NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing the open-source hub into its physical AI orbit just as Pollen Robotics launches the viral $399 Microduck.
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San Francisco startup Lightberry has opened reservations for Lumi, a $39,990 bipedal robot pairing a Unitree mechanical baseline with custom American sensing, NVIDIA Thor compute, and a modular interaction engine.
AGIBOT secures first place with 46 medals at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, narrowly edging out TianGong in a fierce multi-discipline competition showcasing mass-produced hardware.
Masayoshi Son''s investment powerhouse is reportedly negotiating a controlling interest in OpenAI-backed humanoid maker 1X Technologies, at a figure well under the valuation the company pursued last September.
Figure AI has exited stealth on Index, a crowdsourced data-collection platform that has gathered over 16 million video uploads across 108 countries to train its Helix neural network.
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Shenzhen-based X Square Robot has introduced TwinDEX, an isomorphic three-finger, nine-DoF manipulation interface paired between a wearable exoskeleton and a robot end effector to accelerate real-world dexterous data collection.
Robotics pioneer Dr. Scott Walter has drafted a rule book for an autonomous humanoid decathlon, targeting single-task optimization with strict rules on anthropomorphism, zero hardware swaps, and self-dressing.
Nori Robotics has debuted the A3, a sub-$1,700 bimanual mobile manipulator aimed at consumer homes. But technical papers and newly opened SDKs reveal the divide between appliance marketing and experimental developer hardware.
Lumos Robotics has launched MOS 2, a heavy-duty wheeled dual-arm "AI Worker" with a 50 kg payload capacity, deployed at Mitsubishi Electric facilities following a funding round exceeding 1 billion yuan.
Oslo-based Kinetic Blocks launches a gated two-sided market to standardize licensing, pricing, and quality grading for physical AI datasets.
UBTECH Robotics generated RMB 1.27 billion in the first half of 2026, driven by a 1,445% revenue surge in full-size embodied humanoids, narrowing net losses as industrial deployments accelerate.
A new security disclosure reveals how proximity and a cloud flaw enabled unauthenticated root takeover of Unitree’s G1 humanoid, spotlighting the physical risks of software security in embodied robotics.
During the opening ceremony of the second World Humanoid Robot Games, Galbot showcased autonomous humanoids completing over 100 consecutive tennis rallies against and alongside human athletes.
San Francisco startup Lightberry has opened reservations for Lumi, a $39,990 bipedal robot pairing a Unitree mechanical baseline with custom American sensing, NVIDIA Thor compute, and a modular interaction engine.
South Korea is allocating $1.66 billion directly to humanoid robotics and $2.0 billion for physical AI field verification, targeting an 80% domestic component localization rate and state procurement of over 1,000 bipedal units.
AGIBOT secures first place with 46 medals at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, narrowly edging out TianGong in a fierce multi-discipline competition showcasing mass-produced hardware.
Masayoshi Son''s investment powerhouse is reportedly negotiating a controlling interest in OpenAI-backed humanoid maker 1X Technologies, at a figure well under the valuation the company pursued last September.
