Figure CEO Brett Adcock has shared a look at the company’s "no babysitter" operations, detailing a fleet-wide autonomous docking and swapping system across a rapidly expanding five-building footprint.
Following a high-profile demonstration at China’s 2026 Spring Festival Gala, consumer interest in humanoid robotics has hit a fever pitch, with Unitree Robotics setting ambitious shipment targets for the year ahead.
NVIDIA has released SONIC, a generalist humanoid controller trained on 100 million frames of motion data, aiming to replace manual reward engineering with a scalable "System 1" foundation for whole-body movement.
NVIDIA GEAR Lab has released DreamDojo, an open-source world model pretrained on a massive 44,000-hour dataset of human egocentric videos. By using "latent actions" to bridge the gap between human and robot movement, the model achieves zero-shot generalization and real-time controllability for teleoperation and planning.
As AI video generators like ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 achieve near-perfect physics and lighting, the humanoid robotics industry faces a "crisis of truth" where real milestones and high-fidelity fakes are becoming indistinguishable.