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Non-humanoid robots: industrial arms, delivery bots, warehouse systems, and field robots.
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Brooklyn startup Ultra raised a $50 million Series A for its packing robot, which installs in hours on a normal 120 volt outlet. Warehouses rent it monthly, and it has already packed over 500,000 orders.
Zipline launched drone delivery in Round Rock, Texas on Oct. 8, with orders opening Oct. 9. It is the first commercial drone delivery service in the Austin area, and the company says it will spread across the metro.
At the Agrophoenix fruit plant in northern Greece, eight Stäubli SCARA robots running QING's camera system inspect about 15 tons of peach halves an hour and pull out the ones with pit fragments. The setup just finished its first full harvest season.
Bedrock Detroit and Boston Dynamics are bringing Spot robot dogs onto downtown Detroit streets for public testing. Starting Oct. 14, Spot will try picking up litter as small as a cigarette butt with a robotic arm, a job Boston Dynamics does not sell yet.
A week after it was unveiled, Frontline Robotics' six-wheeled Frodo made its first real rescue: a 92nd Assault Brigade crew used it to carry a wounded soldier to an evacuation vehicle. Ukraine logged about 112,000 ground robot missions from January to August.
On Oct. 6 Kawasaki showed Home LEO, a physical-AI companion meant to watch over older adults at home, fetch items, and loop in family or carers. Launch target is fiscal 2028.
On Sept. 29 Dyna Robotics posted Taku, a wheeled robot with arms, and an uncut hour of hotel laundry it says ran without a person stepping in. Customer sites are still the next step.
On Sept. 28 Evri and Refined Robotics put a two-legged parcel robot on the street in Barnsley. It is rated for 15 kg and 6 km/h. Couriers are still the job.
Icarus flew its ISS-bound free-flyer on parabolic flights in Canada — ~22 minutes of microgravity total. Practice is the bottleneck, and the U.S. barely has the planes.