L3Harris Licenses Shield AI Tracker C-UAS for VAMPIRE Counter-Drone System
L3Harris Technologies has licensed Shield AI's Tracker Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System to equip its VAMPIRE platform, the companies announced September 1, 2026 . The integration pairs Tracker C-UAS, which uses AI and computer vision to…
LG Innotek Enters Robotaxi Mass Production as Zoox Camera Supplier
Two deals in 24 hours show autonomous-vehicle makers reaching outside their own engineering walls for production-grade hardware: LG Innotek began mass-producing camera modules for Amazon's Zoox robotaxis , and AMD disclosed that its EPYC…
Surgical and industrial robotics draw institutional capital through co-development deals
Two deals this week show established corporations channeling capital into robotics not through arms-length licensing or acquisition but through embedded co-development structures designed to close the gap between lab capability and…
SoftBank Seeks Majority Stake in 1X Technologies at $6B Valuation
SoftBank is in talks to acquire a majority stake in 1X Technologies, the OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer, in a deal that would value the Norwegian-Californian startup at approximately $6 billion . The Information reported the…
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RANKED · 7 THIS DAYHugging Face's $399 Microduck Robot Draws $2.6M in Orders Within 24 Hours
Hugging Face Inc. and its subsidiary Pollen Robotics opened pre-orders on August 27 for Microduck, a $399 open-source bipedal robot shaped like a duck, generating $2.6 million in orders within 24 hours and creating a backlog . The…
Waymo, Zoox Test Drivers Sustain Over Two Dozen Injuries as Robotaxi Fleets Scale
Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 caused by hard braking or other sudden movements made by autonomous vehicles, according to a TechCrunch review of data submitted to the Occupational…
Waymo Targets Camera-Only Autonomy as Fleet Passes 320 Million Km
Waymo has passed 320 million autonomous kilometers driven, a milestone that arrives alongside a pointed public argument against camera-only approaches to self-driving, an implicit challenge to Tesla's sensor strategy as the Cybercab nears…