South Korea plans to invest $120 billion in US nuclear power for eight large reactors at federal sites, six AP1000 and two APR1400 reactors, as part of a $200 billion three-project package; it…
Machenta has raised $40 million, with Creandum and Union Square Ventures backing a simulation-trained robot model that it says can learn new tasks from a single demonstration. It is a new startup in…
XPeng has commissioned an automated production line in Guangzhou for its IRON humanoid and still promises mass production by end-2026, with a stated target of 1,000 units a month; the robot itself…
Bedrock Robotics has raised $600 million to scale autonomous heavy equipment, bringing its total funding close to $1 billion. The round is a Series C at a $4.1 billion valuation led by CapitalG and…
Rocket Lab's roughly $8 billion acquisition of Iridium is still pending, after shareholder approval and with FCC license review, a Ligado objection and a GAO protest unresolved. Separately, Neutron's…
FF EAI Robotics closed its purchase of Faraday Future's robotics business on October 26, becoming a Nasdaq-listed humanoid and bionic robotics platform on the same day as its listing ceremony and…
SpaceX, listed since June, reported third-quarter revenue up 161% on October 20 and a $4.4 billion net profit, with AI-compute revenue of $7.6 billion passing Starlink's. Musk says SpaceX has closed…
Eka Robotics has raised $150 million at a $1.45 billion valuation for robot AI that combines vision and force feedback to make robot manipulation faster and more adaptable for industrial…
Canada has launched the Canadian Centre for Space Isotopes and is putting C$11.1 million (about US$7.9 million) into 16 space projects, two of them focused on radioisotope technologies. The two…
The DOE announced a second round of Genesis Mission awards: 12 Phase II and six Phase I projects, including fusion-energy and high-radiation-environment work. Phase II awards scale up projects that…
Meta announced a new class of non-voting shares to fund AI initiatives, with trading to begin in 2027. The shares are also earmarked for possible acquisitions and employee compensation, as Meta cites…
Daytona has raised a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation, money the company says will go toward building it into the Agent Cloud. FirstMark led the round, with all key existing investors…
Gecko Robotics has won a $300 million contract with the U.S. Navy, its first navy-scale award for defense-inspection robots. The company says the deal signals the Pentagon treats it as a core…
Kodama has raised $7M to bring robotics to forestry and logging, beginning with teleoperated machines while collecting operational data along the way. The company, the raise and the sector are what…
Anthropic has announced the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a wholly owned public-benefit entity seeded with 5% of its shares, with a structure that could bring the committed total to about 20%.…
Blue Origin's first outside round in 25 years came in at about ten billion dollars against a ~140-billion valuation, with Bezos adding his own billions and floating an IPO within a few years; a…