South Korean entertainment technology company Galaxy Corporation has staged a synchronized performance involving 16 humanoid robots in New York as part of a demonstration combining robotics with K-pop and other entertainment content. The company deployed the humanoid robots in Times Square for what it described as a K-pop “Peace Flash Mob”, held as part of […]

Odyssey, an AI research company pioneering foundation world models, has announced Odyssey-3, its most powerful world model to date. The new model represents a significant advance toward general-purpose intelligence that can understand, predict, and interact with both physical and virtual environments. World models learn from vast examples of the world evolving to predict and simulate […]

Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, and the Arab Federation for Digital Economy (AFDE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance the deployment, localization and commercialization of embodied AI and robotic solutions in the United Arab Emirates and the wider GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) and Middle East markets. The agreement was […]

Stäubli Robotics will host its first North East European Robotics & Automation Summit at its Welcome Center in Bayreuth, Germany, on November 19 and 20, following a restructuring of its sales operations across Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The company has consolidated its sales activities across the region, with overall responsibility centralized at its Bayreuth […]

Physical AI company Sereact, online retailer Zalando and CEVA Logistics have announced the launch of AI-powered automated returns processing across key fulfillment facilities in Germany (Greven) and Poland (Świebodzin). Powered by Cortex, Sereact’s physical AI platform, the dual-arm robotic systems have entered live operations to autonomously process returned fashion items, marking the initial phase of […]

DataraAI is developing robotic automation technology designed to enable industrial robot arms to connect cables and other components during the assembly of AI servers and racks – a task that is still largely performed manually. (See video below.) The California-based company is targeting operations including routing cables, seating connectors and handling wiring harnesses, where conventional […]

Faraday Future is planning to bring a robotics factory online in the United States by the end of 2026 as the electric vehicle company accelerates its expansion into humanoid and other embodied AI robots. The California-based company says it aims to have the first new robot from its “Built in USA” program roll off the […]

The humanoid robotics industry is increasingly dominated by companies promising general-purpose machines capable of performing a growing range of industrial tasks. Minerva Humanoids is taking a rather different approach: start with jobs where replacing the human body has an immediate and potentially life-saving purpose. The San Francisco-based company has developed Roger, a semi-autonomous humanoid designed […]

Minerva Humanoids has emerged from stealth with approximately $10 million in pre-seed funding to develop semi-autonomous humanoid robots for hazardous work in the energy and public safety sectors. The funding round was led by General Catalyst, with Long Journey Ventures and Credo Ventures as co-leads. MVP Ventures, Kaya, RunwayFBU, Compound, Founders Embassy, Hugging Face, Codecademy, […]