Following a wave of executive departures in its AI division, 1X Technologies has launched the 1X World Model Lab, pivoting hard toward large-scale pretraining to solve the humanoid autonomy bottleneck.
In a recent TED Talk, Agility co-founder Jonathan Hurst outlined a grounded but massively ambitious roadmap for embodied AI, pushing back against the industry’s rush toward domestic androids.
It is not every day you see a full-sized industrial humanoid walking past a local restaurant. Persona AI CEO Nicolaus Radford just shared a rare look at their bipedal machine navigating public pavement.
Figure CEO Brett Adcock announced a massive secondary liquidity event for employees, sparking an industry-wide debate on compensation, equity risk, and corporate milestones in the humanoid robotics sector.
OpenAI is formally building its own internal robotics program to manufacture and program general-purpose machines, months after a high-profile split with Figure.