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🗞️ Pulse first · 3 news posts
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- 🗓️ 2026-10-22 · ✍️ RoboterminalEka's Robot Picks 1,500 Things an Hour. Its Gripper Is Rated for About 139 Days of That.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-21 · ✍️ RoboterminalSchaeffler Will Buy Thousands of Humanoids From Its Actuator Customers. Its €400 Million Order Book Doesn't Count Those Deals.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-19 · ✍️ RoboterminalFifteen Humanoids Are Loading Car Parts at 98%. The Number That Decides Their Future Is 15 Seconds.
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What changed, and what is the evidence.
Oct 22, 2026 · Deployment · posted
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I've recently updated my beliefs that general-purpose robotics should have more open software SDKs, e.g. root-level access so that the community can secure these devices as they are deployed in the millions, then billions.… |
Announcing: the XDOF Robotics Leaderboard Rigorous evaluations on real robots are an important and overlooked ingredient in solving general purpose robotics. Our goal is to provide trusted evaluations, with meaningful benchmark design and… |
NVIDIA announces new Isaac tools for agents as Agile Robots unveils Agile ONE SN, a reference humanoid for robotics research. 🦾 Built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T and powered by Jetson Thor, Agile ONE SN gives researchers and developers an… |
Manipulation gets solved by feeling; vision isn't as important as you think! A leap in the last mm manipulation that holds back general-purpose robotics 👇 https://t.co/UljGzlgBaX |
Can robots use their hands to do tasks they’ve never been trained for? @naturewill Natura-1 aims to combine three capabilities in one physical-world foundation model: * Zero-shot generalization * Dexterous control * Long-horizon execution… |
This might be one of the clearest tests of physical intelligence. A robot can learn a manipulation skill. The harder case is using that skill when the object environment or instruction changes. Nature Will @naturewill ’s Natura-1 is built… |
Model evaluation is still a major bottleneck for general-purpose robotics teams. Love what the team at @antiochrobotics has been doing lately. More of this, @michaeljcalvey! https://t.co/XDnrxhM1B2 |
EARLY: 5 companies across Robotics, AI, Infrastructure and Healthcare.👇 @superradiant_ai - 5 followers - (Robotics): robot scientists that form hypotheses and run real experiments. YC F26. @purposerobotics - 9 followers - (Robotics):… |
Skild AI Reaches $100M Revenue Run Rate in 10 Months Skild AI says it has reached a $100 million annual recurring revenue run rate only 10 months after starting commercial deployments, making the robotics startup one of the fastest-growing… |
RoboStrategy led Maven Robotics' $100M Series A. Maven is building a general-purpose robotics system for industrial work which includes hardware, software and AI integrated across the robot, the fleet, the factory and the Maven-wide… |
#Robotics #HumanoidRobots #PhysicalAI The humanoid robotics business of @XPengMotors has signed equity financing agreements to raise more than $900 million at a post-money valuation exceeding $6.3 billion, marking the largest single-round… |