Topic
Robotics & physical AI
Embodied AI — humanoid robots, world models and the systems acting in the physical world.
AMD spends $8.2bn on Fei-Fei Li's World Labs to chase Nvidia into robotics
AMD's second-largest deal ever hands it spatial-intelligence models and a marquee chief scientist as the AI market pivots from text to physical world.
Unitree's Shanghai debut mints a $66bn robot maker, briefly
Shares in the humanoid robot maker surged 629% at the open even as the wider Shanghai market fell.
China locks up 97% of humanoid robot shipments as US moves to ban imports
Agibot and Unitree control three-quarters of a market that tripled in a year, just as Washington tries to shut Chinese robots out.
Google bets Gemini becomes the default brains for humanoid robots
DeepMind's new model family lets one checkpoint drive different robot bodies, aiming to undercut hardware-makers who are building their own AI in-house.
Ant's 'World-First' Robot Brain Is Really a 93.6% Sim Score - Here's the Tell
Ant Group's LingBot-VA 2.0 is billed as the world's first 'embodied-native world action model,' with a 93.6% success rate and delicate potato-chip handling. Read the fine print: those are Ant's own simulation numbers, and a demo is not a deployed robot workforce. But one claim - single-GPU control - would genuinely change the math, if it's real.
Humanoid robots: less sci-fi, more spreadsheet
Ignore the backflip videos. The only number that matters is how fast a robot reaches its second paying job.
Decart's world model is real — and narrow on purpose
It dropped the sci-fi 'simulate anything' pitch for something that might actually sell — and the caveats are the whole point.