Gecko Robotics' $300M Navy contract and the 'core military capability' claim

updated Oct 20, 2026 — status: open Robots

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…

SoftBank eyes an $18B security-firm takeover

updated Oct 17, 2026 — status: open Robots

SoftBank is reported to be eyeing an $18 billion takeover of the largest private security-guard firm in the US, with plans to swap human guards for robots. The target is unnamed, and no terms beyond…

China: humanoids pivot from spectacle to battlefield (Reuters investigation)

updated Oct 22, 2026 — status: closed Robots

Public-sector humanoid procurement (Singapore/Korea/US)

updated Oct 19, 2026 — status: closed Robots Arc · Humanoid robots doing paid work at scale