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Unitree is targeting a $7B valuation for its IPO, planned for Q4 this year. The listing, likely on Shanghai’s STAR Market, would be one of the biggest onshore tech listings in recent years It was valued at CN¥12B ($1.7B) in the last funding round. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1965273782899355842
With reinforcement learning, it learns general principles of coordination – allowing it to generate efficient plans for new workflows in seconds. 💡 This research is a key step towards more adaptable manufacturing lines of the future. Find out more ↓ https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1965040648400351337
Figure is working to solve general robotics https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1964011136577392911
When I launched Figure three years ago, I couldn’t have guessed how far we’d come The big question at the time: would neural networks actually work on a humanoid this complex? We’ve shown they do. Now it’s all about scaling https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1965150298449838398
👏 Just dropped WALL-OSS, an open-source base model to build a more open ecosystem. And new robot Quanta X2 is launched, with auto mop install + 360° cleaning +sensitive dexterous hand. Unlike hardware-heavy rivals, X Square takes a software-first path — focusing on embodied AI.”” / X https://x.com/ZhihuFrontier/status/1964968113990164810
A hexapod that doubles as a mobile robotics lab. The Hiwonder ROSpider comes with: ✅ NVIDIA Jetson Nano onboard ✅ LiDAR + 3D depth camera ✅ SLAM, autonomous navigation & AI vision ✅ Open-source ROS / ROS2 support Gait control, mapping, obstacle detection… all in a https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1965681690971406812
Agility Robotics has developed a whole-body control foundation model for their humanoid robot, Digit, acting like a “”motor cortex”” to ensure safe, stable performance in diverse tasks. This small neural network (<1M parameters) is trained in NVIDIA’s Isaac Sim for simulated https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1963687216477319333
Borg 01 – Autonomous Logistics Demo https://x.com/borgrobotic/status/1963265646101213552
Chinese humanoid makers grab major deals. China Daily: – UBTech has secured a 250 million yuan ($35 million) contract for Walker S2 robots with a well-known domestic company. The robot is capable of swapping its own battery packs. – Unitree and Fourier have jointly won a 124M https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1965465128813690896
DEXOP is a passive hand exoskeleton for collecting rich sensory data from vision, tactile, and proprioception. A kinematically equivalent robotic hand, EyeSight, was installed on a Unitree H1 to evaluate policies trained on DEXOP data. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1965117869970391071
Eufy built a stairlift for its robovacs | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/ifa-berlin/769976/eufy-marswalker-stair-climbing-robotic-vacuum-price-specs-release-date
Fourier has revealed a variant of the GR-3 humanoid robot featuring a glossy black panel for the face with digitally animated eyes. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1965861846138954048
Handling glass with millimeter precision and placing it seamlessly into the frame… Pure art. https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1963508352845062479
How far can robot foundation models really go without breaking down? This team tested theirs for 24 hours straight, folding over 850 t-shirts at production quality with no human help. ✅ 99.4% success rate over 24 hours ✅ Precision folding under real-world lighting and mess ✅ https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1964023264537194928
I talked with Brennand Pierce, founder and CEO of @KinisiRobotics, where he’s building one-armed mobile manipulators: Designed to automate warehouse tasks like picking, palletizing, and labeling and many more. After nearly two decades in robotics, Bren brings a rare mix of https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1963621718427091243
Introducing MARS, the first Personal AI Robot. In technology, getting to the future we want starts with building it together. This is why we designed Mars. Inspired by early PCs, Mars is a powerful, complete, extendable robot. It runs BASIC, an open embodied AI agent we https://x.com/ax_pey/status/1963999607639429612
IRON humanoid robot by Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng brews coffee. No claim of being autonomous. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1965096143773454597
Making a long overdue trip to India — who should I meet? In Punjab & Delhi this month, and then Bangalore and Mumbai in October. If you’re a builder, creator or investor doing cool stuff in AI, AR/VR or robotics – drop a line below or DM me.”” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1964961160371052796
New Episode: @micoolcho, co-founder and CEO of FrodoBots and Ultimate Fighting Bots. We talk about Michael’s journey, a near-death plane crash that reshaped his outlook, his passion for robotics, and data collection via real-world games. His big thesis: aligning economic https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1963835553331425489
Our AI system RoboBallet can choreograph a team of robot arms with precision, working together without collisions. 🤖 Developed with @IntrinsicAI and @UCL, it can automate task and motion planning for up to 8 robots at a time – outperforming traditional methods by ~25%. https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1965040645103407572
Pollen Robotics’ Reachy 2 now has Amazing hands. The Amazing Hand is an open-source design, a 3D-printable hand with 8 DOF costing less than $250. A proof of concept for now, native integration for Reachy 2 coming soon. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1965099124061298884
Reachy 2 now has hands! ✋ We’ve equipped it with Amazing Hand, the open-source robotic hand by Jérémy Laville. It’s just a proof of concept for now, but dual hands already unlock exciting possibilities for fine manipulation & interaction. 👉 Native integration coming soon! https://x.com/pollenrobotics/status/1964987735829266871
Researchers design robot that can pick hidden strawberries | WSU Insider | Washington State University https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2025/09/04/researchers-design-robot-that-can-pick-hidden-strawberries/
Robotics has transformed welding speed. Precision is great, but speed now matters just as much. And conventional TIG still lags behind… Balancing quality with speed, especially on pipe, pressure vessel, and roll welding projects. This solution helps change that. It delivers https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1965833426486820958
Robots aren’t just in factories anymore… they’re showing up in kitchens too. This DENSO robot arm takes over the wok station, cooking fried rice with: ✅ Consistent quality ✅ Faster prep times ✅ Cleaner, smoke-free cooking A glimpse of how automation could change not just https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1964954477552611818
Robots learn to work together like a well-choreographed dance | UCL News – UCL – University College London https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/sep/robots-learn-work-together-well-choreographed-dance
Robots usually need tons of labeled data to learn precise actions. What if they could learn control skills directly from human videos… no labels needed? Robotics pretraining just took a BIG jump forward. A new Autoregressive Robotic Model, learns low-level 4D representations https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1965106627511546357
This robot lawnmower is designed to pick fruit and throw your dog a ball | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/772045/nexlawn-master-x-series-concept-robot-lawnmower
Training a Whole-Body Control Foundation Model https://www.agilityrobotics.com/content/training-a-whole-body-control-foundation-model
XYZ: Let’s build a humanoid company to save humanity from the labour shortage Meanwhile: https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1965472807829004643
Alibaba leads $100m round in Chinese robotics startup X Square
https://www.techinasia.com/news/alibaba-leads-100m-round-in-chinese-robotics-startup-x-square
Chinese humanoid startup X Square Robot has raised $100M in a funding round led by Alibaba Cloud, with HongShan (formerly Sequoia Capital China) and others, bringing total funding to $280M since the company launched Dec 2023. The firm recently launched Wall-OSS, an open-source https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1965475160804462768
Robots learning in simulation, and then mastering the real world. [📍 Bookmark GitHub Repositories] Today’s video shows a full Sim2Real pipeline with the OMY robot. ✅ Compact 6-DoF manipulator built for AI and robotics research ✅ Trained in Isaac Sim, validated in Gazebo, https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1964386919216750797
Bubble-powered robots: How collapsing cavities could replace needles https://interestingengineering.com/science/bubble-powered-robots-could-replace-needle
NOAA and partners deploy mini ocean robots to collect hurricane data https://wmo.int/media/news-from-members/noaa-and-partners-deploy-mini-ocean-robots-collect-hurricane-data
Elon confirms that the newest Optimus version shown here is not V3, it’s V2.5. Prediction: Optimus 3 will be unveiled at the Tesla annual shareholder meeting on November 6. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1964810659134398848
Everything Elon said about Optimus at the All-In Summit today: • We’re finalizing the design of Optimus v3. That release is going to be a very remarkable robot. It will have manual dexterity comparable to a human, meaning a very complex hand, an AI mind that can navigate and https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1965624815735484724
Gen-2 bots are cool, but true scale will come with Optimus 3. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1964828824371355927
New Episode: @GoingBallistic5 Dives Deep into Tesla’s Optimus Scott breaks down Optimus Gen2, explores potential Gen3 design upgrades, the hands problem, actuator supply chain hurdles, Tesla’s shift away from teleoperation, and more. We shot a video at Tesla’s Fremont showroom https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1965824741073440800
Optimus 2.5 has you in its sights. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1964757175261401179
Optimus can go to a charging dock and anchor itself to it using the camera in the back of its head. Or, with a charging cable plugged in, it can do non-mobile tasks without taking breaks. It seems to have the range of motion to potentially plug/unplug the cable independently. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1965223632361455786
Optimus with a new look. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1964379158697693602
Two main takeaways from Elon Musk’s CEO compensation plan: 1. Optimus is the core priority for Tesla beyond transportation. It’s not treated as a lofty moonshot project. It won’t be abandoned or put on the backburner like Roadster, Dojo, or Solar Tile Roof. The organization and https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1964462363115155817
The pi-05 model is now in openpi: https://x.com/svlevine/status/1965161524722630734
