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.
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.
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.
Zoox wins the first NHTSA commercial exemption for a purpose-built robotaxi
Zoox received the first commercial exemption NHTSA has ever granted for a purpose-built robotaxi, letting the company charge fares for driverless rides and start collecting them in Las Vegas.
Momenta lists in Hong Kong as the territory's first physical-AI stock
Momenta began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's main board on 8 July 2026, opening more than 6 percent above its issue price and passing a market value of 70 billion Hong Kong dollars on its first day.
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.
Mistral AI agrees to acquire physics-AI company Emmi AI
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.
Pony.ai opens Europe's first commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb
In April 2026 Pony.ai, with Verne and Uber, launched a commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb, Croatia, which the company describes as Europe's first. It was part of a China-plus-overseas strategy that also included Singapore and Luxembourg testing.
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.
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.
Runway announces GWM-1, its first world model
On 11 December 2025, Runway announced GWM-1, a general world model that simulates environments in real time, released in Worlds, Avatars and Robotics variants and built on the company's Gen-4.5 model.
Hugging Face announces Transformers v5
On 1 December 2025 Hugging Face released Transformers v5.0.0rc0, the first major version since v4 in November 2020. The library grew from about 40 architectures to more than 400.
Figure reports results of its Figure 02 deployment at BMW
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.
XPENG unveils VLA 2.0, a Robotaxi plan and a new IRON robot at AI Day
At its 2025 AI Day in Guangzhou, XPENG presented VLA 2.0, a Robotaxi, a next-generation IRON humanoid and two ARIDGE flying systems, and said it would open-source VLA 2.0 with Volkswagen as first customer.