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Unitree-G1-Roboter greift in einem Robotiklabor nach einem Paket; cyanfarbene Bahnkurven symbolisieren UnifoLM. [Image content created with AI]

Unitree Open-Sources UnifoLM: What the Robot Model Can Really Do

Nico Nuss Sep 11, 2026 0

Unitree is opening UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 with six billion parameters and data for 64 tasks. What the robot model can do—and what…

Eva.i humanoid robot model in a Shenzhen robotics laboratory [Image content created with AI]

Humanoide Roboter Magazin

RoboNova.i Eva.i fact check: Warm skin, bold promises, delayed production

Nico Nuss Sep 6, 2026 0

Eva.i promises a warm surface, touch sensing and a persistent personal memory. Here is what the evidence says about Shenzhen…

Generic humanoid robot stands at the entrance to a long aisle of liquid-cooled AI server racks [Image content created with AI]

KI und AI Magazin Robotik

100,000 GPUs for Humanoids: Why Figure Is Making a $3.5 Billion Compute Bet

Alpha Bionic Redaktion Sep 5, 2026 0

Figure and Nscale plan infrastructure for up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs. The race to build humanoid robots is…

Two robotic arms fold blue fabric while a human operator records manipulation data with tracking gloves [Image content created with AI]

KI und AI Magazin Robotik

Why Real-World Robot Data Is Suddenly Worth a Billion Dollars

Alpha Bionic Redaktion Sep 5, 2026 0

Robots cannot learn from the open internet the way language models did. XDOF's reported $1.2 billion valuation talks reveal why…

Modular robot components for perception, touch and movement in a manufacturing facility [Image content created with AI]

Magazin

Robotics LiDAR Volume Jumps 510% as RoboSense Builds a Physical AI Component Stack

Alpha Bionic Redaktion Aug 28, 2026 0

RoboSense reports 282,600 LiDAR units for robotics and other applications as it expands into sensing and actuation components.

Small duck-shaped robot beside a motion simulation in a robotics laboratory [Image content created with AI]

Magazin

The $399 Microduck Turns Physical AI Into a Developer Product

Alpha Bionic Redaktion Aug 28, 2026 0

Microduck combines a $399 price with an open reinforcement-learning and sim-to-real stack for physical AI developers.

xpeng robotics automotive [Image content created with AI]

Magazin

XPENG’s $900M Robot Bet: Why Physical AI Is Becoming a Standalone Business

Alpha Bionic Redaktion Aug 25, 2026 0

XPENG has raised more than US$900 million for its robotics business, giving the unit a post-money valuation above US$6.3 billion.…

Roboterarm auf einem Kompaktlader positioniert ein Solarmodul auf einem großen Solarpark [Image content created with AI]

Serviceroboter Magazin

These Robots Could Build Solar Farms Four Times Faster — Using Ordinary Construction Equipment

Alpha Bionic Redaktion Aug 15, 2026 0

Gritt adds robotic arms, sensors and physical AI to construction equipment already found on job sites, starting with utility-scale solar…

Humanoide Roboter falten Wäsche und trainieren einen Feuerwehreinsatz in einer realitätsnahen Testarena [Image content created with AI]

Humanoide Roboter Magazin

Robot Olympics 2026: Humanoids Must Now Cook, Clean and Fight Fires

Alpha Bionic Redaktion Aug 15, 2026 0

Spectacle is no longer enough at the World Humanoid Robot Games. Robots must prove they can work autonomously inside homes,…

Humanoider Roboter, mobiler Manipulator und Vierbeinroboter demonstrieren Arbeitsaufgaben auf einer KI-Ausstellung [Image content created with AI]

Magazin

WAIC 2026: China’s Robots Are Starting to Work

Nico Nuss Aug 15, 2026 0

WAIC 2026 showed how China’s robots are moving from spectacular prototypes toward repeatable working systems. The key launches, technologies and…

Redaktionelle KI-Visualisierung des humanoiden EngineAI PM01 in einer suborbitalen Raumkapsel mit Blick auf die Erde [Image content created with AI]

Humanoide Roboter Magazin

PM01 in Space: How EngineAI Plans to Turn a Humanoid Robot Into an Astronaut

Nico Nuss Aug 14, 2026 0

EngineAI and Interstellor want to take the PM01 humanoid on a suborbital flight. The vision is spectacular, but major engineering…

Fotorealistische redaktionelle KI-Visualisierung von humanoiden und mobilen Robotern an einer Zollkontrolle in einem Luftfrachtterminal [Image content created with AI]

Investment & Business Magazin

U.S. Import Restrictions on New Robots Put European Automation Suppliers Under Pressure

Nico Nuss Aug 14, 2026 0

New U.S. market-access restrictions affect mobile robots, humanoid systems and inverters. The VDMA warns of consequences for European suppliers, American…