CEO Brett Adcock announces a Figure humanoid has been operating 10 hours a day on the BMW X3 production line, a milestone that follows earlier scrutiny over the scale of the deployment.
In a new promotional video, Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot takes on a new role: explaining shareholder voting procedures. The video showcases the robot in diverse settings and provides a glimpse of an updated, bronze-accented design with potentially revised hands.
Amazon's FAR robotics team has unveiled OmniRetarget, a powerful data generation engine that translates human motion into physically realistic trajectories for humanoid robots. The system enables a single human demonstration to be augmented into hours of training data, simplifying reinforcement learning and enabling zero-shot transfer of complex loco-manipulation skills from simulation to a real Unitree G1 robot.
German humanoid robotics firm Neura Robotics has established a significant branch office in Hangzhou, China, with a registered capital of €45 million. The move, discovered via public corporate records, points to a strategic effort to tap into China's robust robotics supply chain to scale production of its 4NE-1 humanoid.
The open-source robotics startup released a new video demonstrating its K-Bot humanoid being controlled in real-time by a VR-equipped operator, showcasing impressive stability and fluid, low-latency movement.