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Hangzhou has deployed a team of 15 traffic management robots at West Lake tourist sites, marking the first coordinated team deployment of robot traffic police in real-world operations, following a two-month pilot at major sporting events.
South Korean AI entertainment company Galaxy Corporation has opened Galaxy Robot Park in Seoul’s Gangdong district, a 16,500 square-meter venue combining robot performances, K-pop concerts, and interactive experiences, with a soft launch timed to Children’s Day.
Beijing-based Linkerbot, which claims over 80% of the global market for high-degree-of-freedom robotic hands, is targeting a $6 billion valuation in its next funding round, double the $3 billion valuation established in a Series B+ round closed last week.
Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a humanoid robotics startup building foundation models for robot control and self-learning, with the founding team joining Meta’s Superintelligence Labs research division.
Nvidia and Doosan Robotics have announced plans to connect Doosan’s agentic robot operating system with Nvidia’s simulation and training infrastructure, targeting an intelligent robot solution launch in 2027 and an industrial humanoid by 2028.
MagicLab Robotics held its Global Embodied Intelligence Summit in Silicon Valley, unveiling the MagicBot X1 humanoid, the Magic-Mix world model, and a $1 billion developer ecosystem investment, as the company projects $14 billion in annual revenue by 2036.
American digital artist Beeple has installed a group of robot dogs fitted with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, and Pablo Picasso at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, where they roam freely and print AI-transformed images of their surroundings.
LG Electronics has confirmed it is in discussions with Nvidia on potential cooperation spanning robotics, AI data center infrastructure, and mobility technologies, as both companies deepen their positions in physical AI.
Shenzhen-based Kinetix AI has unveiled KAI, a full-sized humanoid robot with 115 degrees of freedom, a 36-DoF dexterous hand, and a full-body tactile skin system with 18,000 sensors, targeting service and home assistance applications at a sub-$40,000 price point.
Unitree’s H1 robot has recorded a peak sprint speed of 10 meters per second on an athletics track, approaching Usain Bolt’s average race speed of 10.44 meters per second, as Chinese manufacturers push bipedal locomotion toward the limits of human athletic performance.