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Sensofusion (SENSO) began Nasdaq Helsinki main-market trading on 13 Oct 2026 after raising ~EUR 259M (~$300M) at EUR 16.41. Company/unaudited: EUR 49.4M (~$57M) revenue, EUR 30.1M (~$35M) operating profit, 111 employees.
Funding
VCs, YC, SoftBank, Lockheed, endowments and pensions are still funding robots, drones and physical AI in 2026. The money is concentrating in fewer winners across the US, Europe and China.
Defense
Anduril Short: $61B valuation, Fury CCA, Roadrunner-M, Ghost Shark — how a 9-year-old startup took fighter-jet work from the primes.
Humanoids
Europe's first pure-play humanoid unicorn: $1.35B valuation, $152M Series A, Siemens Erlangen pilot, Schaeffler 1,000+ robot deal. Short + sourced profile.
China
Shenzhen Intermediate Court accepted Yinghe's bankruptcy case （2026）粤03破454号 in late Aug 2026; first creditors' meeting is Oct 19. The firm raised >RMB 600M (~$85M est.) and once hit a reported ~$500M valuation — then posted RMB 4.33M revenue and ~RMB 67M net loss for 2025 (reported).
India
On 6 Oct 2026, India's largest drone maker launched ZOLT UCAV and ZOLT Hybrid. Manufacturer specs: UCAV 2–3 h endurance and 30–50 km LOS; Hybrid >6 h and up to 100 km. The Indian Army already ordered the Zolt line for ₹75 crore (~$7.8M) in Nov 2025.
civil
Sequoia leads, but the signal is the cap table: Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung and Microsoft are buying into the data robots train on.
civil
Ultra and Extend are moving robots onto their own books. Antobot is moving them off. The releases leave out the numbers a lender would ask for.
civil
Figure 02 helped build 30,000 BMWs and led Figure's line for 14 months. Then it jumped into a Finnish furnace on camera.
agriculture
The AX-1 gets Kubota's dealers and parts warehouse. Kubota gets the farmer relationship.
Defense
The Pentagon wants 1,320 more F10 strike drones by November. The contract value is undisclosed and Kyiv still has to sign the export permit.
civil
16 humanoids whose makers say how they measure payload, plus Figure 03, ranked from 60 kg to 6 kg. Peak, per arm and two-arm figures are not the same thing.