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With a massive seed round and a valuation of $3.5 billion, AMI Labs is building a global research powerhouse to prove that "world models" are the true path to human-level intelligence.

A new €17 million "TUM RoboGym" at Munich Airport will deploy a fleet of humanoid robots to bridge the sim-to-real gap, fueling NEURA’s hardware-agnostic Neuraverse platform.

A new strategic collaboration between Neura Robotics and Qualcomm aims to accelerate the commercialization of humanoid robots by combining Dragonwing processors with the Neuraverse ecosystem.

Bloomberg reports that German robotics firm Neura Robotics has closed a €1 billion funding round led by stablecoin giant Tether, valuing the company at €4 billion as it prepares to mass-produce its cognitive humanoids.

Industrial giant Schaeffler has signed its first Chinese humanoid partnership with Leju Robotics and opened a specialized innovation factory in Taicang, even as leadership prepares investors for a conservative 2026 fiscal year.