Nasdaq robot company takes service bots to hospitality's biggest show
Richtech Robotics, a publicly traded service robotics firm, is showcasing its ADAM food-service and DUST-E S cleaning robots at HITEC 2026, signaling commercial-scale entry into a labor-starved hospitality sector.
Mind Robotics hits $3.4B valuation on $1B+ in funding
Mind Robotics, RJ Scaringe's robotics spinout from Rivian, raised $400M at $3.4B valuation, over $1B total in six months, signaling the shift from R&D to factory-floor deployment with a real data advantage.
ROBOTERA hits 1,000-unit quarterly run in live logistics ops
Beijing robotics firm ROBOTERA raised $200M led by SF Group, now running 1,000+ units across 10+ logistics centers with 300% growth, marking the first humanoid robotics company to scale beyond pilots into volume commercial operations.
Agility Robotics lands first automotive humanoid contract outside U.S.
Agility Robotics deployed seven Digit humanoids at Toyota's Ontario plant after a year-long evaluation, marking the first commercial humanoid RaaS deal with a major automaker outside America.
Canada funds North America's only cobalt refinery with C$20M commitment
Electra Battery Materials secures definitive Canadian government funding for its Ontario cobalt sulfate refinery, completing a $48M tri-government capital stack and eliminating the continent's last critical minerals processing gap.
DHL commits to 1,000+ Boston Dynamics robots, signaling volume inflection
DHL Group signed an MOU with Boston Dynamics on May 13, 2025, to deploy over 1,000 Stretch robots globally by 2030, expanding from container unloading into case picking, the largest single logistics operator robot commitment yet announced.
Tenstorrent ships Galaxy Blackhole, taking on Nvidia in inference
Tenstorrent began volume production of Galaxy Blackhole, a $110,000 AI inference server that claims 23 PFLOPS performance and 350+ tokens per second, challenging Nvidia's GPU dominance with a clean-sheet hardware design.
Tenstorrent's $110K AI Server Challenges Nvidia's Inference Dominance
Tenstorrent launches Galaxy Blackhole inference servers at 3-5x cheaper per node than Nvidia DGX, with 16 units already deployed at Equinix and performance claims that undercut the GPU+LPU disaggregation trend.