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A new congressional bill aims to block Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots from the U.S. market, creating a steep geopolitical dilemma for American laboratories heavily reliant on mass-produced hardware.
Humanoid News From the US
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Generalist AI has raised a massive $400 million funding round led by Radical Ventures, bringing its total capital to over half a billion dollars as it seeks to build hardware-agnostic physical intelligence.
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Following a wave of executive departures in its AI division, 1X Technologies has launched the 1X World Model Lab, pivoting hard toward large-scale pretraining to solve the humanoid autonomy bottleneck.
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In a recent TED Talk, Agility co-founder Jonathan Hurst outlined a grounded but massively ambitious roadmap for embodied AI, pushing back against the industry’s rush toward domestic androids.
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It is not every day you see a full-sized industrial humanoid walking past a local restaurant. Persona AI CEO Nicolaus Radford just shared a rare look at their bipedal machine navigating public pavement.
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Figure CEO Brett Adcock announced a massive secondary liquidity event for employees, sparking an industry-wide debate on compensation, equity risk, and corporate milestones in the humanoid robotics sector.
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OpenAI is formally building its own internal robotics program to manufacture and program general-purpose machines, months after a high-profile split with Figure.
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With its new GPU-accelerated simulation platform, Genesis AI is moving robotic model evaluation from slow physical labs into hyper-realistic virtual environments, promising an 89% correlation with real-world hardware tests.
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The $39 billion robotics startup is taking its humanoid fleet to a major retail distribution center in Reno, marking the first commercial bridge with a portfolio company of mutual investor Brookfield.
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What started as a modest 8-hour challenge just transformed into an unprecedented 200-hour endurance flex. Here is how Brett Adcock’s multi-day robotics marathon finally ended (with bubbly, of course).
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As it prepares to unveil its first general-purpose robot, the well-funded robotics startup brings on Damien Kieran as Head of Legal and Pally Kumar as Head of Operations.
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Figure AI pitted a human intern against its Figure 03 autonomous humanoid fleet in a head-to-head package sorting trial. While humanity secured a narrow victory, the machine fleet proved its real value through unbroken persistence.