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Apptronik Nears $1 Billion Milestone with Massive $520 Million Funding Extension
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Apptronik Nears $1 Billion Milestone with Massive $520 Million Funding Extension

Austin-based Apptronik has announced a $520 million extension to its Series A, bringing total capital to nearly $1 billion as it gears up for mass production of the Apollo humanoid and a new robot debut in 2026.

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Fincantieri and Generative Bionics Partner to Bring Humanoid Welders to Italian Shipyards
End of an Era: Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter to Retire

End of an Era: Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter to Retire

Watch: Inside Foundation’s Humanoid Factory and the Anatomy of a "War Machine"

Watch: Inside Foundation’s Humanoid Factory and the Anatomy of a "War Machine"

Allonic Nabs Record $7.2M Pre-Seed to Weave Robots Instead of Assembling Them

Allonic Nabs Record $7.2M Pre-Seed to Weave Robots Instead of Assembling Them

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Cartwheel Robotics Shuts Down, Joining the Humanoid Startup "Valley of Death"

Cartwheel Robotics Shuts Down, Joining the Humanoid Startup "Valley of Death"

Founder Scott LaValley confirms the closure of Cartwheel Robotics after four years, citing a failure to secure the "oxygen" of capital despite the viral success of the Yogi humanoid.

Beyond the VLA: NVIDIA’s DreamZero and the ‘GPT-2 Moment’ for Robotic World Models

Beyond the VLA: NVIDIA’s DreamZero and the ‘GPT-2 Moment’ for Robotic World Models

NVIDIA GEAR Lab has unveiled DreamZero, a 14-billion parameter World Action Model (WAM) that uses video diffusion to grant robots physical "imagination," enabling zero-shot task completion and rapid adaptation across different robotic embodiments.

The Dark Matter of Robotics: Generalist AI’s Andy Zeng on the Quest for Physical Commonsense

The Dark Matter of Robotics: Generalist AI’s Andy Zeng on the Quest for Physical Commonsense

Generalist AI's chief scientist argues that the next leap in robotics won't come from internet text, but from scaling the 'reflexive' intelligence of physical interaction.

From Pixels to Torque: Figure Unveils Helix 02 and the Era of Whole-Body Autonomy

From Pixels to Torque: Figure Unveils Helix 02 and the Era of Whole-Body Autonomy

Figure AI has revealed Helix 02, a unified neural network model that enables the Figure 03 robot to navigate and manipulate environments simultaneously, moving past the "walk-then-act" limitations of traditional humanoid systems.

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