DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics 2.5 for robot dexterity
DeepMind reports 30% to 100% higher success, faster tasks, and 96% kitting success on Mercedes-Benz lines.
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Tau Robotics humanoid robots launch apartment cleaning service in San Francisco
Tau's AI-guided robots collect cleaning data to train autonomous models while charging $30-$100 per session with remote human pilots.
HALO synthesizes vision-language-motion data for humanoid robots
HALO achieves 91 percent success on composite tasks in unmapped real homes by scaling simulation data rather than human teleoperation.
Toyota plans $6.4 billion a year on robots and automation
The automaker aims to deploy 400,000 robots, with its own factories first, while rivals include Tesla, Xpeng and Hyundai.
HuGe pretrains humanoid VLAs on 2,000 hours of egocentric data
The three-stage pipeline reports state-of-the-art simulation results and higher Unitree G1 pick-and-drop success.
Humanoid safety filters fail under ordinary goal-insertion attacks
SIREN found attacks in every vulnerable SPARK scenario and caused a real humanoid to collide during tasks.
HoloBoxing trains humanoid boxing in about seven minutes on one GPU
A frozen whole-body controller executes joints while a compact planner outputs future body-point targets via a 32-dimensional decoder.
SP-HLM links sparse poses to whole-body humanoid control
A vision-language-action model predicts five sparse poses, then a tracker combines them with a learned motion prior.
Modeling and Understanding Neural Weights of Humanoid Policies with Diffusion
Researchers generate deployable Unitree G1 humanoid controllers by diffusing learned policy weights.
BRACE tracks humanoid motion under commanded force and slope
A flow-matching student distilled by DAgger runs on proprioception alone and was tested on the Unitree-G1.
Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
Tesla workers refused to train Optimus humanoids they believed would replace them, so Tesla moved data collection to dedicated teams.
Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers
Agility Robotics unveils Digit 5 humanoid robot that autonomously stops, moves, or squats to avoid harming nearby human coworkers.
Founder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots
Report details Unitree founder Wang Xingxing's extreme cost-cutting and micromanagement driving cheap humanoid robots amid record core staff attrition.
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I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
Hands-on review finds the $4,017 Unitree Go2 Pro robot dog affordable but impractical, as Unitree reaches a $34 billion valuation after its IPO.
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Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
Mecka AI, which collects human motion data for robot training, is nearing a Sequoia-led round at about a $500 million valuation.
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This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected
Ex-Google DeepMind researcher Danijar Hafner founded a stealth robotics startup applying world models and model-based reinforcement learning to humanoid agents.
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There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything
An essay argues AI capex ($1.0–1.3T in 2026) now rivals global human-benefit spending and predicts shortages spreading from DRAM/HBM to cars and appliances.
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I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.
MIT Technology Review reports on China's humanoid robot industry push and embodied AI strategy from a Shanghai event.