Robots are moving from factory cages into warehouses, streets and homes. Track the hardware, funding and deployment news driving the embodied AI wave.
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Galaxy General introduced the ET1 small bipedal humanoid robot and previewed AstraBrain-WBC 1.0, extending its embodied intelligence stack from wheeled and heavy-load robots to dynamic locomotion. The company’s vision is to let robots with different bodies share upper-layer capabilities for perception, task understanding, world modeling, and action planning.
极客公园 · 27d ago
World models are gaining momentum as a potential foundation for robots that can perform useful real-world tasks. However, progress is constrained by a circular dependency: models need real-world data, while deployment requires mature models and economically viable costs.
钛媒体 · 27d ago
Galileo Robot has introduced its “陸行具身系統” at WRC, targeting the underlying technology barriers between wheeled and legged mobility. The launch focuses on integrating multiple ground locomotion approaches within an embodied robotics system.
量子位 · 28d ago
Robots and autonomous machines running peaqOS can now verify whether they are interacting with a real human through World ID. The integration, available through robotic.sh, provides proof of human without revealing the person's identity.
The Next Web (TNW) · 29d ago
本末動力 has submitted an IPO application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The filing marks the fourth robotics-related IPO associated with Li Zexiang, known as the “godfather of DJI.”
钛媒体 · 29d ago
Unitree has launched a biomimetic seven-axis dexterous robotic arm, priced from 9,900 yuan. The product could lower the hardware cost of embodied AI development, robotic manipulation research, and automation prototyping.
钛媒体 · 29d ago
Waymo has disclosed key details about the high-performance computers installed in the trunks of its robotaxis. The company shared processor specifications, chip architecture, internal components, and hardware suppliers for the first time.
The Verge · 30d ago
Chery’s AiMOGA Robotics has begun preparing for a potential standalone IPO and is discussing possible listing venues. The company has not selected an exchange or announced a timetable, but says the listing could fund technology investment and overseas expansion.
TechNode · 30d ago
The Association for Advancing Automation says non-automotive industries accounted for 54.8% of North American robot orders in the first half of 2026. The shift is being driven by applications in semiconductors, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, food, and consumer products, while AI, collaborative robots, and mobile robots expand the market.
虎嗅 · 30d ago
ByteDance robotics leader Kong Tao reportedly joined Xiaomi last summer and brought his entire team with him. The move has fueled speculation about a major Xiaomi robotics initiative, but no specific product or launch has been confirmed.
虎嗅 · 30d ago
MORPHI made its first systematic domestic appearance at WRC, showcasing its newly released embodied-intelligence model architecture, MoRA. The demonstration focused on how a robot’s embodied brain supports practical long-horizon tasks.
量子位 · 30d ago
Waymo說明其自動駕駛 AI 策略，以及自2009年 Google Self-Driving Car Project 以來累積的技術演進。公司同時指出，採用單一 AI 模型的端到端（E2E）方式存在兩項問題。
ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 30d ago
超維動力 KAI reportedly demonstrated the world’s first autonomous complete table-tennis match by a humanoid robot at the 2026 World Robot Conference. The appearance highlights KAI’s full-stack embodied-intelligence capabilities.
量子位 · 31d ago
Amazon plans to expand its drone delivery operation to cities in at least five more US states in the coming months. The move advances the decade-old Prime Air research project toward a broader commercial service.
Bloomberg Technology · 31d ago
Fort Robotics, a Philadelphia-based robotics startup backed by Mark Cuban, plans to go public through a $500 million SPAC deal. CEO Samuel Reeves says the SPAC route will accelerate technology scaling, operations, go-to-market efforts, and international expansion.
Bloomberg Technology · 31d ago
HONOR上市輔導已進入第四期，募資用途與募投項目仍未完全確定，IPO時程因此延後。公司正透過Robot Phone、AI終端生態、出海與管理層換血，尋求扭轉中國手機市場出貨下滑與高端化不順。
虎嗅 · 32d ago
A Mark Cuban-backed startup developing hardware and software for safer autonomous-robot operation is reportedly preparing to go public through a SPAC. The transaction would value the company at approximately $500 million.
Bloomberg Technology · 32d ago
Wang Xingxing, a millennial billionaire associated with China’s AI push, is expected to see his fortune rise through robot-dog growth. His company is facing US restrictions that prevent it from launching new robot models in the country.
Bloomberg Technology · 32d ago
Pony AI’s robotaxi revenue reached a quarterly record and now represents one-third of the company’s total revenue. Overseas momentum is also accelerating, while overall sales rose 69%.
Bloomberg Technology · 32d ago
Unitree introduced a new humanoid robot called Superman and claims it can reach 12.66 meters per second and jump 2 meters from a standing position. The company has not disclosed a detailed testing protocol covering payload, surface conditions, or repeatability.
TechNode · 32d ago
Anthropic's second-quarter revenue reportedly rose to more than $11.5 billion, 14 times higher than the same period a year earlier. The segment also highlights family-office investment in SpaceX and Bedrock Robotics' launch of the first fully autonomous excavator in the US.
Bloomberg Technology · 33d ago
The FCC has banned foreign-made robots that do not meet a 65% domestic component threshold. The policy aims to strengthen the US robotics supply chain, but domestic manufacturing capacity may not yet be sufficient.
Digital Trends · 33d ago
AgiBot’s 2026 moves suggest that humanoid-robot competition is shifting from hardware construction toward embodied AI capabilities. Robot companies increasingly need to develop AI systems, data pipelines, and intelligent control alongside physical machines.
TechNode · 33d ago
The article examines a competition to define the operating-system layer for Physical AI and robotics. It argues that, unlike smartphones, robotics may not yet have an equivalent to Android serving as a universal platform.
钛媒体 · 33d ago
This research introduces an active-perception framework that helps robots resolve ambiguous targets by changing their viewpoint and gathering missing visual evidence. A vision-language model decides whether to keep observing, ask the user for clarification, or finalize the target selection, with the approach validated on real robots.
ArXiv AI · 33d ago
Xiaomi executive Lu Weibing said the company’s smartphones will fully embrace AI in the future. The roundup also highlights Dario Amodei’s view that public resistance to AI is fundamentally a trust crisis, alongside a large-scale robot competition.
Ifanr (爱范儿) · 33d ago
Shenzhen-based X Square Robot sorted 1,816 parcels in one uninterrupted hour using simple grippers. That result exceeded its self-imposed target of 1,248 parcels—the sustained hourly average reported for Figure AI—by about 45%.
Pandaily · 36d ago
Faraday Future reported $1.348 million in first-half 2026 revenue and a $74.885 million net loss, while announcing a shift toward a full-stack AI robotics ecosystem. The company also reduced debt, regained Nasdaq minimum-bid compliance, and raised its year-end robot shipment target to more than 2,000 units.
IT之家 · 37d ago
Hugging Face introduces a unified workflow that combines Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets. The workflow is designed to help practitioners record robotic data, train models, and deploy them from one place.
Hugging Face Blog · 37d ago
Workers are wearing motion trackers and using cameras to capture how people move while performing jobs. The resulting data could help robots learn physical tasks and more natural human movement.
Bloomberg Technology · 37d ago