Persona AI & Under Armour Researching Performance Materials for Humanoid Robotics

Insider 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 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 […]

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 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 […]