embodied AI News
Latest embodied AI news and analysis — 127 articles tagged embodied AI on The Robotics Media.
- BYD's First Humanoid Robot Packs 31 Degrees of Freedom and a Millimeter-Precise Hand — — BYD has revealed the design of its first self-developed humanoid robot through a newly published patent, a 1.61-meter machine built for dealership ser...
- Feather Robotics Bags $7.6M Pre-Seed To Sell A $30K Developer Humanoid — — Feather Robotics raises $7.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Gradient Ventures to sell a $30,000 modular humanoid that developers can customize and...
- Agility Robotics Says Digit Won't Be Its Last Form Factor As It Weighs Wheeled Robots — — Digit maker Agility Robotics is quietly exploring wheeled robot form factors as CEO Jonathan Hurst argues customers need bots in operation now, not tw...
- AGIBOT drops 300 humanoids into Chimelong Spaceship Park, hits 20,000-robot mark — — AGIBOT has integrated more than 300 embodied AI robots across Chimelong Spaceship Park in Zhuhai — the largest single-site rollout of humanoids to dat...
- Perceptron Ships Mk1.5, An Egocentric Physical-AI Model At 25x Lower Cost — — Perceptron's Mk1.5 multimodal reasoning model lands on OpenRouter and AWS Marketplace at $0.15/$1.50 per million tokens, targeting drones, quadrupeds...
- Skild AI's S1 Robot Brain Taught Itself Football In 140 Simulated Years — — Skild AI trained its S1 robotics foundation model to play four-a-side football through 140 simulated years of self-play in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, then tran...
- RLWRLD Doubles Down On Factory-First Physical AI For Humanoids — — Seoul-based RLWRLD laid out a deployment-first Physical AI strategy: put its ALLEX robot into real factories and warehouses with CJ Logistics and Lott...
- Figure AI's Helix 2.5 Cleans 30 Strangers' Homes It Has Never Seen — — A single frozen Helix 2.5 checkpoint hit 56% on tidying, towel-folding and bed-making across 30 unseen Bay Area homes, versus 9% without Index pretrai...
- Spirit AI Founder Bets Robot Brains Hit Their 'GPT-3 Moment' By Mid-2027 — — Hangzhou-based Spirit AI's co-founder Gao Yang told Reuters on September 18 that humanoid robot brains will hit a 'GPT-3 moment' by mid-2027, with Moz...
- Shutu Bags Nearly RMB 100M Pre-Series A For Robot Data And Tactile Intelligence — — Shenzhen physical-AI supplier Shutu Technology closes a Pre-Series A of nearly RMB 100 million led by CDH Baifu and Kunpeng Fund to scale its SynaData...
- 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...