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Hardware, stories 211 to 240

211AERIS-10 Radar's Cost Claim Depends on Whose Bill of MaterialsTwo outlets price the open-source 10.5 GHz phased-array radar's long-range version at $7,200 and $13,000 to $15,000, and neither reports an independent range test.Sep 28
212Volvo's Autonomous Trucks Cross 3 Million Tonnes HauledNine driverless trucks running a 5-kilometer tunnel route in Norway account for a third of the total, with a Swedish mine now adding to it.Sep 28
213Geely Buys 30% of NIO's Battery-Swap Business for $2.4 BillionThe deal pays for NIO Power mostly in a contributed business rather than cash, and sets a floor that can cut Geely's stake by a third if the network's growth disappoints.Sep 28
214Meta's VR Glasses Ship in Spring 2027 at $1,300, 100 GramsThe headset offloads its battery and Snapdragon Reality Elite chip to a tethered puck, and ships without controllers included by default.Sep 28
215Feather Robotics Prices Its Modular Humanoid at $29,990The $7.6 million pre-seed round values the startup at a $60 million cap, and Feather says its first customer order shipped in 9 months, versus 31 for Figure.Sep 28
216Mazda's CX-6e Adds LiDAR for as Little as $21,700The China-only SUV pairs a roof-mounted LiDAR with 11 cameras and 12 ultrasonic sensors, and Changan Mazda won't say who built the LiDAR.Sep 27
217China's Robot Installs Grew 20% While Japan's Fell 19%The IFR counted 5 million industrial robots working worldwide in 2025, but almost six in ten of that year's new installations happened in one country.Sep 27
218Agility Robotics' SPAC Values Digit at 1,400 Times RevenueThe $2.5 billion merger with Churchill Capital rests on $300 million of contracted orders set against $1.8 million in actual 2025 sales.Sep 27
219Kempower Chargers Go Live at One Vancouver Port, Not the OtherGCT's 21 chargers are already moving container trucks at 2.05 megawatts, while a larger, five-terminal deal Kempower signed with DP World is still just a framework agreement.Sep 27
220JUNA's Electric Trucks Cross 100, Still Cost Double DieselThe Scania-sennder venture has logged 3.9 million emissions-free kilometers in two years, while an electric truck still costs two to three times what a diesel one does.Sep 27
221Epson's First Cobot Ships Without a Price TagThe AX6 lifts 6 kilograms across a 900-millimeter reach and clears ISO Class 5 cleanrooms, the same standard Epson's electronics customers already work under.Sep 27
222CNH's Farm Margin Drops 290 Points, Autonomy Fix WaitsCNH's Agriculture segment adjusted margin fell from 8.1% to 5.2% in a year, and the R4 robot it says can cut labor costs still has no commercial production date.Sep 27
223Waymo's Robotaxi Growth Is Capped by the Grid, Not SoftwareWaymo's fleet grew from three U.S. cities to 15 in two years, but an infrastructure specialist says building a new substation connection can take 8.9 years.Sep 26
224China's Robot Makers Slip to 55% Market Share at HomeForeign robot makers grew installations inside China 27 percent in 2025, faster than domestic suppliers, even as the world's operating stock of industrial robots passed 5 million, the International Federation of Robotics reported.Sep 26
225Agility's Digit 5 Builds on a Passed OSHA Safety TestThe humanoid robot ships in early 2027 with a 50-pound payload and a 10-to-1 run-to-charge ratio, after an earlier Digit logged 65,000 working hours at a GXO warehouse.Sep 26
226Tesla Patent Shows Roadster Wing With 700 kg of DownforceThe filing describes a wing that hides flush in the bodywork and deploys in under three seconds, a week before Tesla's Oct. 1 event.Sep 26
227Moog Finishes a Clean Room Built to Cut Thruster Lead TimesThe Niagara Falls expansion adds more than 80 percent more certified space a year after Moog broke ground, timed to defense and satellite propulsion demand.Sep 26
228Industrial Robot Fleet Hits 5 Million as China Installs 354,000The mature robot markets that automated first are now shrinking, and the growth curve has narrowed to one country.Sep 26
229Agility Robotics Explores Wheels for Digit, Its $140 Million LossThe company's co-founder is talking up wheeled designs the same month a securities filing showed $1.8 million in revenue against nine figures of losses.Sep 26
230EU Delays Tesla FSD Vote to December Over Belgian Speed DataTesla's own safety filing has every dated measurement ending in 2025, the same month a Brussels test found the software speeding in most of the slow zones it drove through.Sep 25
231PitPro's Tire-Changing Robot Starts Work at a Calgary Kal TireTwo gantry robots swap a set of wheels in under 15 minutes, a company-reported figure Fleet Maintenance calculates is about 90% faster than a manual bay.Sep 25
232BYD Sets Oct. 13 Launch for Great Han With 1,008 Km RangeThe $37,200 flagship pairs a 102-kilowatt-hour Blade Battery with charging BYD says takes it from 10% to 70% in five minutes.Sep 25
233Amazon to Build $100 Million Robotics Plant in GreenwoodThe 585,000-square-foot factory is Amazon's second robotics manufacturing announcement in two months, feeding a network that already runs more than a million of its robots.Sep 25
234Snapdragon X2 Gets Official Linux, Kernel Devs OnlyQualcomm's Early Developer Preview boots and drives a screen, but battery life and Wi-Fi are unresolved and Ubuntu certification is not due until the first half of 2027.Sep 25
235Mercedes Gets First Look at ProLogium's Gen4 CellsThe 400 Wh/kg figure is ProLogium's own spec sheet, not an independent test, and the gigafactory meant to build the cells at scale isn't due for its first phase until 2030.Sep 25
236Digit 5's Real Number Isn't $300 Million, It's $1.8 MillionAgility Robotics' new humanoid is built to work near people without cages, but the order book dwarfs the revenue the company actually booked from Digit in 2025.Sep 25
237Google's First Orbital TPU Launches a Year Behind Nvidia's H100Google's Sept. 24 update says a prototype ships to orbit next week to test whether Trillium chips survive the ride; Nvidia's H100 was already answering prompts in space by December 2025.Sep 24
238IFR Counts 5 Million Factory Robots, 59% of New Ones in ChinaThe World Robotics 2026 Report puts the operational stock at a record 5 million units, but the more telling number is how much of the growth is now domestic Chinese supply rather than imports.Sep 24
239Espressif's ESP32-S31 Boots Linux for $4.51 a ChipA developer-preview BSP runs kernel 6.18 on RISC-V cores Espressif never built for a full OS, at under a third of the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W's price and a fraction of its memory.Sep 24
240NHTSA Investigates comma.ai's openpilot After Three DeathsThe agency opened Preliminary Evaluation PE26007 on Sept. 21 covering roughly 30,000 devices, and comma's open-source model means a recall might not reach the software that failed.Sep 24