Google announced three Gemini models at once: Gemini 3.6 Flash, a cheaper and faster 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, a security-focused variant limited to governments and trusted partners.
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, co-trained with Cursor
On 16 July 2026 xAI released Grok 4.5, co-trained with Cursor, and made it the default model in Grok Build. xAI also published its coding benchmark results.
Mistral AI introduces Robostral Navigate for robots
On 8 July 2026 Mistral AI introduced Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter model that steers robots from camera images and spoken-style instructions, trained entirely in simulation and scoring 76.6% on a standard navigation benchmark.
Reka releases the 7B edge vision-language model Reka Edge
On 11 March 2026 Reka released Reka Edge, a 7-billion-parameter vision-language model built for physical AI on devices rather than in the cloud, with a 3.5-bit quantization format and comparisons against Qwen3.5 9B, Cosmos Reason2 8B and Gemini 3 Pro.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada contracts seven Digit robots
In February 2026, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada contracted seven Agility Robotics Digit robots under a robots-as-a-service deal, after a year-long pilot, to unload totes of auto parts in a plant building RAV4 SUVs.
Apptronik expands its Series A to $935M
Apptronik reopened its Series A in February 2026, raising the round to $935 million at a reported $5.3 billion valuation, as the humanoid robot maker pushes Apollo into warehouse and industrial work.
Robert Playter steps down as Boston Dynamics CEO
Robert Playter announced on 10 February 2026 that he was stepping down as Boston Dynamics CEO after 30 years at the company; CFO Amanda McMaster took interim charge while a successor was sought.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex
On 5 February 2026 OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex for its Codex coding agent, describing it as the most capable agentic coding model to date and saying it had helped build itself. A faster research preview, GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, followed a week later.
Skild AI raises $1.4B at a $14B valuation
Skild AI, a maker of general-purpose robotic software, raised $1.4 billion in a Series C led by SoftBank, valuing the company at more than $14 billion.
Boston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind on Atlas
Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind announced a partnership at CES 2026 to apply DeepMind's AI foundation models to Boston Dynamics robots, with the humanoid Atlas as the first test case.
Lovable raises a $330M Series B at a $6.6B valuation
On 18 December 2025, Lovable announced a $330M Series B at a $6.6B valuation, with new corporate and venture investors joining as the company reported rapid growth in projects built on its platform.
Google releases Gemini 3 Flash
On 17 December 2025 Google released Gemini 3 Flash, a speed-oriented model that became the default in the Gemini app, with published scores of 90.4% on GPQA Diamond and 78% on SWE-bench Verified.