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Chancellor Friedrich Merz led a delegation of 30 German business executives to Unitree’s Hangzhou headquarters, signaling a potential shift from humanoid entertainment to global industrial cooperation.
The Taicang Nexus: Schaeffler Launches Dedicated Embodied AI Subsidiary in China
Industrial giant Schaeffler formalizes its humanoid ambitions by establishing "Schaeffler Embodied Intelligent Robotics (Taicang) Co., Ltd.," a move that integrates hardware manufacturing with a dedicated AI computing hub in the heart of China’s German enterprise cluster.
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The Human Scale: NVIDIA’s EgoScale Unlocks High-Dexterity Robotics via 20,000 Hours of Human Video
NVIDIA researchers have revealed EgoScale, a framework that leverages a massive 20,854-hour egocentric human dataset to train robots in complex, fine-grained manipulation with minimal robot-in-the-loop data.
NVIDIA "Supersizes" Humanoid Control: SONIC Open-Sources Whole-Body Tracking at Scale
NVIDIA has released SONIC, a generalist humanoid controller trained on 100 million frames of motion data, aiming to replace manual reward engineering with a scalable "System 1" foundation for whole-body movement.
NVIDIA Open-Sources DreamDojo: A 44,000-Hour "Dream" to Solve the Robotics Data Gap
NVIDIA GEAR Lab has released DreamDojo, an open-source world model pretrained on a massive 44,000-hour dataset of human egocentric videos. By using "latent actions" to bridge the gap between human and robot movement, the model achieves zero-shot generalization and real-time controllability for teleoperation and planning.
Weave Robotics Launches "Isaac 0": A $9,999 Stationary Bet on the Future of Laundry
By stripping away the legs and the wheels, Weave Robotics is attempting to ship a functional home laundry robot by February 2026—beating mobile competitors to the living room.
Tracking the Rise of Humanoid Robotics
Humanoids Daily covers the fast-moving world of humanoid robots — from research labs to factory floors. We report on the companies, technologies, and breakthroughs shaping the next generation of intelligent machines.
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NVIDIA researchers have revealed EgoScale, a framework that leverages a massive 20,854-hour egocentric human dataset to train robots in complex, fine-grained manipulation with minimal robot-in-the-loop data.
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Xpeng is transitioning from prototypes to physical infrastructure, announcing a 110,000-square-meter production base in Guangzhou to industrialize its "Iron" humanoid platform.
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AgiBot has officially launched its full humanoid and industrial robot portfolio in Europe, securing a strategic partnership with Tier 1 automotive supplier Minth Group to drive localized deployment and manufacturing.
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As humanoid robots move from research labs to the "robot gig economy" and specialized 7S retail stores, the industry is finding its first sustainable revenue streams through entertainment and rentals.
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Physical Intelligence (Pi) is positioning its foundation models as a universal 'intelligence layer' for the industry, releasing new data that shows significant reliability gains for laundry-folding and industrial-packaging robots.