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BYD confirmed its secret humanoid robot project codename Yao-Shun-Yu, running since 2022 in Business Unit 15, with plans to sell robots through its global auto dealer network.
SquareMind's Swan is the first robot for standardized full-body dermoscopic imaging — $18M led by da Vinci founder Fred Moll, FDA-listed, 80% of melanomas are new lesions.
Boston Dynamics Spot quadrupeds costing up to $300,000 each are patrolling America's largest AI data centers as companies pour $700B into infrastructure too big for human security teams.
Travis Kalanick launched ATOMS, a robotics company targeting food, mining, and transportation. Here's what the Uber founder is building and why the timing matters.
From Tesla Optimus and 1X NEO to Figure AI, Boston Dynamics, Apptronik, and Unitree — the humanoid and industrial robotics race is accelerating fast. Here is every major player, their valuation, their technology, and what the $10 trillion market projection actually means.
Honor, the Chinese smartphone brand spun off from Huawei, unveiled a full humanoid robot at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona. The move signals that Chinese consumer electronics brands are pivoting aggressively into embodied AI, following BYD, Xiaomi, and Unitree.
Tesla has 1,000 Optimus robots in Giga Texas and Fremont. Skills in demand: ROS2, simulation, sensor fusion. What robotics developers need to know.
Tesla has over 1,000 Optimus humanoid robots working in factories and is targeting one million units a year by 2026–27. What that means for AGI, global labor markets, and the skills developers should bet on now.
Three of the most powerful technology organisations in the world — NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and Disney Research — jointly built and open-sourced Newton, a physics engine for training robots. It runs 70x faster than existing simulators. Here is why it matters.
Every robot that learns in simulation and deploys in the real world has to solve sim-to-real transfer. It is the reason robots fail when they leave the lab, and solving it is what NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and Disney's Newton physics engine is actually attempting.
The cute rolling robots at Disney theme parks are not props and they are not remote-controlled. The BDX droids are trained using the same reinforcement learning and physics simulation techniques as industrial robots. Here is how they work and what makes them technically remarkable.
At the CCTV Spring Festival Gala — watched by nearly one billion people — Unitree's humanoid robots performed autonomous kung fu, aerial flips, and parkour. Last year they barely walked. Here is what actually happened and what the technical progress means.