SoftBank agrees to acquire Robotics and AI Institute

Robotics investments reach $4.9B in August 2026

Two Digit 5 robots working in a facility.

Agility’s Digit 5 humanoid has new legs, batteries and safety upgrades

headshot of Salar al Khafaji, founder and CEO of Monumental, and the podcast logo.

Monumental lays bricks with robots

Unitree offers its G1 humanoid for $13.5K.

Unitree shares down 53% from IPO debut

The Digit humanoid robot from Agility, which is an example of a SPAC acquisition.

Agility Robotics reports $1.8M revenue ahead of humanoid SPAC

headshot of eric sivertson and the podcast icon.

FPGAs and security

Robotics Startup Radar.

Calling robotics startups: Apply now to be part of the 2026 Robotics Startup Radar

NVIDIA robotics in simulation and a Hugging Face logo. NVIDIA is acquiring the open development platform.

NVIDIA plans to acquire Hugging Face and keep AI development platform open