FieldAI's $10B valuation bets robotics intelligence is a platform play
FieldAI's reported $700 million raise at a $10 billion valuation, five times its worth a year ago, prices a startup building a "universal general-purpose brain" for robots at the same order of magnitude as some foundation-model companies .…
Wandercraft acquires Ekso Bionics, forms largest medical exoskeleton maker
Wandercraft acquired Ekso Bionics from a subsidiary of ChronoScale (Nasdaq: CHRN) on October 1, 2026, combining two medical exoskeleton developers into what the companies call the world's leading manufacturer in the category . The deal was…
Tesla halves AI5 chip memory to 72GB, cuts AI6 by a third to clear Optimus production path
Tesla is cutting the memory specifications on its next-generation AI chips to secure enough supply for mass production of the Optimus humanoid robot. CEO Elon Musk announced on X on October 1 that the AI5 chip's memory has been halved to 72…
AgiBot extends into Vietnam through NIC partnership for embodied AI
AgiBot, the Chinese robotics company that recently claimed the global top spot in humanoid robot shipments, has partnered with Vietnam's National Innovation Center (NIC) to build out an embodied AI industry and talent pipeline in the countr…