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- 🗓️ 2026-10-22 · ✍️ RoboterminalEka's Robot Picks 1,500 Things an Hour. Its Gripper Is Rated for About 139 Days of That.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-21 · ✍️ RoboterminalSchaeffler Will Buy Thousands of Humanoids From Its Actuator Customers. Its €400 Million Order Book Doesn't Count Those Deals.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-19 · ✍️ RoboterminalFifteen Humanoids Are Loading Car Parts at 98%. The Number That Decides Their Future Is 15 Seconds.
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Oct 8, 2026 · Funding · posted
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Some jobs shouldn't have a human in them at all! ⚠️ I visited @mnv_humanoids in Stuttgart, who are building humanoids for hazardous industrial and public safety work. Yesterday they came out of stealth with a ~$10M pre-seed round led by… |
Let humanoids do the dangerous work. Every year, around 330,000 workers die from occupational accidents worldwide. Minerva Humanoids wants humanoids to take on some of the jobs where the consequences can be even worse: oil & gas,… |
Congrats Sandor! And hi @lukas_m_ziegler https://t.co/Sy7IY8LMsP https://t.co/MykpUwkwMa |
🚨 BREAKING: Minerva Humanoids (@mnv_humanoids) has just emerged from stealth with $10M in pre-seed funding led by @generalcatalyst. It's building humanoid robots for the world's most dangerous jobs. Oil and gas. Explosive ordnance… |
We spoke with @SandorFelber about Minerva’s $10M launch and Roger, its humanoid for dangerous jobs. The approach: human specialists control critical actions remotely, while onboard AI handles balance and navigation. Our interview covers… |
i've deployed quadrupeds, drones and mobile bots across energy and oil & gas industry it's one of the toughest markets out there @mnv_humanoids is building humanoids for the world's most demanding environments today I'm on the other side… |
The frontier AI market just got a harder-to-ignore data point from Europe. Mistral raised a 3B euro Series D announced yesterday. Samsung led, joined by EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity. Advent, BlackRock, and the Grand Duchy of… |
12 PhDs and a Fields Medal winner built this in 4 months, backed by General Catalyst. https://t.co/pyhyV4u6I4 has a protocol that passes hidden states directly from a 753B frontier model to a 4B edge model at inference time. No text… |
Fifteen years after "software is eating the world," Marc Andreessen's own firm just admitted atoms are eating software's margins. SUMMARY This is not an a16z story. a16z's $1.1B Machine Age Fund is simply the loudest confirmation yet of a… |