Xiaomi trains robots on 100K hours
Xiaomi-Robotics-1 uses over 100,000 hours of real-world manipulation trajectories to test whether robot policy models can scale like language models.
Robotics News and Analysis
26 verified stories covering Robotics, product updates and industry developments.
RLinf v0.3 closes the robot training loop
RLinf v0.3 turns embodied AI training into a fuller pipeline, linking data collection, SFT, reinforcement learning, evaluation and real-robot deployment.
Galbot lets robots learn from human video
Galbot, Peking University, CASIA and Tsinghua propose WAM-TTT, a deployment-time method that adapts robot behavior from ordinary first-person human videos without retraining the base world-action model.
Dexmal DW0.5 moves robot post-training into a learned virtual trial field
Dexmal DW0.5 moves robot post-training into a learned virtual trial field. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
Tencent open-sources two robot foundation models
Tencent released Hy-Embodied-VLM-1.0 and Hy-Embodied-RxBrain-1.0, splitting embodied AI cognition into scene-action understanding and multimodal subgoal planning.
ZeroErr raises hundreds of millions to scale robot joints
ZeroErr raises hundreds of millions to scale robot joints. A concise localization of the verified facts and the industry signal behind the story.
LingBot model predicts before it acts
LingBot model predicts before it acts. A concise localization of the verified facts and the industry signal behind the story.
Yuanli trains DM0.5 on 150,000 hours of robot data
Yuanli trains DM0.5 on 150,000 hours of robot data is reframed for global technology readers, with the key numbers, product claims and open questions kept intact.
Mistral tests robot navigation with one RGB camera
Mistral tests robot navigation with one RGB camera is reframed for global technology readers, with the key numbers, product claims and open questions kept intact.
RoboDojo shows real robot success is still low
RoboDojo shows real robot success is still low is reframed for global technology readers, with the key numbers, product claims and open questions kept intact.
Simplexity ships 100 i7 Pro robots into factories
Simplexity ships 100 i7 Pro robots into factories is reframed for global technology readers, preserving the key numbers, claims and open questions.
Berkeley robots learn dexterous work from web videos
Berkeley robots learn dexterous work from web videos is reframed for global technology readers, preserving the key numbers, claims and open questions.
Unitree wins approval for a STAR Market IPO
Unitree wins approval for a STAR Market IPO is reframed for global technology readers, preserving the key numbers, claims and open questions.
X Square Robot reaches a $2.8B valuation with China’s internet giants onboard
X Square Robot reaches a $2.8B valuation with China’s internet giants onboard
SoftBank-backed Coowa targets Hong Kong IPO
Coowa's planned filing shows how China's embodied-AI robotics boom is moving from venture rounds to the exit window.
Alibaba puts Qwen into robots with a three-model suite
Qwen-Robot Suite is software rather than hardware: three models for navigation, manipulation and world prediction, designed to run on robots from AgileX, Franka, Universal Robots and Unitree.
Qwen robot models triple cross-body transfer success
Alibaba's Qwen team released three embodied AI models, with RobotManip lifting cross-robot transfer success from 7.5% to 23.9% while RobotNav and RobotWorld cover movement and prediction.
EngineAI chases a 10B-yuan valuation in Hong Kong
EngineAI is highlighting factory speed and funding while leaving investors to wait for the revenue line that will decide the IPO story.
THEKER raises a record European robotics Series A
The Barcelona startup raised 73 million euros to deploy factory robots that learn on the job, with Samsung and LVMH among the strategic backers.
Standard Bots becomes a robotics unicorn
Standard Bots raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation to scale robots that learn tasks by demonstration instead of traditional programming.
Generalist AI raises $400 million for robot foundation models
The DeepMind and Boston Dynamics alumni behind Generalist AI are betting that adaptable robot intelligence is the next expensive frontier after software AI.
Robot data startup Mecka AI raises $60 million
Mecka AI has raised $60 million while claiming $100 million in annualized contracted revenue from human-motion data and deployment services for robots.
Nvidia offers a reference design for humanoid robots
Nvidia is not selling a humanoid robot so much as a shared research blueprint around Isaac GR00T, Unitree hardware and Jetson Thor.
Nvidia open-sources Cosmos 3, a world model for robots and self-driving cars
Nvidia has released Cosmos 3, an open-source AI model designed to help robots and autonomous vehicles understand and predict physical world interactions.
OpenAI relaunches robotics division
Sam Altman announced the re-establishment of OpenAI's robotics team, hiring for hardware, ops, systems, and ML engineers, with a near-term focus on infrastructure robots and a long-term vision of personal robots.
Schaeffler buys humanoids and becomes their joint supplier
The German auto-parts group plans to deploy 1,000 to 2,000 Humanoid robots while supplying more than one million actuators to the startup through 2031.