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Speaking at MIT, Yann LeCun argued the "big secret" of the humanoid industry is that companies lack the fundamental AI breakthroughs—specifically "world models"—needed to make robots "generally useful" in domestic settings.

A new report reveals two stealth companies, Rhoda AI and Genesis AI, have raised massive early-stage rounds to tackle different aspects of humanoid robotics, from heavy lifting to software-driven control systems, signaling intensified competition in the sector.

Amazon's latest robotics project, ResMimic, uses a two-stage residual learning framework to efficiently teach humanoids complex loco-manipulation skills. By refining a general motion policy with task-specific corrections, the system enables a Unitree G1 to handle heavy and irregular objects with precision.

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.