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Nexterity's bolt robot fits in a Pelican case and turns four at once
A former ExxonMobil engineer has built a battery-powered robot that tightens pipe flange bolts, and wants to rent it out like a cherry picker. The trades, not the warehouses, are the target market.
Feather sells a $30,000 humanoid and invites developers to build on it
The startup is not chasing a general-purpose robot brain. It is selling modular hardware at half the price of its nearest Chinese rival and leaving the applications to other people.
Picnic's collapse leaves Moto Pizza with two idle $160,000 robots
A supplier shutting down in May turned a Seattle restaurant's pizza machines into cabinets. It is the latest in a run of robotic-pizza failures that includes Zume, Pazzi and Basil Street.
Hugging Face's robotics team prices a 25cm walking duck at $399
Pollen Robotics opens pre-orders for Microduck on 27 August 2026, with 15 motors, a grasping beak and an hour of battery life. First deliveries are targeted before Christmas.
Embedd raises €2.3m to write chip drivers with AI agents
The London startup sells semiconductor firms an automated route into software ecosystems. Seedcamp led the pre-seed; the founders started it after chip shortages wrecked their last company.
Coco's robots make 1,000 food deliveries a day in Los Angeles
Two UCLA engineers asked why a 5,000-pound car was moving a five-pound bag of food. Six years on, a Shake Shack regional manager calls their robot his favourite courier.
Oshen raises $5m after one-metre robot sailed into a Category 5 hurricane
The Times reports a $5m round for the Plymouth firm whose sailing robot recorded 955 millibars inside Hurricane Humberto. Three years ago its founders were living on a 25ft boat at the cheapest marina in Britain.
Essex robotics spin-out raises £1m from three funding sources
Versatile RobotX has assembled just over £1 million from a private fund, Innovate UK and Defra. The package, not the amount, is the story for hardware founders.