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Researchers from Shanghai AI Lab, Dobot, SJTU, and Noitom introduce AdaPT, an adaptive planning and tracking framework that extracts stylized tennis rallying and serving from broadcast footage.
Hyundai Says Atlas Will Not Replace Workers — One Day After Settling a Strike Over Exactly That
At its 2026 CEO Investor Day, Hyundai put hard numbers behind Atlas for the first time: 30,000 units of annual US capacity from 2028, 25,000 already spoken for. It also went out of its way to insist robots are "in service of humans" — a line delivered 24 hours after its Korean union settled a walkout that demanded protection from automation.
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XPENG Robotics Raises Over $900 Million at $6.3 Billion Valuation to Industrialize IRON Humanoid
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Days after Unitree’s blockbuster listing, founder Wang Xingxing used his WRC 2026 stage time to explain why the company has held back from large-scale factory deployment — and laid out the generalization bottleneck, the "lossy" nature of physical AI, and a self-evolving software loop aimed at both.
The Physical Bottleneck: Why Actuator Technology is the Next Frontier for Humanoid Robots
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