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Startup Robotics News — Startup Industry Updates

Robotics startup funding and launches — curated from top sources.

Research

This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs

MIT Technology Review·Apr 30, 2026

The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI mod…

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SquareMind raises $18M for robotic dermatology platform

The Robot Report·Apr 27, 2026

Squaremind has raised funding to launch Swan, a robotic platform that automates full-body skin imaging for early cancer detection. The post…

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Startup

Sereact gets Series B funding to expand Cortex 2.0 robot brain, enter U.S. market

The Robot Report·Apr 27, 2026

Sereact plans to expand Cortex 2.0 from bin picking to tasks such as assembly and kitting, and it is opening a Boston office. The post Sere…

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US uses unusual routes to send jet fuel to Japan, Philippine bases amid Hormuz closure

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 25, 2026

An unusual series of cargoes of military-grade fuel that is due to sail from the US across the Pacific Ocean illustrates how far the war in…

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Startup

Hokusai’s erotic art on display at a Kabukicho noh theater

Japan Times Technology·Apr 25, 2026

"Kabukicho in Full Bloom" is the third in a series of shunga art exhibitions organized by the Smappa!Group, which operates host bars and re…

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Germany’s Merz says no ‘immediate’ Ukraine EU membership, floats Kyiv joining meetings

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 24, 2026

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday there was no prospect of Ukraine’s “immediate accession” to the EU, but suggested Kyiv coul…

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Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M as it targets industrial applications

The Robot Report·Apr 23, 2026

Pudu plans to use the funding to develop its embodied AI, grow its product portfolio, and expand in global markets beyond service robots. T…

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Startup

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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Cobot

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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Manipulation

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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Research

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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Research

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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