SoftBank Puts $200 Million Into Autonomous Excavators
A robot-safety startup goes public, humanoid skin gets acquired, and a $30-an-hour robot maid that turns out to be human-driven.
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LG builds its 2027 humanoid on Nvidia's brain
2,056 robots descend on Beijing, Schaeffler stamps out a cheaper humanoid joint, and a fourth US airline shuts robots out of the cabin.
Samsung bets its appliance factories can build cheaper humanoids
Humanoids arrive on US auto lines, a robot built to pick tomatoes, and a California county writes the rulebook.
China now ships almost every humanoid robot on Earth
A Meta AI director's new startup, Europe's robotics bet, and MIT teaching an AI physics.
The Navy's $900 Million Physical AI Shipbuilding Bet
A self-charging Atlas, a $6.5M raise for warehouse humanoids, and a county that wants to permit robots.
The math still keeps humanoids off factory floors
Musk's moon-factory robots, Unitree's $9 billion IPO, Xiaomi open-sources its robot brain, and a sensor with an insect's eye.
Figure now builds one humanoid every hour
SKF bets on humanoid joints, Spirit AI's benchmark scandal, and Hanwha's $4B physical-AI spin-off.
Unitree opens the first big humanoid robot IPO
FedEx scales a dual-armed loader, AMD guns for Nvidia's robot chip, and a $30-an-hour robot maid arrives in San Francisco.
The US just redrew who can sell a robot on its soil
A club-of-two deployment index, 2,000 Chinese robots in UK warehouses, whole-body AI, and Beijing's threat of countermeasures.
