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New drone footage from Giga Texas reveals significant ground-clearing and utility work on the campus's east side, which site trackers identify as the first preparations for the 10-million-unit Optimus factory.

Five months after partnering with Renault, Wandercraft has signed its second industrial customer, Italian auto supplier SAPA, to deploy its Calvin-40 humanoid in manufacturing.

Xsens has released its next-generation Xsens Link, a motion capture system aimed at robotics labs, entertainment, and sports. For humanoids, the platform is positioned as a high-fidelity tool for teleoperation and AI training, directly addressing the "human-in-the-loop" strategy for solving the industry's physical data bottleneck.

New research from Stanford University, following MIT's recent SoftMimic project, uses a novel RL framework to teach humanoid robots upper-body compliance, enabling them to safely hug, provide support, and handle fragile objects.

The high-dexterity RUKA hand, previously an open-source DIY project from NYU, is now available as a commercial kit starting at $549. The collaboration aims to make advanced robotics hardware more accessible, but features one key component swap to hit its low price point.