A group of 50 people orchestrated a denial-of-service attack by ordering Waymos onto the same San Francisco dead-end street, forcing the service to suspend rides until the next morning. The incident disabled Waymo rides on a specific dead-end street starting the day of the coordinated order pileup and lasted until the following morning. The event is being used to argue that robotaxi policy should treat cybersecurity as a core requirement, especially as generative AI can speed up attacks.
Strands Robots added a continuous data loop that records robot demonstrations into Hugging Face Storage Buckets, streams the same LeRobot-formatted dataset back for training, and deploys the resulting policy checkpoint back to hardware. The Storage Bucket uses Xet with byte-level deduplication, and changing 10% of a 500 MB upload results in 55 MB transferred instead of re-uploading the full file. This shifts the workflow to avoid repeated full dataset downloads and repeated full byte uploads, since each daily sync only sends the changed shards and the training reads data directly from the Hub.
NEURA Robotics will acquire Bosch Rexroth’s ACTIVE Shuttle driverless transport system to broaden its Physical AI ecosystem. The acquisition takes effect on October 1, 2026, and NEURA Mobile Robots will take over the ACTIVE Shuttle’s hardware and software. NEURA will gradually integrate the shuttle into its Physical AI platform and add AI capabilities and interfaces, shifting it toward a more interconnected system.
Germany’s tech companies raised €6.3 billion across 267 deals in H1 2026, making the country Europe’s second-largest technology funding market. Neura Robotics led with a €1.2 billion Series C in H1 2026. The funding picture skewed toward large Series C and debt rounds—especially in robotics, fintech, and security—while AI and other areas also saw early-stage investment through smaller rounds.
Dyna Robotics released Dyna-2, a world-action model for robot manipulation pre-trained on more than 1 million hours of egocentric human video. It scaled from 1,000 to 1,000,000 hours and found held-out human MSE followed 0.0691·D^-0.0184 with R²=0.919. Deployment is vendor-operated only via purchasing a Dyna robot cell (no public checkpoint, API, or weights) and it is reported to improve on production criteria at customer sites (87% vs 46% for Dyna-1).
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