Musk specifies locations for his ambitious humanoid robot production, starting with a 1-million-unit line in Fremont and a 10-million-unit line at a Gigafactory, while reiterating claims of a "billion a year" capacity.
Following speculation that its AI Day demo was a human or an older robot, Xpeng has released videos showing the new ''Iron'' robot''s underlying hardware. Analysts are now detailing significant design changes, including a new hip and knee configuration.
Unitree has unveiled a full-body teleoperation platform for its G1 humanoid. While new videos showcase low-latency robot boxing and soccer, the system''s true purpose may be as a "data acquisition platform" to tackle the industry''s physical AI bottleneck.
Software giant SAP is partnering with a slate of robotics firms, including Humanoid and Neura Robotics, to give robots "business context awareness." New pilots at BITZER and Martur Fompak show robots taking orders directly from SAP''s warehouse management software.
In a new interview, Figure''s CEO Brett Adcock doubles down on his "autonomy-first" strategy, dismissing competitors'' tele-operated demos as "deceiving" and explaining why his team was "way better" at robotics AI than former partner OpenAI.