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LG announced it is developing a next-generation bipedal humanoid robot using Nvidia Isaac GR00T, with a public unveiling planned for the first quarter of next year. The companies signed a memorandum of understanding on A…
Humanoid Analytics' July 2026 snapshot identified 351 Core and Adjacent entities in the humanoid robotics ecosystem, with 225 humanoid builders and 126 adjacent companies (35.9% of the universe), suggesting the startup o…
Researchers at an undisclosed institution introduced a proxemics-based reward formulation for deep reinforcement learning (DRL) social navigation that models each human's personal space as a radial Gaussian-mixture field…
LG Group will unveil a humanoid robot powered by Nvidia's Isaac GR00T foundation model in Q1 next year, following a strategic MOU signed by LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at Nvidia's headquart…
JD Logistics, the supply chain arm of JD.com, has evolved from an e-commerce delivery network into a technology-driven platform integrating AI, robotics, and automated warehouses. The company uses AI for demand forecasti…
Matic rolled out Matic Cues on August 13, adding opt-in voice and gesture controls to its robot vacuum through a software update, allowing owners to point at a mess and say 'clean this,' direct the robot to a named room,…
Matic, the robot vacuum maker, launched 'Matic Cues' on Aug. 13, adding voice and gesture control powered by Google Gemini, allowing users to issue natural language commands like 'Hey Matic' to start cleaning or perform …
AWS's open source Strands Robots SDK now integrates with Hugging Face Storage Buckets to enable a continuous data loop for robot learning, allowing users to record demonstrations, train policies, and deploy them to hardw…
The Robot Report has released a free report on the current state of mobile manipulators and humanoid robots, featuring insights from industry experts and a list of over 200 verified humanoid robot providers. The report c…
Alloy Robotics, a Sydney-founded software maker using AI agents to debug robot fleets, has raised $8M in a funding round led by Square Peg, valuing the company at $80M. The round, announced Thursday, includes participati…
Humanoid robot experts from Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Persona AI, and PSYONIC will discuss the current state of humanoids at RoboBusiness on Oct. 20 and 21 in Santa Clara, Calif., focusing on real-world deployment, sa…
President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday called for a swift overhaul of South Korea's conscription system to introduce a 'selective voluntary enlistment system' that retains universal service while expanding professional role…
A developer compared traditional robotic process automation (RPA) with mobile AI agents, highlighting that RPA's hardcoded scripts break when interfaces change, while AI agents adapt by perceiving the live screen and re-…
China's embassy in Italy is promoting a narrative that frames artificial intelligence as a central pillar of Beijing's foreign policy and industrial strategy, aiming to shape global perceptions of its technological leade…
Honor launched its Robot Phone, a smartphone with a four-degree-of-freedom titanium gimbal and system-level AI agent architecture, priced at 9,999 yuan for the 12GB+512GB version and 12,999 yuan for the 16GB+1TB version.…
GameShame Studios founder Nidhish Sajwan revealed in NeoPod's sixth community AMA that Raijin Protocol, an on-chain aerial combat PvP game under development on Neo X since 2025, chose the chain for its MEV-resistant desi…
AI companies are hiring thousands of gig workers across more than 50 countries to record hand movements and physical tasks using wearable cameras and sensors, paying as little as $2.60 an hour in India, to train humanoid…
The Pentagon's missile buildup is driving startups like Machina, Hadrian, and Freeform to apply AI, robotics, and automated production to aerospace and defense manufacturing, challenging traditional factory models. Machi…
XPeng chairman He Xiaopeng announced on Jul 16 that the company's humanoid robot, Iron, will launch next year, with businesses getting first access before household use. Morgan Stanley projects the humanoid robot market …
Honor launched its AI-powered, gimbal-equipped Robot Phone in China, making the previously prototype-stage concept a commercial product. The device integrates AI-driven stabilization and robotics features, marking a nove…