Hark, the AI startup founded by Brett Adcock, launched its first consumer product, the Hark Pro app, on October 6, 2026, for web, iOS, and Android, with hardware devices expected to ship in 2027. Hark…
Dongfeng Motor's humanoid robot Xiaodong will begin factory training by the end of October and move into trial production before the end of 2026, with small-batch manufacturing planned for 2027, accor…
OpenAI has listed 27 robotics jobs on its careers page, up from 11 in May, with publicly advertised base salaries ranging from $177,000 to $500,000 a year before equity, according to a Business Inside…
Figure AI unveiled Helix 2.5, a new neural network for humanoid robots, on September 17, 2026, demonstrating robots performing extended household chores such as tidying, towel folding, and bed making …
Figure AI unveiled Helix 2.5 on September 17, 2026, a humanoid neural network that achieved a 56% success rate across 237 completed tasks out of 420 attempts in 30 Bay Area homes its robots had never …
Figure AI unveiled Helix 2.5 on September 17, 2026, a humanoid control model that achieved a 56% success rate across three household tasks in 30 previously unseen Bay Area homes, completing 237 of 420…
Figure AI introduced Helix 2.5, a neural network pretrained on its Index dataset of human behavior that achieved zero-shot whole-body autonomy across 30 unseen Bay Area homes, performing living-room t…
Tiangong Ultra, a bipedal humanoid robot developed at the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, set new speed and agility records at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing in August 2026, winni…
Figure AI has committed $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs, betting billions on training the models behind its humanoid robots. The deal underscores the massive compute demands of AI…
Tens of thousands of Indian gig workers are earning about $2.62 an hour to wear head-mounted cameras and film themselves performing tasks such as stripping labels, stitching shoes, and welding steel, …
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…
Figure AI has signed a $3.5 billion compute deal with UK-based Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs for training its Helix AI models, with the deal expected to grow beyond $6 billion.…
Sanctuary AI announced on June 17 that it will license its Carbon AI control system to run on third-party robots, after achieving a 99.5% success rate on a wire-plugging task for a Tier 1 automotive s…
AssemblyAI, a voice AI company processing over 2 million hours of audio daily and serving 600M+ inference calls monthly, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Inference team in the United Kingd…
AssemblyAI, a Voice AI company processing over 2 million hours of audio daily and serving 600M+ monthly inference calls, is hiring its first Senior GTM Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $180k…
Chinese startup Galbot, founded in May 2023, has raised RMB 2.5 billion ($370 million) in a 2026 funding round, bringing its total funding to over RMB 4.9 billion and its valuation to over RMB 22 bill…
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,…
Unitree debuted on Shanghai's STAR Market with a valuation of RMB 445 billion ($62.3 billion USD) after shares surged 629% on opening day, and the company has produced 18,000 cumulative humanoid robot…
China's humanoid robot industry is shifting from viral demonstrations to proving economic viability, with manufacturers like Unitree, UBTech, and Zhiyuan Robotics under pressure to show real-world job…
Shares in Unitree, one of China's largest manufacturers of humanoid robots, surged by more than 460% on their first day of trading on Shanghai's STAR Market, lifting the company's valuation to around …