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Following a wave of executive departures in its AI division, 1X Technologies has launched the 1X World Model Lab, pivoting hard toward large-scale pretraining to solve the humanoid autonomy bottleneck.
Beyond Imitation: MotionDisco Uses LLMs to Discover Whole-Body Humanoid Skills From Scratch
Researchers from the U.S. and Germany have unveiled MotionDisco, an evolutionary framework that allows humanoids to autonomously figure out complex, long-horizon tasks without human demonstrations—even as the underlying hardware faces geopolitical headwinds.
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The Contact Problem: How AGILINK’s New OmniHand 3 Ultra-M is Teaching Robots to Feel
At ICRA 2026, AGILINK debuted its flagship direct-drive dexterous hand, the OmniHand 3 Ultra-M. By integrating vision-based tactile sensing and a 20-DOF architecture, the newly minted unicorn is moving humanoid robotics beyond motion control and into the era of contact-rich manipulation.
NVIDIA Keynote: Cosmos 3 Realizes the "World Action Model" End Game
At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3, a breakthrough mixture-of-transformers omnimodel that transitions the robotics industry away from language-heavy VLA models toward native physical reasoning and action prediction.
NVIDIA GTC: NVIDIA and Sharpa Unveil Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot
Announced at GTC Taipei, the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot bundles a Unitree H2 Plus chassis, Jetson Thor compute, and Sharpa Wave tactile hands into a unified open platform.
OpenAI Pivots Directly Into Hardware, Launching Internal Robotics Division
OpenAI is formally building its own internal robotics program to manufacture and program general-purpose machines, months after a high-profile split with Figure.
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In a recent TED Talk, Agility co-founder Jonathan Hurst outlined a grounded but massively ambitious roadmap for embodied AI, pushing back against the industry’s rush toward domestic androids.
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It is not every day you see a full-sized industrial humanoid walking past a local restaurant. Persona AI CEO Nicolaus Radford just shared a rare look at their bipedal machine navigating public pavement.
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A new video demonstration highlights the DR02’s upgraded locomotion and payload capabilities, arriving just weeks after the company filed for a $367 million IPO.
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At ICRA 2026, AGILINK debuted its flagship direct-drive dexterous hand, the OmniHand 3 Ultra-M. By integrating vision-based tactile sensing and a 20-DOF architecture, the newly minted unicorn is moving humanoid robotics beyond motion control and into the era of contact-rich manipulation.
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SoftBank Group Corp. is reportedly in early negotiations to lead an $800 million funding round for Munich-based Agile Robots, deepening its "brains and bodies" investment strategy in physical AI.