Menlo Research releases a Python SDK for Asimov 1 and announces plans to open its controller-arbitration layer, extending the humanoid’s developer tools.
Former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders says Google DeepMind is creating a new lab for its growing robotics hardware team, with more news expected in 2027.
Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek plans to lead a seed round of tens of millions of dollars for robot-AI startup Winverse. The proposed deal is not yet finalized.
Archon Robotics introduces its Whole-Body Intelligence approach, combining human-data pretraining, robot training and coordinated motion control for legged humanoids.
MindOn’s latest Mind-1 video shows an extended dual-arm clothes-folding demonstration, with a counter reaching 142 and a claimed throughput of 142 garments per hour.
Wang says Unitree’s GPT-6 robot tests produced encouraging results and suggests an embodied AI tipping point could arrive within one or two years in a fast scenario.
AWS’s new toolchain connects NVIDIA robotics software with cloud infrastructure, offering reusable development modules while parts of the deployment workflow remain planned.
Chinese reports show falling humanoid rental prices, but advertised bargains obscure the staffing and service costs behind commercial deployments.
XPENG’s Paris presentation sets out late-2026 mass production, H1 2027 deliveries and a European rollout in H2 2027, with commercial applications first.
VPP2 leads RoboDojo-Sim with a 32.26% success rate. Robotera has released code and checkpoints, alongside separate results on physical robot manipulation.
Founder Silas Yu tells Humanoids Daily how Robot Brain retains and revises experience, and what remains to be tested on physical robots.
CEO Bercan Kilic links the milestone to Shift’s launch, while Animesh Garg reiterates the company’s ambition to deploy one million robots.
