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Waymo has unveiled its new World Model, powered by Google DeepMind’s Genie 3, to simulate rare "long-tail" driving scenarios and edge cases, signaling a major shift toward generative world models in the race for physical AI.
EngineAI Details URKL League: A $1.4 Million Gold Belt and the Future of Bipedal Brawling
Shenzhen-based EngineAI has officially launched the Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL) league, revealing a massive prize pool, strict technical rules, and a tournament format designed to stress-test the next generation of humanoid hardware.
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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
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
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
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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Electric vehicle maker Faraday Future announced three "new" robotic products at NADA 2026, though market observers quickly identified the hardware as rebranded AgiBot models.
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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.
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A new full-stack framework from HKUST and Shanghai AI Lab allows humanoid robots to acquire complex athletic skills like basketball and reactive fighting directly from human videos—no manual reward engineering required.
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Humanoid has unveiled KinetIQ, a multi-layered AI architecture designed to orchestrate entire robot fleets across retail, industrial, and home environments using a cross-timescale approach.
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In a deep dive on the Robo Papers podcast, 1X Director of Evaluations Daniel Ho explains how "imagination" via video generation is allowing humanoids to perform zero-shot tasks with minimal robot-specific training data.