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Eka says its model can generalize across objects, tasks, and environments. | Source: Eka Robotics Eka Robotics this week said it has raised $150 million in Series A funding. The startup said the new funding will help it scale its technology and customer deployments. Founded in 2024, Eka is building a vision-force-action (VFA) model to develop an intuition of physics through reinforcement learning at scale. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company said that robots using its AI can pick a wide variety of objects outside the training distribution at a speed of roughly 1,500 operations per hour. The same robots can screw in a light bulb and insert wires, Eka asserted. Robots shouldn’t just mimic humans, says Eka Robotics Eka Robotics said it is targeting dexterous manipulation. The company said that for robots to handle complicated work, they need the versatility to handle changing conditions and the performance to deliver useful work every day. Eka also said it believes that robots...

Vecna Robotics makes its systems in the U.S. and is not directly affected by the FCC ruling. Credit: Eugene Demaitre In July, the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, said it had determined that certain foreign-made advanced robots pose a cybersecurity and competitive risk to the U.S. It has restricted imports of new models of advanced robotic devices, including mobile robots and legged robots. What should companies considering purchases of such robots do? What are some of the concerns around design, deployment, and ongoing support? Leaders from Vecna Robotics , Locus Robotics , and the Association for Advancing Automation ( A3 ) will discuss the practical implications of the commission ‘s determination in a free webinar at 2:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026 . The panelists will examine how connected systems differ from traditional automation. Webinar attendees can also learn how companies can evaluate the long-term supportability of their robotics investments. They...

The first Data Factory hub is set to become one of Europe’s largest physical AI training facilities for humanoid robots. | Source: Generative Bionics Generative Bionics this week announced plans to build a proprietary, multi-site “Physical AI Data Factory” in Italy. The company said the new 5,000-sq.-m (53,819.5-sq.-ft.) hub will help move humanoid robotics from laboratory demonstrations to reliable industrial deployment. In addition, Generative Bionics said it hopes to advance European humanoid sovereignty, ensuring that the data, models, and know-how behind Europe’s industrial humanoids are generated, trained and validated on the continent. “The value that Europe has right now is within its industry, and we have to extract physical AI data in order to train our own models,” Daniele Pucci, the CEO of Generative Bionics, told  The Robot Report . “This is a competitive advantage that Europe right now has, because of the automation that we have been putt...

Claire chatted to Jan Petrš from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Déploya Robotics about novel robot designs for construction and architecture. Jan Petrš is a roboticist, architect, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of robotics and construction. He is currently the co-founder of Déploya Robotics , an EPFL spin-off developing deployable robotic systems for automated façade installation. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, where he focused on tensegrity robotics. His PhD research at the Czech Technical University focused on developing a robotic system combining reconfigurable and soft robotics for architectural and construction applications. View Source

Dream Labs said its models learn how the physical world works from video and can control new robots without any data. | Source: Dream Labs More brains are coming for robots. Dream Labs this week said it has raised $90 million in seed funding. The company also launched Dream API, a publicly available application programming interface to turn a robot’s camera feed and a plain-English instructions into motor commands, even for robots it has never seen before. Factories worldwide run a record 5 million industrial robots, yet nearly every one is programmed for a single task, and most cannot transfer what they have learned to other machines, noted Dream Labs. Low-cost robots now sell for a few thousand dollars but ship with no built-in intelligence. Teaching one robot one task can take specialists months, and a new task or new hardware often means starting from zero, according to the San Francisco startup. Dream Labs said its Dream-1 flagship model works across robots from different ...

Deepu Talla, NVIDIA’s VP of robotics and edge AI, gave the opening talk at RoboBusiness 2025. RoboBusiness 2026 will come to an end today. After a packed first day of the 20th anniversary show, here is everything you need to know about Day 2. The second day of RoboBusiness will start at 9:30 a.m. PT with the “State of Humanoids” panel. During this keynote, industry leaders will explore the capabilities humanoids are delivering today, the technical and operational challenges that remain, and the lessons emerging from early industrial implementations. All keynotes will take place in the theater on the second floor. This panel will include insights from Pras Velagapudi, chief technology officer of Agility Robotics ; Parker Conroy, the head of product management at Apptronik ; Michael Patrick Perry, head of commercial strategy at Persona AI ; Aadeel Akhtar, the founder and CEO of PSYONIC . Mike Oitzman, senior editor at The Robot Report , will host the panel. The Exhi...