The Munich-based unicorn joins the industrial humanoid race with a focus on tactile precision, landing squarely in the middle of a global engineering debate over how to build the perfect robotic hand.
In a candid new discussion, leaders from the Atlas team detail the "bitter lessons" of hardware reliability, the internal debate over legs versus wheels, and why automotive manufacturing is the ultimate "manipulation complete" test for AI.
The new Nexus NX1 bundles HaptX gloves and Virtuix treadmills into a "turnkey" system, betting that realistic haptic feedback is the missing link for training robotic dexterity.
During its Q3 earnings call, Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng confirmed the ''Iron'' robot will enter mass production in late 2026, a timeline that places it in a direct race with Tesla''s Optimus.
Physical Intelligence has unveiled π*0.6, a new VLA model that utilizes a training method called "Recap." By combining human demonstrations with autonomous reinforcement learning, the company claims to have doubled performance throughput on complex tasks like laundry folding and espresso making.