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Motivated engineering students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison formed the Wisconsin Humanoid Robotics org to build humanoid robots, per the College of Engineering.
A Reddit user posted their first 3D-printed robotic arm project in r/robotics. The post shares the build but no technical specs, code or files.
Bloomberg reports China has an early lead over the US in advanced humanoid hardware, especially dexterous robotic hands, in a market projected to reach $5 trillion. IDC ranks Booster Robotics in the global top three for humanoid shipments.
YYForce partnered with Novotel and Mercure Singapore on Stevens to deploy service humanoid robots across the 772-room hotel precinct, projecting up to 10% cuts in selected operating costs.
Physical Intelligence launched an API beta it calls frontier models for every robot, letting developers access its general robot foundation models remotely. Pricing and availability details were not in the source text.
Krafton plans to unveil a 'socially intelligent' robot AI that reads human intent in early 2027.
Returns need items picked, identified and sorted before resale; CEO Ralf Gulde says systems must handle unseen articles, unlike prior automation.
Modar Alaoui's book The Humanoid Economy was published by Wiley, examining the economic impact of humanoid robots and the industries they may reshape.
Chinese company Sankai has raised more than $70 million in Series B funding to build gear reducers for robots, a key mechanical component in humanoid and industrial robotics.
China's GEAIR 2.0 agricultural robot can pollinate crops in under 10 seconds, an example of physical AI applied to farm automation.
A new school in Renens, Switzerland, opened to train professionals to work with humanoid robots, reflecting growing demand for robotics skills.
A breakdown of what it costs to run a humanoid robot for a day, covering energy, maintenance and component wear, as commercial deployments grow.
Xinjiang's first embodied AI robot assembly line is expected to be completed in April 2027, Global Times reports.
A new system lets a humanoid robot smoothly perform household chores, Interesting Engineering reports.
A Vietnamese report looks at how the country's robotics research struggles to reach commercial markets, and what is holding back the transition from lab prototypes to products.
The CEO of Robros argues humanoid robots will see adoption first in factories and logistics, where repetitive physical tasks offer the clearest near-term business case.
.lumen will test humanoid and autonomous quadruped robots in Cluj, Romania, using technology originally built for glasses that help blind people navigate.
KAIST's president announced a plan to create a robot institute aimed at leading global physical AI research, per DongA Science.
Cologne police seized a humanoid robot after it allegedly sexually harassed a 16-year-old girl on the street, opening a probe into the robot's owners.
Korea cleared safety rules to put 20 humanoid robots on factory floors across four industries, and approved a pilot for quadruped robots on public walking paths.
Chinese robotics firm JAKA unveiled a wheeled humanoid and an industrial robot, UA.NEWS reports.
RoboParty debuted RP1, a full-stack open-source humanoid robot, at IROS with a demo and a promised open-source software stack.
A Doncaster business introduced what it calls the area's first AI humanoid robot, per Business Doncaster.
XPeng says it will begin delivering humanoid robots in 2027 with a European rollout later that year.
Natura-1 is a 50B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts general foundation model for the physical world, pretrained on one million hours of egocentric data. It follows natural-language instructions zero-shot, driving dexterous hands.
DeepSeek is expanding into embodied AI, making an early bet on robotics startup Winverse. Founder Liang Wenfeng has been meeting embodied AI founders as the company weighs a move into robotics.
Unitree's CEO claims GPT-6 performs well across several robots with factory pilots underway, and says GPT-7 could unlock mass deployment.
DeepSeek is set to lead a seed funding round for Winverse, a robot-AI startup, according to Briefs Finance.
Report says DeepSeek is accelerating into embodied AI, with Liang Wenfeng courting robotics startups. No product or deal confirmed.
Unitree's founder said OpenAI's GPT-6 may lead to a robotics breakthrough as soon as next year, according to the South China Morning Post.
DeepSeek is reportedly leading a $400 million funding round for Winverse, a robotics AI startup, at a valuation tied to the round.
A union is pressing Mayor Sadiq Khan to stop driverless taxi deployment, citing a City Hall report that raises questions about safety, congestion and regulatory oversight.
The US Army held a 103-entry competition for human-sized humanoid building blocks able to take orders, carry 50 lb, resist 5.56 mm fire and operate drones.
Unitree showed a "Superman" humanoid capable of 28 mph, while separate coverage followed humanoid robots boxing, sprinting and directing traffic in Beijing, noting household chores remain the harder test.
FundaAI analysis argues robot-data investment is fueling more training, simulation and compute demand ahead of deployment at scale, creating a second demand curve for compute.