The Chinese humanoid startup, also known as Star Action Era, has closed a massive Series A+ round led by Geely Capital, signaling strong industrial demand with a reported $70 million order book for 2025.
Three months after its Series A raise, OpenMind unveils its flagship hardware: a backpack equipped with NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor designed to make third-party robots autonomous.
Google DeepMind has appointed Aaron Saunders, a 23-year veteran of Boston Dynamics, as VP of Hardware Engineering. The move signals a major push to turn Gemini into a universal operating system for physical AI.
In a new interview, Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi detail their "data-first" philosophy, the end of teleoperation, and why they believe the industry is stuck between "GPT" and "ChatGPT."
The San Francisco startup, backed by CapitalG and Jeff Bezos, is betting on reinforcement learning to solve general-purpose robotics—standing in contrast to hardware-first competitors.