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Innok Robotics INDUROS family + Innok Cockpit: 1.3-tonne outdoor AMRs that talk VDA-5050
A German AMR maker most US readers haven’t heard of just had its strongest quarter ever. Innok Robotics is using Hannover Messe 2026 (Hall 26, G44(9), April 20–24) to roll out the full INDUROS family — 350s, 700, 700s, 1300 — plus a new browser-based fleet manager called Innok Cockpit. There’s also a “Physical AI”… Continue reading
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Vention Rapid Operator AI ships from GTC 2026 with 99% first-pick on 24-inch deep bins
Vention turned the demo highlight of NVIDIA GTC 2026 into a SKU you can actually order. Rapid Operator AI is a turnkey bin-picking robot cell — robot arm on a pedestal, two-finger gripper, stereo vision camera, MachineMotion AI controller, operator HMI — sold as one box. Up to 99% first-pick on randomly-oriented parts in bins… Continue reading
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Advantech MIC-735 AI Inference System puts NVIDIA IGX Thor inside a ruggedized AMR brain
Advantech released the MIC-735 on April 9 and quietly set the bar for industrial edge AI boxes in 2026. This is not a dev kit — it is a sealed, rugged inference system meant to bolt inside a forklift, an AMR, or a surgical robot and run the full perception stack on-device. What’s in the… Continue reading
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Telefónica T_Space Drone-as-a-Service: a phone company is now flying the drones for you
Telefónica skipped selling drones and is selling drone missions instead. T_Space is the first end-to-end Drone-as-a-Service run entirely by a telco — the carrier owns the fleet, the 5G uplink, the MEC edge nodes, and the AI vision stack. You file a job, they fly it. The hardware This isn’t a SaaS dashboard with a… Continue reading
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Ericsson takes delivery of the first humanoid with Realbotix Vinci AI Vision System
On April 8, 2026, Realbotix shipped its first Vinci-equipped robot to Ericsson. Vinci is a patented vision module with micro cameras hidden inside the robot’s irises — not clipped on, not a headset, embedded in the eyeballs of its David, M-Series, and Aria humanoids. What the hardware actually does The in-eye cameras feed a vision… Continue reading
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RobCo Autonomous Alfie debuts at Hannover Messe 2026 with Level 4 autonomy and RaaS-only delivery
RobCo, the Munich startup fresh off a $100M round, walked into Hannover Messe 2026 with Alfie — a full-sized bimanual humanoid it’s calling Level 4 autonomous. Translation: the robot is supposed to learn new parts and new workflows on its own, without an engineer re-coding every SKU change. The show was the first edition to… Continue reading
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Cognitum Seed Device is the Raspberry Pi box powering RuView’s WiFi-as-radar trick
Cognitum Seed Device is a palm-sized edge AI appliance built on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, firmware v0.8.1. It runs ~2.5M-parameter INT8 models at 10+Hz while juggling five sensor streams (reed switch, PIR, vibration, ADS1115 ADC, BME280), an append-only RVF vector store chained by SHA-256 witnesses, an Ed25519 device-bound key, 13 drift detectors, and… Continue reading
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Title: X Square Robot WALL-A (with WALL-OSS): $276M from Xiaomi, 62 DoF, weights on Hugging Face
X Square Robot closed nearly ¥2 billion (~$276M) in Series B on April 20, co-led by Xiaomi and Sequoia China — the biggest embodied-AI check in China this week. WALL-A is their flagship: a dual-arm humanoid running X Square’s own Great Wall foundation model. The reason builders should care is WALL-OSS, the open-source sibling, already… Continue reading
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Chef Robotics hits 100M servings on ChefOS — 10x every other food robot combined
Food robotics is a graveyard. Zume burned $400M and collapsed, Chowbotics got acquired and shut down, the list goes on. On April 16, Chef Robotics announced it crossed 100 million servings in production — an order of magnitude more than every other food robot on earth combined. This is a robot arm, not a kitchen… Continue reading
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UniX AI Panther ships globally: wheeled humanoid, 8-DoF arms, 16-hour battery
While Figure and 1X chase bipedal walking, UniX AI shipped a humanoid that just rolls. Panther, the Suzhou startup’s third-gen service robot, went into global delivery on April 8 — the one humanoid story robotics Twitter hasn’t shut up about this week. The hardware 160cm tall, 80kg, four-wheel steering plus four-wheel drive chassis. Two 8-DoF… Continue reading
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