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31GXO Adds Two Sites for Agility's Digit, Citing 100,000 Totes and No Robot CountThe logistics company's Oct. 26 release names Statesville, North Carolina and Lebanon, Tennessee for 2027 starts, but gives no number of robots or the period over which the totes were moved.Oct 26
32Google Cut Magic-State Error 40-Fold on Willow; Nvidia Needed 8,192 GPUs to Simulate ItGoogle's hardware result and Nvidia's simulation of the same protocol attack the same cost, the share of a quantum computer spent making one gate, but only one of them ran on a quantum chip.Oct 26
33The FCC's Robot Import Rule Turns on a 65% U.S.-Content Test That Few Mobile Robots MeetChinese vendors went from 1% to 36% of mobile robots deployed in the U.S. in seven years. A July 28 Covered List update decides which new models can still be sold.Oct 26
34AGCO Will Pilot Agility's Digit in Kansas in 2027, and Neither Company Says How Many RobotsThe Hesston pilot starts with totes and parts bins. The numbers that exist sit in Agility's SPAC paperwork, ahead of a November 2 shareholder vote.Oct 26
35Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion at $6.2 Billion, a 2.4x Step Up With No Revenue DisclosedThe RISC-V chip company turned down takeover talks with Intel and Qualcomm; the round values it at more than double its 2024 mark, and the figures that would justify that are not public.Oct 25
36Pollen Robotics Sells Microduck for $399 With Open Software and Closed Hardware FilesThe 25 cm biped runs about an hour on a camera battery and lifts roughly 100 grams; the Apache-2.0 repo is public, the mechanical and electronic designs are not.Oct 25
37NHTSA and China Both Propose Optional Colour Lamps for Self-Driving CarsWashington's draft says cyan and Beijing's says turquoise, so a robotaxi built for both markets would need two lamp specifications unless the shades are reconciled.Oct 25
38GM Leads Peak Energy's $108 Million Round for Sodium-Ion Grid StorageThe carmaker is developing lithium-free cells, but for stationary batteries only, with commercial cells targeted for 2028 and no energy density figure published.Oct 25
39Generative Bionics Plans a 5,000-Square-Metre Humanoid Data Factory in ItalyThe Genoa startup says the first site opens by Q4 2027 on AMD Helios hardware, but gives no city, cost, robot count or contract terms.Oct 25
40Tesla Says Optimus Is in Production at Fremont. It Gave No Rate, Price or VersionThe Q3 update confirms a start, not a volume. Against a goal Musk set of one million robots a year, the numbers that exist are quarterly cash figures.Oct 24
41A Linux Module Lifts the BF16 Cap on GeForce RTX 3000 Cards. Power Limits Decide the GainThe repo claims 87.5 to 157.4 TFLOPS on an RTX 3090 Ti at 450 W. Users capped near 200 W report single digits.Oct 24
42DARPA Backs SpaceNukes Kilopower Test With Active Control RodsThe Fat Cat agreement replaces the passive control used in the 2018 KRUSTY test, and the company disclosed neither a dollar value nor a power level.Oct 24
43FCC Robot Ban Hits a Category Where Chinese Vendors Hold 36%The July 28 Covered List entry blocks new foreign-produced mobile robot models, and the agency has not said how it will decide what is foreign-produced.Oct 24
44Dream Labs Sells Robot Control at $3 an Hour After $90M SeedThe Dream-1 API prices the software for a $2,000 to $10,000 arm, and neither report on the launch includes a benchmark.Oct 24
45Tesla Says Optimus Is on the Fremont Line, With $4.73 Billion of Capex and No Unit CountThe Q3 update calls the robots coming off the line production-quality. It leaves out a rate, a price and a capacity figure, and the quarter's profit fell 43%.Oct 23
46Rivian Buys 15-Person Third Dimension to Turn 400,000 Daily Customer Clips Into SimulationsThe price is undisclosed and the autonomy milestones attached to Uber's $1.25 billion commitment have not moved; simulation is a way to test edge cases faster, not evidence the system drives.Oct 23
47GM's Lithium-Free Bet Is a Grid Battery: Peak Energy Raises $108 Million for a 4 GWh Sodium-Ion PlantThe sodium-ion cells GM is developing with Peak Energy are for stationary storage, not cars, and Peak's plant makes 4 GWh a year against 6 GWh of commitments.Oct 23
48Perseverance Passed Opportunity's Mars Distance Record by 60 Meters, Mostly Under Its Own ControlNASA says the rover drove more than 90% of its 45.22 km with AutoNav, against about 5% for Opportunity, after a mission plan that called for 12.4 miles.Oct 23
49Helion's $175 Million CHIPS Deal Is a Letter of Intent That Gives Commerce an Equity StakeTechCrunch reported the money as received; Helion's own release says the award is not final and is paid for with a non-voting $175 million stake.Oct 23
50Chery's 1.44 MW Charger Claims 500 km in 5 Minutes, With No Car or Test Condition NamedVolt-dragon charges 10% to 97% in 6 minutes 50 seconds by Chery's account, 23 seconds behind CATL's Shenxing, and 100 chargers are due in 10 Chinese cities.Oct 23
51Boston Dynamics Dropped the Pinky From Atlas's New 13-Joint HandThe redesign nearly doubles the joint count from 7 to 13, but the company has published no payload, force, price or production date for the hand.Oct 23
52Tesla's Optimus Line Has Started in Fremont; the 20,000-a-Week Target Is 14 Months Out and Has No Unit Count Behind ItThird-quarter capex was $4.73 billion and net income $787 million, while the first production-quality robots are described as early output from a ramp Elon Musk calls 'somewhat bumpy'.Oct 22
53Tesla Says It Will Build Its Own Maps for FSD, Seven Years After Musk Called High-Precision Maps 'a Huge Mistake'Ashok Elluswamy told the Q3 call that Tesla should not depend on 'external people's maps'; unsupervised FSD for customers has slipped to Q2 2027 and is limited to the robotaxi fleet.Oct 22
54AGCO's Digit Pilot Starts in 2027, and Agility Has Nine Customer Sites Against a $2.5 Billion SPAC ValuationThe Churchill XI filing counts 65,000 operating hours and $300 million in conditional orders, but no robot count, no revenue and no price per unit.Oct 22
55Rio Tinto and Rondo Start Design of a 360 MWh Heat Battery at Yarwun RefineryA 30 MW discharge rating and a 4 to 6 hour solar window imply charging power well above 30 MW. The study is funded; construction is not.Oct 22
56Porsche Wireless Charging: 90 Percent Efficiency Is the Number to WatchAn 11 kW floor pad for the Cayenne Electric is orderable in Europe, and the five-point efficiency gap to a cable adds up to roughly 4 kWh per fast home top-up.Oct 22
57Tesla Dates Unsupervised FSD for Owners at Q2 2027, Inside Robotaxi Zones OnlyAshok Elluswamy gave the date on the Q3 call, and Electrek reports the first version is a way to add owned cars to Tesla's managed Robotaxi fleet.Oct 21
58Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion at $6.2 Billion, 24 Percent Above Reported Takeover InterestNeither TechCrunch nor BetaKit reports a Galaxy server spec, price, customer or revenue figure for the chip maker's Series E.Oct 21
59Boston Dynamics' New Atlas Hand Has 13 Actuators and a 100,000-a-Year Target, but No Cost FigureThe company's Oct. 1 announcement dropped the pinky and published a 100-pound carry claim, while leaving out the cost, durability and unit numbers that decide whether a hand can be mass-produced.Oct 21
60AGCO Signs Agility Robotics for a 2027 Digit Pilot in Hesston, Kansas, With No Robot CountThe Oct. 20 release names the tasks and the plant but gives no number of robots, no price and no commercial terms.Oct 21