Humanoids
Humanoid robots, dexterity, locomotion, field trials, and the road to useful general-purpose machines.
Latest Humanoids
Mixed Reality Pipeline Trains Humanoids From Everyday Video
Your home FPV footage just taught a humanoid robot to manipulate objects. A new research pipeline called AgenticFocus turns ordinary first person video into robot training data, offering a practical path to teach dexterous robots without soaking teams in expensive hardware. The work, described in a
Virtual playgrounds sharpen robot training with three AI agents
Three autonomous agents collaboratively build lifelike virtual rooms to train robots. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Toyota Research Institute have unveiled SceneSmith, a system that uses three autonomous agents to build richly detailed 3D sc
BMW deploys Figure 03 humanoids on production lines
BMW's factory floor just added a humanoid that actually helps. The carmaker is pushing what it calls Physical AI on the line by bringing in Figure 03 humanoid robots to work alongside human operators in production. Testing shows this step is more than a demo; The company reports that the program is
STMicro backs Oversonic's cognitive RoBee expansion
Oversonic's RoBee just secured major investor backing. The company reports that STMicroelectronics, Fondazione ENEA Tech Biomedical and SpotInvest have entered its share capital to accelerate industrial, technological, and international development. Oversonic Robotics, the Italian cognitive robotics
Robot.com unveils R-noid for burnout jobs
R-noid is ready to work the long shifts humans dread. The company on July 13, 2026, announced its commercial launch of R-noid, a humanoid built for the repetitive, multi-shift, and hard-to-staff jobs that wear people down. The company reports that the system is offered under a Robot as a Service mod
Virtual Gyms Turn Robots into Safer Learners
Robots learn to fail safely in a virtual gym before touching real hardware. TheRobotReport, citing SoftServe, reports that modern robotics teams are training in high-fidelity digital arenas that blend digital twins, synthetic data, reinforcement learning, sensor modeling, and hardware-in-the-loop te
Robots play 11 on 11 on hardware at RoboCup
Two full humanoid teams just played 11-on-11 on real hardware. RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea, delivered a milestone moment for the field: humanoid robots sprinted, chased the ball, and attempted kicks in a full-size, on-field match with real players representing both sides. The spectacle unde
AI2's $735M Round Pushes Wheeled Humanoids Forward
AI2 Robotics just raised $735 million for wheeled humanoids. The Shenzhen company disclosed a financing round that lifts its valuation past 50 billion RMB, about $2.8 billion, and signals robust appetite for practical humanoid robots in China’s fast-moving physical AI sector. The investors span gove
AI Guided Welding Goes Mobile with Spot
A welding torch now roams the shipyard on four legs, guided by AI. Path Robotics is applying physical AI to a problem that has long defied automation: welding. Testing shows the company’s system can identify the torch path and move the robot through a seam with real time vision, keeping the arc on t
Fully robotic cataract surgery completes first human case
The first fully robotic cataract surgery just happened. In April, ForSight Robotics’ JASPER platform completed a robot-assisted cataract procedure in a human patient, performed by Dr. Alexey Rapoport with Dr. Robert Ang as principal investigator at the Asian Eye Institute in Manila. The company desc
Fort Robotics joins Nvidia Halos to boost safety
Fort Robotics tethered its safety stack to Nvidia Halos. The move wires Fort’s “Trust Layer” for physical AI into Nvidia Halos for Robotics, creating a common safety language for autonomous systems. FORT will demonstrate an agentic safety application built with the open source Nvidia Halos Outside-I
Real time humanoid motion now controllable on the fly
Real time humanoid motion now follows online prompts with precision. Researchers behind ARDY say it enables real time synthesis that respects long horizon goals and text prompts. The breakthrough is not magic but a hybrid representation that ties global trajectory to a latent body model, letting sys
Humanoid Robots Tackle Surgery Hurdles Remain
Humanoid robots ran real laparoscopic tasks on live pigs, but they’re not ready for the OR. A new study lays out the practical steps toward using humanoid form factors for surgical tasks, while also painting a clear picture of what stands between lab demos and a clinically deployable system. The aut
Humanoid robots perform gallbladder removal in lab trial
Two teleoperated humanoid robots just performed a gallbladder removal. In a lab-based preclinical trial, researchers at the University of California San Diego used two teleoperated humanoid robots to complete surgeries on large non-primate mammals, reporting their findings in Nature. In the first pr
Initiation Safety Redefines Generalist Robot Safety
Consent, not confidence, should gate a robot's first action. Safety for generalist robots has long fixated on how they move or speak, but a new framing argues a third question matters just as much: should the robot initiate a first real social action at all? Initiation Safety: A Missing Dimension in
Immersive Humanoids Hit 80 Percent Manipulation Success
Testing shows a Unitree H1 humanoid guided by Apple Vision Pro inside a VR frame and a language assisted control system can perform manipulation tasks with novices after only brief familiarization. The framework combines three elements that engineers have long sought to fuse: voice driven locomotion
Robots Learn to Install GPUs Overnight
Robots learned to install GPUs and cut zip ties overnight. Testing shows a new agent harness called ENPIRE, developed by NVIDIA’s GEAR lab with collaborators from Carnegie Mellon University and UC Berkeley, can wrap around AI models to control a lab full of robotic arms, manage memory, track context
Humanoid Robots Get a Shared Playbook
Humanoid robots just got a shared playbook. NVIDIA and Hugging Face are folding the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T 1.7 and the Isaac TeleOp framework into LeRobot, Hugging Face’s open source robotics library. The move ties a scalable data and simulation stack to an open ecosystem, aiming to accelerate end to en
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Tesollo Goes Public as It Scales Humanoid Hands
