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Sunday Robotics Hits $1.15B Valuation on $165M Series B

eCommerceMarch 29, 2026

The Stanford-founded startup raised $165M at a $1.15B valuation to ship its Memo autonomous home robot by Thanksgiving 2026, joining a heated race to bring humanoids into homes.

The $38B Race to Build Robots That Think: Inside VLA Models

eCommerceFebruary 17, 2026

As Galbot hits $3B valuation with vision-language-action robotics, Goldman Sachs forecasts humanoid market will reach $38B by 2035. The embodied AI boom is here.

How Vision-Language AI Is Bringing Manipulative Robots to Retail Floors

eCommerceFebruary 16, 2026

Galbot's VLA models enable robots to pick and navigate in crowded stores. With 10B+ training data points and live pharmacy deployments, the tech signals a shift from scanning to manipulation.

How Molecular Mixing Could Make Beer Dealcoholization Obsolete

eCommerceFebruary 5, 2026

Bar.on's flavor-compound technology builds beer from molecules up, sidestepping fermentation and dealcoholization entirely—with major implications for the booming NA beer market.