August Robotics, which makes autonomous robots for construction and industrial applications, raised $30M led by Big Pi Ventures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/21/august-robotics-lands-30m-automate-precision-con…
Shenzhen-listed Apple supplier Lingyi iTech seeks to raise $1.1B in a June 26 Hong Kong debut, as the electronic parts maker expands into AI hardware and robots (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3357705/
Sources: China resumes issuing robotaxi permits after an industry-wide full safety review prompted by an April outage involving 100 Baidu robotaxis in Wuhan (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-23/chi…
Ubisoft und EVA starten Free-Roam-VR-Erlebnis mit den „Rabbids“ in Deutschland
Die nächste bekannte Marke wird zum VR-Arena-Spiel: Ubisoft und EVA starten mit „Rabbids: Color Chaos“ ein neues Virtual-Reality-Erlebnis.
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Zero2IPO Research: Chinese AI startups raised $16.2B in Q1 2026, up 185% YoY, led by top AI labs including Moonshot, Z.ai, and MiniMax (Karen Tian/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti
Waymo suspends operations in Atlanta and San Antonio as its robotaxis struggle with flooded roads and says it has yet to develop a "final remedy" for flooding (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/waym
Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, partners with AMD to develop autonomous humanoid robots using the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series chips (Aishwarya Jain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eric-trum