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On 23 May 2026 Mistral AI said it had agreed to acquire Emmi AI, an Austrian physics-AI company whose large engineering models simulate power grids, injection moulding and car safety tests; more than 30 staff, including co-founder Johannes Brandstetter, are joining.
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.
Figure reported that its Figure 02 robots spent 11 months on an active assembly line at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, loading more than 90,000 parts and contributing to production of more than 30,000 X3 vehicles.
On 6 August 2025 Shanghai released its Embodied Intelligence Industry Development Implementation Plan, targeting 100 key enterprises, 100 major application scenarios, 100 leading products and a core industry scale above 50 billion yuan.
In March 2025 Shenzhen published a 2025–2027 action plan for embodied intelligence robots, targeting an industry scale above 100 billion yuan, more than 1,200 cluster companies and a group of large, fast-growing firms.
In March 2025 Beijing issued a three-year action plan for embodied intelligence, setting targets for technology breakthroughs, products, companies and mass production, including a goal to be the first city to exceed 10,000 units produced.
In October 2024 Google and Kairos Power agreed on a path to deploy 500 MW of advanced nuclear power in the United States by 2035, with a first plant by 2030 — the first US corporate deal covering multiple deployments of one advanced reactor design.
In September 2024 Constellation signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft, its largest ever, paving the way to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 — renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center — with operation targeted for 2028.
In June 2024 GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics announced a multi-year agreement to deploy Digit humanoid robots in GXO's logistics operations, which Agility called the industry's first commercial and first Robots-as-a-Service humanoid deployment.
On 15 March 2024 Apptronik announced a pilot with Mercedes-Benz to test Apollo humanoid robots in its manufacturing facilities — Apptronik's first publicly announced commercial deployment of Apollo.
In March 2024 Talen Energy sold its Cumulus data center campus beside the Susquehanna nuclear plant to Amazon Web Services for $650 million, with 960 MW of plant output going to AWS; a 2025 deal expanded it to 1,920 MW through 2042.
On 18 January 2024, Figure announced a commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing to deploy general-purpose robots in car production, starting with a few tasks at BMW's Spartanburg plant and expanding only if milestones were met.
In 2023 Sanctuary AI unveiled Phoenix, its sixth-generation general-purpose humanoid robot, less than two months after announcing its first customer deployments, with total funding above C$100 million.
On 29 March 2021 Boston Dynamics announced Stretch, a mobile robot aimed at warehouse work such as truck unloading, built on a small omni-directional base so warehouses can adopt it without costly fixed automation infrastructure.
Toyota announced in November 2015 that it would create the Toyota Research Institute, a separately incorporated artificial intelligence research company, with $1 billion over five years and former DARPA programme manager Gill Pratt as chief executive.
In September 2012 Rethink Robotics unveiled Baxter, a robot with sensors and software to help it see and understand its environment, priced at $22,000 and set to go on sale in October 2012.
In March 2012 Amazon agreed to buy Kiva Systems, a maker of warehouse robots used by large retailers, for about $775 million in cash — the company's second-largest acquisition at the time.
In 1961 a Unimate robot began unloading a die-casting press at a General Motors plant in Trenton, New Jersey, becoming the first industrial robot on an assembly line and opening factory work to automation.
