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Swiss startup Flexion Robotics emerges from stealth with \$50 million in Series A funding, a star-studded team from ETH Zurich and NVIDIA, and a serene video of a Unitree G1 cleaning up the Swiss Alps.

Nuclear materials giant Orano and tech partner Capgemini are testing a humanoid robot, Hoxo, at a French facility. The project, which uses a Unitree G1, aims to enhance safety and performance in sensitive industrial environments.

A newly-founded Chinese startup, MindOne Robotics, has released a viral video showing a Unitree G1 performing complex household tasks.

With the new G1-D, Unitree Robotics is pivoting from bipedal agility to stability, offering a wheeled humanoid and a full-stack software platform designed to accelerate data acquisition and model training.

New research from Stanford University, following MIT's recent SoftMimic project, uses a novel RL framework to teach humanoid robots upper-body compliance, enabling them to safely hug, provide support, and handle fragile objects.