Swiss startup Flexion Robotics emerges from stealth with \$50 million in Series A funding, a star-studded team from ETH Zurich and NVIDIA, and a serene video of a Unitree G1 cleaning up the Swiss Alps.
Two California startups are racing to solve the household robot, but their approaches couldn''t be more different. We break down the great bifurcation between Sunday Robotics'' utilitarian "Memo" and 1X Technologies'' humanoid "Neo."
In a candid new profile, Foundation CEO Sankaet Pathak explicitly embraces the weaponization of humanoid robots, even as a failed demo highlights the gap between battlefield ambitions and engineering reality.
Sunday Robotics has revealed "Memo," a wheeled home robot powered by the "ACT-1" foundation model. Bypassing traditional teleoperation, the company is training its AI using human data captured via low-cost gloves, targeting a 2026 beta release.
After an 11-month deployment at BMW''s Spartanburg plant, Figure is retiring its F.02 fleet. The company released detailed performance data and footage of the worn, grimy hardware that contributed to the production of 30,000 vehicles.