Pudu's robot elevator controller earns CSA safety certification
Pudu says the box that lets its robots call elevators is now certified to CSA B44.1/ASME A17.5, the North American elevator electrical standard.
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Tesla starts Optimus production with no price or delivery date
Tesla says Optimus production began in Fremont on lines built for 1 million robots a year. Its filings give no price and no date for outside buyers.
Tennant's first robot vacuum was tested in a school district
Tennant launched the P1 VAC on October 20, a 101 lb robot that vacuums, sweeps and dust mops, with 3.5 hours of runtime. A Wisconsin district tested it.
A wall-finishing robot raises $20M as crews run short
Origin came out of stealth on October 15 with $20M for OG-1, a robot that applies compound, sands and primes walls up to 14 ft. It wants 150 deployed by 2027.
Agility's SEC filings put a humanoid at $100,000 a year
Agility's go-public filings show what a working humanoid costs: about $100,000 a year per robot, with a 50-robot minimum. The vote is November 2.
A packing robot that plugs into a 120V outlet raises $62M
Brooklyn's Ultra raised a $50M Series A on October 9 for OP1, a 2-armed packing robot it rents to warehouses by the month. It says it has packed 500,000+ orders.
Honeywell's building AI cut 90% of nuisance alarms in a pilot
Honeywell launched Forge Cognition on October 14, an AI layer for building systems that cut unnecessary alerts by up to 90% in a pilot at NVIDIA's campus.
San Jose gives a stuck delivery robot 30 minutes to move
San Jose's council took up delivery robot rules on October 6 with a $200 permit per robot, a 5 mph sidewalk limit and 30 minutes to clear a stalled one.
Sodexo signs a robot delivery deal covering 425 campuses
Avride and Sodexo Campus agreed on October 6 to bring sidewalk delivery robots to Sodexo's 425 US colleges, 4 months after Starship said it was leaving.
40 cleaning robot makers on one show floor in Las Vegas
ISSA Show North America opens a robotics area with 40+ autonomous floor cleaning companies and 2 live demo zones at Mandalay Bay, November 17 to 19.
FCC clears its first floor cleaning robot, built in California
Matic's home vacuum and mop became the 3rd robot exempted from the FCC Covered List on October 2. It is assembled in the US and still needed the approval.
200 airport cleaning robots, and what they really cover
Flagship runs 200+ floor robots at 25 US airports. Its published totals work out to about 5,000 sq ft per operating hour.
A new study says cleaning robots cost more than janitors
Anthropic's robot study finds robots cheaper than people for 0.3% of US job tasks, and robot cleaners several times pricier than janitors.
US factories installed 38,400 robots in 2025, up 12%
The IFR says the US passed Japan to become the 2nd largest industrial robot market, with food and beverage plants up 30%.
A robot badged through locked doors for weeks without help
dormakaba, ANYbotics and LEGIC gave an inspection robot its own access credential and ran it through controlled doors at a power plant for several weeks.
SoftBank puts $225 million into a Cache Valley robot company
SoftBank invested $225 million in Mendon-based ASI and formed a joint venture to build autonomous construction fleets. ASI also owns the Scythe robot mower.
Knightscope's $27 million, and how much of it is signed
Knightscope reported $27 million in security robot renewals and awards across 109 contracts. About $4 million of it is signed contract value.
What the FCC robot rule means for cleaning robot buyers
The FCC cleared ANSCER's warehouse robots on September 18, only the 2nd exemption since foreign-made mobile robots went on the Covered List.
1 in 3 cleaning contractors plan to add robot floor machines
About 32% of building service contractors have added or plan to add robotic floor equipment within 12 months, roughly double the 2025 share.
Pudu launches 3 commercial robot mowers
The GT Series covers about 2 acres an hour and takes an indoor cleaning robot maker outdoors, onto the grounds contract.
1,500 climbing robots in one fulfillment center
Hai Robotics will install more than 1,500 rack-climbing robots in a 30,000 sq m European site rated at over 24,000 totes an hour.
Agility's new humanoid works without a safety cage
Digit 5 charges in 9 minutes, lifts 50 lb, and is built to stop, step aside or sit down when a person walks up to it.
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