The Hyundai-owned robot maker is putting the former Alexa and Amazon Nova leader in charge as it works to commercialize Spot, Stretch, and Atlas with more advanced AI.
The exclusive partnership marks Coco’s UK debut and Deliveroo’s first autonomous-vehicle delivery rollout in the country.
The Munich-founded company doubled its valuation in nine months and set a March 2027 commercial launch for Alfie, its autonomous industrial robot.
The redesign gives Atlas a four-finger, 13-degree-of-freedom hand built for dexterous tool use, simulation training, and repairable industrial deployment.
As F.03 scales, Figure retired its F.02 humanoids by melting them in a Finnish electric-arc furnace, with Arnold Schwarzenegger involved, and is machining the metal into limited commemorative artifacts.
Pylon Partners is turning Bittensor Subnet 112 into THOR Group, a robotics institute focused on open-source physical AI data, models, and hardware.
The reported ramp moves Optimus into higher internal production, though hands, suppliers, and general-purpose software remain bottlenecks.
The living benchmark rotates robot-manipulation tasks from Axis Robotics' growing library to test whether models can generalize beyond fixed evaluation sets.
The SN49 project’s simulation-based certification can now appear as a listing credential for robotics manufacturers, giving buyers a verification ID and certificate they can check during diligence.
The stealth exit pairs a large egocentric robotics dataset with Matrix, a simulation platform for evaluating and improving robot policies before deployment.
The SN80 project is adding a data collection track that rewards accepted recording hours and turns workplace video into training data for robotics models.
The demo follows IRON’s production-line milestone and shows XPENG’s showroom-first vision for humanoid robots.
Figure’s latest Helix model completed three household tasks zero-shot across 30 rented Bay Area homes, showing stronger transfer from human-behavior pretraining while still falling short of product-ready household autonomy.
Citrini’s latest field report argues robotics progress is moving from demos toward useful autonomy, while warning that commercialization remains uneven.
The funding comes as the startup says its 24/7 robot fleet is already operating across U.S. data centers for major hyperscalers.
Odyssey is betting one world model can become a shared control layer for robots, humanoids, cars, drones, and video-game agents.
