With a massive seed round and a valuation of $3.5 billion, AMI Labs is building a global research powerhouse to prove that "world models" are the true path to human-level intelligence.

Palo Alto-based Rhoda AI has officially broken stealth with a $450 million Series B and a novel "Direct Video-Action" framework that uses hundreds of millions of internet videos to teach robots the laws of physics.

A new technical demonstration from Foundation Robotics shows the Phantom MK1 humanoid navigating a series of comedic and complex physical obstacles to stress-test its balance and "spinal cord" control systems.

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI’s hardware lead, has resigned citing ethical concerns over a new Department of Defense contract. Simultaneously, former K-Scale Labs CEO Benjamin Bolte announced his move to the AI giant.

Bloomberg reports that German robotics firm Neura Robotics has closed a €1 billion funding round led by stablecoin giant Tether, valuing the company at €4 billion as it prepares to mass-produce its cognitive humanoids.

After months of silence and a nearly $1 billion valuation, Rhoda AI CEO Jagdeep Singh has begun sharing insights into the company’s mission to solve the robotics generalization gap.

Agility Robotics has officially dropped "Robotics" from its name, unveiling a new brand identity that emphasizes industrial durability and a long-term vision for redefining labor.

Texas Instruments integrates mmWave radar with NVIDIA Jetson Thor to bridge the gap between AI simulation and real-world deployment, targeting the "last mile" of robotic safety.

A joint team from BIGAI and Unitree has unveiled OmniXtreme, a unified control policy that enables humanoid robots to perform diverse extreme motions—from backflips to breakdancing—without the need for task-specific overfitting.

Menlo Research’s open-source project, Asimov, moves from GitHub repository to physical hardware with a bipedal kit designed for rapid iteration and "Processor-in-the-Loop" development.

At the inaugural HEIS conference in Beijing, industry giants Unitree and AgiBot joined regulators to release China’s first comprehensive humanoid standard system, signaling a shift toward industrial utility and mass-production reliability.

Industrial giant Schaeffler formalizes its humanoid ambitions by establishing "Schaeffler Embodied Intelligent Robotics (Taicang) Co., Ltd.," a move that integrates hardware manufacturing with a dedicated AI computing hub in the heart of China’s German enterprise cluster.