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Optimus renders labeled gen3 first appeared in Tesla’s Android app on August 27, a four-build comparison shows. Higher-resolution versions arrived September 5, but the assets do not confirm final hardware or a working robot interface.
Sharing Humanoids Daily’s interview clip, Figure’s CEO expands his four-stage roadmap and predicts hundreds of billions in spending to scale robot intelligence and manufacturing.
Jeff Cardenas singles out U.S. gear shortages and says actuators can account for 60% of robot parts costs, as Apptronik works to build domestic supply capacity.
XPENG shows IRON tracking speakers, switching languages and recalling customer preferences in a showroom-style R&D test, ahead of its planned store deployments.
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The European team behind the Kyle prototype reveals Vesoma, led by Synapticon and Easybrain co-founders, with former DeepMind research director Martin Riedmiller heading AI and its first Vesoma 1 units under construction.
Optimus renders labeled gen3 first appeared in Tesla’s Android app on August 27, a four-build comparison shows. Higher-resolution versions arrived September 5, but the assets do not confirm final hardware or a working robot interface.
July reporting described plans for Grünheide workers to wear cameras for Optimus training. A new post revives the story, but the program’s current scale remains unclear.
Sharing Humanoids Daily’s interview clip, Figure’s CEO expands his four-stage roadmap and predicts hundreds of billions in spending to scale robot intelligence and manufacturing.
Jeff Cardenas singles out U.S. gear shortages and says actuators can account for 60% of robot parts costs, as Apptronik works to build domestic supply capacity.
An October competition will test robots on practical tasks and simulated hazards, with separate categories for remote operation and autonomous navigation.
XPENG shows IRON tracking speakers, switching languages and recalling customer preferences in a showroom-style R&D test, ahead of its planned store deployments.
A planned 2027 program would combine robot AI research, a physical-data library and early postal and logistics trials. Its budget is still being finalized.
Robros extends human control across IGRIS-C’s body as the Seoul startup reports early industrial sales and South Korea builds its humanoid ecosystem.
The Georgia center is training Atlas for manufacturing tasks, ahead of Hyundai’s planned 2028 rollout. A tenfold expansion is scheduled for 2027.
The reported RAI acquisition would add robotics research capacity as Hyundai pursues SoftBank’s Boston Dynamics stake and SoftBank explores other humanoid investments.
Unitree’s Dex5-S promises 22 degrees of freedom and backdrivable joints at human-hand scale. Its launch leaves key specifications and complete-task performance unverified.
