Figure Index Crosses 86,000 Weekly Active Users Uploading Robotics Data
The company says Index is now drawing 86,000 weekly contributors as it expands a real-world training pipeline for general-purpose robots.
Robotics
Reward AI Introduces OM-1 Robot Policy for Human-Learned Manipulation
Reward AI’s Omnibody stack uses a wearable hand interface to collect multimodal human demonstration data and run one robot policy across arms, mobile robots, and humanoids.
Agility Robotics Unveils Digit 5 Humanoid for Safer Factory Work
The fifth-generation Digit adds a 50-pound payload, faster charging, and a safety architecture designed for work closer to people.
XPeng Opens IRON Humanoid Robot Production Line in Guangzhou
The Guangzhou line moves IRON from prototype theater toward automotive-style manufacturing, though XPeng has not disclosed price, capacity, or real-world deployment results.
Hai Robotics to Deliver 1,500 Rack-Climbing Robots for European Fashion Warehouse
The project would put HaiPick Climb robots into a 30,000-square-meter e-commerce fulfillment center built for more than 24,000 totes per hour.
Ouster BlueCity Brings 3D Lidar Data Into V2X Road Safety Systems
Ouster wants intersections to “see” traffic in 3D and push that awareness directly to connected vehicles via BlueCity. Using roadside lidar + AI, BlueCity tracks cars, cyclists, and pedestrians, then converts it into standard V2X safety messages
Nucleus Robotics Deploys Nucleus II for Factory-Floor Humanoid Work
The German startup says customer demand is pushing its industrial humanoid work toward heavier payloads, longer uptime and safer wheeled deployments.
What Is XDOF? The Robot Data Startup Building Infrastructure For Physical AI
XDOF is building data infrastructure for physical AI as robotics companies race to solve one of the field's hardest bottlenecks: real-world training data.
GPT-6 Astra Scores 95% in Robocurve Robot Control Test
GPT-6 Astra hit 95% on Robocurve's robot control task against Claude Fable 5.1's 40%, using 6.2x fewer output tokens at 2.3x lower cost.
Pollen Robotics Makes a Humanoid Hand Cheap Enough to Build at Home
Amazing Hand Enhanced brings a compact, open-source humanoid hand for less than $200.
Dyna Robotics Crosses the ROI Threshold as Din Tai Fung Scales Its Robot Deployment
Dyna Robotics says its robots have crossed commercial ROI. Din Tai Fung, the highest revenue-per-location restaurant chain in the US, is rolling the fleet out network-wide, with hundreds of robots targeted across hotels, logistics, and data centers by 2027.
Beni Camera Robot Wants to Be a Moving Camera Operator
Mondo Robotics turns the action camera into a small all-terrain robot that can follow, film, and jump.
Photon Matrix Built an Iron Dome for Mosquitoes
LiDAR, radar, and AI vision spot mosquitoes in flight and turn backyard pest control into active interception.
Hugging Face Launches $399 Open-Source Microduck Robot for Reinforcement Learning
The robot brings sim-to-real reinforcement learning, customizable behaviors, and physical AI experimentation to developers for under $400.
Figure Unveils Index, a Global Data Engine for Training General-Purpose Robots
Index is already the largest real-world dataset ever built for training general-purpose humanoid robots.
Swarm Lands First Commercial Drone Surveillance Project With German Solar Power
German Solar Power selected the Bittensor subnet to build autonomous drone monitoring for solar parks in Greece.