Embodied AI gives models a physical body — arms, wheels, sensors. Follow the race to make LLMs act in the real world.
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China Mobile open-sourced Open-RAIL, an engineering base connecting vision-language-action and world-action models with physical robots. It combines inference, real-robot execution, data feedback, and iterative model development in one workflow.
TechNode · 3d ago
亮源新創將超過 2,000 個真實場景搬入模擬環境，展示一款導航模型零樣本適配四種不同機器人本體。這項成果反映其 Physical AI 路線聚焦於跨本體的具身導航能力。
量子位 · 6d ago
At least nine AI companies founded in 2026 reportedly crossed the unicorn threshold within six months, fueled by high-profile researchers and executives from Alibaba, xAI, Tesla, and leading universities. Examples include language-model startup YuYu Technology, robotics company Kunlun Xing, open-model startup Naive.ai, and River AI, highlighting investors' aggressive bets on elite talent and AI infrastructure.
虎嗅 · 11d ago
JD.com open-sourced JoyAI-EchoWM and EchoWM-Flash at JDD. The models reportedly score about 81.6–81.7 on WBench Navigation and support unified camera-intent control with native audio-video generation.
Pandaily · 9d ago
Japan’s GENIAC initiative announced organizations selected for robot foundation model research and data ecosystem projects. The program is supported by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and NEDO.
ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 9d ago
Unitree demonstrated its G1 humanoid sparring with a trainer using the UnifoLM-X2-1.0 world-action model. The system predicts physical states and plans motion in real time without teleoperation.
Pandaily · 10d ago
XPeng has put its automated humanoid-robot production line into operation. The first IRON robot completed final assembly and autonomously walked off the line, signaling a transition from R&D toward mass production.
TechNode · 10d ago
JD Logistics has unveiled the latest full lineup of its embodied AI robots under the “Super Brain + Wolf Pack” concept. The company positions the fleet as one of the largest and most scenario-diverse AI robot deployments in supply-chain operations.
InfoQ中国 · 10d ago
JD.com is accelerating robotics adoption across its nationwide logistics network, aiming to procure 3 million robots over the next five years. The plan also includes 1 million unstaffed vehicles and 100,000 delivery drones, while retraining couriers for technical roles.
SCMP Technology · 10d ago
JD Cloud plans to build a computing cluster powered by 100,000 general-purpose GPUs from Chinese chipmaker Moore Threads. The cluster will support large-model training, inference, and embodied AI, with capacity offered to companies across industries.
TechNode · 10d ago
Robotics companies are increasingly separating general intelligence from a single physical form. LingBot-VLA 2.0, Gemini Robotics 2, and NVIDIA GR00T N1.7 demonstrate how shared models, normalized action spaces, and lightweight adaptation can transfer capabilities across robot bodies.
虎嗅 · 12d ago
The article reviews five technical routes for robot tactile sensing and examines the data bottleneck and competing model approaches. It presents touch as a foundational capability for embodied AI, enabling robots to learn through physical interaction.
钛媒体 · 12d ago
HiDream.ai has announced HiDream-O1-Embodied, an embodied world model. The release represents the company’s effort to complete a native multimodal technology strategy loop.
量子位 · 12d ago
Chinese and overseas game companies are sharply increasing investments in AI chips, embodied intelligence, XR, brain-computer interfaces, advanced packaging, and other hard-tech fields. Beyond direct investments, they are acting as LPs, technology acquirers, AI customers, and buyers of compute and data.
虎嗅 · 12d ago
Several deep-sea robotics startups founded or led by Harbin Engineering University alumni have recently secured major funding rounds. The companies are commercializing embodied AI robots for offshore energy, subsea communications, deep-sea mining, and other industrial applications.
虎嗅 · 13d ago
Sharpa is piloting its North robot in a real DQ store, where it prepares Blizzard ice cream through 55 steps using the original human-designed equipment and workflow. The trial will test whether the robot can operate reliably for 12 hours daily before the company focuses on speed and cost reduction.
极客公园 · 15d ago
Wayve and Uber are launching robotaxi rides in London, initially with safety drivers behind the wheel. Wayve plans to progress toward fully driverless service and expand with Uber to more global cities using end-to-end AI that does not rely on high-definition maps.
Bloomberg Technology · 15d ago
Nscale agreed to supply at least $3.5 billion worth of AI cloud computing capacity to robotics startup Figure. Nscale will also invest an undisclosed amount in Figure, linking large-scale AI infrastructure financing with humanoid robotics development.
Bloomberg Technology · 16d ago
Pollen Robotics' Microduck and Shangwei New Material's Qiyuan Q1/T1 opened preorders within days of each other, signaling a shift toward personal and household robots. Microduck targets developers and robot enthusiasts with an open learning stack, while Qiyuan positions its humanoids closer to consumer electronics and family assistants.
虎嗅 · 16d ago
李飛飛發布世界模型 Atlas，主打以統一模型生成、重建與模擬三維世界。同期消息還包括豆包工作支援多 Agents 並行，以及加州立法限制將法律執業委託給生成式 AI。
Ifanr (爱范儿) · 16d ago
Uber and Wayve have launched a robotaxi service in London to compete with Waymo. The city’s historic, complex roads create different autonomous-driving challenges from those in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Bloomberg Technology · 16d ago
Xpeng has raised $900 million for its Iron humanoid robot, targeting pilot production by the end of 2026 and external deliveries in the first half of 2027. The strategy aims to extend Xpeng’s autonomous-driving, AI, motor-control, and supply-chain capabilities beyond automobiles.
虎嗅 · 17d ago
H3-World uses MiniMax-H3’s pretrained text pathway to control character and camera motion through textual instructions. The research achieves temporally precise control with only 8,000 gameplay samples and 0.199% trainable parameters.
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA · 17d ago
Lyte, a robotics and artificial intelligence startup founded by former Apple Face ID team members, raised about $165 million. The round more than tripled the company's valuation to $1.6 billion.
Bloomberg Technology · 17d ago
MORPHI unveiled the KINO wheeled robot, which autonomously completed a roughly 15-minute household task involving 70–80 actions. The startup also disclosed more than 1 billion yuan in funding from Alibaba, Tencent and other investors, reaching a valuation above 7 billion yuan.
极客公园 · 17d ago
Beijing-based GenRobot has reportedly completed seven funding rounds in its first year, raising more than $200 million for embodied-AI data infrastructure. Its wearable data-capture hardware, governance platform, and open dataset target the shortage of high-quality human demonstration data for robots and world models.
虎嗅 · 18d ago
柬埔寨公司销售的“昊天AI”可在WhatsApp、Zoom、Teams等平台实时换脸，并被用于电信诈骗和绕过刷脸验证。文章还揭示了结合GPT、Gemini、批量账号和代理IP的一站式诈骗工具链。
虎嗅 · 10d ago
具身智能公司自变量正以每月最高 3,000 元、最長兩個月的補貼，招募家庭讓機器人每天長時間進行居家資料採集。這反映公司已從向用戶收費提供機器人保潔，轉向直接購買真實家庭場景與操作資料，以訓練 WALL-B 世界模型。
虎嗅 · 18d ago
Ropedia launched HOMIE Gen2, a wearable multimodal capture system designed to record human actions, intentions, environmental responses, and temporal context for embodied AI. The system aims to turn real-world human demonstrations into high-quality training data for robots.
雷峰网 · 18d ago
NVIDIA is increasing its focus on physical AI applications, including robotics and autonomous vehicles, with China becoming a strategically important market. Although US restrictions limit sales of NVIDIA’s most advanced AI chips to China, some chips for robotics and automotive applications remain available for trade.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 19d ago