Physical AI, humanoid robots, robot learning, and embodied intelligence from Figure, Boston Dynamics, Tesla, and research labs.
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1X launches the World Model Lab, a new embodied AI research organization led by Sam Sinha to accelerate autonomous humanoids through large-scale world model... Source: 1x.tech
Humanoid robots are expected to grow to a $200 billion market in less than a decade, according to Barclays. Wedbush's Dan Ives told CNBC he sees the market... Source: cnbc.com
Chinese EV giant BYD has officially confirmed that it is developing humanoid robots, marking the company's most direct public statement yet on its ambitions... Source: carnewschina.com
Spencer Huang, Nvidia's robotics lead, tells WIRED that the new bot combines the best of both worlds. Source: wired.com
Spirit AI says its foundation model for embodied intelligence is the first from China to top the RoboArena global leaderboard. Source: amp.scmp.com
Nvidia unveils an open humanoid robot platform combining hardware and software to accelerate AI-powered robotics development across research institutions. Source: bizjournals.com
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is backing Alfred, a startup building software to help engineers at robotics and automotive companies reduce research and development... Source: qz.com
NVIDIA has released open-source physical AI agent skills and tools, as well as an Isaac GR00T humanoid reference robot. Source: therobotreport.com
Silicon Valley's AI boom is moving into robotics as OpenAI, Meta, Tesla, and startups race to give AI a body. Source: businessinsider.com
New humanoid robotics startup Persona AI was founded recently by Nic Radford and Jerry Pratt, two roboticists with decades of expertise in the field between... Source: spectrum.ieee.org
Despite the immense hype and flashy demo videos, the humanoid robotics boom still faces a lot of challenges. Usefulness, for starters, is something they're... Source: bloomberg.com
Unitree-built Isaac GR00T robot combines five-finger hands and Jetson Thor compute in an open platform labs like Stanford plan to use from late 2026. Source: stocktitan.net
NVIDIA today announced a major collection of open source physical AI skills and tools that help developers turn complex robotics, autonomous vehicle (AV),... Source: nvidianews.nvidia.com
Want a clean home? You can get it for free ... if you let cleaners be recorded while working. The data? It will be used to train humanoid robots ... Source: forbes.com
Human Archive has raised $8.2 million in seed funding from Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, Y Combinator and a group of angel investors from "frontier AI... Source: theaiinsider.tech
With ties to the Trump family, Foundation Robotics Labs is aiming to deploy humanoid robots in the military in the next 12 to 18 months. Source: cnbc.com
BMW is introducing humanoid robots to a car plant in Europe, building on similar projects in the US. Source: bbc.com
But it's coming faster than most people think, and the researchers building at the frontier are already racing to make that a reality. Source: bvp.com
Catalyst Brands and humanoid robotics company Figure AI Inc. (Figure) today announced a commercial partnership beginning in its initial phase at Catalyst... Source: corporate.jcpenney.com
Figure got a job at dad's company. Not literally, of course, because humanoid robots don't have dads. Or moms. But figuratively (sorry). Source: forbes.com