Galbot and researchers from Tsinghua University introduce RoboGesture, a streaming diffusion-based system that aligns speech with expressive, collision-free humanoid gestures.
RoboCurve benchmarked OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra on real robot arms, revealing dramatic efficiency and spatial reasoning gains on gross manipulation alongside a persistent 10% plateau on millimeter-precision tasks.
Galbot has opened pre-orders for the ET1, a compact 1.25-meter bipedal robot designed for dynamic stage performance and interactive commercial venues, stepping directly into competition with Unitree and AGIBOT.
Announced at IFA 2026, Tuya Smart’s new mobile companion robot combines fall detection, multimodal LLM conversations, and AIoT control tailored for seniors living alone.
Hot on the heels of launching its Serbian manufacturing hub, AGIBOT showcased its multi-robot lineup at IFA 2026 in Berlin, securing key safety certifications from TÜV Rheinland and partnering with distributor Tekpoint.
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing the open-source hub into its physical AI orbit just as Pollen Robotics launches the viral $399 Microduck.
A new proof-of-concept mounts LimX Dynamics’ modular TRON 2 torso onto heavy industrial arms to assemble formwork and tie rebar, testing ZINOVA’s "Tool Intelligence" framework in unstructured job sites.
RoboStrategy CMO Kevin McCordic lays out the case for physical AI: why AI finally makes humanoid labour possible, why it lands under $2 an hour, and why a roughly $200B market is aimed at a $60T one.
Figure AI has partnered with cloud infrastructure provider Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs, committing an initial $3.5 billion to train its Helix robotics models.
Moving beyond experimental pilots, South Korean logistics giant CJ Logistics has integrated two ROBOTIS semi-humanoids into an active e-commerce packing workflow to feed its Physical AI foundation models.
Backed by Renault and working with Goldman Sachs, French robotics pioneer Wandercraft is targeting €100 million in fresh capital to ramp up its dual focus on industrial humanoids and medical exoskeletons.
In an appearance on the Sources podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unequivocally confirmed that the AI lab will build humanoid robots alongside specialized data center machines.
