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One Year After the Robot Half-Marathon: Where Are the Top Three Teams Now?
Last year's top three humanoid robots in the half-marathon have diverged into distinct paths: industrial applications, consumer-grade companionship, and bionic emotional support. As the 2026 race approaches with stricter autonomy rules, the competition intensifies.
AgiBot Coolta Unveils All-Terrain Quadruped Platform, Targets 300,000 Units by 2030
AgiBot Coolta unveiled its all-terrain intelligent mobile and operation platform strategy, aiming for 300,000 units shipped by 2030. The new quadruped robot series leverages full-stack AGI technology to enhance adaptability and autonomy in extreme environments.
AgiBot Unveils GO-2 Model to Bridge the Semantic-Motor Gap in Robotics
AgiBot released its next-generation VLA foundation model, Genie Operator-2 (GO-2), introducing 'Action Chain of Thought' and an 'Asynchronous Dual-System' architecture to address the long-standing gap between perception and execution in robotics.
Physical Intelligence Is Valued at RMB 38.5 Billion Without Making Robots—Its Bet Is on an Operating-System-Like Platform
Physical Intelligence (PI) reached a $5.6 billion valuation by providing models to other robot teams rather than building robot hardware. Co-founder Sergey Levine discusses real-world data and the data flywheel, weak supervision through language annotations, an operating-system-like foundation for diverse robot hardware, and the role of mid-level reasoning.
Qianxun Intelligence Raises RMB 3 Billion in 30 Days, Valuing Embodied AI Firm at Over RMB 10 Billion
In just 30 days, Embodied AI company Qianxun Intelligence secured another 1 billion RMB, bringing its total financing to 3 billion RMB. With a valuation exceeding 10 billion RMB less than two and a half years after its founding, the company is accelerating its growth through a unique data-driven VLA model approach.
New Model Boosts Robot Task Success Rate to 99% and Triples Speed
Generalist AI's GEN-1 model achieves 99% success rates and 3x speed improvements by decoupling world understanding from robotic control, enabling robots to transition from demos to commercial viability.
Embodied AI firm Galaxea raises nearly RMB 2 billion in B+ round, valuation exceeds RMB 20 billion
Embodied AI company Galaxea announced the completion of a nearly 2 billion RMB B+ round of financing. With cumulative financing approaching 5 billion RMB, its valuation has broken through 20 billion RMB, making it one of the few members of the '20 Billion Club' in China's embodied AI industry.
Figure Robotics Gains Strength After Parting Ways With OpenAI
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock discusses the company's split from OpenAI, the critical role of real-world data in Embodied AI, and why commercial deployment precedes home adoption.
Sunday Robotics CTO Details How $200 Gloves and Pragmatic Hardware Strategy Power Real-World Robot Deployment
Sunday Robotics' CTO Chi Cheng shares insights on data collection, supply chain management, and the company's pragmatic strategy for bringing embodied AI into homes.
Robotics Startup Unveils 'Fastest' World Model After Reaching a 10-Billion Valuation
StarSeaMap's Fast-WAM boosts robot reaction speed by 4x by decoupling training from inference, proving world models rely on implicit physics understanding rather than explicit future video generation.
GTC 2026: Robotics Shifts from Explicit Reasoning to Direct Perception-to-Action
At GTC 2026, Nvidia demonstrated a shift in Embodied AI: robots are reducing reliance on explicit intermediate layers like language and future imagination, moving towards direct, implicit decision-making for faster response.
What Figure’s System 0 Integration in Helix Means
Figure AI's introduction of System 0 in the Helix 02 model marks a pivotal shift toward embodied AI, enabling seamless loco-manipulation by replacing traditional control code with a learned physical prior.