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הרובוטים בקו הזינוק. מימין: טיאנגונג אולטרה

“We want to turn high performance into high reliability”: The engineer behind China’s fastest humanoid robot

12.09.26|Reuters

Jack Guo helped lead TianGong Ultra to a 100-meter time of 8.64 seconds, beating Usain Bolt’s world record by nearly a second. Now he is focused on a less spectacular but more consequential challenge: making humanoid robots reliable and useful outside the racetrack.

Lyte raises $165 million at $1.6 billion valuation as investors pile into physical AI

02.09.26|CTech

The robotics startup, founded by veterans of Apple and Israeli 3D-sensing company PrimeSense, has now raised $272 million since its 2021 founding, as investors increasingly target the sensors and perception systems needed to bring AI into the physical world.

China’s humanoid robots can outrun Usain Bolt. Now comes the hard part

24.08.26|Reuters

Beijing’s robot games are shifting the focus from speed and spectacle to whether machines can reliably handle factory, warehouse and service jobs.

China’s humanoid robot race is moving from demos to deployment

22.08.26|Reuters

More than 300 companies are showcasing robots at a Beijing conference, with manufacturers increasingly testing them in warehouses, factories and homes.

“We are marching towards a ChatGPT moment”: Unitree CEO sees robots nearing AI breakthrough

20.08.26|Reuters, CTech

Wang Xingxing says humanoid robots could eventually perform 80% of household tasks from simple voice or text commands, but cautions that the technology may still be years from that threshold.

Employment immunity: the quiet revolution of robotics and physical AI

12.08.26|Amy Shapiro

As Startup Nation's traditional software categories face a wave of headwinds and layoffs, robotics and physical AI are emerging as one of the defining industries of the next decade, gearing up for an imminent boom of their own.

He joined Check Point at 16. Now Jonathan Jacobi has raised one of Israel’s biggest seed rounds to build the AI brain for robots

27.07.26|Allon Sinai

The 26-year-old Enigma co-founder, who later became the youngest employee in the history of Microsoft and Check Point, has raised $71 million to develop the AI models and software that could turn robots into adaptable, intelligent machines.

Israeli AI robotics startup Enigma emerges from stealth with $71 million Seed round

27.07.26|CTech

Founded by former Unit 8200 researchers, Enigma is developing foundation AI models designed to make robots more intelligent and easier to deploy.

רובוטים של מנטי רובוטיקס חברה שייסד אמנון שעשוע ונמכרה למובילאיי Mentee Robotics

Mobileye’s next CEO inherits a $900 million question: What to do with Mentee?

26.07.26|Meir Orbach

The robotics startup could become a new growth engine built on Mobileye’s AI expertise, or a business that management decides is too far from its core mission.

Shifters raises $10.2 million Seed to build autonomous battlefield robots

03.06.26|Meir Orbach

Company targets high-risk environments with AI-driven ground platforms.

"The new Swiss Army knife": The Israeli unmanned platform out to replace soldiers in the field

05.03.26|Amy Shapiro

Amid Israel's defense tech boom, CTech’s Amy Shapiro talks to Liad Tamir, CEO of Macushla, a robotics startup bringing versatile unmanned vehicles to the front lines.

From taboo to boom: Inside Israel’s new defense tech gold rush

24.02.26|Amy Shapiro, Elihay Vidal

Israeli defense tech sees surge in investment and innovation at 2026 Tel Aviv Expo.

An Israeli-Iranian founding team, $107 million, and a bet on the future of Physical AI

12.01.26|CTech

Former Apple engineers from Israel and Iran reunite at Lyte to tackle one of robotics’ hardest problems.

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“We’re going to be seeing thousands of robots deployed across the world”

04.12.25|Amy Shapiro

Timothy Wright, Chief Capital Markets Officer at Aroundtown, and Sandy Hefftz, Founder and CEO of Bellboy Robotics, speak to CTech at Calcalist, CTech and Bank Leumi’s Mind The Tech conference in Berlin.

After raising more than $40M, Mentee demonstrates practical use case for humanoids

26.11.25|CTech

Two V3 robots complete a multi-step logistics task autonomously, showing progress toward commercial deployment.

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“Robot delivery is the future”: Starship Technologies’ Carmit Proper

24.09.25|Amy Shapiro

At Mind the Tech London 2025, Carmit Proper, Director of Customer Success at Starship Technologies, spoke to CTech about the future of last-mile delivery and how AI is making autonomous robots a viable reality.

WATCH: CTech's most promising robotics startups

22.05.25|CTech

Here's everything you need to know about ForSight Robotics, Mentee, and CaPow

Toyota-backed CaPow secures $15M Series A to power robots in motion

05.03.25|Sophie Shulman

Israeli startup’s wireless charging technology eliminates downtime and boosts fleet efficiency.

Amazon-backed robotics startup BionicHIVE shuts down with $18M debt

22.12.24|Lital Dobrovitsky

The Sderot-based company blames war and lost investor confidence for its financial collapse.

Pickommerce raises $3.4M to upgrade warehouses with robotic piece-picking solution

17.09.24|CTech

The company’s PickoBot utilizes a computer vision system powered by machine learning that enables the safe and intelligent packaging of objects of different sizes, weights and textures.