The latest in robotics, explained clearly — for builders and the curious.
The lidar maker launched Kosmo One (8K spatial camera) plus Kosmo World cloud, partnering with Galbot and Dexmal; a Dairy Queen scan cut modeling from ~300 hours to 15 minutes.
In one week Korea cleared 20 humanoids to work beside people, Shanghai set a goal of 8,000 factory humanoids by 2028, and UBTECH's 10,000-a-year plant came into focus. Here is what each move means.
NEURA Robotics launched Neuron AI, a 'perception-language-action' model that fuses 3D vision, touch, force, audio, robot state and language with memory, and will demo an 11-minute laundry task on its 4NE1 humanoid.
Korea's trade ministry exempted Robros from fence rules so 20 bipedal humanoids can clean chip parts, place car panels, stack ship scaffolding and move cold-chain boxes.
Thailand's Board of Investment approved five Chinese companies to make roller screws, actuators and structural parts for humanoids in the Eastern Economic Corridor, naming Tesla's Optimus as a target market.
ABB debuted five IRB 1700 variants at CIIF Shanghai, including an IRB 1700ID with internal cabling, aimed at welding, machine tending, deburring and even AI server rack assembly.
Shenzhen's Astribot closed an RMB 1 billion round at about RMB 15 billion valuation — its fourth raise in six months — to scale cable-driven S1 and T1 robots.
Shanghai Chaifu Robotics showed a robot rated for 5,000.36 kg that lifted a whole car, topping FANUC's 2,300 kg record. Its value depends on reliability in heavy industry.
On a Unitree G1, Galbot's planner–tracker stack finished 50 unseen physical layouts without falls; 45 were contact-free. Destination success in sim was 98.67% — contact-free 70.3%.
While humanoids grab headlines, Kore, Didin and Kalman are shipping task-specific machines into construction sites, shipyards and nuclear plants — with Oct 2026 deployments already lined up.
The Pi API beta lets robot builders upload data, fine-tune π0/π0.5 on Pi's infrastructure and run the result through hosted inference.
Toronto's Promise Robotics will use its Factory-as-a-Service microfactories, running KUKA arms and domain-specific AI, to produce home components for America's largest homebuilder.