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Startup Robotics News — Startup Industry Updates

Robotics startup funding and launches — curated from top sources.

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Reliable Robotics raises funding for fully automated aircraft

The Robot Report·Apr 23, 2026

Reliable Robotics has raised $160 million as it continues to develop and work toward FAA certification for its Reliable Autonomy System for…

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Cruz’ing through the terminal: A&K Robotics lands $8M for autonomous mobility

The Robot Report·Apr 22, 2026

Investment is led by Business Development Bank of Canada’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund and Vantage Futures to expand production and…

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Crewline secures $7.1M to automate construction’s most repetitive task

The Robot Report·Apr 22, 2026

Crewline automates construction rollers with retrofit kits, tackling labor shortages with a $7.1M seed round and $26M waitlist. The post Cr…

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The USC Professor Who Pioneered Socially Assistive Robotics

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Apr 20, 2026

When the robotics engineering field that Maja Matarić wanted to work in didn’t exist, she helped create it. In 2005 she helped define the n…

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Drones & Robotics AI Summit 2026: Entering the quantum era of autonomy

The Robot Report·Apr 20, 2026

Heven AeroTech founder and CEO Bentzion Levinson explains how his startup has addressed drone navigation and communications in GPS-denied e…

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The case for fixing everything

MIT Technology Review·Apr 17, 2026

The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series…

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China’s 3-satellite surveillance network, Hong Kong’s inflation surge: SCMP’s 7 highlights

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 17, 2026

We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with…

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Antioch raises funding to bring ‘software speed’ to robot development

The Robot Report·Apr 16, 2026

Antioch has raised money to scale its team and apply simulation to accelerate robotics testing and validation. The post Antioch raises fund…

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What I’ve learned from 25 years of automated science, and what the future holds: an interview with Ross King

Robohub·Apr 14, 2026

We’re excited to launch our new series, where we’ll be speaking with leading researchers to explore the breakthroughs driving AI and the re…

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Resource-constrained image generation and visual understanding: an interview with Aniket Roy

Robohub·Apr 7, 2026

In the latest in our series of interviews meeting the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants, we caught up with Aniket Roy to find out…

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Scientists Build Living Robots With Nervous Systems

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Apr 2, 2026

Engineers have long tried to mimic life. They’ve built machine learning algorithms modeled after the human brain, designed machines that wa…

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Back to school: robots learn from factory workers

Robohub·Apr 2, 2026

By Anthony King What if training a robot to handle dirty, dangerous work on the factory floor was as simple as showing it how? Czech startu…

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Perseverance Smashes Autonomous Driving Record on Mars

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Feb 25, 2026

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.In past missions to Mars, like with the Cur…

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