Australian farmer herds cattle from Japanese ski slope
PLUS: Nvidia's new surgical AI model, Sanctuary hits 99.5% success plugging wires, and Amazon backs physical AI unicorn Odyssey
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Universal Robots launches AI-powered PolyScope X platform
PLUS: Toyota Canada puts Agility's Digit humanoids on its assembly line, China deploys 10,000 humanoids, and Unitree's G1 summits 20,000-foot volcano
Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B for artificial general engineer
PLUS: Barcelona's Theker lands Europe's largest robotics Series A, wheeled vs legged humanoids debate intensifies, and Rivian CEO's separate $1B robotics company
Neura lands record $1.4B from Tether and Nvidia
PLUS: Xpeng CEO takes charge of humanoid pivot, Wonder's robots make 500 bowls per hour, and Moon Surgical's multi-AI platform
Hanwha Ocean pilots humanoid robots in Korean shipyards within a year
PLUS: Nvidia and LG build AI factory for home robots, UBTECH ships $30K consumer humanoids, and China builds 85% of world's humanoids but buyers stay scarce
Surgical drone operates mid-flight in combat zones
PLUS: Robots learn surgery from YouTube videos, magnetically-steered micro-bots navigate your brain, and Cognizant's trillion-dollar AI factory play
1X launches World Model Lab for humanoid autonomy
PLUS: BYD enters humanoid robotics with dealer sales, Figure 03 lands first major retail commercial deal, and US Army backs stealthy robotic logistics trucks
Nvidia open-sources Cosmos 3 for physical AI
PLUS: Intel's $130M robotics comeback, Nvidia and Unitree's open humanoid design, and Sam Altman backs stealth robotics startup Alfred
China Post's humanoid robots sort 1,200 parcels hourly
PLUS: EngineAI's factory claims 15-minute robot production, Trump-linked bots tested in Ukraine combat zone, and LimX's Luna programmed via natural language
