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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Shanghai AI Lab released Intern physical world model W0 with native force-tactile sensing and duplex collaboration. It connects with Intern InkStone and science model S2 for closed-loop wet- and dry-lab workflows.
Pandaily · 5d ago
Chinese robotics company D-Robotics has completed a $400 million Series C funding round. The capital will support its Sunrise chip portfolio and full-chain software platform for robot development.
TechNode · 1d ago
Robot-training systems built in virtual worlds are becoming more sophisticated. These simulated environments help robots learn to navigate and interact with the physical world.
BBC Technology · 1d ago
The AI Robot Association (AIRoA) showcased prototypes from seven companies competing to develop domestically produced general-purpose robots. The effort focuses on collecting data for physical AI.
ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 2d ago
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
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
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
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
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
AWS demonstrates how to run a continuous Physical AI pipeline with NVIDIA Cosmos 3 on a persistent Amazon SageMaker HyperPod cluster. The workflow covers synthetic data generation, post-training, and closed-loop evaluation, with GPU goodput as the key operational metric.
AWS Machine Learning Blog · 15d ago
星尘智能（Astribot）基座模型团队发布在线强化学习框架 SmoothRL。该框架支持异步执行，旨在让机器人持续进行交互和学习，而不必停下来等待大模型完成推理。
量子位 · 15d ago
Meigai Technology executive Yuan He argues that AI for Science will scale through narrowly defined, verifiable laboratory workflows rather than grand visions of fully autonomous factories. The hardest problems are integrating heterogeneous instruments, achieving reliable robot operation, passing acceptance tests, and turning custom projects into reusable modules.
虎嗅 · 15d ago
Uber has begun allowing customers in London to book robotaxi rides powered by Wayve. Each vehicle still includes a human supervisor in the front seat, marking a supervised deployment rather than fully autonomous service.
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
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
Apple Machine Learning introduces REFACTOR-VLA, a research approach for unsupervised learning of typed, reusable motor programs. It addresses the limitations of monolithic vision-language-action models on long-horizon tasks by organizing behaviors into interpretable abstractions.
Apple Machine Learning · 17d 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
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
Anthropic launched the Model Hardware Standard, a framework designed to let AI agents control physical hardware such as robots and microscopes. The framework could support applications including drug development and quantum-computer laser calibration, with an open-source release planned after testing.
Computerworld · 22d ago
Anthropic announced a new software standard designed to help AI assistants such as Claude work with robots and scientific or manufacturing hardware. The move could broaden Claude’s use beyond software interfaces into physical and industrial environments.
Bloomberg Technology · 22d ago
At WRC2026, leaders from 29 embodied-AI companies broadly agreed that generalization is the field’s biggest technical and commercial bottleneck, and that progress depends heavily on data and real-world scenarios. They disagreed over whether scaling VLA models, building world models, using simulation, adopting brain-inspired architectures, or combining these approaches will deliver robust cross-task and cross-environment performance.
虎嗅 · 23d ago
On August 22, a humanoid robot reportedly competed against a professional tennis player at the World Games in a globally televised event. The match tested autonomous perception, decision-making, positioning, movement, and racket control in an unscripted physical environment.
虎嗅 · 24d ago
The 2026 World Robot Conference shows China’s embodied AI competition shifting from humanoid hardware toward world models, training data, dexterous hands, and foundational computing platforms. Companies including Unitree, Jiyuan Vision, Stardust Intelligence, Daxiao Robotics, Wujie Dynamics, Zibian, and Lingjing Zhiyuan are pursuing different positions across the embodied intelligence stack.
虎嗅 · 24d ago
Autonomous trucking startup Gatik has raised $200 million to transition from technology development to commercial-scale operations. The company plans to deploy hundreds of driverless trucks by year-end, with North America remaining its primary market.
Bloomberg Technology · 25d ago
未来不远机器人 has reportedly completed three financing rounds totaling 1 billion yuan within six months. ByteDance, Inovance, and other investors have participated, while the company has sold robots to 500 households.
量子位 · 25d ago
原力灵机的 DM0.5 在 RoboDojo 評測中登頂，成為具身智慧領域的新成果。文章同時強調該系統全面開源，方便研究者複製與驗證。
量子位 · 25d ago
Pittsburgh startup Skild AI is developing a general-purpose “universal brain” for robots that already powers hundreds of factory machines. The article presents this deployment as evidence that a GPT-like moment for physical AI may already be underway.
The Next Web (TNW) · 26d ago