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Figure AI Retires Humanoid Robot Fleet by Having Them Jump Into Vat of Molten Steel

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Figure AI Retires Humanoid Robot Fleet by Having Them Jump Into Vat of Molten Steel

Figure Unveils Helix 2.5 With Zero-Shot Humanoid Generalization Across 30 Homes

Nscale, Figure Sign $3.5B Humanoid Robot Compute Deal

Qualcomm Introduces a Full Suite of Robotics Technologies, Powering Physical AI from Household Robots up to Full-Size Humanoids

AI Insider’s Robotics Funding Year in Review

AI Insider’s Week in Review: News From ChatGPT, Amazon, Google, Nvidia, Plus the Latest Funding Rounds

Introducing Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Humanoid Robotics

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Figure AI Retires Humanoid Robot Fleet by Having Them Jump Into Vat of Molten Steel

Figure Unveils Helix 2.5 With Zero-Shot Humanoid Generalization Across 30 Homes

Nscale, Figure Sign $3.5B Humanoid Robot Compute Deal

Qualcomm Introduces a Full Suite of Robotics Technologies, Powering Physical AI from Household Robots up to Full-Size Humanoids

AI Insider’s Robotics Funding Year in Review

AI Insider’s Week in Review: News From ChatGPT, Amazon, Google, Nvidia, Plus the Latest Funding Rounds

Introducing Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Humanoid Robotics

Trending today

Disney Agrees to Hire Majority of Character.AI Workforce Following Chatbot Startup’s Bankruptcy

CoreWeave Launches Physical AI Templates for Robotics and AV Development

Tenstorrent Announces a $1.5B Series E at a $6.2B Valuation

Eka Robotics Raises $150M Series A to Scale Vision-Force-Action Model for Dexterous Robots

Kapital to Acquire AI Coding Startup Woz in $30M Deal to Boost Financial AI Capabilities

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