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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Infineon’s Startup Challenge brings together promising founder teams and young high-tech companies from across the globe to work jointly on a highly relevant topic: humanoid robotics. The Challenge is a structured innovation program designed to develop technological concepts into market-ready applications. It is part of Infineon’s global Co–Innovation Program, in […]
Read full articleInsider Brief TARS has debuted its DexHand robotic hand, a system the company said is designed to more closely replicate the structure and movement of the human hand. The Chinese humanoid robotics company’s demonstration at last week’s ICRA 2026 in Vienna featured real-time sign-language gestures and mirror-control interactions intended to highlight the platform’s dexterity and […]
Insider Brief Humanoid robotics maker 1X has launched a new lab focused on developing AI world models to “to pretrain on the most important data from the very beginning.” According to the Norwegian-American company, 1X World Model Lab will focus on training large-scale foundation models designed to help robots understand, predict and interact with their […]
Insider Brief Logistics startup Stord has raised $250 million in a Series F round at a $3 billion valuation and launched a new physical AI and robotics lab in Atlanta to go up against Amazon’s e-commerce and fulfillment network. The round was led by existing investors and included Strike Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Franklin […]
Insider Brief Just because humanoid robots don’t get blisters doesn’t mean they don’t need a good pair of work gloves. That’s the idea behind the collaboration between Persona AI and Under Armour to research protective materials for industrial humanoid robots. According to Houston-based humanoid robot developer Persona AI, the collaboration will focus on how materials […]
Insider Brief Chinese robotics startup Linkerbot is targeting a $6 billion valuation in its next funding round, doubling the valuation it secured in a recently completed financing as investor interest surges around humanoid robotics and dexterous robotic systems, Reuters reported. The Beijing-based company, which specializes in robotic hands for humanoid robots, said it completed a […]
Insider Brief Humanoid robotics company 1X announced it has the capacity to produce up to 10,000 of its household Neo robots annually. In a post to its website, X1 said it sold out its first year of planned production for its Neo home robot within five days of opening preorders last October, booking 10,000 units […]
Insider Brief Accenture, working with SAP and Vodafone Procure & Connect, has deployed humanoid robots in a warehouse to evaluate how advanced robotics systems can improve efficiency, safety and decision-making in logistics operations The humanoid robots in the pilot run on Accenture’s “Robot Brain,” a system designed to let them work more naturally with people […]
