Servoservobrief.com, Thursday, November 5, 2026
Quiet day: a Meta-Fourier humanoid surfaces from an FCC trail, plus two small Asia robotics raises and a tactile-sensing angel round.
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Meta's Max humanoid, built with China's Fourier, surfaces in an FCC trail
Meta confirmed Max, a 48 kg humanoid built in roughly three months with Chinese maker Fourier to give its Muse AI software a physical body. It is a research platform, not for sale, with no autonomy benchmarks or task demos disclosed. This marks Meta moving from AI models into hardware, leaning on a Chinese partner for the body.
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India's Peppermint Robotics raises about $10.5M for warehouse robots
Peppermint Robotics, based in Pune and Austin, raised Rs 100 crore (about $10.5M) in a pre-Series B led by pi Ventures and Crane Venture Partners. The round funds its cleaning and material-handling mobile robots. No deployment or revenue figures were disclosed.
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Ex-Tencent researcher's tactile-sensing startup raises an angel round
Inspiration Robotics (AGIMind), founded by ex-Tencent AI researcher Zhang Yazhan, raised tens of millions of yuan in an angel round from Leaguer Capital and others. It builds vision-based tactile sensors that let robots feel force and slippage for finer manipulation. Better touch sensing is a known bottleneck for dexterous hands.
Read more on Funding wire