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Researchers propose a dual-branch deep learning architecture to improve decoding accuracy in motor imagery brain-computer interfaces.
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Researchers propose a dual-branch deep learning architecture to improve decoding accuracy in motor imagery brain-computer interfaces.
Chinese manufacturers are deploying humanoid robots into South Korean workplaces, marking the first major cross-border incursion of physical AI labor into a developed economy.
Oregon robotics firm completes SPAC merger and begins Nasdaq trading Thursday, marking a physical AI company's transition to public markets.
A new humanoid robot designed for bomb disposal offers militaries an alternative to human exposure in ordnance operations.
1X is introducing a disembodied head version of its Neo humanoid robot, positioning the device as a smart-home control hub.
Agility Robotics is moving its Digit humanoid robot to production in Kansas, signaling commercial momentum in the physical AI space.
A humanoid robot will serve as traffic control at the 2026 Hangzhou Marathon, marking one of the first large-scale deployments of physical AI in public event management.
Meta is collaborating with Fourier Intelligence to develop a humanoid robot for home use, expanding its physical AI ambitions beyond software.
Tesla plans to open reservations for Optimus, its humanoid robot, by year's end.
Tesla has begun manufacturing its Optimus humanoid robot at a facility in California, moving the project from prototype to production.
Audi is deploying humanoid robots in its warehouses to handle parts movement and sorting tasks.
Tesla has begun manufacturing its Optimus humanoid robot at a California facility, marking the company's transition from prototype to production.
Agility has secured a repeat order from its first customer for its Digit humanoid robot, signaling commercial traction in warehouse automation.
Unitree's new humanoid robot fell during its public demonstration, a stumble that has become unexpectedly instructive for rival engineers watching on Chinese social media.
Generative Bionics is opening a Physical AI Data Factory in Italy to generate training data for embodied AI systems.
LG Innotek and Nvidia are partnering to build vision systems for humanoid robots, targeting the embodied AI hardware race.
Figure AI's humanoid robot completed a 348-mile walk in nine days, a demonstration of extended autonomous endurance.
NVIDIA introduced a reference humanoid robot and expanded its Isaac platform with new simulation tools and frameworks designed to accelerate general-purpose robotics development.
An unnamed humanoid robot demonstrates improved payload capacity, pushing 77 pounds and lifting 44 pounds in new footage.
The U.S. Army is running a competition to test humanoid robots for military deployment, exploring how machines might handle tasks too dangerous or physically demanding for soldiers.
A German billionaire is opening gyms designed to train humanoid robots, betting that physical conditioning will unlock commercial deployment.
AiMOGA is opening global pre-orders for Mobo, a home humanoid robot designed for domestic tasks.
FF EAI Robotics and FF jointly introduced FF Nova, a humanoid robot priced under $2,500, along with a developer program and curriculum to seed the physical AI ecosystem.
Agility Robotics has selected Nyobolt to supply ultra-fast charging batteries for its Digit 5 humanoid robot, addressing a critical pain point in commercial deployment.
A semi-humanoid robot has demonstrated the ability to complete a full commercial laundry shift, marking a tangible step toward physical AI systems handling real industrial work.
Agility Robotics, maker of the bipedal Digit humanoid, is going public as the first pure-play humanoid robot company.
UBTECH is expanding its humanoid robot testing into factory logistics work alongside FAW-Volkswagen, moving the technology from the lab into production operations.
BYD has unveiled a humanoid robot with 31 degrees of freedom and a dexterous hand capable of grasping and manipulating objects.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs has deployed humanoid robots on campus as teaching aids, marking a real-world integration of embodied AI into higher education.
A Chinese startup has built a pocket-sized humanoid robot that runs on Android smartphones and retails for $400, making physical AI accessible at the impulse-buy price point.
AWS released a suite of tools designed to help companies build and deploy industrial robots faster, signaling the cloud giant's deeper commitment to physical AI.
Boston Dynamics appoints Russ Tedrake, formerly Amazon's AI chief, as CEO as the company prepares to commercialize its Atlas humanoid robot.
Figure is scrapping its older F.02 humanoid robots to recycle materials for next-generation models.
A humanoid surgical robot completed its first live operation, marking a concrete step toward automated surgical assistance in real hospitals.
YMX has equipped its electric yard trucks with autonomous driving capabilities, expanding self-driving technology beyond on-road vehicles into industrial logistics.
RoboParty has unveiled the RP1, an open-source humanoid robot designed as a full-stack system, at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
NASA is building dexterous humanoid robots to support astronauts on lunar missions.
Agility Robotics is moving from one-off prototypes to manufacturing 500 humanoid robots, a shift that exposes the messy gap between lab safety and production scale.
A sub-$3,600 humanoid robot designed for accessibility hits the market, trading speed and sophistication for a price point that could democratize physical AI.
Flourish One, a Raspberry Pi-powered humanoid robot, launches as a consumer assistant aimed at families.
An unnamed Chinese roboticist has unveiled what he claims is the first embodied AI robot built entirely on domestic electronics, framing the advancement as a shift toward indigenous autonomy systems rather than imported components.
Andriy Zahorodnyuk, Ukraine's former defense minister, unveiled a robotics initiative aimed at accelerating autonomous warfare capabilities.
Feather has released a humanoid robot priced at $29,990, undercutting legacy competitors and suggesting that smaller teams can crack the economics of physical AI.
Tesla is producing Optimus humanoid robots at a rate of hundreds per week, but they remain limited to narrow, scripted tasks rather than adapting to novel situations.
A Chinese humanoid robotics firm is expanding internationally ahead of an IPO push.
An influencer faced off against a humanoid robot in a boxing match billed as the first human-robot bout, a publicity stunt that underscores the racing commercialization of physical AI.
A leading U.S. humanoid robot maker is targeting a tenfold increase in output, signaling accelerating commercialization of physical AI.
XPeng announced production of its humanoid robot, prompting analysts to reassess the Chinese EV maker's valuation.
UBTech opened a factory capable of producing one android every ten minutes, paired with what it calls the first fully automated three-dimensional warehouse.
University of Miami's RoboCanes robotics team has acquired a humanoid robot to compete in the RoboCup competition.
Figure unveiled Helix 2.5, a neural network that enables its humanoid robot to perform household tasks like tidying and bed-making across thirty unseen homes without retraining.
Zoomlion entered humanoid robots in the World Humanoid Robot Games, testing its full-stack engineering against global competitors.
An Oregon robotics company has unveiled a humanoid robot designed to operate safely alongside human workers.
Japan has developed a specialized autonomous ambulance designed to retrieve and transport damaged robots from the field.
GMO Air has unveiled Japan's first 'robot ambulance,' a van that dispatches engineers and spare humanoids to fix broken robots on-site rather than shuttling them back to repair centers.
Chinese roboticist unveiled video of a humanoid robot autonomous departure from the assembly line, a staging post toward commercialization of embodied AI.
Chinese humanoid startup Unitree releases a new robotics model while disputing OpenAI's claims about model distillation.
Skild AI is using NVIDIA's Physical AI platform to enable robots to learn new tasks from single-video demonstrations.
Vention opens a Physical AI Lab in Montreal aimed at applying machine learning to manufacturing automation.
Unitree has equipped its humanoid robot with an autonomous fighting capability powered by a new AI model, demonstrating physical interaction without human control.
Israeli robotics firm Magellanic expands its physical AI platform with the AtlasROVER, a ground robot designed for autonomous delivery.
Humanoid robots have begun operating convenience stores in Hong Kong, marking the first documented deployment of androids in retail commerce.
Waymo is expanding its autonomous robotaxi service, drawing praise from riders who cite improved safety.
OpenAI is developing a humanoid robot, with Sam Altman projecting a future where households possess one as a standard utility.
PwC Canada launched a new Physical AI service line to advise organizations on deploying robotics and autonomous systems.
Draganfly won FAA approval to operate drones heavier than 55 pounds commercially, clearing the way for heavy-payload industrial and defense work.
Dairy Queen has deployed a humanoid robot to staff a 24-hour ice cream parlor in Shanghai, marking an early real-world test of service robots in quick-service restaurant settings.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić promoted armed robotic dogs as the country inaugurated a manufacturing facility for Chinese humanoid robots.
A China-Serbia joint venture has begun mass production at Europe's first humanoid robot factory, a facility designed to supply the continent with physical AI systems.
Tau Robotics deploys humanoid robots in San Francisco homes at thirty dollars per hour, handling mopping and kitchen cleaning with minimal human intervention.
Renesas opened a Physical AI and Robotics Lab in Beijing and committed to supplying 70% of the components in humanoid robots.
A San Francisco resident has begun renting a humanoid robot for $30 an hour to clean her apartment, marking an early real-world deployment of teleoperator-controlled domestic robotics.
Chinese robotics firm deploys humanoid robot Tiangong that runs 100 meters in under 9 seconds, marking a speed milestone for physical AI.
Chinese robotics teams unveiled sprinting robots that eclipsed Usain Bolt's 100-meter record at a Beijing competition, demonstrating advances in legged locomotion and real-world performance benchmarking.
Physical Intelligence reports that its vision-language-action model π 0.5 achieves roughly 2x performance gains on robotic tasks by learning from human video data at scale, demonstrating emergent transfer capabilities in robotic foundation models.
Schaeffler will begin mass production of gearboxes for humanoid robots in 2027, betting on the nascent market's maturation.
Georgia Southern University deployed a humanoid robot at its Savannah campus, marking the institution's entry into physical AI research and education.
AgiBot leads global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research.
Unitree unveiled Superman, a humanoid robot designed to perform heavy industrial tasks.
A Chinese company has unveiled a humanoid robot called Superman, adding to the global race to commercialize physical AI.
VMR Robotics has produced its 500th humanoid robot chassis, marking a production milestone for the company's physical AI platform.
A humanoid robot has begun patrolling streets in Wuhu, China, taking on traffic enforcement duties.
LG and NVIDIA unveiled an AI-powered humanoid robot, combining the appliance maker's hardware expertise with NVIDIA's computing platform.
Over two thousand humanoid robots from sixteen countries converge in Beijing this month for competitions testing machines on soccer, martial arts, and factory work.
Samsung is developing its own humanoid robots in-house, betting on manufacturing scale to undercut competitors on cost.
Samsung has built a humanoid robot using motor technology from its home-appliance division, marking a quiet entry into the physical-AI robotics market.
Chinese robotics maker's IPO draws a frenzy of retail demand, suggesting appetite for physical AI plays despite regulatory uncertainty.
AgiBot surpasses Unitree to claim the lead in commercial humanoid robots as both Chinese makers prepare for public markets.
Unitree founder Wang Shengsheng becomes a billionaire as the world's largest humanoid robot maker prepares for its IPO.
Unitree, a Chinese humanoid robot maker, prices its IPO at a $9 billion valuation.
Unitree's IPO makes founder Wang Shenshen, 36, China's first humanoid-robot billionaire, validating a startup that has shipped thousands of four-legged machines and bipedal robots to factories and researchers worldwide.
Two teleoperated humanoid robots performed live surgery, marking a milestone in the deployment of physical AI for high-stakes medical procedures.
A New York school district paused its $60,000 robot teacher purchase from Realbotix after parents and officials objected to the manufacturer's ties to sex-doll companies.
SKF, the Swedish bearing manufacturer, is entering the humanoid robot market by producing specialized bearings for robots that must move like humans.
Tau Robotics has begun deploying humanoid robots to clean homes in San Francisco, marking a commercial entry into domestic physical AI.
A San Francisco startup has begun offering commercial cleaning services using humanoid robots, marking an early real-world deployment of physical AI in service work.
Tau Robotics has begun offering humanoid robots for residential cleaning service in San Francisco, marking an early commercial deployment of physical AI in home maintenance.
BYD will debut its first humanoid robots in August, escalating competition with Tesla in physical AI.
Waymo is returning its autonomous vehicles to Bay Area freeways after addressing safety concerns that triggered a temporary halt.
WanJiYiZu won a contract to deploy humanoid robots at a DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Hengqin, marking a commercial expansion into hospitality service.
Sanctuary Cognition unveiled Gene.01, a humanoid robot equipped with artificial skin that can sense touch and temperature.
Generative Bionics unveiled Gene.01, a humanoid robot embedded with touch and proximity sensors that light up when touched, at AMD's Advancing AI conference.
The South Korean Navy tested Pibot, a humanoid robot developed by KAIST, as a ship's helmsman, following voice commands and operating controls in a simulator.
AgiBot, a Chinese humanoid-robot maker, has begun the process of listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
Fraunhofer IPA has released a benchmark for evaluating humanoid robots in cleanroom and industrial settings, addressing a gap in standardized performance assessment for physical AI in controlled environments.
Gene.01, a humanoid robot with tactile skin sensors, has been unveiled as a step toward more responsive physical AI systems.
A humanoid robot company is deploying machines in a New York school as its largest real-world test site, though operational challenges remain.
Matrix Robotics unveiled the MATRIX-3 humanoid robot at WAIC 2026, positioning the third-generation model toward autonomous physical labor.
GeniusRobotics' Ares humanoid robot enters mass production in China, marking the first commercially scaled humanoid platform.
Xpeng announced flying cars and humanoid robots at a Munich event, expanding beyond electric vehicles into physical AI hardware.
Weave Robotics introduced Isaac, a mobile humanoid robot designed for industrial and warehouse tasks.
Japanese manufacturers are adopting NVIDIA's Cosmos foundation model to train robots that can perceive and manipulate the physical world.
UBTech unveiled the U1, a mass-production humanoid robot with emotional AI designed for lifelong companionship.