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Fraunhofer eröffnet drei Humanoid Robots Experience Labs in Deutschland
Das Fraunhofer IOSB schafft mit drei Humanoid Experience Labs ein niedrigschwelliges Angebot für Wirtschaft und öffentliche Hand zum Einsatz humanoider Roboter.

Fraunhofer eröffnet drei Humanoid Robots Experience Labs in Deutschland
Das Fraunhofer IOSB schafft mit drei Humanoid Experience Labs ein niedrigschwelliges Angebot für Wirtschaft und öffentliche Hand zum Einsatz humanoider Roboter.

Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of the company deploying its new humanoid robot in factories (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/the-fig

The Fight Over Humanoid Robots Has Shut Down a Car Factory for the First Time
Auto workers for Hyundai Motor in South Korea are on a partial strike worried about their future job prospects

Building a robot that looks like a human is like building a car that looks like a horse.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the

Quote of the day by roboticist Rodney Brooks: 'The visual appearance of a robot makes a promise about what it can do and how smart it is' — a warning about the misleading form of a humanoid robot
Just because engineers are building humanoid robots to look like us, that doesn't mean they're intelligent or even capable

A New York State school district is piloting a humanoid robot teacher by the company Realbotix to help students with summer school classes (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable)
https://mashable.com/tech/new-york-school-testing-robot-teacher

New York school district is testing lifelike robot teachers
AI company Realbotix is piloting STEM robots for rural schools.

A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500 units in 2025 and readies its China IPO (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/unitree-influencer-4-foot-robot-from-china/

The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China
The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?

Munich-based Microagi, which collects factory and household data to train humanoid robots, raised $55M led by Hummingbird in Germany's largest ever seed round (Éanna Kelly/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/munich-robotics-startup-…

Munich robotics startup Microagi raises $55m, Germany’s largest ever seed round
The deal was led by VC firm Hummingbird, with participation from investors Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global and Redalpine.

MA-based Walden Robotics, a Toyota robotics spin-off that has started selling humanoid robots, emerges from stealth with a ~$300M seed at a $1.1B valuation (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

For general purpose humanoid robots, why not t win them on a few actions by imitating a human then reinforcement learn other skills? Or do they already do this?
#robot #robotics #humanoid…

Free game alert: State Of Mind on GoG.
When mind and machine become one – what will remain of humanity?
Berlin, 2048 – The world is on the brink. Lack of resources, illnesses caused by polluted air and water, crime on the rise, war. Governments and companies promise remedies through technological progress. Drones and humanoid robots replace humans in the public sector, everything is interconnected, surveillance has become omnipresent.

A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome (Kai Williams/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-humanoid-robots-wont-catch-up

Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon
A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.

Chinese robot maker UBTech launches U1, a line of humanoid robots for personal companionship with lifelike silicone skin and emotional AI, priced from $17,650 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trend…

UBTech launches lifelike humanoid robots built for companionship in China
The unveiling of model U1, which has silicone skin and emotional AI, reflects tech firms’ drive to expand robotics beyond industrial use.

Mitsubishi to Mass-Produce Humanoid Robots at Former Engine Plant
The facility is expected to produce up to 1,000 robots per month. https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/100290-mitsubishi-to-mass-produce-humanoid-robots-at-former-engine-plant

Someone really needs to try tieing this audio->drummer motion system (From Disney research) to one of the new humanoid robots and close the loop:
#ai

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-can-control-humanoid-robots/

Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google's AI Into the Physical World
The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.

How companies like Nvidia and Neura Robotics are building safety systems for humanoid robots to minimize risks like a bipedal robot losing stability (John Keilman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-quest-to-make

Once again, the answer seems to be that if the US can not compete, we ban the competition. We need to do better.
Next AI Battleground: U.S., China Scramble To Lead In Humanoid Robots https://www.investors.com/news/technology/humanoid-robots-usa-china-conflict-tesla-nvidia/

Humanoid robot maker Apptronik raised ~$1B at a ~$5B valuation, including from Mercedes-Benz, which has a handful of Apptronik's Apollo robots in its factories (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)

A profile of Hangzhou-based Unitree, which shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, accounting for 25% of the global market, as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO (Charlie Campbell/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/07/23/unitree-china-human-robotics/

The Robots Cometh
The humanoid revolution is coming—and the Chinese firm Unitree is leading the charge.

Humanoid robots trained on 1M hours of human video achieve up to 90% task success https://www.dyna.co/dyna-2

Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, partners with AMD to develop autonomous humanoid robots using the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series chips (Aishwarya Jain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eric-trum

The US FCC bans the import of new Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, seeking to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-administration-ban-new-c…

Nvidia unveils Halos, a new safety-focused OS derived from autonomous vehicle tech, designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22…

Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing it at ~$2.5B and listing under ticker symbol AGLT (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.co…

Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/mobileye-ceo-amn…

Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics | TechCrunch
Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.