Topic
Robotics & physical AI
Embodied AI — humanoid robots, world models and the systems acting in the physical world.
AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion
The chipmaker will pay in stock for the spatial-intelligence lab, with Li joining as chief scientist.
Unitree Robotics shares surge 460% in Shanghai stock market debut
The humanoid robot maker's Shanghai listing valued it at about $52 billion at the close, even as the wider market fell.
Chinese makers ship 97% of world's humanoid robots in H1 2026
Agibot and Unitree led a global market that more than tripled in size from a year earlier, research firm Smart Analytics Global said.
Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2 model family
The three models give humanoid and two-armed robots whole-body control, multi-robot coordination and fast adaptation to new machines.
Ant's LingBot-VA 2.0 and the race to a world action model
Ant Group's robotics unit says it built the first 'embodied-native world action model' that runs on a single GPU. The claim is a simulation benchmark — and sim-to-real is where the frontier actually breaks.
Humanoid robots in 2026: from pilot to platform
Past the demo reels, the real story is deployment economics — and the AI making it possible.
Decart's Oasis 3 and the wager on 'world models'
A photorealistic driving simulator you can prompt in plain language — and an attempt to do for world models what OpenAI did for language.