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Physical Intelligence Opens API Beta for Robot Model Training and Inference
PI is accepting applications for a managed robot-model API, with early examples spanning manufacturing and heavy machinery.
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Nine Minutes to Recharge: Agility Picks Nyobolt for Digit 5’s Long Working Day
Nyobolt is behind Digit 5’s planned nine-minute recharge, which Agility says will help the humanoid work more than 20 hours per day. Early access is expected in 2027.
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Agility Moves Closer to Nasdaq as Merger Vote Is Set for November 2
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Shanghai Wants 8,000 Humanoid Robots in Factories by 2028
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Boston Dynamics Says Atlas Takes a Day to Build—and Wants to Cut That to an Hour
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Humanoids Summit Founder Modar Alaoui Releases The Humanoid Economy
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REK Founder Shares California Cease-and-Desist After Human–Humanoid Fight
Cix Liv posted a notice bearing California State Athletic Commission letterhead after Frankie LaPenna faced an EngineAI T800 in a San Francisco cage fight.
Figure Melts Figure 02 With Arnold Schwarzenegger in a Terminator-Style Sendoff
Figure’s farewell film takes its retired humanoids to a furnace in Finland, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a final thumbs-up and bonus jumps into the molten metal.
Boston Dynamics Makes Its Case for Atlas and a Two-Year Payback Target
A new short film argues that experience with Spot and Stretch, plus Hyundai’s factories and supply chain, gives Boston Dynamics an edge in commercializing Atlas.
Dyna Reveals Taku Robot and Dyna-2.1 With an Hour-Long Autonomous Laundry Demo
Dyna’s new wheeled semi-humanoid combines manipulation, whole-body control and workflow reasoning. Customer-site deployment is the next step after its uncut laundry demonstration.
Tracking the Rise of Humanoid Robotics
Humanoids Daily covers the fast-moving world of humanoid robots — from research labs to factory floors. We report on the companies, technologies, and breakthroughs shaping the next generation of intelligent machines.
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Astra, Opus and Argon Show How Frontier AI Models Are Speeding Up Robotics Development
New Astra and Opus demonstrations echo Google’s Argon workflows, accelerating simulation and controller development while exposing the need to verify generated experiments.
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Dynamic Creatures Introduces Hugo, a Furry Character Robot With 43 Actuators
The startup shows Hugo in a new video and outlines work on a Vision-Language-Expression model, navigation and safety for guest interaction.
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Gemini 4 Argon Takes Apollo From Human Video to Seven Straight Cornhole Shots
Google demonstrates Argon using video, simulation and physical feedback to develop robot skills, alongside an 87% embodied-reasoning benchmark score.
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Galbot’s PASSAGE Helps Humanoids Step Over, Duck Under and Squeeze Past Obstacles
PASSAGE learns from human motion to navigate clutter, with onboard Unitree G1 tests and distinct results for destination-reaching and contact-free traversal.
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This Week’s Newsletter: Agility’s $300M Order, Optimus Hands and Two Interviews
Our October 13 briefing explores Digit 5’s economics, Optimus’s hand challenges and our Aether and Monolithos interviews. Read it and subscribe for free.
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Musk Details Optimus Hand Challenges, Warns of Slow Initial Production Ramp
At X Takeover, Musk described the hand durability and supply-chain challenges behind Optimus, saying magnet export restrictions delayed the program last year.
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South Korea Approves 20-Robot Robros Trial Across Industrial Sites
A regulatory-sandbox approval opens industrial testing for 20 Robros humanoids as the company targets a manufacturing-focused AI model in the first half of 2027.
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Asimov Releases Python SDK, Announces Open-Source Edge Control Layer
Menlo Research releases a Python SDK for Asimov 1 and announces plans to open its controller-arbitration layer, extending the humanoid’s developer tools.
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Google DeepMind Is Building a New Cambridge-Area Robotics Lab, Aaron Saunders Says
Former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders says Google DeepMind is creating a new lab for its growing robotics hardware team, with more news expected in 2027.
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DeepSeek Reportedly Plans to Lead Winverse AI Seed Round at $400 Million Valuation
Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek plans to lead a seed round of tens of millions of dollars for robot-AI startup Winverse. The proposed deal is not yet finalized.
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Archon Robotics Shares Debut Demo of Its Whole-Body Humanoid Intelligence
Archon Robotics introduces its Whole-Body Intelligence approach, combining human-data pretraining, robot training and coordinated motion control for legged humanoids.
