Medtronic invests $700 million in surgical robot maker Cornerstone Robotics
The agreement covers the distribution of the Sentire system outside the United States, alongside the Hugo surgical robot already marketed by Medtronic.
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The agreement covers the distribution of the Sentire system outside the United States, alongside the Hugo surgical robot already marketed by Medtronic.
Listed on the stock exchange at $66 billion, the Chinese robotics star has seen its share price fall by almost half. Analysts point to the same flaw: robots move well, but do not yet produce value.
The autonomous regional freight specialist is completing a Series D round led by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with 85,000 fully driverless deliveries already completed.
The $200 million expansion led by 8VC brings the startup's Series B to $600 million and its valuation to $3 billion, two months after a round of $2 billion.
The Alphabet subsidiary is starting mapping the city with safety drivers, aiming for a commercial service open to the public at the end of 2027.
The German equipment manufacturer is partnering with the British company Humanoid, with a first deployment in Herzogenaurach and Schweinfurt in December.
Five days after a memorandum of understanding signed in Santa Clara, LG received Nvidia's executives at its Yangjae data factory: 10,000 m², several hundred robots and 100,000 hours of data targeted by the end of 2026.
Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures and Seven Seven Six join the starter's round table, which has almost tripled in two months.
IDG Capital leads the tour with Tencent and Alibaba as strategic investors. The IRON humanoid targets mass production by the end of 2026.
DaxAI Robotics showed a four-legged articulated robot equipped with a saddle and handlebars, capable of carrying up to 300 kilos on rough terrain.
Tianzhuo, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center, completed the opening sprint of the second World Humanoid Robot Games with a mark of 9.58 seconds.
Five days of competition at the Olympic Speed Skating Oval, 51 events and 1,301 matches, with delegations from sixteen countries.
Wang Xingxing (Unitree) describes a bottleneck: robots are still less efficient than humans and take time to learn. Going from 80% to 99.9% success is the real test.
The Nevada Transportation Authority has unanimously approved three business permits in Clark County. Tesla caps at 5,000 vehicles, Waymo and Uber at 1,000 each.
At the Taiwanese Industrial Automation Exhibition, the equipment manufacturer presented robotics and intelligent production applications on August 19 to accelerate industrial deployments.
Founded by Sanja Fidler, former head of laboratory at Nvidia, the Toronto-based start-up has signed one of the largest seed rounds ever completed in Canada.
China's major robotics event opened on August 19. Between boxing demonstrations and $24,000 pet robots, the gap with real use remains visible.
Reportage vidéo dans les allées de la GTC 2026 de NVIDIA, où les visiteurs dialoguent à la voix avec des robots humanoïdes et où l'IA quitte l'écran pour le monde physique.
At the opening of the World Robot Conference in Beijing on August 19, the delivery figures confirm an overwhelming concentration of humanoid production in China.
Beijing is hosting an international humanoid robot competition from August 22 to 26, 2026, where domestic service machines pass their final tests before the tests.