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GXO will put Agility's Digit humanoid into two more US warehouses from early 2027, turning a single pilot site into a small fleet. Three new manufacturing customers arrive too, unnamed, just as Agility prepares to list on Nasdaq.
A proof of concept in Audi’s Ingolstadt Production Lab tests Agile Robots’ mobile humanoids on parts sequencing, a task behind a million picks a day. The virtual twin comes first; figures for speed, reliability and cost do not yet exist.
Waymo aims to carry its first Spanish passengers in 2027, starting with manual driving and local validation in Madrid. The expansion puts operating support, emergency-service coordination and evidence from Spanish roads alongside the autonomous-driving technology.
Nine departments have published a commerce policy extending embodied AI into household services, logistics and retail. It offers direction and existing funding channels, while leaving commercial demand, deployment costs and delivery schedules to be demonstrated.
Boyu Capital anchors a Series E with Alibaba’s AEF NextGen Fund among the investors. The overseas expansion depends on local service networks, regulatory access and depot integration as much as on the autonomous vehicles themselves.
Voyant says its software located a Kraken uncrewed vessel in the Solent by matching radar observations to reference maps. The demonstration offers a route to resilient maritime autonomy, although published evidence does not yet quantify its accuracy or operating limits.
Ukrainian forces logged about 112,000 ground-robot missions in the first eight months of 2026, more than three times as many in August as in January. Most were carrying supplies and casualties, not weapons. Connectivity remains a major constraint.
After SPAC redemptions, Agility now expects about $465m from its listing rather than the more than $620m first advertised. The Foxconn-led placement holds; the harder test, turning milestone-dependent robot orders into revenue, is unchanged.