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Latest embodied AI news and analysis — 105 articles tagged embodied AI on The Robotics Media.
- 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...
- EngineAI Stages World's First Humanoid MMA Tournament, Robot Fights On After Losing Head — — Chinese humanoid startup EngineAI launched the Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend league with a $1.48M prize pool, using its T800 humanoid as the standar...
- Vbot Unveils 1.6-Meter ATOM Humanoid, Opens Pre-Orders At WRC 2026 — — Beijing embodied-AI startup Vbot took the stage at WRC 2026 to unveil ATOM, a 1.6-meter, 31-DOF humanoid designed for living spaces, and opened pre-or...
- NORINCO Debuts Fuxi Humanoid For Remote Reconnaissance And Hazard Ops — — China's state-owned defense conglomerate NORINCO Group unveiled Fuxi, a 90 kg full-size humanoid that mirrors human operators in real time via a domes...
- Zoomlion Debuts Robot Ops And ZBrain For Industrial Humanoids At WRC 2026 — — Chinese heavy machinery giant Zoomlion is showcasing its Z01 bipedal humanoid, Z03 wheeled humanoid, D-series robot dogs and the Robot Ops embodied-in...
- X-Humanoid Unveils TianGong Omni, Pelican-Unify And Mercedes-Benz Deal — — X-Humanoid used WRC 2026 to launch the TianGong Omni humanoid and Pelican-Unify embodied AI model, and signed Mercedes-Benz to deploy TianGong 3.0 acr...
- Ex-Nvidia Researcher Sanja Fidler's Veeda AI Bags $90M Seed To Build 'The Matrix' For Physical AI — — Toronto-founded Veeda AI has closed $90M+ in seed funding co-led by Khosla and Radical Ventures to build foundation world models for training humanoid...
- AMD Signs Oxford BOLD Lab MOU, Pledges $6.7M Compute For UK Frontier AI — — AMD will supply up to £5 million (about $6.7M) in compute over 18 months to the University of Oxford-led British Open-ended Learning and Discovery Lab...
- Beijing Debuts Tiangong 2.0 With WU World Model At WRC 2026 — — The Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center debuted Tiangong 2.0 and a new WU embodied world model at the 2026 World Robot Conference, running live p...
- Noitom Releases HiPHI, a 617.5-Hour Humanoid Motion Dataset, at WRC 2026 — — Beijing data startup Noitom Robotics has open-sourced HiPHI, a 617.5-hour, sub-millimeter human motion and object-interaction dataset it says is one o...
- AI2 Robotics' AlphaBot Serves Ice Cream At WRC 2026 In Public Debut — — AI2 Robotics' wheeled humanoid AlphaBot ran its own Alpha Brain vision-language-action model on the show floor of the World Robot Conference 2026 on A...
- Xiaomi to Debut First Humanoid Robot at World Robot Conference on Aug. 19 — — Xiaomi will show its first humanoid robot in public at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, President Lu Weibing said in the company's Q2 earni...
- Samsung Fast-Tracks In-House Humanoid As Roh Personally Reviews Prototype — — 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...