Sodexo signs a robot delivery deal covering 425 campuses
Avride and Sodexo Campus agreed on October 6 to bring sidewalk delivery robots to Sodexo's 425 US colleges, 4 months after Starship said it was leaving.
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40 cleaning robot makers on one show floor in Las Vegas
ISSA Show North America opens a robotics area with 40+ autonomous floor cleaning companies and 2 live demo zones at Mandalay Bay, November 17 to 19.
FCC clears its first floor cleaning robot, built in California
Matic's home vacuum and mop became the 3rd robot exempted from the FCC Covered List on October 2. It is assembled in the US and still needed the approval.
200 airport cleaning robots, and what they really cover
Flagship runs 200+ floor robots at 25 US airports. Its published totals work out to about 5,000 sq ft per operating hour.
A new study says cleaning robots cost more than janitors
Anthropic's robot study finds robots cheaper than people for 0.3% of US job tasks, and robot cleaners several times pricier than janitors.
US factories installed 38,400 robots in 2025, up 12%
The IFR says the US passed Japan to become the 2nd largest industrial robot market, with food and beverage plants up 30%.
A robot badged through locked doors for weeks without help
dormakaba, ANYbotics and LEGIC gave an inspection robot its own access credential and ran it through controlled doors at a power plant for several weeks.
SoftBank puts $225 million into a Cache Valley robot company
SoftBank invested $225 million in Mendon-based ASI and formed a joint venture to build autonomous construction fleets. ASI also owns the Scythe robot mower.
Knightscope's $27 million, and how much of it is signed
Knightscope reported $27 million in security robot renewals and awards across 109 contracts. About $4 million of it is signed contract value.
What the FCC robot rule means for cleaning robot buyers
The FCC cleared ANSCER's warehouse robots on September 18, only the 2nd exemption since foreign-made mobile robots went on the Covered List.
1 in 3 cleaning contractors plan to add robot floor machines
About 32% of building service contractors have added or plan to add robotic floor equipment within 12 months, roughly double the 2025 share.
Pudu launches 3 commercial robot mowers
The GT Series covers about 2 acres an hour and takes an indoor cleaning robot maker outdoors, onto the grounds contract.
1,500 climbing robots in one fulfillment center
Hai Robotics will install more than 1,500 rack-climbing robots in a 30,000 sq m European site rated at over 24,000 totes an hour.
Agility's new humanoid works without a safety cage
Digit 5 charges in 9 minutes, lifts 50 lb, and is built to stop, step aside or sit down when a person walks up to it.
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