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A new robot out of China can change its shape by inflating or deflating, and its creators hope it can be put to use for search and rescue operations.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA is helping to improve absolute accuracy for robots. The post High-precision robots: What to do when absolute accuracy is poor? appeared first on The Robot Report.

UK robotics startup Humanoid has released a 19-minute documentary showcasing the backend scenario of building humanoids under time pressure.

A new behind-the-scenes documentary from UK startup Humanoid details the company’s aggressive development cycle, its "Capability Factory" AI strategy, and a commercial pipeline that has already secured 30,000 pre-orders.

Cathie Wood and ARK Invest see Tesla's Optimus robot as a transformative force for industry, homes, and the broader economy.

A freshly viral video shows a Robotera L7 unit performing an intricate sword dance to ring in the Chinese New Year.

The RoBee M series brings AI perception and autonomous navigation to hospital wards to support motor and cognitive therapy.

Ahead of the Chinese New Year, a festive atmosphere fills malls and streets across China, with robots joining the celebrations. Dressed in vibrant red, they dance, play music, perform lion dances, write "Fu" in calligraphy, showcase kung fu moves

MicroVision, a solid-state sensor technology company located in Redmond, Wash., says it has designed a solid-state automotive lidar sensor intended to reach production pricing below US $200. That’s less than half of typical prices now, and it’s not even the full extent of the company’s ambition. The company says its longer-term goal is $100 per unit. MicroVision’s claim, which, if realized, would place lidar within reach of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) rather than limiting it to high-end autonomous vehicle programs. Lidar’s limited market penetration comes down to one issue: cost. Comparable mechanical lidars from multiple suppliers now sell in the $10,000 to $20,000 range. That price roughly tenfold drop, from about $80,000, helps explain why suppliers now are now hopeful that another steep price reduction is on the horizon. For solid-state devices, “it is feasible to bring the cost down even more when manufacturing at high volume,” says Hayder Radha, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan State University and director of the school’s Connected & Autonomous Networked Vehicles for Active Safety program. With demand expanding beyond fully autonomous vehicles into driver-assistance applications, “one order or even two orders of magnitude reduction in cost are feasible.” “We are focused on delivering automotive-grade lidar that can actually be deployed at scale,” says MicroVision CEO Glen DeVos. “That means designing for cost, manufacturability, and integration from the start—not treating price as an afterthought.” MicroVision’s Lidar System Tesla CEO Elon Musk famously dismissed lidar in 2019 as “a fool’s errand,” arguing that cameras and radar alone were sufficient for automated driving. A credible path to sub-$200 pricing would fundamentally alter the calculus of autonomous-car design by lowering the cost of adding precise three-dimensional sensing to mainstream vehicles. The shift reflects a broader industry trend toward soli...

Figure CEO Brett Adcock has shared a sneak peek of the company’s 7th-generation robotic hand, showcasing advanced degrees of freedom including thumb rotation and finger abduction/adduction.

Elon Musk has a tremendous vision for robotics and the mass adoption of this kind of technology. Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management CEO Ross Gerber sits down with Josh Lipton to talk more about the Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) CEO's plans for his Optimus humanoid robots and how the broader tech industry is reacting. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Asking for a Trend.

Realbotix, which showed its humanoids at CES 2026, illustrates how technology can mature past adult entertainment, writes columnist Oliver Mitchell. The post Realbotix makes transition from novelty to embodied AI appeared first on The Robot Report.

Synopsys ramps up work around physical AI to help build adaptive machines capable of sensing and interacting with physical environments

Research from the University of Victoria reviews the current use and future potential of social, empathic humanoid robots--asking the question: Could an empathic robot be a part of your future healthcare team?

Trener Robotics’ Acteris is a robot-agnostic skills platform that lets operators describe the tasks they want to automate in their own words. The post Trener Robotics raises $32M for robot-agnostic skills platform appeared first on The Robot Report.

Unitree Robotics has released footage of its G1 humanoid performing assembly tasks at its own manufacturing facility, powered by the new UnifoLM-X1-0 model—marking a pivotal shift from marketing stunts to industrial utility.

Onconetix, Inc., (Nasdaq: ONCO) (“Onconetix” or the “Company”), (formerly Blue Water Biotech Inc), and Realbotix LLC. (“Realbotix”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Realbotix Corp. (TSX-V: XBOT) (“Realbotix Parent “), today announced the signing of a definitive share exchange agreement pursuant to which Onconetix will acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Realbotix in an all-stock transaction.

Shanghai Roboparty Technology Co., Ltd. officially open-sourced its flagship bipedal humanoid robot ROBOTO ORIGIN in January 2026, with its R&D completed in just 120 days from April to August 2025. As the world’s first-tier full-stack open-source bipedal humanoid robot, ROBOTO ORIGIN is a prototype verifying end-to-end capabilities from “0 to running” (not an industrial-grade product) and has […] The post RoboParty Launches ORIGIN: a Full-Stack Open-Source Bipedal Humanoid Robot appeared first on Humanoid Robotics Technology.

Developing a durable and affordable hand is one of the biggest challenges in robotics.

One of the key challenges in building robots for household or industrial settings is the need to master the control of high-degree-of-freedom systems such as mobile manipulators. Reinforcement learning has been a promising avenue for acquiring robot control policies, however, scaling to complex systems has proved tricky. In their work SLAC: Simulation-Pretrained Latent Action Space […]

On February 9, 2026, the launch conference of the inaugural Global Humanoid Robot Free Combat League, Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL), was held. The event was initiated by Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. (ENGINEAI) and co-organised by Shenzhen Quanmingxing Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. As the world’s first commercial free-combat competition focused on humanoid robots, […] The post Humanoid Robot Combat League URKL Officially Launched appeared first on Humanoid Robotics Technology.

In a revealing interview with Peter Diamandis, Figure CEO Brett Adcock details the total removal of hand-engineered code, the launch of his new AI lab HARK, and the timeline for robots building robots at Figure’s "BotQ" facility.

Fauna Robotics has released a comprehensive technical report detailing the design, software architecture, and safety philosophy behind Sprout, its developer-ready bipedal platform.

Fauna Robotics has introduced Sprout, a 29 degree of freedom humanoid developer platform powered by NVIDIA compute, targeting safer and smaller robotics research. The post Fauna Robotics Unveils Sprout 29 DOF Humanoid Developer Platform appeared first on Humanoid.guide.

By stripping away the legs and the wheels, Weave Robotics is attempting to ship a functional home laundry robot by February 2026—beating mobile competitors to the living room.

RoboParty has released the full-stack designs and software for its first bipedal humanoid, signaling a new wave of "reproducible" open-source robotics that seeks to avoid the capital-intensive pitfalls of its predecessors.

The Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center has unveiled the Tiangong 3.0, a general-purpose platform featuring 43 degrees of freedom, millimeter-level precision, and a major push toward open software and hardware standards.

SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On February 9, 2026, the launch conference of the inaugural Global Humanoid Robot Free Combat League — Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL) — was held. The event was initiated by Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. (ENGINEAI) and co-organized by Shenzhen Quanmingxing Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. As the world’s first commercial free-combat competition focused on humanoid robots, the launch was witnessed by representatives from the

Following the reveal of its GENE.01 concept at CES 2026, Italian startup Generative Bionics has signed a four-year industrial partnership with shipbuilding giant Fincantieri to deploy autonomous welding robots in heavy manufacturing.

Geek+ launched Gino 1, the world’s first warehouse-native humanoid robot, aiming to unlock a trillion-dollar automation market still dominated by manual labor.

Foundation Robotics opens the doors to its San Francisco "Robo Factory 1," showcasing the manual assembly of the Phantom MK1 and a new bio-inspired tendon-driven hand.

Amanda McMaster, the company's CFO, will take over as interim CEO until Boston Dynamics' board of directors finds its next leader. The post Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter steps down appeared first on The Robot Report.

Boston Dynamics is focusing on manipulation, autonomy, and generalization to prepare Atlas for factory environments.

Alibaba has unveiled RynnBrain, a new embodied AI model built to help robots understand space, memory, and physical movement.

The latest force torque sensors provide the levels of sensitivity and reliability needed for industrial cobot applications. The post High-sensitivity torque sensors offer force feedback for small-payload cobots appeared first on The Robot Report.

Destro AI says its new Agentic AI Brain is hardware-agnostic and treats both people and robots as agents for unified, cloud-based management. The post Destro AI launches Agentic AI Brain for human-robot collaboration appeared first on The Robot Report.

How humanoid AI will redefine privacy, trust, and dignity

Chinese humanoid robot makers used Lunar New Year performances to showcase mobility, dexterity, and interaction as they court customers, investors, and partners. The post Chinese humanoid robots take Lunar New Year demo spotlight shows appeared first on Humanoid.guide.

The world's first-ever free robot combat league commenced in China's Shenzhen province, showcasing the country's tech advancements.

Brooklyn-based Reflex Robotics is moving into mass production with a new facility in Nuevo León, Mexico, promising to create 2,000 jobs and scale its "human-in-the-loop" automation platform.

Meet the recipients of the 2026 IEEE Medals—the organization’s highest-level honors. Presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors, these medals recognize innovators whose work has shaped modern technology across disciplines including AI, education, and semiconductors. The medals will be presented at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in April in New York City. View the full list of 2026 recipients on the IEEE Awards website, and follow IEEE Awards on LinkedIn for news and updates. IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR Sponsor: IEEE Jensen Huang Nvidia Santa Clara, Calif. “For leadership in the development of graphics processing units and their application to scientific computing and artificial intelligence.” IEEE FRANCES E. ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM Luis von Ahn Duolingo Pittsburgh “For contributions to the advancement of societal improvement and education through innovative technology.” IEEE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL Sponsor: Nokia Bell Labs Scott J. Shenker University of California, Berkeley “For contributions to Internet architecture, network resource allocation, and software-defined networking.” IEEE JAGADISH CHANDRA BOSE MEDAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Sponsor: Mani L. Bhaumik Co-recipients: Erik Dahlman Stefan Parkvall Johan Sköld Ericsson Stockholm “For contributions to and leadership in the research, development, and standardization of cellular wireless communications.” IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google Karen Ann Panetta Tufts University Medford, Mass. “For contributions to computer vision and simulation algorithms, and for leadership in developing programs to promote STEM careers.” IEEE EDISON MEDAL Sponsor: The Edison Medal Fund Eric Swanson PIXCEL Inc. MIT “For pioneering contributions to biomedical imaging, terrestrial optical communications and networking, and inter-satellite optical links.” IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. Wei-Jen Lee University of Texas at Arlington “For contributions to advancing electrical...

Few robotics technologies have been actually deployed in high-mix applications. Let's explore the reasons behind this slow transition. The post 11 reasons robots struggle to scale in high-mix manufacturing appeared first on The Robot Report.

The Mentee Bot is a mentorable AI-driven robot that learns directly from human instruction rather than relying on remote teleoperation.

AutoPallet debuts magnetic, ceiling-mounted AMRs at Manifest 2026, providing high-density palletizing through a suspended swarm architecture. The post Flipping the script: How ‘upside-down’ AutoPallet robots solve palletizing density appeared first on The Robot Report.

Artemis, depending on whom you ask, is NASA’s bid to reclaim its heritage, to resume the business of human exploration, to take astronauts to the moon and beyond and win what’s been billed by some U.S. politicians as the “new space race” with China. Artemis II, the project’s first circumlunar test mission with a crew, is now preparing for launch, perhaps in March. If it succeeds, and if NASA can deliver on an 18 December executive order from the Trump administration, Artemis astronauts will land near the moon’s south pole by 2028 and start building a lunar outpost by 2030, steps to “ensuring American space superiority.” But there are influential voices in the American space community who warn that unless things change quickly, the race has already been lost. “We cannot control what China is doing,” said Michael Griffin in congressional testimony in December of last year. He was NASA administrator from 2005 to 2009, when the agency began assembling the hardware for what is now Artemis. “We can only control what we are doing. Of those efforts, I am forced to say that mediocrity would be an improvement.” RELATED: NASA’s Rivalry/Not-Rivalry With China’s Space Agency Takes Off “Look at the architecture that we have developed to land American astronauts on the moon,” said JIm Bridenstine in his own testimony in September. He was NASA administrator from 2018 to 2021, when Artemis was named as America’s new lunar venture. “It is extraordinarily complex.” Other NASA veterans have expressed the same worry. They say that Artemis, with its much-delayed Space Launch System rocket, Orion crew capsule, and—most critically—two competing, unproven lunar landers, is hobbled by its history of convoluted, meandering decision-making. They say it needs better organization, perhaps even a new landing ship, even at this late date. Meanwhile, the Chinese space program claims it’s on track to a lunar landing by its stated goal of 2030. In Western eyes, China does not have superior technol...

FRANKFURT—According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), artificial intelligence remains the top automation trend affecting manufacturers today.

The hunt is on for anything that can surmount AI’s perennial memory wall–even quick models are bogged down by the time and energy needed to carry data between processor and memory. Resistive RAM (RRAM)could circumvent the wall by allowing computation to happen in the memory itself. Unfortunately, most types of this nonvolatile memory are too unstable and unwieldy for that purpose. Fortunately, a potential solution may be at hand. At December’s IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), researchers from the University of California, San Diego showed they could run a learning algorithm on an entirely new type of RRAM. “We actually redesigned RRAM, completely rethinking the way it switches,” says Duygu Kuzum, an electrical engineer at the University of California, San Diego, who led the work. RRAM stores data as a level of resistance to the flow of current. The key digital operation in a neural network—multiplying arrays of numbers and then summing the results—can be done in analog simply by running current through an array of RRAM cells, connecting their outputs, and measuring the resulting current. Traditionally, RRAM stores data by creating low-resistance filaments in the higher-resistance surrounds of a dielectric material. Forming these filaments often needs voltages too high for standard CMOS, hindering its integration inside processors. Worse, forming the filaments is a noisy and random process, not ideal for storing data. (Imagine a neural network’s weights randomly drifting. Answers to the same question would change from one day to the next.) Moreover, most filament-based RRAM cells’ noisy nature means they must be isolated from their surrounding circuits, usually with a selector transistor, which makes 3D stacking difficult. Limitations like these mean that traditional RRAM isn’t great for computing. In particular, Kuzum says, it’s difficult to use filamentary RRAM for the sort of parallel matrix operations that are crucial for today’s neural netwo...

Shenzhen-based EngineAI has officially launched the Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL) league, revealing a massive prize pool, strict technical rules, and a tournament format designed to stress-test the next generation of humanoid hardware.

Boston Dynamics gives Atlas one final acrobatic stress test, showcasing how simulation-trained control is shaping real-world humanoid robots.

The world's first humanoid robot free combat league kicked off on Monday in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong Province, for the 2026 season, with the winner to be awarded a gold championship belt worth 10 million yuan ($1.44 million), the Global Times learned from the event’s organizer.

Humanoids took to the stage to sing, dance, and perform comedy in the world's first-ever entertainment show run entirely by robots.

AgiBot hosted a 60-minute live-streamed event featuring its full fleet of robots alongside a hyper-realistic collaborator from AheadForm.

Humanoid Robot Market reached US 2 24 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach US 41 02 billion by 2032 growing at a CAGR of 43 83 during the forecast period of 2025 to 2032 The market is witnessing ...

The 60‑minute programme is the world’s first large‑scale live event fully led by humanoid robots, showcasing dance, magic, comedy and music.

In China, humanoid robots are serving as Lunar New Year entertainment, with their manufacturers pitching their song-and-dance skills to the general public as well as potential customers, investors and government officials.

In China, humanoid robots are serving as Lunar New Year entertainment, with their manufacturers pitching their song-and-dance skills to the general public as well as potential customers, investors and government officials.

Trending News: China's Kung fu is an ancient and revered martial art well known across the world, practised for over decades and passed down through generations of S.

Angelica Lim, an associate professor of computing science, is making sure empathy is being built into AI robots by using facial expressions.

The consolidation of SpaceX and xAI could lead to more adaptive use of robots, data, and AI in manufacturing, says Flexxbotics' CEO. The post What the SpaceX acquisition of xAI means for industrial robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.

During a tech demo at a mall in Shenzhen, China, over the weekend, Xpeng's Iron humanoid robot took a tumble for all to see.

/PRNewswire/ -- AGIBOT, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, today hosted AGIBOT NIGHT, a robot-led gala show streaming on...

On its first attempted backflip, Atlas lost a hand. Now, the robot can combine the move with a cartwheel. Atlas has also learned to walk naturally, although Boston Dynamics didn’t pull this stunt off without accidents.

As the all-electric Atlas prepares for industrial deployment at Hyundai, Boston Dynamics and the RAI Institute released a final demonstration of the research platform performing high-level gymnastics and natural locomotion.

Automakers including Tesla and Hyundai are investing heavily in humanoid robots as a long-term cost-saving strategy, even as questions remain over productivity, technical feasibility, and the risk of widespread job losses.

In 2025, North American robot orders from non-automotive customers led the way, with cobots gaining more traction as well. The post North American robot orders rise by 6.6% in 2025, reports A3 appeared first on The Robot Report.

The champion delegation of humanoid robots from the first World Humanoid Robot Games visited China Media Group (CMG)'s broadcast studio for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games on Friday, showcasing China's latest breakthroughs in advanced robotics to a global audience.

Picture a humanoid robot, and you probably imagine something sleek, vaguely threatening, or at least a little cold. Maybe it's built for a factory floor, towering and intimidating, or designed to look eerily human in a way that triggers that uncanny valley feeling. Either way, it's not exactly something you'd want hanging around your living

A group of humanoid robots recently visited CMG's studio in Milan, ahead of the second edition of the World Humanoid Robot Games. The reigning champions from last year's inaugural Games have extended a global invitation and launched a worldwide "energy

Elon Musk told investors that Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot will revolutionize the world. But most of it could belong to China, he warned.

Waymo has unveiled its new World Model, powered by Google DeepMind’s Genie 3, to simulate rare "long-tail" driving scenarios and edge cases, signaling a major shift toward generative world models in the race for physical AI.

A new "class" has arrived at the Shaolin Temple in central China's Henan Province, where humanoid robots teamed up with monks to practice the legendary Shaolin Kung Fu.

The champion robots from last year's inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday issued a global invitation for more international robotics teams to join the event's second edition, which will be held in Beijing later this year.The advanced humanoids

A delegation of humanoid robots have visited China Media Group's studio in Milan, as the Winter Games get underway. The robots are the reigning champions of the first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games in 2025, claiming victories in obstacle races, football and real-world application events. They have extended a global invitation for the second Robot Games, launching a global 'energy relay' which coincided with the Olympic torch relay.

Boston Dynamics’ Aya Durbin explains the engineering challenges behind deploying humanoid robots in messy, real-world settings.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA Enjoy today’s videos! To train the next generation of autonomous robots, scientists at Toyota Research Institute are working with Toyota Manufacturing to deploy them on the factory floor. [ Toyota Research Institute ] Thanks, Erin! This is just one story (of many) about how we tried, failed, and learned how to improve ‪drone delivery system. Okay but like you didn’t show the really cool bit...? [ Zipline ] We’re introducing KinetIQ, an AI framework developed by Humanoid, for end-to-end orchestration of humanoid robot fleets. KinetIQ coordinates wheeled and bipedal robots within a single system, managing both fleet-level operations and individual robot behaviour across multiple environments. The framework operates across four cognitive layers, from task allocation and workflow optimization to VLA-based task execution and reinforcement-learning-trained whole-body control, and is shown here running across our wheeled industrial robots and bipedal R&D platform. [ Humanoid ] What if a robot gets damaged during operation? Can it still perform its mission without immediate repair? Inspired by self-embodied resilience strategies of stick insects, we developed a decentralized adaptive resilient neural control system (DARCON). This system allows legged robots to autonomously adapt to limb loss, ensuring mission success despite mechanical failure. This innovative approach leads to a future of truly resilient, self-recovering robotics. [ VISTEC ] Thanks, Poramate! This animation shows Perseverance’s point of view during drive of 807 feet (246 meters) along the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2025, the 1,709th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Captured over two hours and 35 minutes, 53 Navigation Ca...

The bills seek to establish a National Commission on Robotics and restrict humanoid imports for U.S. security and competitiveness. The post Bills introduced to strengthen U.S. robotics competitiveness, humanoid security appeared first on The Robot Report.

Claire chatted to Elmira Yadollahi from Lancaster University about how children interact with and relate to robots. Elmira Yadollahi is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Lancaster University. She has a joint PhD in robotics and computer science from EPFL in Switzerland and Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal. Her research tackles explainability in robotics, […]

Humanoid.ai launched KinetIQ, an AI framework designed to orchestrate humanoid robot fleets for use in industrial, service, and home environments. This single system manages robots with varying builds and coordinates their interactions through a cross-timescale architecture, enabling scalability and independent component improvement.

Li Auto (NasdaqGS:LI) announced a major pivot toward artificial intelligence, including plans to enter the humanoid robotics sector. The company is restructuring operations and R&D, with a stated goal to become a top AI player by 2028. As part of the shift, Li Auto plans to close about 100 inefficient stores and reallocate resources toward AI focused initiatives. For investors watching NasdaqGS:LI, the move comes as the shares trade around $17.79, with a 7.0% return over the past week and a...

Founder Scott LaValley confirms the closure of Cartwheel Robotics after four years, citing a failure to secure the "oxygen" of capital despite the viral success of the Yogi humanoid.

Firms are working to make the motors that drive robots more efficient and cheaper.

A new full-stack framework from HKUST and Shanghai AI Lab allows humanoid robots to acquire complex athletic skills like basketball and reactive fighting directly from human videos—no manual reward engineering required.

While quantum computers continue to slowly grind toward usefulness, some are pursuing a different approach—analog quantum simulation. This path doesn’t offer complete control of single bits of quantum information, known as qubits—it is not a universal quantum computer. Instead, quantum simulators directly mimic complex, difficult-to-access things, like individual molecules, chemical reactions, or novel materials. What analog quantum simulation lacks in flexibility, it makes up for in feasibility: quantum simulators are ready now. “Instead of using qubits, as you would typically in a quantum computer, we just directly encode the problem into the geometry and structure of the array itself,” says Sam Gorman, quantum systems engineering lead at Sydney-based startup Silicon Quantum Computing. Yesterday, Silicon Quantum Computing unveiled its Quantum Twins product, a silicon quantum simulator, which is now available to customers through direct contract. Simultaneously, the team demonstrated that their device, made up of 15,000 quantum dots, can simulate an often-studied transition of a material from an insulator to a metal, and all the states between. They published their work this week in the journal Nature. “We can do things now that we think nobody else in the world can do,” Gorman says. The Powerful Process Though the product announcement came yesterday, the team at Silicon Quantum Computing established its Precision Atom Qubit Manufacturing process following the startup’s establishment in 2017, building on the academic work that the company’s founder, Michelle Simmons, led for over 25 years. The underlying technology is a manufacturing process for placing single phosphorus atoms in silicon with subnanometer precision. “We have a 38-stage process,” Simmons says, for patterning phosphorus atoms into silicon. The process starts with a silicon substrate, which gets coated with a layer of hydrogen. Then, by means of a scanning-tunneling microscope, individual hydrogen ...

Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc has announced the establishment of FF EAI-Robotics Inc., headquartered in California and officially launched its first batch of Embodied AI (EAI) humanoid and bionic robots. FF Futurist (full-size professional humanoid), FF Master (athletic “action master” humanoid), and FX Aegis (quadruped security/companion), and the first batch of deliveries is planned for […] The post Faraday Future Launches Three Series of Robot Products in Las Vegas at the Annual NADA Show appeared first on Humanoid Robotics Technology.

In a deep dive on the Robo Papers podcast, 1X Director of Evaluations Daniel Ho explains how "imagination" via video generation is allowing humanoids to perform zero-shot tasks with minimal robot-specific training data.

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NVIDIA GEAR Lab has unveiled DreamZero, a 14-billion parameter World Action Model (WAM) that uses video diffusion to grant robots physical "imagination," enabling zero-shot task completion and rapid adaptation across different robotic embodiments.

Bedrock Robotics has raised money to scale autonomous construction fleets, tackling labor shortages with operator-less machines. The post Bedrock Robotics’ $270M Series B paves the way for operator-less excavators appeared first on The Robot Report.

According to Precedence Research, humanoid robotics is advancing rapidly, with key companies leading the charge toward mass production and real-world deployments. Tesla, Boston Dynamics, and Figure AI are at the forefront of this transformation, focusing on building general-purpose humanoid robots, with significant funding and operational goals. These companies are not only innovating in design but are also gearing up for large-scale production, making humanoid robots a reality for various secto

New footage shows the world’s most anatomically complete humanoid robot, Protoclone, flexing 1,000 muscles and moving in a way robots usually don’t

Overland AI is already working closely with formations across the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and SOCOM to provide autonomous ground systems. The post Overland AI raises $100M to scale autonomy with the U.S. armed forces appeared first on The Robot Report.

The podcast guest this week is Kevin Damoa, founder and CEO of Glid Technologies. The post Road to rail: Slashing costs and carbon with automation appeared first on The Robot Report.

The Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center has completed a significant 700 million yuan financing round, signaling a strategic shift from research milestones to large-scale industrial deployment.

Waymo plans to continue its expansion across locations, citing statistics showing that self-driving cars are safer than human drivers. The post Waymo keeps foot on the autonomous vehicle pedal with $16B funding appeared first on The Robot Report.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is one of the largest trade events in the world. Every year, thousands of companies showcase their state-of-the-art technologies to over 100k attendees. It brings together global industry leaders, startups, and media, and is used to launch products and signal future tech trends. Henry Hickson, a Research Associate at the Hauert Lab, attended CES 2026. In this article he reports on the highlights of the show, […]

A superpowered Formula 1 car, a buzzing drone, a soldier’s pack, and a wearable smart device have this in common: They all need batteries. Ideally, those batteries could fit into oddly shaped nooks, curves, and voids, something that today’s cylindrical or rectangular cells struggle to do. Engineer Gabe Elias, who helped design the Mercedes-AMG Petronas racers that won seven consecutive F1 championships, cofounded a startup to 3D print batteries onto surfaces, flowing into those unused spaces in all kinds of devices and vehicles. The company recently won a US $1.25 million, 18-month contract with the U.S. Air Force to prove its tech’s potential. It joins competitors such as Sakuú, in Silicon Valley, and Germany’s Blackstone Technology, in a race to popularize printed batteries that can conform to various shapes. Soon after Elias cofounded Material Hybrid Manufacturing in 2023, his group realized that their initial pitch—printing batteries in new shapes for passenger cars—was stuck in neutral. EVs, especially bigger ones, don’t have pressing space constraints for batteries. Electric SUVs and pickup trucks from Rivian, where Elias also worked, can fit 7,776 cylindrical batteries into a brawny, 135 kilowatt-hour pack. So, the company changed lanes to smaller devices with wasted space it could stuff with energy. The Hybrid3D, a proprietary manufacturing platform, can print full-stack batteries in situ: Anode, cathode, separator and casing, with no molds or costly tooling required. The tech eliminates the metal casings, bus bars and other components that hog space in conventional cells. Material’s active battery material can fill voids and follow three-dimensional curves: Think the wing of a drone, or the slender, curling arm of a pair of smart glasses. “Things are shrinking, so we’re shrinking around it,” Elias says. “Electronics are becoming embedded, consolidated, optimized, and batteries are the only part of that equation that’s being left behind.” The company has ...

Belgrade Plans to build Europe's biggest humanoid factory with China's help

This infographic shows the number of startups listed in the field of humanoid robotics, by country (as of Jan. 2026).

With a global debut at CES 2026 and high-level praise from Premier Li Qiang, EngineAI has officially scheduled its "Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend" (URKL) competition for February 9.

A conversation with RobCo’s CEO Roman Hölzl, on the importance of service-based solutions in the automation industry. The post The RaaS Blueprint: Key Insights from a conversation with RobCo’s Roman Hölzl appeared first on The Robot Report.