🤖 Robotics & Embodied AI
The players bringing AI into the physical world — humanoids, quadrupeds, and the foundation models that drive them. News strip is live from our pipeline.
Mass-market humanoid for factory + home
Flagship: Optimus
Humanoids for commercial labor, in-house VLA models
Flagship: Figure 03
The legacy leader — electric Atlas humanoid, Spot quadruped
Flagship: Atlas (electric)
Aggressively priced humanoids + quadrupeds (from ~$16K)
Flagship: G1 / H2
Home humanoid — soft-bodied, consumer-first
Flagship: NEO
Warehouse bipeds actually deployed at customers
Flagship: Digit
Foundation models for any robot (π series)
Flagship: π0 / π1
Humanoids with Google DeepMind partnership
Flagship: Apollo
General-purpose robot brain (omni-bodied foundation model)
Flagship: Skild Brain
Humanoids for rehab and research
Flagship: GR-3
- Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures at a $6.3B valuation, with Tencent and Alibaba participating (Reuters)techmeme · 3h
- robot qwop olympic trials is now real life??! @minormobius.bsky.social @cee.wtf @abeliansoup.bsky.social x.com/teortaxesTex...bluesky-ai · 8h
- At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records (Telegraph)techmeme · 10h
- Insight on an interesting new way of claiming that the LLM has achhieved humanoid consciousness--by accusing real humans of having the same…bluesky-ai · 15h
- Why can AI generate Super Mario but not a wedge ramp for my robot vacuum?hn-ai · 1d
- - humanoid robot kicking man in the groin; humanoid robot kicking child in the belly - getting stuck while trying to install Claude Code CL…bluesky-ai · 1d
- to be honest if LLM are humanoid minds in a way that makes them moral patients then what AI corpos are doing is slavery and what he is upse…bluesky-ai · 2d
- Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's "ChatGPT moment" has yet to come (Financial Times)techmeme · 2d
- 🌙✨📚📚⚖️🎈🎩 beep boop robot clap CLAP… beep boop robot antibiotics now. 💊bluesky-ai · 2d
- Beyond Imitation: Self-Improving Robot Policies via Off-Policy Q-Planningarxiv-ai · 2d
- Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uberarstechnica-tech · 3d
- A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services (Financial Times)techmeme · 3d