Archive - Robots & Startups

Wildfire XPrize Winners, Women in Robotics you need to know about, and scaling from demo to 30,000

Nominations extended for IEEE RAS Awards (products/companies/innovation)

24 hrs ago • Andra Keay

Long Horizon launches its full lineup

Amazing speakers, even better networking opportunities. Will I see you there?

Oct 7 • Andra Keay

Cybersecurity may be a missing piece for functional safety, but enforcement is the real deal

Agility Investor Day, Fort IPO, RealSense and RAI acquisitions,

Oct 3 • Andra Keay

🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - September 2026

Acquisitions and IPOs, oh my! Agility Robotics investor day on Tuesday.

Oct 3 • Andra Keay

September 2026

The Long Horizon for physical AI is getting closer

Amazing speakers, even better networking opportunities. Will I see you there?

Sep 30 • Andra Keay

Scaling production is harder than scaling deployment in robotics

Humanoids 2026 Keynote Speakers, Benchmark Competition and Workshops

Sep 26 • Andra Keay

CoreWeave wants to Fully Connect with robotics - special offer

Teaching robots new skills in simulation, field engineering feedback, full physical AI stack deep dives and Battlebots and F1 setups for fun.

Sep 25 • Andra Keay

Agility’s Digit 5, IV with Ilia Baranov on robot safety, OpenRobOps and Automated Happy Hour

Plus artificial stupidity for the win :-)

Sep 19 • Andra Keay

How close to that robot are you willing to get?

Introducing an open-source project that might just save your life. Or a few fingers.

Sep 17 • Andra Keay

Agility launches Digit version 5 and InOrbit launches OpenRobOps

Latest releases from Silicon Valley Robotics companies

Sep 15 • Andra Keay

The untenable business model of complicated robot pets

And how 9/11 started the field of Disaster Robotics with Texas A&M’s Robin Murphy

Sep 12 • Andra Keay

🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - August 2026

4x investment so far this year compared to 2025

Sep 6 • Andra Keay

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