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Figure CEO Brett Adcock shared video of a Figure 03 humanoid autonomously climbing up and down a 15-foot ladder, confirming the vertical locomotion milestone maps directly to an active customer use case.
Humanoid News From the US
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Generalist AI claims a GPT-3 moment for robotics, demonstrating a foundation model that learns new physical tasks in seconds from a single prompt.
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American Airlines has joined United, Delta, and Southwest in explicitly banning humanoid and animal-like robots from commercial flights, citing the severe fire hazards posed by massive lithium-ion batteries.
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Confronting strict FCC import restrictions on foreign robots, top Unitree distributor RoboStore is launching Robo Inc. to focus on domestic assembly, cybersecurity vetting, and practical systems integration.
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In a recent podcast appearance, Figure founder Brett Adcock pushed back against humanoid hype, arguing that the true bottleneck is onboard intelligence, not hardware manufacturing, and claiming early customers are already seeing a real-world return on investment.
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LG has formalized a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to co-develop a bipedal humanoid robot, deploy wheel-based systems in U.S. factories, and build next-generation AI infrastructure.
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A new resolution in San Mateo County aims to mandate on-site human supervision, automation impact fees, and strict fire safety requirements for commercial humanoids, setting a high regulatory bar for physical AI startups.
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With Gen 3 deliveries slated for the end of the year, Persona AI has begun early integration work in South Korea, building on recent momentum from its teleoperated welding demonstrations in Houston.
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Sunday Robotics has unveiled ACT-2, a new foundation model that achieves unprecedented reliability in unstructured home environments, establishing laundry folding as the company’s first fully generalized "Solve."
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Figure CEO Brett Adcock has revealed footage of the Figure 03 autonomously climbing a ladder, a milestone he used to declare wheeled robots an "utter dead end."
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The San Francisco-based startup is deploying custom Unitree G1 humanoids for domestic chores, blending AI and human teleoperation. But heavy reliance on Chinese hardware raises immediate regulatory questions.
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DeepMind’s latest robotics framework debuts three new models, expanding vision-language-action capabilities from isolated tabletop manipulation to full-body humanoid control, high-DoF tactile dexterity, and multi-agent coordination.