Market
Kitchen Robot
Chef Robotics Hits 100M Servings — The Only Food Robot That Didn’t End Up in the Graveyard
While Others Burned Cash on Kitchen Robots, Chef Robotics Found the Real Market: Institutional Kitchens
In an industry littered with failed food robots—Chowbotics shut down, Zume shut down, Miso Robotics...
Hospital Use
Serve Robotics Acquires Diligent for $29M — a Hospital Assistant Robot Company
From Streets to Wards: Serve’s First Indoor Leap Is a Data Play, Not a Pivot
Serve Robotics, the Uber- and NVIDIA-backed sidewalk delivery company, has...
Local News
Physical Intelligence Invented a Robot Brain that learns directly from YouTube videos
A Software Breakthrough That Could Slash the Cost of Robot Training
Physical Intelligence (Pi) has revealed a fundamental discovery that challenges a core assumption in...
China
$27M Raised by Humanoid Robot Joints Supplier – Ships 100,000+ Units
Encos, a China-based developer of core humanoid robot components, has closed a RMB 200 million (~$27 million) financing round — its third in 2025...
China
Deep Robotics Raises $68M Series C to Scale Humanoid — Backed by China Telecom
Strategic Capital Injection Signals Shift from Single Robots to Integrated AI Fleets
Deep Robotics has closed a RMB 500 million (~$68 million) Series C round,...
China
Sugerii Robotics IPO as China’s Leader in Single-Port Surgical Robotics
Sugerii Robotics IPO — A Pioneer in Single-Port Minimally Invasive Surgery
Sugerii Robotics (Shanghai Ruiyi Robotics Co., Ltd.), a surgical robotics company founded by Professor...
Investment
Bezos-backed startup reaches 5.6 billion valuation, building robot brain
PI Raises $600M at $5.6B Valuation — The Highest for a “General-Purpose Robot Brain”
Physical Intelligence (PI), a San Francisco-based startup founded less than two...
Delivery Robot
Chicago Delivery Robot Faces Public Backlash
Over 700 Residents Demand Immediate Pause of Autonomous Sidewalk Robot Trials
A city-authorized pilot deploying autonomous delivery robots across Chicago has triggered strong public opposition,...
Delivery Robot
Robots Are Delivering Food Now — Backed by Bezos
Not Another Demo: A European Startup Is Already Running Daily Delivery Routes With Legged Robots
RIVR, a Swiss robotics company founded in 2023 by ETH...
Diligent Robotics
Diligent Robotics Secures $30M as Healthcare Labor Crisis Creates $75B Automation Industry
💥 Why Two Cruise Executives Left Self-Driving Cars for Hospital Hallways
Diligent Robotics has secured $30 million in new funding as healthcare systems worldwide face...
