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July reporting described plans for Grünheide workers to wear cameras for Optimus training. A new post revives the story, but the program’s current scale remains unclear.
A planned 2027 program would combine robot AI research, a physical-data library and early postal and logistics trials. Its budget is still being finalized.
From a handheld GoPro gripper to Sunday’s Skill Capture Glove, Reward AI’s Omnibody Hand and X Square’s TwinDEX, a growing school of robot development starts with the device humans use to teach the machine.
Two weeks after emerging from stealth, Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock shared growth metrics for Index, reporting nearly 70,000 weekly active users uploading 35 minutes of human interaction video every second.
Shenzhen-based X Square Robot has introduced TwinDEX, an isomorphic three-finger, nine-DoF manipulation interface paired between a wearable exoskeleton and a robot end effector to accelerate real-world dexterous data collection.
Oslo-based Kinetic Blocks launches a gated two-sided market to standardize licensing, pricing, and quality grading for physical AI datasets.
BitRobot, Hugging Face, and Unitree have teamed up to release Humanoids-in-the-Wild 500 (HIW-500), a massive 500-hour teleoperation dataset collected across real homes in Southeast Asia using Unitree G1 hardware.
As robotics moves from the lab to the living room, AGIBOT launches a multi-phase, industrial-grade dataset to solve the industry’s most persistent scaling challenge.
The latest hardware from the Dutch haptic specialists aims to provide the high-fidelity data required for the next generation of embodied AI and dexterous robot control.
With a fresh $15 million in funding and a massive new dataset, Build AI is doubling down on the bet that human video is the key to universal robot intelligence.
The $5.6 billion startup reveals that sufficiently large robot models naturally learn to understand human video, potentially solving the industry's data bottleneck.
In a technical addendum to its GEN-0 launch, Generalist AI reveals new details on its pretraining methodology, introducing metrics like "Reverse KL" to measure model creativity and claiming infrastructure capable of absorbing 6.85 years of robot experience per day.
