Pudu Robotics has launched the PUDU ET1, a compact autonomous scrubber-dryer designed for commercial spaces ranging from 100 to 800 square metres, including convenience stores, pharmacies, restaurants, hotels and offices. The ET1 is the first product in the company’s new PUDU E Series and is designed to operate in smaller commercial environments where space can limit the use of larger cleaning robots. The machine combines scrubbing, sweeping, vacuuming and dust-mopping functions.

Robots and cobots capable of perceiving, learning and reasoning are now a standard feature of factories and distribution centres across the Netherlands. The question is no longer whether the technology works, but how to deploy it at industrial scale. To speed up that transition, the Netherlands is developing a National Agenda for Cognitive Robotics (NACR): a shared framework bringing together government, industry, SMEs and knowledge institutions.

Knightscope is betting that the autonomous security market will be built around more than patrol robots. The company is increasingly combining autonomous machines with sensors, software, remote monitoring and human security personnel. That strategy helped Knightscope generate record revenue of $9.0 million in the second quarter of 2026, although the figures also show that autonomous security robots currently account for a relatively small part of its business.

Realbotix generated $132,000 in revenue from its humanoid robotics business in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, up from no robotics revenue in the same quarter last year. The figure provides an early indication that the company’s shift from demonstrations toward commercial deployments is beginning to generate sales, although the robotics operation remains small compared with its cost base.

North American companies ordered 8,940 robots valued at $622 million in the second quarter of 2026, with unit orders rising 4.3% and order value increasing 21.3% from the same period a year earlier, according to data from the Association for Advancing Automation. First-half orders totaled 17,995 units valued at $1.166 billion. That represented a 2% increase in units and a 6.6% rise in order value compared with the first half of 2025.

Robot.com has introduced R-dog, a four-legged robotic platform designed to handle last-mile deliveries across terrain that can be difficult for wheeled robots while also serving as a mobile advertising platform. The R-dog is currently a concept, with commercial deployments planned for 2027. It is designed to operate on REMI, Robot.com’s fleet management platform and physical API layer, which manages and coordinates robots across the company’s fleet.

At AMB 2026 in Stuttgart, SCHUNK will demonstrate an automated production setup in which an autonomous mobile robot equipped with a robotic arm handles parts between a setup station and a machine tool. The demonstration shows how robotics can be integrated with workpiece clamping to automate machine loading and unloading with less manual intervention.

Dyna Robotics has introduced DYNA-2, a robotics foundation model trained on more than 1 million hours of egocentric human video, as the company seeks to reduce the amount of robot-specific training data required to automate physical tasks. The Redwood City, California-based company said DYNA-2 uses a World-Action Model architecture that combines next-frame and next-action prediction. Unlike approaches that rely heavily on robot teleoperation data, the model is pre-trained on human video before being adapted to individual robotic systems.

The rapid development of humanoid robots and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs, is creating new requirements for a less visible but essential part of electrification: coil winding. At CWIEME Shanghai 2026, suppliers of motors, magnetic materials and manufacturing equipment increasingly focused on these emerging applications alongside the established electric vehicle market.

Realbotix, a Las Vegas-based humanoid robotics and embodied AI company, has announced that one of its robots will make an appearance as a robotic character in an upcoming episode of a popular, Emmy-winning television series. The company has entered into an agreement with an unnamed but “recognized” streaming platform to secure the placement, though further details, including the name of the show and an air date, have not yet been disclosed.