At the 2026 Abundance Summit, Clone Robotics co-founder Dhanush Radhakrishnan detailed the company’s expansion to Mountain View, a new $50 million funding round, and a 2028 goal for mass-market "Robo Butlers."
AGIBOT unveils a unified simulation infrastructure that uses LLM-driven spatial world models and massively parallel reinforcement learning to accelerate the path from digital training to physical deployment.
UBTECH Robotics has signed a strategic agreement with Honda Trading (China) to deploy humanoid robots and autonomous vehicles across global automotive supply chains.
As robotics moves from the lab to the living room, AGIBOT launches a multi-phase, industrial-grade dataset to solve the industry’s most persistent scaling challenge.
EngineAI has officially launched global registration for the Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL), a humanoid combat league that swaps brute force for algorithmic precision and offers a massive $1.4 million championship prize.
LG Group is mobilizing five major affiliates to offer bundled humanoid subsystems, leveraging its manufacturing scale in appliances and automotive parts to dominate the robotics component market.
Chinese automotive giant Changan has formally established Tianshu Intelligent Robot Co., Ltd., joining a growing cohort of automakers pivoting toward embodied AI and industrial humanoid labor.
With a $6.5 million seed round and a $5,000 open-source arm, Anvil Robotics aims to provide the foundational hardware and software for the next wave of AI builders.
After a clip from the Shawn Ryan Show sparked allegations of human-in-the-loop operation, Figure CEO Brett Adcock is doubling down on the company’s commitment to full autonomy, starting with its White House debut.
Following a year where humanoid robots became its primary revenue driver, UBTECH Robotics is offering a record-breaking compensation package to recruit a Chief Scientist to lead its foundation model research.
Generalist AI has released GEN-1, an embodied foundation model trained on 500,000 hours of interaction data. Boasting a 99% success rate and 3x faster task completion, the startup claims its system has reached a commercial threshold for “simple physical tasks” through emergent improvisation.
Moving beyond its established wheeled Torobo platform, Tokyo Robotics has demonstrated a new bipedal prototype featuring robust self-balancing and real-time whole-body teleoperation.