6 results for “humanoid robot”
The United States has moved to ban Chinese-made humanoid robots, cutting off China from its largest export market. This ban has profound implications for both the robotics industry and international trade.
Sam Altman told TIME — and revisited the theme on the Sources podcast — that OpenAI will “definitely” make humanoid robots and that everyone should eventually have a personal robot. Separately, Bloomberg-reported details sketch a screenless, puck-sized Ive device aimed at 2027, while Apple’s trade-secret suit hangs over the hardware calendar.
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a 180 cm humanoid for cage-free warehouse and factory work with a 23 kg payload. It targets a 20-hour daily duty cycle so operators can replace fixed safety cages.
Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini Robotics ER 2, a new embodied reasoning model designed to serve as a high-level brain for robots. Announced on July 30, 2026, the system introduces real-time video understanding, multi-step task.
Foundation, a U.S.-based robotics company, has demonstrated a tendon-driven robotic hand capable of catching a baseball mid-air. Dexterous manipulation remains the primary barrier to useful general-purpose robots in unstructured.
NVIDIA has introduced two new Jetson Thor modules aimed at bringing more capable AI workloads to robots and edge devices. The Jetson T3000 and T2000 are designed for systems that need to process vision, language and sensor data locally.