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Autonomous mobile robot fleets and the supervisory software that assigns work, charging, parking and traffic in material handling.
Ultra Robotics raised $62 million over two rounds to sell OP1 Operator, a robot built to split mixed inbound containers into single-type bins. A warehouse weighing a pilot has only Ultra's own figures on setup time and daily throughput to plan around.
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LG Innotek plans to mass-produce Aeva lidar for robots next year and for a European automaker in 2028, after investing up to $50 million in the US firm. The stake's roughly 60% gain has not been realized, so any cash return depends on an exclusive Aeva supply deal that runs through 2030.
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The second-generation Cassie and Sonny run on Tutor's own foundation models, and the first person to show either robot a task it has not seen is one of the company's remote tutors, staffed internationally and paid by Tutor.
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Google committed to 200 MW from Commonwealth Fusion's first plant and RWE put EUR 25m behind Proxima Fusion next to a shut-down reactor site, deals where the access mattered more than the valuation. Only one of them involves a signed purchase.
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CVE-2026-75112 in OTTO Fleet Manager puts warehouse automation on the same credential-handling footing as ordinary IT. Rockwell says it found the issue in routine internal testing.
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