Robots cannot learn from the open internet the way language models did. XDOF's reported $1.2 billion valuation talks reveal why…
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Wandercraft says 12 customers are working with Calvin-40. Its strategy is to scale the humanoid through defined industrial tasks, real…
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Caterpillar and FieldAI want to connect autonomous inspection, real-time digital twins and robot-agnostic autonomy. The strategic asset is not one…
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New analyst and industry signals suggest that robotics competition is moving beyond humanoids toward complete systems combining sensing, manipulation, data,…
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New U.S. security restrictions are colliding with a China-dominated humanoid manufacturing base. The likely outcome is a regional robotics market…
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A new NSF center is treating human–robot co-adaptation as a long-term scientific problem. The real breakthrough may be measuring whether…
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Minth and AgiBot have opened a humanoid robot production base in Šabac. The decisive questions now concern local value creation,…
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