China's Humanoid Robots Just Had Their Biggest Week Ever — And Also Their Most Embarrassing One

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GigaAI and PaXini Partner to Combine World Models With Tactile Robotics

GigaAI and PaXini AI have signed a strategic partnership to combine world models, tactile perception and robot data infrastructure as they build embodied AI systems that can operate across different robot platforms.

PaXini

Smaller AI Models Are Making Humanoid Robots More Efficient

New research is showing that humanoid robots may not need enormous AI models to perform useful tasks, with compact systems achieving strong results while requiring significantly less computing power.

Unitree Robotics

Wandercraft Says Calvin-40 Has Secured 12 Industrial Customers

Wandercraft says its Calvin-40 industrial humanoid has secured 12 blue-chip customers across automotive, logistics, retail, healthcare and defense as it prepares to expand real-world deployments.

Wandercraft

Axis Robotics Open-Sources 50,000-Trajectory Dataset for Robot Learning

Axis Robotics has released Axis Sim Dataset V1, an open-source dataset containing more than 50,000 human-teleoperated robot trajectories across 207 manipulation tasks.

Axis RoboticsPhysical Intelligence

Simple AI Raises Several Hundred Million Yuan for Embodied AI

Beijing-based Simple AI has raised several hundred million yuan in new funding, adding to a rapid run of financing as the company builds data infrastructure and models for general-purpose embodied robots.

Simple AI

YOBOTICS Raises RMB 100M+ to Scale Humanoid and Legged Robots

Chinese robotics company YOBOTICS has raised more than RMB 100 million ($14 million+) in an A+ funding round as it prepares to expand production across humanoid and legged robots.

Yobotics

AGIBOT and Minth Launch Humanoid Production in Serbia

AGIBOT and Minth Group have started humanoid robot production in Šabac, Serbia, opening what the companies and Serbian authorities describe as Europe’s first mass-production line for humanoid robots.

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