In an appearance on the Sources podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unequivocally confirmed that the AI lab will build humanoid robots alongside specialized data center machines.
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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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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.
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.
Menlo Research and the Asimov team are shipping the first batch of their open-source Asimov 1 DIY humanoid kit, locking in a final delivered price of $20,000.
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.
Skild AI has detailed S1, a foundation model that executes unseen, 10-minute manipulation tasks from a single video prompt without task-specific post-training.
Darmstadt-based startup Pink Robotics has unveiled its P0 humanoid prototype, aiming to tackle logistics sorting while mounting a sharp critique of Germany’s current robotics ecosystem.
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.
Figure CEO Brett Adcock shared video of a Figure 03 humanoid autonomously climbing up and down a 15-foot ladder, confirming the vertical locomotion milestone maps directly to an active customer use case.
