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AGIBOT secures first place with 46 medals at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, narrowly edging out TianGong in a fierce multi-discipline competition showcasing mass-produced hardware.
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SoftBank in Talks for Majority Stake in 1X at $6 Billion — Below the $10 Billion It Sought Last Year
Masayoshi Son''s investment powerhouse is reportedly negotiating a controlling interest in OpenAI-backed humanoid maker 1X Technologies, at a figure well under the valuation the company pursued last September.
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At its 2026 CEO Investor Day, Hyundai put hard numbers behind Atlas for the first time: 30,000 units of annual US capacity from 2028, 25,000 already spoken for. It also went out of its way to insist robots are "in service of humans" — a line delivered 24 hours after its Korean union settled a walkout that demanded protection from automation.
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Menlo Research and the Asimov team are shipping the first batch of their open-source Asimov 1 DIY humanoid kit, locking in a final delivered price of $20,000.
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Figure AI has exited stealth on Index, a crowdsourced data-collection platform that has gathered over 16 million video uploads across 108 countries to train its Helix neural network.
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Skild AI has detailed S1, a foundation model that executes unseen, 10-minute manipulation tasks from a single video prompt without task-specific post-training.
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Darmstadt-based startup Pink Robotics has unveiled its P0 humanoid prototype, aiming to tackle logistics sorting while mounting a sharp critique of Germany’s current robotics ecosystem.
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Researchers from Shanghai AI Lab, Dobot, SJTU, and Noitom introduce AdaPT, an adaptive planning and tracking framework that extracts stylized tennis rallying and serving from broadcast footage.
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Figure CEO Brett Adcock shared video of a Figure 03 humanoid autonomously climbing up and down a 15-foot ladder, confirming the vertical locomotion milestone maps directly to an active customer use case.
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Bipedal machines crossed a major athletic threshold in Beijing, smashing human sprinting and jumping benchmarks while facing persistent braking and autonomy challenges.
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XPENG has closed a record-breaking $900 million financing round for its humanoid robotics division, backed by IDG Capital, Alibaba, and Tencent, ahead of late-2026 mass production.
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Generalist AI claims a GPT-3 moment for robotics, demonstrating a foundation model that learns new physical tasks in seconds from a single prompt.