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MISUMI Ventures is a new $50 million Silicon Valley fund pairing early-stage robotics and physical-AI investment with direct access to a global manufacturing supply chain.

MediaTek’s Dimensity 9600 Pro combines a 2 nm process, dual NPUs, LPDDR6, UFS 5.0 and neural graphics as on-device agentic AI moves deeper into flagship smartphone silicon.

Bitdeer AI has secured another 65.1 MW of future AI-cloud capacity at its Johor Bahru campus in Malaysia, expanding a data-center strategy that grew out of the company’s Bitcoin-mining infrastructure business. The company entered a 10-year data-center services agreement for the A202 facility on September 14. The 65.1 MW figure is critical IT load secured…

QBit Semiconductor is pushing deeper into physical AI with a new system-on-chip roadmap designed to put high-level AI processing and fast motor control inside the same silicon platform. At SEMICON Taiwan 2026, the company introduced its QB88XX series for dexterous robotic hands and industrial automation. QBit says the chip can coordinate up to 32 motors…

Qualcomm is moving deeper into physical AI with an agreement to acquire PickNik Robotics, the longtime steward of MoveIt, one of the most widely used open-source frameworks for robot manipulation and motion planning. In a move centered on the software layer that turns computing into physical motion, Qualcomm says MoveIt is expected to integrate more…

Bitdeer AI has secured another 65.1 megawatts of planned AI Cloud capacity at its Johor Bahru campus in Malaysia, extending the Bitcoin-mining company’s push into liquid-cooled, rack-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company announced September 14 that it entered a 10-year data center services agreement for the A202 facility. A202 is expected to energize in the…

NEURA Robotics and SECO are joining forces to industrialize European physical AI hardware, including compute modules intended to help move NEURA’s 4NE1 humanoid robot toward series production. The partnership, announced September 7, combines Germany-based NEURA’s cognitive robotics architecture with Italian technology company SECO’s embedded engineering and manufacturing capabilities. The companies say they will jointly develop…

Cognex has agreed to acquire RealSense for approximately $500 million in cash, combining industrial machine vision with one of the best-known depth-sensing platforms used in robotics and physical AI. The company announced the agreement September 22. RealSense was founded inside Intel in 2014 and became independent in 2025. The deal is expected to close in…

Nscale has raised $3.36 billion through pre-IPO convertible loan notes, adding another multibillion-dollar financing package to the global race to build AI compute infrastructure. The company says the financing was led by Third Point and includes participation from NVIDIA, Apollo-managed funds, Citadel, Hudson Bay Capital, Abu Dhabi Investment Council and other investors. The transaction arrives…

Agility Robotics has unveiled Digit 5, a redesigned industrial humanoid intended to work closer to people while handling a wider range of manufacturing and warehouse jobs. The fifth-generation Digit can repeatedly lift up to 50 pounds, about 40% more payload than Digit 4, according to Agility. A redesigned battery provides a stated 90-minute runtime and…

SiPearl has delivered the first samples of its Rhea1 processor to Bull, moving the European-designed server CPU from laboratory validation into integration for the JUPITER exascale supercomputer. Bull says it has begun integrating Rhea1 into the BullSequana XH3000 platform used for JUPITER’s CPU-based Cluster Module at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany. The CPU module…

Canaan says an approximately 8 MW Bitcoin mining heat-recovery installation in the Nordic region is now fully online and delivering heat to roughly 2,800 homes. The system uses Canaan Avalon A1566HA hydro-cooled ASIC miners. Canaan says the machines produce hot water at approximately 80°C that can feed directly into an existing district heating network. The…