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Perceptron Ships Mk1.5, An Egocentric Physical-AI Model At 25x Lower Cost — Sep 26, 2026 — Perceptron's Mk1.5 multimodal reasoning model lands on OpenRouter and AWS Marketplace at $0.15/$1.50 per million tokens, targeting drones, quadrupeds...Reward AI Exits Stealth With OM-1, A Human-Data-Only Robot Foundation Model — Sep 16, 2026 — Stanford spin-out Reward AI has broken cover with OM-1, a robot manipulation policy trained entirely on human wearable data — no teleoperation, no on-...RobotPlusPlus Closes Series C Led By Qianggang Capital To Scale Working-At-Height Robots Globally — Sep 15, 2026 — Beijing's RobotPlusPlus (ROBOT++) closed a hundreds-of-millions-of-yuan Series C led by Qianggang Capital to expand its hull-derusting and industrial...NEURA Robotics Puts 4NE1 And Neuraverse Center Stage At IFA 2026 Berlin Keynote — Sep 5, 2026 — NEURA Robotics CEO David Reger used his September 5 IFA 2026 keynote to pitch a European physical-AI ecosystem built around the 4NE1 humanoid and the...Generalist AI Unveils GEN-1.5, A Robot Foundation Model That Learns From One Demo — Aug 23, 2026 — Generalist AI released GEN-1.5, an embodied foundation model that can learn new physical tasks from 3 to 12 seconds of demonstration data in-context,...Samsung Fast-Tracks In-House Humanoid As Roh Personally Reviews Prototype — Aug 17, 2026 — Samsung Electronics is racing to commercialize an in-house humanoid robot after co-CEO Roh Tae-moon personally reviewed a working prototype and top-ti...Genesis AI In Talks To Raise ~$500M At $3B Valuation — Jul 24, 2026 — Bloomberg reports the physical-AI startup behind the GENE foundation model and Eno robot is negotiating a $500M round at a $3B pre-money valuation, ro...ACE ROBOTICS Unveils Kairos 3.1 World Model and Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 At WAIC 2026 — Jul 20, 2026 — Shanghai embodied-AI firm ACE ROBOTICS previewed its Kairos 3.1 world model, Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 data pipeline, and three commercial robot solu...Mistral AI Unveils Robostral Navigate, a Single-Camera Robotics Model — Jul 8, 2026 — Paris-based Mistral AI released Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter vision-language model that lets robots navigate unseen indoor and outdoor s...AGIBOT Unveils GO-2 Embodied AI Model Uniting Reasoning and Action — Jun 22, 2026 — AGIBOT's new GO-2 foundation model fuses high-level reasoning with precise robot control, claiming state-of-the-art results that top NVIDIA GR00T and...Alibaba Unveils Qwen-Robot Suite for Embodied AI Robots — Jun 17, 2026 — Alibaba launched its first foundation models built for physical robots, extending Qwen into navigation, manipulation and predictive world modeling.PSYONIC and ABB Robotics Team Up to Give Cobots a Human Touch — Jun 16, 2026 — ABB Robotics and PSYONIC are combining the GoFa cobot with the multi-touch Ability Hand to train robots using real tactile data from human prosthetic...Synchron Targets 2026 Stentrode Pivotal Trial On Path To First Implanted BCI PMA — Jun 15, 2026 — Synchron is preparing the first pivotal clinical trial of a permanently implanted brain-computer interface in 2026, funded by a $200M Series D and aim...XPENG CEO Takes Helm Of Robotics Unit, Targets IRON Mass Production In Q4 — Jun 15, 2026 — He Xiaopeng will personally run XPENG Robotics as the EV maker pivots to a 'physical AI company' and aims for mass production of its IRON humanoid rob...NOETIX Robot Achieves First Eye Contact Communication with Humans — May 22, 2026 — NOETIX humanoid robot becomes world's first robot capable of eye contact interaction, featuring hyper-realistic facial features and workplace integrat...