Robots digest — Nov 3, 2026
Top line: Gecko Robotics' US Navy work gets a $300M contract ceiling plus an Anduril partnership for submarine-industrial inspections. GXO Logistics deepens its Agility Robotics humanoid push with a new Malaysia hub. Addverb says it is building its own robot-vision model on 1,000 hours of weekly robot data.
Brief
- Gecko Robotics' work with the US Navy has expanded: the Navy raised Gecko's contract ceiling to $300 million, and Gecko has partnered with Anduril to automate industrial inspections in submarine shipyards, per a post from XMAQUINA on X. No independent report of the $300 million ceiling yet.
- GXO Logistics opened a logistics hub in Medini, Malaysia in October 2026 and expanded its Agility Robotics partnership there, in a Simply Wall St. analysis carried on Yahoo Finance — building on the Digit deployments to Statesville, NC and Lebanon, TN announced in October.
- Addverb is developing a proprietary Vision-Language-Action model for warehouse automation, with CEO Sangeet Kumar citing 1,000 hours of weekly robot data as training feedstock (BW Disrupt).
- Ningbo auto-parts supplier Joyson is pivoting into humanoid robot components, applying decades of vehicle-systems manufacturing to robotics as traditional automotive margins tighten (BriefAsia) — another China supplier making the same manufacturing-class turn tracked through the autumn.