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The 31-year-old creator of the Dreamer agent series left Google DeepMind in fall 2025 to launch a stealth robotics startup in San Francisco.
Washington tightened restrictions on Chinese drones and advanced robots this summer, but five Chinese firms shipped 86% of humanoids in H1 2026.
MHS gives Claude and other models a USB-C-style interface for microscopes, robot arms, and factory equipment — with open-source plans to follow.
The Cambridge startup founded by ex-DeepMind and Boston Dynamics researchers is chasing a GPT-3 moment for physical intelligence.
Backed by $15M in seed funding, 1872 is automating steel fabrication for AI data centers as US welding shortages hit 320,500 by 2029.
The sweeping import ban covers humanoids, quadrupeds, and wheeled robots — hitting Unitree just as it targets a $6 billion IPO.
The new embodied reasoning model tracks task progress from live video, orchestrates other robots, and runs at 4x the speed of larger rivals.
The updated model fuses a vision-language brain with two action models to run robots like Apptronik's Apollo 2 on real chores.
Nvidia is targeting first-time robotics developers with a handbag-sized dev kit that runs generative AI locally, no cloud required.
The Israeli-Californian lab is opening 100+ of its own AI robots to public control online, betting that interface design beats raw model capability.
The startup is manufacturing egocentric video, muscle-sensor readings, and now EEG signals to feed humanoid models starved of real-world data.
Andreessen Horowitz leads a $1.7B round for the ex-Uber CEO's robotics play, with Uber itself joining nine years after pushing him out.
The $11B robotics startup denied a weekend rumor, but spring talks were real — and OpenAI is already on the cap table.
The Carnegie Mellon-founded startup says its systems help crews install 3,000–4,000 panels a day, up from 800 without them.
The Yann LeCun-backed world model startup raised $1.03B in March but is still pre-product and courting Korean robotics partners.
The Blackwell-based T3000 delivers 865 FP4 teraflops in half the size of the T5000; both modules ship Q1 2027.
Boston Dynamics and Physical Intelligence say reinforcement learning and foundation models have redrawn what robot autonomy means in 2026.
The integration connects 3M robotics developers to 16M AI builders, with Cosmos 3 world models coming next to Hugging Face's open library.
The CUDA-accelerated framework now spans manipulation, mobility and humanoids, running from Jetson edge boards to DGX Spark workstations.
Khosla Ventures led the round on a bet that hundreds of millions of hours of human gameplay data can teach AI to navigate the physical world.
The Berkeley-bred startup is selling teleoperation, simulation, and annotation pipelines to 20 customers including frontier AI labs chasing physical AI.
The French startup backed by Eric Schmidt is targeting factory, lab and logistics deployments by the end of 2026.
The Barcelona startup says it is Europe's largest robotics Series A, backed by CRV, Samsung, and LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault's family office.
A three-month London program gives founders access to Gemini robotics models, with cohort spanning healthcare microrobots to ocean autonomy.
Nvidia's CEO frames Korea's industrial base as the launchpad for physical AI, hinting at unannounced partnerships in Seoul.
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