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At its 2026 CEO Investor Day, Kia outlined an ambitious execution roadmap for robotics, including the full-scale industrial deployment of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas starting in 2028 and a multi-modal logistics solution integrated with its next-generation electric vans.

As "world models" become the dominant paradigm in robotics, the industry is grappling with a term that means everything and nothing. We map out the competing visions from LeCun, NVIDIA, 1X, and Tesla.

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."

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.

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.

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