Yilun Chen, a former researcher at Apple and Uber ATG, has joined the Tesla Optimus team as a Staff Robotics Engineer. His viral announcement offers a counter-narrative to recent reports of talent migration away from the EV giant.
The German motion technology giant opens a 900 sqm facility at Nanyang Technological University, doubling down on its strategy to become both a primary user and key component supplier in the humanoid robotics space.
Led by former Tesla and Hugging Face researcher Rémi Cadene, UMA reveals a heavyweight founding team and ambitious plans for general-purpose robots by 2026.
Unitree Robotics has finished its mandatory IPO guidance process with CITIC Securities, moving it one step closer to potentially becoming China’s first publicly traded humanoid robotics company.