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With backing from NVIDIA, Amazon, Qualcomm, and industrial giants, the German deep-tech firm aims to scale its cognitive humanoids and Physical AI platform to millions of units by 2030.

SoftBank Group Corp. is reportedly in early negotiations to lead an $800 million funding round for Munich-based Agile Robots, deepening its "brains and bodies" investment strategy in physical AI.

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.

The LeRobot team has released a low-cost, full-stack bipedal platform designed to close the sim-to-real gap for researchers and builders without breaking the bank.

Following a successful intralogistics trial in Germany, the UK-based robotics startup has secured Bosch as a contract manufacturer, setting the stage for scaled European deployment.