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Founded by alumni from top robotics labs, Nucleus aims to skip the autonomy waiting game by deploying supervised humanoids into real-world factories today.
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With Gen 3 deliveries slated for the end of the year, Persona AI has begun early integration work in South Korea, building on recent momentum from its teleoperated welding demonstrations in Houston.
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Sunday Robotics has unveiled ACT-2, a new foundation model that achieves unprecedented reliability in unstructured home environments, establishing laundry folding as the company’s first fully generalized "Solve."
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Figure CEO Brett Adcock has revealed footage of the Figure 03 autonomously climbing a ladder, a milestone he used to declare wheeled robots an "utter dead end."
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The San Francisco-based startup is deploying custom Unitree G1 humanoids for domestic chores, blending AI and human teleoperation. But heavy reliance on Chinese hardware raises immediate regulatory questions.