A new congressional bill aims to block Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots from the U.S. market, creating a steep geopolitical dilemma for American laboratories heavily reliant on mass-produced hardware.
Generalist AI has raised a massive $400 million funding round led by Radical Ventures, bringing its total capital to over half a billion dollars as it seeks to build hardware-agnostic physical intelligence.
Following a wave of executive departures in its AI division, 1X Technologies has launched the 1X World Model Lab, pivoting hard toward large-scale pretraining to solve the humanoid autonomy bottleneck.
In a recent TED Talk, Agility co-founder Jonathan Hurst outlined a grounded but massively ambitious roadmap for embodied AI, pushing back against the industry’s rush toward domestic androids.
It is not every day you see a full-sized industrial humanoid walking past a local restaurant. Persona AI CEO Nicolaus Radford just shared a rare look at their bipedal machine navigating public pavement.