Chinese automotive giant Changan has formally established Tianshu Intelligent Robot Co., Ltd., joining a growing cohort of automakers pivoting toward embodied AI and industrial humanoid labor.
With a $6.5 million seed round and a $5,000 open-source arm, Anvil Robotics aims to provide the foundational hardware and software for the next wave of AI builders.
After a clip from the Shawn Ryan Show sparked allegations of human-in-the-loop operation, Figure CEO Brett Adcock is doubling down on the company’s commitment to full autonomy, starting with its White House debut.
Following a year where humanoid robots became its primary revenue driver, UBTECH Robotics is offering a record-breaking compensation package to recruit a Chief Scientist to lead its foundation model research.
Generalist AI has released GEN-1, an embodied foundation model trained on 500,000 hours of interaction data. Boasting a 99% success rate and 3x faster task completion, the startup claims its system has reached a commercial threshold for “simple physical tasks” through emergent improvisation.