# Roboterminal — What's new

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The $100M Round This Week Bought Arms on Wheels, Not Legs.

Week of 7 September 2026. One lead, four in the news, two on watch.

Tags are beats. Marks are Lead, News, Watch — not a score.

## Lead

### The $100M Round This Week Bought Arms on Wheels, Not Legs.

Maven's $100 million Series A is a wheeled dual-arm palletizer, not a walking humanoid. The week's largest named cheque is a dock job.

Largest named cheque. The body on it rolls.

Tags: funding, humanoids, deployments, actuators

- Capital ledger: https://roboterminal.app/capital · https://roboterminal.app/capital.md
- Full note: https://roboterminal.app/posts/capital-week-sep-7 · https://roboterminal.app/posts/capital-week-sep-7.md

## News

### The G1 Joint Is Five Parts. None of Them Is a Harmonic.

The exploded G1 joint is a two-stage planetary actuator, not a strain-wave. That absence is the Unitree cost architecture.

Shown joint. The missing part is the one most humanoid decks still budget for.

Tags: actuators, reducers, humanoids, actuation

- Full note: https://roboterminal.app/posts/g1-joint-five-parts · https://roboterminal.app/posts/g1-joint-five-parts.md
- Hardware cell: https://roboterminal.app/hardware/unitree-go-m8010 · https://roboterminal.app/hardware/unitree-go-m8010.md

### Halos Is Not a Feature. It Is the Safety Landlord.

NVIDIA's Halos for Robotics puts IGX Thor, Halos OS, and an inspection lab under one roof. Agility's Digit is first in. The stack is the product.

Digit is first in. The stack is the product, not a feature drop.

Tags: physical-ai, humanoids, digit, deployments

- Full note: https://roboterminal.app/posts/nvidia-halos-digit-safety · https://roboterminal.app/posts/nvidia-halos-digit-safety.md

### TRON 2 Has a Spec Sheet. It Does Not Yet Have a Job.

LimX Dynamics sells a three-body research robot out of Nanshan. The numbers are lab numbers. The clips are real. The work still has a human in the loop.

Spec without a job is the default Shenzhen story. The gap is the record.

Tags: humanoids, physical-ai

- Full note: https://roboterminal.app/posts/limx-tron2-what-it-has-done · https://roboterminal.app/posts/limx-tron2-what-it-has-done.md

### XPENG Put Car-Plant QC on a Humanoid Line

Automotive-grade consistency on a humanoid body. A line is not a fleet, and it is not a job.

A walked-off body proves the process. It does not prove the shift.

Tags: humanoids, factory, deployments

- Full note: https://roboterminal.app/posts/xpeng-iron-production-line · https://roboterminal.app/posts/xpeng-iron-production-line.md

## Watch

### No Canadian name at this cheque size.

Eigen Innovations sits at 444 Aberdeen Street, Fredericton — plant vision, not a row on this week's card. PitchBook last lists Series A3 on 5 September 2025.

Absence is the story if you are looking at Canada, or at Fredericton.

Tags: funding, plant, sensing

- Full note: https://roboterminal.app/posts/capital-week-sep-7 · https://roboterminal.app/posts/capital-week-sep-7.md

### ADI is buying Alif for $1.35 billion cash.

Up to $200 million contingent. Physical intelligence at the edge. Larger than the robotics book. Not a robotics round.

Silicon landlord for whatever this week's bodies use to sense and act locally.

Tags: compute, physical-ai, merger

- Capital ledger: https://roboterminal.app/capital · https://roboterminal.app/capital.md

## The ask

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