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🦾 Robotics & Embodied AI

Physical AI, humanoid robots, robot learning, and embodied intelligence from Figure, Boston Dynamics, Tesla, and research labs.

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Importance:Newsscaling challenges and reliability

Autonomous Robotics Is Stuck at 99%, And That Last 1% Is Holding Back Scale

Autonomous robotics stalls at 99% reliability. A veteran CEO explains edge-case failures, AI limits, and what this means for scaling and Korea's OEMs. Source: koreatechdesk.com

Importance:Newsmedical robotics deployment

Korean-made physical AI robot enters cardiac care

Asan Medical Center said Monday it recently successfully treated a patient with angina using a percutaneous coronary intervention support robot,... Source: koreaherald.com

Importance:Newsmarket analysis and Tesla Optimus

AI Robotics Market Growth: Tesla & Amazon Strategy for 2027 & Beyond - News and Statistics

The article details the expanding AI robotics market, Tesla's pivot from Model S/X to Optimus robots for 2027 sales, and Amazon's increased robotics... Source: indexbox.io

Importance:NewsFigure AI funding and deployment

Meet Figure AI - USD39 Billion Robot Startup Backed By Bezos, Nvidia And OpenAI

Amazon (AMZN.US)$$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ A humanoid robot showing up at [Share Link: The White House] is a headline. Planning to ship 100000 of them in f... Source: moomoo.com

Importance:Newsdeployment in labor shortage

In Japan, the robot isn’t coming for your job; it’s filling the one nobody wants

Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment. Source: techcrunch.com

Importance:Newsfunding/embodied intelligence

Chinese Robotics Startup Galaxea AI Raises $290M USD in Series B+ Funding, Valued at $29B USD

Galaxea AI has raised about $290 million in a Series B+ round, valuing the Chinese embodied intelligence startup at roughly $29 billion, Yicai Global... Source: theaiinsider.tech

Importance:Launchphysical AI model

Generalist introduces GEN-1 general-purpose model for physical AI

To create GEN-1, Generalist said it improved training stability, built custom kernels, invented new forms of paged attention to enable real-time inference,... Source: therobotreport.com

Importance:Videorobot learning capability

Video Friday: Digit Learns to Dance—Virtually Overnight

Getting Digit to dance takes more than putting on some fancy shoes–our AI Team can teach Digit new whole-body control capabilities overnight. Source: spectrum.ieee.org

Importance:Newsrobot manipulation and learning

Sanctuary AI’s robotic hand demonstrates zero-shot in-hand manipulation

Sanctuary AI said the robotic hand and AI system achieves the target orientation 10 times in a row without dropping the cube. Source: therobotreport.com

Importance:Opinionhumanoid robot development strategy

Gill Pratt Says Humanoid Robots’ Moment Is Finally Here

AI for humanoid robots reveals why data, not hardware, now decides which robots safely handle real-world tasks without overhyped promises. Source: spectrum.ieee.org

Importance:Newsindustrial AI robotics

NVIDIA and robotics companies are working to deploy AI-powered robots in factories and hospitals

Researchers report that a shared AI software stack is now being tested across industrial robots and surgical systems, marking one of the first coordinated... Source: earth.com

Importance:Researchembodied AI application

AI-guided robot navigates thrombectomy route from leg to brain

Researchers at King's College London have shown for the first time that AI can autonomously perform thrombectomy navigation in a physical lab setting,... Source: medicalxpress.com

Importance:Newshumanoid production

AGIBOT rolls out 10,000th humanoid robot

AGIBOT Innovation Technology Co. today claimed that it is one of the first companies to have rolled out 10,000 humanoid robots. The Shanghai-based company... Source: therobotreport.com

Importance:NewsFigure/OpenAI

Figure CEO speaks out on OpenAI split: 'We're going to be competitors'

OpenAI was Figure's partner. Then, they became competitors. Audio not available, try again later 1 minute. OpenAI co-led the humanoid robotics company's... Source: businessinsider.com

Importance:Newsbenchmarking

Nebius partners with Positronic on Physical AI Leaderboard (PhAIL)

Physical AI is moving from controlled demos to real-world deployment — and that shift demands benchmarks grounded in actual operations, not lab conditions. Source: nebius.com

Importance:Newshumanoid robot deployment

Humanoid completes live HMND PoC with SAP and Martur Fompak

Humanoid and SAP successfully integrated agentic AI into the HMND 01 Alpha robot to autonomously perform warehouse logistics tasks. Source: therobotreport.com

Importance:NewsPhysical Intelligence funding

Physical Intelligence Seeks $1 Billion as Robotics Interest Grows

That round would raise the company's valuation to north of $11 billion, Bloomberg News reported Friday (March 27), citing sources familiar with the matter. Source: pymnts.com

Importance:LaunchAmazon acquires Fauna Robotics

Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid robot that can dance, pick up toys, and go on a stroll

Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid robot called Sprout designed to be a friendly addition to... Source: fortune.com

Importance:NewsFigure AI humanoid, major visibility event

Figure AI Robot Makes History at White House Event

First lady hosts humanoid robot from AI startup Figure in unprecedented visit. Source: techbuzz.ai