Robotics in April 2025

April 2025

• 24 April 2025MilestoneSelf-driving

  ID. Buzz AD (MOIA) MOIA (Volkswagen) · Pilot

  Volkswagen and Uber agreed to put thousands of self-driving ID. Buzz vans on Uber in US cities over about ten years, starting in Los Angeles.

  Uber press release, 24 Apr 2025Company-reported

• 23 April 2025SafetyMedical

  MIRA Virtual Incision · Cleared or mass market

  Virtual Incision recalled software on 3 MIRA systems because a delay between the surgeon's hand controls and the robot arms could make motion on the screen stutter. The FDA rated it Class 2; the recall is completed.

  FDA recall record, posted 4 June 2025

• 22 April 2025MilestoneFarm

  Element Aigen · Paying customers

  Aigen launched a second-generation Element and said its robots would weed cotton at Bowles Farming Company in California's Central Valley in 2025.

  Aigen press release (GlobeNewswire), 22 Apr 2025Company-reported

• 22 April 2025MilestoneFarm

  Element Aigen · Paying customers

  Aigen opened orders for the Element gen2 for delivery to US farms in 2026.

  Aigen press release (GlobeNewswire), 22 Apr 2025Company-reported

• 10 April 2025MilestoneService

  Chef robots Chef Robotics · Paying customers

  Chef raised a $20.6 million Series A led by Avataar, bringing its total raised to $38.8 million. It said dozens of its robots in the US had made 45 million meals.

  TechCrunch, 10 Apr 2025Company-reported

• 10 April 2025MilestoneService

  Chef robots Chef Robotics · Paying customers

  Chef's customers include food makers Amy's Kitchen and Chef Bombay.

  TechCrunch, 10 Apr 2025

• 10 April 2025MilestoneDrones

  Coco delivery robot Coco Robotics · Paying customers

  DoorDash began offering Coco robot deliveries to customers in Los Angeles and Chicago.

  DoorDash newsroom, 10 Apr 2025

• 10 April 2025MilestoneDrones

  Coco delivery robot Coco Robotics · Paying customers

  DoorDash said Coco had a fleet of more than 1,000 delivery robots.

  DoorDash newsroom, 10 Apr 2025

• 10 April 2025MilestoneSelf-driving

  Wayve AI Driver Wayve · Paying customers

  Wayve said Nissan plans to use its AI Driver software in the next version of Nissan's ProPilot driver-assist system.

  Mobile World Live, 10 Apr 2025Company-reported

• 9 April 2025MilestoneHome

  Ballie Samsung · Demo only

  Samsung said Ballie would use Google's Gemini AI and would go on sale in the US and Korea in summer 2025.

  Samsung press release, 9 Apr 2025Company-reported

• 8 April 2025MilestoneDrones

  Drones as first responders Skydio, Flock Safety, Brinc, Axon · Cleared or mass market

  Drone maker Brinc raised $75 million and Motorola Solutions agreed to sell its drones. Brinc said more than 600 public safety agencies used its products.

  GeekWire, 8 Apr 2025Company-reported

• 8 April 2025MilestoneDrones

  Zipline Zipline · Cleared or mass market

  Zipline and Walmart started drone deliveries from the Walmart Supercenter in Mesquite, Texas, Zipline's first Walmart flights in Texas.

  DroneXL Mesquite town guide

• 4 April 2025MilestoneMedical

  Versius CMR Surgical · Cleared or mass market

  CMR Surgical raised more than $200 million from existing investors and new investor Trinity Capital.

  CMR Surgical press release, 4 Apr 2025Company-reported

• 4 April 2025MilestoneFarm

  Vulcan FarmWise (owned by Taylor Farms since 2025) · Paying customers

  Taylor Farms bought FarmWise and said it would move the business over so Vulcan customers kept getting service.

  AgFunderNews, 4 Apr 2025Company-reported

• 2 April 2025MilestoneFarm

  Strawberry and apple harvesting robots Advanced Farm Technologies (assets bought by CNH in 2025) · Paying customers

  CNH agreed to buy Advanced Farm's assets and intellectual property; most of the technical team was to join CNH.

  The Robot Report, 2 Apr 2025Company-reported

• 1 April 2025MilestoneFarm

  Milking robots Lely, DeLaval · Cleared or mass market

  Lely now makes only dairy farm robots, and about 135,000 of its robots are in use around the world.

  IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr 2025Company-reported

• April 2025MilestoneHumanoids

  Booster T1 Booster Robotics · Paying customers

  A Tsinghua University team using Booster robots won the robot football final 9-0 at the RoboCup German Open.

  36Kr Japan, 14 June 2025

• April 2025MilestoneHumanoids

  Clone Alpha Clone Robotics · Pre-orders

  Clone released a new video of Protoclone, its first artificial-muscle android, which it says has about 1,000 artificial muscle fibres and 500 sensors.

  Interesting Engineering, 14 Apr 2025Company-reported

• April 2025RegulatorDrones

  Drones as first responders Skydio, Flock Safety, Brinc, Axon · Cleared or mass market

  The FAA sped up its approvals in April 2025, and by February 2026 had issued more of these waivers than in the previous seven years combined.

  EFF, July 2026

• April 2025MilestoneMedical

  Ottava Johnson & Johnson · Cleared or mass market

  Surgeons did the first operations with Ottava, gastric bypass surgeries, as part of the US clinical trial.

  MedTech Dive, 15 Apr 2025Company-reported

• April 2025MilestoneHumanoids

  K2 Bumblebee Kepler Exploration Robotics · Pilot

  K2 was first shown working at the SAIC-GM car plant in Shanghai.

  Interesting Engineering, 4 June 2025Company-reported

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