Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — RLWRLD, a physical AI company developing robotics foundation models for dexterous manipulation, unveiled RLDX-1 at “Dexterity Night in SF,” introducing a model designed to help humanoid robots perform contact-rich tasks such as grasping, pouring and tool use. The company also reported benchmark results across humanoid tabletop, kitchen manipulation and real-world […]
British technology company Humanoid will deploy humanoid robots at factories operated by German industrial supplier Schaeffler, Reuters reported. The two companies’ agreement covers an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 robots in Schaeffler’s global manufacturing sites by 2032, according to a Humanoid spokesperson. The companies have not disclosed the contract value. The first deployment is scheduled between […]
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Over 1,000 humanoid robots by Humanoid, a UK company, will now be working for Schaeffler, the German automotive and industrial supplier. Humanoid Two-year-old British startup Humanoid has signed a deal to integrate “a four-digit number of humanoid robots into live manufacturing operations” at German industrial giant Schaeffler’s factories starting later this year. The bigger news, however, might be that Humanoid has committed to buying a “seven-digit number of actuators” from Schaeffler over the term of the agreement, suggesting that Humanoid intends to ship a staggering 100,000 humanoid robots across all of its clients over the next five years. Four months ago, Schaeffler and a two-year-old British startup called Humanoid announced they’d put “several hundred” humanoid robots into the German industrial giant’s factories over the next five to six years. Something mu
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE —Hello Robot, the team behind the Stretch mobile manipulation platform, today announced the release of Stretch 4. Available now for $29,950, Stretch 4 is an open-source robotics platform designed for researchers, developers, and application engineers building the next wave of Physical AI applications for general purpose robotics. Designing Stretch 4 to […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Nomagic, a leading robotics company applying advanced Physical AI to warehouse automation, announced a partnership expansion with Swiss online retailer, Brack.Alltron, to include Vision-Language-Action (VLA) systems in live warehouse operations, highlighting the growing need for this industry-transforming innovation. Brack, the second-largest e-commerce platform in Switzerland, has been increasingly adopting Nomagic’s robotic solutions […]
Insider Brief Sony Semiconductor Solutions and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufaccturing Company announced a plan to form a strategic partnership focused on developing and manufacturing next-generation image sensors, with the companies highlighting future applications in robotics, automotive systems and physical AI. According to a joint press release, the companies signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to create […]
A familiar pattern has emerged in robotics and autonomous systems: a flagship demo runs beautifully on stage, the same system stumbles in a live warehouse two weeks later, and the post-mortem blames “reality” for being messier than the test environment. Some voices in the field argue the missing layer is hardware — better grippers, force-torque […]
Jensen Huang called it "the ChatGPT moment for robotics." Deloitte says 80% of businesses plan to use physical AI within two years. Here is what you actually need to know, and do, to prepare…
