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The EPFL spin-off's two-armed robot starts each job under remote control and, the company says, takes the task over within a month. It reports a 95% average success rate in paid pilots.
The Churchill XI merger closed with about $465 million in gross capital, below the $600 million-plus projected in June, as Agility debuts with $1.78 million in 2025 sales.
The initiative offers more than 100 robots and 10,000 free evaluation hours, while initial G1 tests reveal how far robot policies remain from reliably completing tasks.
LiberAI's Liber-0 world action model learns from more than 2.2 million hours of human experience and reached 36.0% success on 60 GPT-6-proposed tasks without task-specific robot demonstrations.
Humanoids Daily covers the fast-moving world of humanoid robots — from research labs to factory floors. We report on the companies, technologies, and breakthroughs shaping the next generation of intelligent machines.
Two new videos from Brett Adcock show dozens of Figure 03 humanoids roaming Figure’s headquarters, inside and out. The company is close to having more robots than employees, but has said little about how many are doing paid work.
The reported 1.3 kWh pack adds detail to Atlas’s power system as humanoid makers pursue battery swapping, fast charging and new chemistries.
Josef Chen's visit to Unitree's Hangzhou factory, and the company's own filings, show a robot maker running on manual assembly with about $50 of machinery per robot. He argues US wages and trade barriers make factory automation far more valuable to American robot makers.
The EPFL spin-off's two-armed robot starts each job under remote control and, the company says, takes the task over within a month. It reports a 95% average success rate in paid pilots.
University of Tokyo researchers combine flexible printed structures with motor-driven wires to demonstrate supported stepping, offering a different take on bio-inspired robotics from Clone.
Trained on 300 hours of generated motion in simulated rooms, the onboard system completed 91% of 360 real-world trials without any teleoperation data.
Pixel combines a low-cost two-armed robot with human demonstration tools and whole-body learning. Its companion Pixel-UMI study reports 87% average task progress across five tasks.
The partners will train robotic skills at TUM RoboGym before testing inspections, asset monitoring and worker-support applications with grid operator MITNETZ STROM.
GroundingPI improves simulated robot manipulation with fewer demonstrations, offering a specialized visual foundation rather than an announced upgrade to XPENG’s IRON humanoid.
The Churchill XI merger closed with about $465 million in gross capital, below the $600 million-plus projected in June, as Agility debuts with $1.78 million in 2025 sales.
The open-source robot pairs two 7-DOF arms and 17-DOF ORCA hands with a lift and swerve base, and is teleoperated end to end with an Apple Vision Pro.
The initiative offers more than 100 robots and 10,000 free evaluation hours, while initial G1 tests reveal how far robot policies remain from reliably completing tasks.
