Agility Robotics' Digit 5 drops safety cages, backs $2.5B SPAC and $300M in orders
Agility Robotics on September 15, 2026, unveiled Digit v5, a humanoid robot engineered to work alongside people in warehouses and factories without the physical safety barriers that have constrained every commercially deployed humanoid to d…
Einride and Lidl put cab-less Level 4 truck into daily freight service on German public roads
Einride and Lidl on September 15 began operating what the companies describe as the first cab-less SAE Level 4 autonomous truck in daily commercial service on a public road in Germany . The battery-electric vehicle carries no driver and no…
Pony.ai Gen-4 Robotruck cuts hardware cost 70%, targets European freight within two years
Pony.ai and GAC Commercial Vehicle debuted a Level 4 autonomous heavy-duty truck at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hannover on September 14, pairing Pony.ai's Gen-4 autonomous trucking stack with GAC Commercial Vehicle's T9 battery-electric pla…
Universal Robots Gen 7 platform routes AI inference through redesigned cobot hardware
Universal Robots introduced Gen 7, its seventh-generation robotics platform, at the IMTS tradeshow in Chicago on September 14, 2026 . The Teradyne subsidiary pitched the release as an end-to-end hardware and software redesign aimed at movin…
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RANKED · 6 THIS DAYWaymo, Nihon Kotsu, and Go target 2027 for unmanned Tokyo robotaxi service
Waymo, Nihon Kotsu, and Go have formally agreed to prepare for the commercial launch of a fully unmanned autonomous ride-hailing service in Tokyo in 2027, the companies said on September 15 . The service would mark Waymo's first committed m…
Unitree G1+ humanoid doubles motor torque, cuts heat 72% at $14,000
Unitree Robotics launched the G1+, an upgraded version of its G1 humanoid robot, priced at 95,000 yuan (roughly $14,000) for the base model including tax . The original G1 starts at 85,000 yuan . The G1+ was officially launched on Monday .…