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Washington Finds Robot Imports a Security Threat and Sets No Tariff, Date or Product List

The October 28 Section 232 proclamation orders negotiations rather than duties, so the cost of the finding sits in components nobody has priced yet.

Daniel OkonkwoNov 25 min

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02Electric Trucks Hit 50.3% of China Heavy-Truck Sales in September, in a Market Down 21%September sits below the December 2025 peak of 53.9%, and electric sales grew 37% while total sales fell, and the 2026 year-to-date figure is 38.1%.Nov 2
03Ola Electric Registered 12,096 Scooters in October, Down 10%, as India Added 7% to 223,847Entrackr and Autocar Professional use different Vahan pulls for September, which moves the growth figure from 7.3% to about 10%.Nov 1
04Battery Self-Tests Cause a One-Minute Dip in Grid Frequency, and Jülich Measured It on a 1.5 MW UnitA Forschungszentrum Jülich team traced a worldwide 60-second ripple in grid frequency to battery power supplies that all test themselves at the top of the minute. The preprint measured one site; the scale claims come from a press release.Nov 1
05Satlyt's Orbital Computing Test Ran One Real Computer, and Hit a Timing BugThe startup's NASA-funded experiment with the University of Houston simulated four computers; only one physical machine in orbit took part.Oct 31
06Waymo Will Have Toyota Fit Its Driver at the Takaoka Plant, but Gives No Volume, Cost or Sensor CountThe bZ4X robotaxi is a supply answer for a fleet still built on a Jaguar that is out of production; Waymo's two posts six weeks apart also put its safety multiple at 15 and 20 times.Oct 30
07Agility Robotics Lists on Nov. 5 With $465 Million, $155 Million Under Plan, After Trust Holders Took Back About 61%The humanoid maker's SPAC raise shrank from $620 million as Churchill XI holders redeemed. The filing's 2025 revenue was $1.8 million against a $140 million operating loss.Oct 30
08The US Installed 20.2 GWh of Batteries in One Quarter, and 6.7 GW of Power Is the Figure to Read Beside ItSEIA and Benchmark's second-quarter count averages three hours of storage per project, Arizona alone added 6.2 GWh, and the home market shrank 27%.Oct 30
09LiveWire Warns of Going-Concern Doubt With $39.9 Million Left and a Restructuring Officer InstalledHarley-Davidson's electric motorcycle unit sold 21% more bikes in the third quarter and still lost $18.6 million, with its related-party term loan due in December 2027.Oct 30
10Astranis Books a Whole Falcon 9 for Six MicroGEO Satellites in 2028, Leaving Customers and Price UnnamedThe Block 4 mission would use Impulse Space's Helios stage to reach geostationary orbit directly, a method Astranis first announced for a 2027 mission in September 2025.Oct 30
11Tesla Says Optimus Is on a Fremont Line but Gives No Output NumberThe Q3 update calls the bots coming off the line the first production-quality units. A rate, a price and a customer date are all missing from the document; Musk supplied some of them on the call.Oct 30
12The Robotics Proclamation Imposes No Tariff, and Starts a 180-Day ClockPresident Trump's October 28 Section 232 action on robots and machinery sets no rate and no quota. It orders talks, a report back by late April 2027, and lists the tools that follow if talks fail.Oct 29
13Rivian's Bigger EDV 700 Pack Adds 29% Energy; the AWD Version Gives Back 33 MilesEPA certification documents list 129 kWh usable against 100 kWh before. Rivian advertises 30% more range, but its own AWD configuration lands below that figure on the unadjusted test.Oct 29
14ANYbotics Ships Its Explosion-Rated Robot Dog, Certified for Zones 1 and 2 but Not for HydrogenANYmal X began customer deliveries on October 27. ANYbotics' product page limits it to gas group IIB, and says IECEx certification arrives with first production, a gap the launch coverage does not mention.Oct 29
15FCC Clears Amazon Leo's $11.5 Billion Globalstar Deal, Which Buys 25 MHz of Spectrum and a Customer That Is 63% AppleThe Space Bureau's October 27 approval transfers about two dozen satellites and mobile-satellite spectrum, but closing waits until 2027 and a 5,105-satellite application is still open.Oct 29
16CircuitHub's Grid Quotes $630 and 4 Days for Five Boards, Against About $465 and 9 Days From ShenzhenThe Massachusetts robot factory has run for five years before CircuitHub showed it publicly; the price comparison is the company's own, and the size and part limits are the fine print.Oct 28
17CATL's 20 Ah Solid-State Cell Is the Same Milestone It Reported in November 2024, With 500 Wh/kg Still a TargetAn October 27 investor reply set off headlines about progress, but the cell size, the chemistry and the 2027 small-batch date all appear in earlier coverage; what is new is the absence of a measured result.Oct 28
18North American Robot Orders Hit 10,989 Units in Q3 2026, but Automotive OEMs Are Still 17% Down on 2025A3's third-quarter count is up 24.8%, and the growth came from chips, electronics and car-parts suppliers rather than the carmakers that used to set the pace.Oct 28
19Tesla's Optimus Target of 20,000 a Week Is Half Its Car DeliveriesFremont is building the first production-quality humanoid robots while net income falls 43%. The target is a denominator problem, and the denominator is Tesla's own car line.Oct 28
20Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W Appears in Kernel Tree With a Pi 4 ProcessorDevice-tree files merged October 25 describe a BCM2711 Zero and a cut-down Pi 4 Model A. No RAM, price or date is in them.Oct 28
21Embotech and BMW Report 1 Million Driverless Vehicle Moves Across Four PlantsThe cars carry no self-driving sensors. Lidar on the plant walls does the seeing, and the pace of moves roughly doubled between the first and second half-million.Oct 28
22Eka Robotics Raises $150 Million for a Gripper That Feels Its GripThe Cambridge, Massachusetts startup's 1,500 picks an hour comes from its own tests, and a professor asks whether it survives a year on an assembly line.Oct 28
23Waymo Adds Nearly 250 Square Miles in Five Cities, but Publishes No Per-City Area and No Vehicle CountThe Oct. 27 expansion covers Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego and the Bay Area; the denominator that matters, cars per square mile, is missing.Oct 27
24Anduril's BlueChip Laptop Is 90% US-and-Allied by Cost, Not by Parts, With a China-Made Display and No PriceAnduril and Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X rugged laptop on Oct. 27; orders open in 2027 and the first model has no published weight, screen size or battery life.Oct 27
25GXO Adds Two Digit Sites for 2027 While Agility's $300 Million Order Figure Is Labelled Potential, Not RevenueAgility Robotics' SEC-filed release names Statesville and Lebanon as new GXO sites, but no robot count, no deal valuation and no revenue figure comes with it.Oct 27
26Tesla's Houston Robotaxi Zone Reaches 254 Square Miles With 34 Tracked CarsThe service area grew about tenfold from its April launch size, while a third-party tracker counts 12 more cars than it did three months ago.Oct 27
27Teradyne's Sereact Deal Covers Several Hundred UR Robots Out of 100,000 DeployedThe Oct. 21 partnership names Zalando's two returns sites in Germany and Poland as its one deployment and gives no throughput figure.Oct 27
28Omron Pays $675 Million for OnLogic, 4.4 Times Sales and 30 Times EBITDAThe Japanese automation group is buying a Vermont maker of industrial PCs that reported $154.2 million in net sales for 2025.Oct 27
29Bedrock Robotics Raises $600 Million at $4.1 Billion, Without an Excavator CountThe autonomous-excavator company named seven new customers and two hires but gave no figure for machines working or hours logged.Oct 27
30Tesla Starts Optimus Production in Fremont, Still Without a Capacity NumberTesla's Q3 update says the humanoid robot is on high-volume lines, but the capacity table that lists Megapack and vehicle output in units leaves the Optimus rows blank while Musk talks about 20,000 a week.Oct 27

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