A robot monk, four flying cars, and 36 cleaning robots

Claim

Four eVTOL flying cars debuted in Hubei expecting sightseeing operations by 2027, Kyoto University introduced a robot monk trained on centuries of Buddhist scripture, 36 cleaning robots began covering 2.7 million square metres in Shenzhen, and Saronic is raising $1.5 billion at $7.5 billion for autonomous warships.

Reported metric: $1.5B

Reporting date: 2026-02-26 (not necessarily the event date)

Sources

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• Welcome to February 26, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)