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Tuesday, 20 October 2026

Sectors: the stories TrustList published on this day, each in a line of our own. Open a story for the whole piece and its sources.

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1Modern Cars
BMW shows 460 kW charging for the iX5, but the US chargers are not on sale
The first electric X5 adds up to 217 miles (WLTP) in ten minutes on an Alpitronic demonstrator at an IONNA site; Alpitronic says the 460 kW hardware is not commercially available in the US today.
2Autonomous Vehicles & Mobility
Nissan runs Kobe self-driving ride pilot from 8 December, aims to charge in 2027
Level 2 Serena vans with a safety driver will serve Kobe's Nada Gogo sake district on weekdays to 18 December, booked by smartphone and watched from Nissan's Yokohama remote operations centre.
3Robotics & Automation
AGCO to pilot Agility's Digit humanoid at its Kansas plant in 2027
The tractor maker's commercial agreement puts Digit on parts sorting and tote handling at Hesston; Agility, whose SPAC listing goes to a shareholder vote on 2 November, says it has nine committed customer sites.
4Robotics & Automation
Germany signs a physical AI pact with NVIDIA; Agile Robots gets backing
Chancellor Merz and two federal ministries agreed a joint initiative on AI models for physical AI; NVIDIA also announced planned investments in Munich robot maker Agile Robots and three other German startups.
5Autonomous Vehicles & Mobility
Waymo starts driving in the Madrid region, aiming for riders in 2027
Waymo's electric Jaguars start with manual driving and then validation with trained specialists at the wheel; a paid driverless service will still need a Spanish passenger-transport authorisation.
6Robotics & Automation
SPRIND's robotics challenge closes 22 October with up to €7.2m a team
Germany's innovation agency also has an AI chip design challenge with the Dutch NADI, worth up to €9.6 million a team and open to 30 November, plus quantum sensing and biomanufacturing calls.
7Robotics & Automation
NEURA Robotics launches Neuron AI, a robot model that hears and feels
The Metzingen company's model combines 3D vision, touch, force, audio and language with memory, runs on five of its robots, and is fine-tuned by customers through its Neuraverse platform.
8Modern Cars
NHTSA picks 2027 cars for crash, pedestrian and driver-assist tests
23 models face frontal, side and rollover tests, 18 the new pedestrian protection assessment and 10 checks of five driver-assistance systems, including the Tesla Model 3, Rivian R2 and Kia EV3.
9Autonomous Vehicles & Mobility
Albuquerque becomes sixth FAA test site for autonomous and eVTOL flight
Under the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program, Reliable Robotics flew cargo demonstrations at Albuquerque International Sunport with a remotely piloted Cessna Caravan; the FAA may use the data to write new rules.
10Autonomous Vehicles & Mobility
Kodiak driverless truck ran 64 days without shutting down
The record came on an unsupervised truck in the 35-strong Atlas Energy fleet in the Permian Basin; Kodiak still plans a driverless highway launch on Interstate 45 between Dallas and Houston by year end.
11Robotics & Automation
Hyundai and Kia show 200 factory technologies for software-defined plants
E-FOREST TECH DAY at the Uiwang research institute showed digital twins of real equipment, AI agents for factory staff and an in-house vision system for inspecting finished cars, all to be rolled out in Korea and abroad.

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