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Recent humanoid robotics updates include Figure AI celebrating its 3rd anniversary with a video of its walking robot, Apptronik's Apollo winning a 2025 IEEE RAS Award for Product Innovation, and Foundation Robotics showcasing its Phantom robot performing consumer goods packing tasks.

Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock announced that a Figure humanoid robot completed a 20-hour continuous run of back-to-back shifts at BMW's production facility. This milestone is presented as a significant step in Figure's 2025 goal of deploying autonomous humanoids in real-world applications.

Decentralized Physical AI (DePAI) is an emerging paradigm merging robotics with blockchain and DAOs, aiming to shift control and ownership of intelligent machines from corporations to communities. We explore how it works and its potential to reshape the future of automation.

Tesla showcases new Optimus capabilities, claiming its humanoid robot can now learn complex tasks from human video demonstrations, aiming to accelerate skill acquisition. This comes as the field of robotic reinforcement learning sees rapid advancements from multiple players.

Palo Alto startup K-Scale Labs is making waves by open-sourcing its humanoid robot hardware and software, sparking debate on the best path to general-purpose robots. A look at their strategy, products, and the implications of their open approach.