Topic: Humanoid

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Agility Robotics to deploy humanoids with Schaeffler Group

November 15, 2024 · Schaeffler Group has made a minority investment in Agility Robotics. The companies announced at Web Summit that Schaeffler will deploy Digit humanoid mobile manipulation robots.

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NVIDIA unveils humanoid AI and simulation tools at CoRL

November 6, 2024 · NVIDIA shared Project GR00T’s six new humanoid learning workflows, Cosmos tokenizers, and NeMo Curator AI development tools at the Conference for Robot Learning in Munich, Germany.

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Boston Dynamics, Toyota Research Institute partner to advance robotics research

October 17, 2024 · Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute announced that a partnership to advance robotics research and combine teams in robotics and artificial intelligence.

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Tesla says ‘future is autonomous’ at We, Robot event with Optimus, Robotaxi demonstrations

October 11, 2024 · Tesla hosted its We, Robot event, where the company showcased updates to its Optimus humanoid robot, and debuted two autonomous vehicles the Robotaxi and Robovan.

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DEEP Robotics unveils first humanoid robot at World Robot Conference in Beijing

August 29, 2024 · DEEP Robotics unveiled its first humanoid robot at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, and demonstrated the obstacle-avoiding abilities of its quadruped robot at the conference.

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Humanoid robot developer Robot Era debuts XHand for object manipulation

August 12, 2024 · Robot Era released its XHand, a human-like hand for object manipulation on its XBot-L humanoid robot with highly sensitive sensors and joints for data collection and feedback.

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Figure AI unveils second-generation humanoid robot Figure 02

August 8, 2024 · Figure AI revealed its second-generation humanoid robot, Figure 02, with a revamped design and the addition of neural network technology via OpenAI.

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A3 Humanoid Robot Forum to be held in October

July 2, 2024 · A3’s Humanoid Robot Forum, to be held in October in conjunction with its AMR and Logistics Conference, will include speakers from Agility, Apptronic, HaptX, and NEURA Robotics.

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Agility Robotics, GXO sign multi-year humanoid deployment agreement

June 27, 2024 · Building off a pilot with SPANX in December, GXO and Agility will continue RaaS commercial deployment of Digit mobile manipulation humanoids, integrating with cobot AMRs.

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AI, sensor developer Forcen closes CA$8.35 million funding round

June 26, 2024 · Generative design tools and off-the-shelf development kits will help Forcen scale its force/torque sensor and edge AI offerings for less-structured robotics applications.

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Elysium Robotics develops human-muscle-like actuators

June 24, 2024 · Elysium Robotics’ co-founders said the company can mass produce humanoid robot and prosthetic hands made from dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) for under $1,000.

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Unitree Robotics debuts new G1 humanoid with $16K price tag

June 11, 2024 · Unitree Robotics announced the release of its new G1 humanoid robot, a smaller humanoid compared to its H1 offering, that comes with a base model price of $16K.

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A3 President Jeff Burnstein recaps Automate 2024, turns attention to robotics market

June 4, 2024 · Jeff Burnstein, president of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) sat down to recap Automate 2024 and provide some analysis on the robot spending market with Robotics 24/7.

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Sanctuary AI releases next generation of Phoenix general-purpose robot

May 28, 2024 · Sanctuary AI released the next generation of its Phoenix humanoid general-purpose robot, making wide ranging improvements to both the hardware and AI software.

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Agility Robotics partners with systems integrator Zion Solutions

May 13, 2024 · Through a new partnership, Agility Robotics’ Digit bipedal humanoid robots and Arc cloud-based fleet management software will be offered through systems integrator Zion Solutions.

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Automate 2024: Tuesday recap of robotics news and notes from Chicago

May 7, 2024 · Day 2 of Automate 2024 at McCormick Place in Chicago featured more news and announcements from around the robotics industry, including new product releases and partnerships.

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CynLr unveils CyRo semi-humanoid at 2024 Robotics Summit and Expo

May 2, 2024 · India-based CynLr released its new CyRo semi-humanoid robot with multi-arm vision guided robotic manipulation at the 2024 Robotics Summit and Expo in Boston.

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CCTY to showcase humanoid robot bearings at 2024 Robotics Summit and Expo

April 30, 2024 · CCTY will exhibit its portfolio of customized bearings and full component assemblies for humanoid robots at the 2024 Robotics Summit and Expo in Boston.

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Boston Dynamics to commercialize electric Atlas humanoid robot

April 22, 2024 · Boston Dynamics has retired its hydraulic Atlas humanoid robot for an electric model unconstrained by human range of motion. Hyundai will begin commercialization testing.

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Robot Era open-sources reinforcement learning framework Humanoid-Gym

April 1, 2024 · Beijing-based Robot Era announced it will open source its reinforcement learning framework, Humanoid-Gym, on GitHub in the hopes of speeding up progress on humanoid robots.

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