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It is not every day you see a full-sized industrial humanoid walking past a local restaurant. Persona AI CEO Nicolaus Radford just shared a rare look at their bipedal machine navigating public pavement.
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Reality Check at ICRA: AGIBOT World Challenge Shifts Embodied AI from Simulation to Physical Hardware
At ICRA 2026 in Vienna, the AGIBOT World Challenge pushed over 500 global teams to transition their AI models from pure simulation to live, closed-loop testing on real humanoid robots.
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The Contact Problem: How AGILINK’s New OmniHand 3 Ultra-M is Teaching Robots to Feel
At ICRA 2026, AGILINK debuted its flagship direct-drive dexterous hand, the OmniHand 3 Ultra-M. By integrating vision-based tactile sensing and a 20-DOF architecture, the newly minted unicorn is moving humanoid robotics beyond motion control and into the era of contact-rich manipulation.
NVIDIA Keynote: Cosmos 3 Realizes the "World Action Model" End Game
At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3, a breakthrough mixture-of-transformers omnimodel that transitions the robotics industry away from language-heavy VLA models toward native physical reasoning and action prediction.
NVIDIA GTC: NVIDIA and Sharpa Unveil Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot
Announced at GTC Taipei, the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot bundles a Unitree H2 Plus chassis, Jetson Thor compute, and Sharpa Wave tactile hands into a unified open platform.
OpenAI Pivots Directly Into Hardware, Launching Internal Robotics Division
OpenAI is formally building its own internal robotics program to manufacture and program general-purpose machines, months after a high-profile split with Figure.
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A new video demonstration highlights the DR02’s upgraded locomotion and payload capabilities, arriving just weeks after the company filed for a $367 million IPO.
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At ICRA 2026, AGILINK debuted its flagship direct-drive dexterous hand, the OmniHand 3 Ultra-M. By integrating vision-based tactile sensing and a 20-DOF architecture, the newly minted unicorn is moving humanoid robotics beyond motion control and into the era of contact-rich manipulation.
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SoftBank Group Corp. is reportedly in early negotiations to lead an $800 million funding round for Munich-based Agile Robots, deepening its "brains and bodies" investment strategy in physical AI.
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Figure CEO Brett Adcock announced a massive secondary liquidity event for employees, sparking an industry-wide debate on compensation, equity risk, and corporate milestones in the humanoid robotics sector.
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At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3, a breakthrough mixture-of-transformers omnimodel that transitions the robotics industry away from language-heavy VLA models toward native physical reasoning and action prediction.