LimX Raises $200M Pre-IPO Round at $2.21B as China’s Humanoid IPO Wave Accelerates
LimX Dynamics has raised $200 million in a pre-IPO round valuing the company at $2.21 billion, with founder Will Zhang declaring listing a strategic necessity as…
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1X Unveils NEO Hands, a 25-DoF Tendon-Driven Hand System for Its NEO Home Humanoid
1X Technologies has unveiled NEO Hands, a 25-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven robotic hand system for its NEO home humanoid, combining distributed tactile sensing, AI-assisted manipulation, and fast actuation…
Ant Group’s Robbyant Launches LingBot-VA 2.0, an Embodied-Native World Model Built from Scratch for Robot Control
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, has unveiled LingBot-VA 2.0, an autoregressive world model built from scratch for physical-world robot control rather than adapted…
Researchers Develop ThorArena, a Force-Aware Benchmark That Reveals Hidden Performance Gaps in Humanoid Robots
Researchers have published ThorArena, a simulation-based benchmark that evaluates humanoid robots under realistic physical forces by replaying human interaction data against virtual robots, revealing substantial performance…
Taiwan Launches Domestic Quadruped Robot Program to Capture $4 Billion Global Market with Non-China Supply Chain
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs is working with ITRI and six industry partners to develop indigenous four-legged robot technology, trained on NVIDIA's Taipei-1 supercomputer across 4,000…
LG Electronics Establishes Robotics Business Center Reporting Directly to CEO, Targets Three-Pillar Industrial, Commercial, and Home Strategy
LG Electronics has established a Robotics Business Center reporting directly to CEO Lyu Jae-cheol, effective July 1, integrating business development, sales, and operations into a single…
Tesla Completes 46-Day Teardown of Model S and X Line at Fremont to Make Way for Optimus Production
Tesla has released time-lapse footage showing the decommissioning of its original Model S and Model X assembly line at Fremont in 46 days, with limited Optimus…
MIT and EPFL Develop Flapping-Wing Robot That Swims Underwater and Transitions to Flight Without Paddling
MIT and EPFL engineers have built a 300-gram flapping-wing robot that swims through water and transitions to flight without paddling, published in Science, inspired by diving…
iRobot Launches Roomba Electro Plus and Five Redesigned Roomba Vacuums Under New Chinese Ownership
iRobot has launched the Roomba Electro Plus, a $399.99 cordless hard-floor cleaner combining vacuuming, mopping, disinfecting, and self-cleaning, alongside five redesigned Roomba robot vacuums, marking its…
Surgeons Use Teleoperated Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot to Perform World-First Live Animal Surgery
UC San Diego researchers have completed two minimally invasive gallbladder removal surgeries on live pigs using a teleoperated Unitree G1 humanoid robot, published in Nature, in…
Musk Outlines Plan to Send Optimus Robots to Moon and Mars as Construction Vanguard Starting Late 2026
Elon Musk has outlined a plan to send construction materials to the Moon and Mars starting in late 2026, with Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots building infrastructure…
Mitsubishi Motors and Highlanders Sign MOU to Deploy and Manufacture Humanoid Robots at Kyoto Plant
Mitsubishi Motors and University of Tokyo spinout Highlanders have signed an MOU to jointly develop humanoid robots for Mitsubishi's manufacturing facilities and explore mass production at…