embodied AI News
Latest embodied AI news and analysis — 117 articles tagged embodied AI on The Robotics Media.
- Skild AI Hits $100M Revenue Run Rate 10 Months After First Deploy — — Pittsburgh's Skild AI reveals a $100M annual revenue run rate and unveils S1, a video-taught robot foundation model built on NVIDIA infrastructure, te...
- Kinetix AI Bags $75M Angel Round From Vertex Ventures To Scale Ultra-Human KAIBot — — Shenzhen-based embodied AI startup Kinetix AI raises $75M Angel+ round led by Temasek's Vertex Ventures to scale its 115-DoF KAIBot humanoid and close...
- Vbot Books 5,000-Robot Order Wave At IFA 2026, SuperDog Sales Top 13,000 Globally — — Vbot signed IFA 2026 purchase agreements for 5,000+ SuperDog quadrupeds with 16 European distributors, and said cumulative global sales have crossed 1...
- GPT-6 Astra Aces Robot Block-In-Bowl Task, Still Stalls On The Puzzle — — Y Combinator-backed Robocurve pitted OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra against Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 on bimanual YAM arms and found Astra 2.4x more likely t...
- XPENG IRON Humanoid Robot Walks Off Guangzhou Production Line — — XPENG commissioned its Guangzhou humanoid robot production line on September 8, with IRON autonomously walking off the line as the company reaffirmed...
- Beijing Galbot Puts G1 Wheeled Humanoid On Real Pharmacy Shifts At IFA 2026 As European Buyers Weigh China Intel Law — — Galbot ran live G1 retrieval demos at IFA Berlin's Hall 25 this week, showcasing a wheeled humanoid already handling 5,000 SKUs at a licensed Beijing...
- Tripo AI Raises Approximately $446M Series B And B+ To Scale 3D-Native Foundation Models — — Beijing-based Tripo AI, operated by VAST, closed roughly $446 million across Series B and Series B+ rounds led by MPCi and unveiled Tripo P2.0, the fi...
- Fei-Fei Li's World Labs Debuts Atlas Omni World Model For 3D Generation And Robotics Sim — — World Labs' new Atlas model natively handles text, images, video and 3D, beating specialist reconstruction and camera-control baselines on both tasks.
- NEURA Robotics Puts 4NE1 And Neuraverse Center Stage At IFA 2026 Berlin Keynote — — 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...
- XGSynBot Z1 Wheeled Humanoid Makes European Debut At IFA Berlin 2026 — — China's XGSynBot brought its Z1 wheeled humanoid robot to IFA Berlin 2026's IFA Next hall on September 4, pitching a modular six-second tool swap and...
- Google DeepMind Ships Gemini Robotics ER 2 With Multi-Robot Orchestration — — Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2, its embodied-reasoning brain that coordinates multiple robots, tracks task success and beats Opus 5, GP...
- Kinetic Blocks Opens Verified Marketplace For Robotics Training Data — — Oslo startup Kinetic Blocks has opened an open marketplace for robotics and physical-AI training data, with every listing independently verified and g...
- XPeng Spins Off Dogotix With $900M Seed At $6.3B Valuation — — XPeng Motors carved out its humanoid robotics arm Dogotix on August 24, 2026, closing an initial round of more than $900 million from IDG Capital, Ali...
- Figure Hits 1,000th Figure 03 Off The BotQ Line In California — — Figure AI has manufactured its 1,000th Figure 03 humanoid at the BotQ facility in California, sustaining approximately one robot per hour and cementin...
- BMW Turns On Physical AI In Europe With Hexagon's AEON Humanoid In Leipzig — — BMW Group has switched on its first European humanoid deployment at Plant Leipzig using Hexagon Robotics' AEON, and opened a Center of Competence for...
- Check-Cap Completes MBody AI Merger, Closes $10M Ordinary-Share Offering — — Check-Cap Ltd. (NASDAQ: MBAI) closed a $10 million public offering on August 27 after finalizing its business combination with MBody AI Corp., complet...
- Leapmotor Enters Humanoid Race, Stands Up Lingsheng Robotics Subsidiary — — Leapmotor's CFO Li Tengfei used the August 25 H1 earnings call to confirm a humanoid robotics push through newly registered Huzhou Lingsheng Precision...
- Motion Raises $2M To Rent Humanoid Robots To European Factories — — Brussels-based Motion has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Extantia Capital to scale a Humanoids-as-a-Service model that turns robot deplo...
- Generalist AI Raises $200M In 8VC-Led Round, Weeks After Debuting Gen-1.5 — — Robotics AI startup Generalist AI has raised $200 million in a fresh round led by 8VC, coming roughly a week after unveiling its Gen-1.5 embodied foun...
- Noitom's AdaPT Teaches Humanoids to Play Nadal-Style Tennis on the Court — — Two days after making its HiPHI motion dataset public, Noitom Robotics and its research partners unveiled AdaPT — a system that teaches Unitree G1 and...