Apptronik has appointed former Waymo, Boston Dynamics, and Amazon leaders to its executive bench, signaling a strategic pivot toward mass-market commercialization and healthcare.
ShengShu Technology has announced Motubrain, a hardware-agnostic robotic brain that unifies perception and action to outperform traditional VLA models on global benchmarks.
Beijing-based Robotera has raised nearly $350 million in just two months, signaling a massive shift from R&D prototypes to industrial-scale delivery in the humanoid sector.
Shenzhen-based Kinetix AI has debuted KAI, a full-sized humanoid robot featuring a record-breaking 115 degrees of freedom and a proprietary world model designed for domestic and office environments.
Following the launch of the "Here Be Dragons" kit, Menlo Research has released the full open-source repository for the Asimov v1 humanoid, including mechanical designs, electrical wiring, and a MuJoCo simulation model.