Meta's humanoid Max, robot orders climb
Meta built a humanoid with Fourier in three months, North American robot orders rose 24.8 percent, and Hyundai cut robot debugging time with AI agents.
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Agility shortfall, Audi humanoids, ATEX quadrupeds
Agility raises $465M instead of $620M, Audi tests wheeled humanoids for parts sequencing, and ANYmal X is certified for explosive atmospheres.
Section 232, Starship fault, BMW policies
Washington opens robot import negotiations, a Starship robot misreads a Tallinn signal, and BMW builds a humanoid data pipeline.
CircuitHub's Grid, A3 orders, world model tests
CircuitHub shows a factory-scale PCB robot, A3 reports a 24.8 percent order jump, and WorldOracle scores world models against real executions.
Ex-proof quadrupeds, batched planners, agent harnesses
ANYbotics certifies ANYmal X for explosive atmospheres, BMW passes a million automated car moves, and three open tools for planning and robot agents ship code.
Spot for ICE, Digit at GXO, ROS 2 agents
Boston Dynamics staff fail to stop an ICE Spot sale, Agility adds two GXO sites, Bedrock raises $600M, and a free ROS 2 to VLA course ships its code.
Dream-1, Alpamayo and robot data engines
Dream Labs opens a zero-shot robot API, Bolt picks NVIDIA Alpamayo for 25,000 Lucids, NVIDIA opens the GR00T data engine, and RoboStack merges four ROS repos.
Optimus line, VFA funding, lab agents
Tesla starts Optimus production in Fremont, Eka raises $150M for a vision-force-action model, AGCO signs Digit, and a benchmark scores agents on wet lab work.
Tactile skins, data factories, welding AI
MIT open sources a shear sensing tactile skin, Generative Bionics plans a humanoid data factory in Italy, and ESAB ships a cobot that plans its own weld path.
Dream API, lab benchmarks, biometric suits
Dream Labs opens a $3/hour robot API trained on video, Agility's co-founder questions Digit 5, and delivery robots face Illinois biometric suits.