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German robotics company Agile Robots has secured $500 million in fresh capital in a new funding round, lifting the valuation of the Munich-based firm to $8.5 billion.

Universal Robotsshowcaseditstechnologiesat PACK Expo in Chicago last month, including itsGen 7robotics platform for deployment of physical AI on factory floorsand itsPolyscope Xsoftware platform with built-in cybersecurity elements. 

Physicl just closed a $10 million funding round to tackle one of robotics’ thorniest problems: making simulated training environments realistic enough that robots don’t fumble when they hit the real world. The startup’s unconventional approach borrows from e-commerce pipelines originally built to showcase products online, repurposing that tech to create hyper-accurate digital twins where AI…

BURBANK, Calif. — Outside the Walt Disney Main Theatre, a Boston Dynamics four-legged robot equipped with a camera and hardware containing AI “brains” from startup FieldAI lurched forward. Around the corner about 15 feet away, another startup, Simile, talked about using AI and tens of thousands of digital twins of real people for virtual focus…

According to the latest IndexBox report on the global Material Handling Robots market, the market enters 2026 with broader demand fundamentals, more disciplined procurement behavior, and a more regionally diversified supply architecture.

Extreme wildfire activity has more than doubled worldwide. Fires are becoming more frequent, more intense, and larger. Rising global temperatures, warmer nighttime lows, and prolonged droughts are driving the trend, and it is only getting stronger.

Origin, a San Francisco-based full-stack physical AI startup building general-purpose robots for interior construction, has emerged from stealth with USD 20 million in total funding, co-led by Accel and Zacua Ventures. Other backers include Unilazer Ventures, Schema Ventures, Z21, ISAI and Imad Ventures, alongside angel investors from Anduril, Skild AI, 1X and Tesla. 

Retail analytics leader builds the data foundation behind faster, higher-performing agentic AI, as the company invests in its East Coast presence

Robots & Pencils, an applied AI engineering company, has acquired Tiger Pistol, a marketing automation platform that helps enterprises, franchises, and resellers manage and scale digital advertising campaigns across Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and other channels.

Focusing on preparing working professionals and entrepreneurs to apply AI to managerial decision-making, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is opening admissions to the second cohort of its two-year Blended MBA Programme in Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (BPGP: BA & AI).