An ambitious conservation-driven engineering project has sent a modified Unitree G1 up a 6,200-meter mountain, with Mount Everest set as the ultimate goal.
At ICRA 2026 in Vienna, the AGIBOT World Challenge pushed over 500 global teams to transition their AI models from pure simulation to live, closed-loop testing on real humanoid robots.
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.