CEOs of ANYbotics, Agility Robotics, and 1X outlined the convergence of humanoid hardware, synthetic labor economics, and hard-takeoff timelines at a Paris summit, pointing to $1-per-hour robot labor …
Humanoid robotics is developing a training-data market, but it is not yet a commodity market, according to an analysis of robot developers and data suppliers. Figure AI introduced its Index physical-d…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on May 31, 2026 that the company is rebuilding its robotics division to develop humanoid robots, targeting construction-assisting models by 2027 and consumer robots lat…
Figure AI raised over US$1 billion in September 2025 at a US$39 billion post-money valuation despite estimated 2026 revenue in the low tens of millions, implying a price-to-sales multiple above 1,000,…
Robotics engineer Ben Zhang used Anthropic's Claude AI to build a Bluetooth signal meter in about a minute after losing his phone in an office where mobile device management had disabled Apple's Find …
MIT Technology Review's AI Hype Index highlights unsexy AI developments including Grok's porn-pilled translation feature, Meta's creepy glasses, and Big Tech's skyrocketing emissions, while noting tha…
Agility Robotics opened a 60,000-square-foot research and training facility in Fremont, California, where it plans to house nearly 200 employees and teach its Digit humanoid new skills. Cofounder and …
Sunday Robotics' Memo robot achieves a 99% success rate in folding laundry in unfamiliar homes, powered by the ACT-2 AI model that adapts to new environments. CEO Tony Zhao predicts autonomous home ro…
1X vice president of product and design Dar Sleeper accused Wired of turning an exclusive on the company's $20,000 Neo humanoid robot into a story about 'sexualizing robotics,' saying he felt 'pretty …
1X has unveiled new humanoid robot hands for its Neo robot, achieving near-human-level dexterity. The hands represent a significant advancement in robotics, bringing humanoid robots closer to performi…
1X, a Norwegian-American robotics company, unveiled the five-finger hands for its Neo humanoid robot, designed with tendon-like actuators for 25 degrees of freedom, waterproofing, and AI-driven grip c…
Weave Robotics, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by former Apple engineers, unveiled Isaac 1, an $8,000 home robot that folds laundry and tidies up. The wheeled robot, priced significantly lower …
Humanoid robots demonstrated at the Robotics Summit in Boston can mix cocktails, run marathons, and fold laundry, but most remain teleoperated or restricted to scripted tasks, according to AFP-JIJI re…
Humanoid robots can now mix cocktails, run marathons, and fold laundry, but they still cannot multitask or perform general-purpose tasks on command, according to experts at the Robotics Summit in Bost…