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XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding
XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The Chinese electric vehicle maker announced the funding round for its robotics business through a set of share purchase agreements with multiple investors. XPENG says the deal represents the largest single-round private capital raise…
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Report: China’s Mech-Mind Robotics Set to Open Order Book for US$300M IPO
Insider Brief China’s Mech-Mind Robotics Technologies is preparing a Hong Kong IPO that could raise about $300 million, with investor orders expected to open Monday ahead of a targeted Sept. 1 trading debut, the South China Morning Post reported. The industrial 3D vision and AI robotics company plans to use the proceeds for advanced AI…
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China’s State-owned Defense Company Norinco Unveils Humanoid Robot
Insider Brief China North Industries Group Corp., or Norinco, is debuting a full-size humanoid robot designed for reconnaissance, patrols and hazardous-area operations, the Global Times reported. The Fuxi humanoid can be remotely controlled in real time by a human operator and can conduct all-weather reconnaissance, identify people, issue alerts and perform patrol duties. Norinco said…
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Schaeffler Unveils New Strain Wave Gearboxes for Humanoid Robots
Insider Brief Schaeffler is expanding its humanoid robotics portfolio with a formed strain wave gearbox designed for high-volume production, with mass manufacturing scheduled to begin in Germany in 2027. The company said its forming process can cut gearbox manufacturing costs by more than 25% and material use by more than 75%, while completing key production…
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Toronto World Model Startup Veeda AI Launches with $90M in Seed Funding
Insider Brief Veeda AI has raised more than $90 million in seed funding to build world models that create simulated environments where robots can learn through trial and error, The Logic reported. Founded by former Nvidia AI researchers Sanja Fidler, Zan Gojcic and Huan Ling, the startup is backed by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures.…
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HKU Researchers Develop Unified Benchmark for Physical AI
Insider Brief Researchers led by the University of Hong Kong developed RoboDojo, a benchmark that evaluates physical AI across simulation and real-world robot tasks and found a wide performance gap between current models and humans. The platform combines 30 robot policies, 42 simulation tasks and 18 real-world tasks to test capabilities including generalization, memory, precision…
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Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5 Robot Foundation Model That Learns From a Single Demonstration
Insider Brief Generalist AI released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model designed to learn physical tasks from one or a few demonstrations while also generalizing to some new situations without task-specific training. In tests across 10 short manipulation tasks, GEN-1.5 averaged 59% success with one-shot prompting and 83% after 10 training steps using about five minutes…
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How AI Infrastructure Is Evolving to Meet Growing Compute Demand
Every forecast for AI compute demand written in the last two years has turned out to be too conservative within months of publication. Data centers, chips, power grids, and networking fabric are all being redesigned in real time to keep pace with a growth curve that keeps outrunning the plans built around it. Understanding how…
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AI Reshapes The Web As Pew Study Finds Widespread AI Authorship, OpenAI Launches Messages Integration, And Ramp Data Shows Shifting Enterprise Market Share
A new Pew Research study released Thursday found that over one-third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s late 2022 release showed signs of AI authorship, corroborating other research on AI’s growing footprint online. Using the Common Crawl archive and detection technology from Open Pangram, Pew analyzed nearly half a million English-language pages, finding that .com domains…
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Google Rolls Out Embeddable “Preferred Sources” Button To Help Publishers Facing AI Traffic Declines
Google has announced a new interactive button that publishers can embed directly on their websites, allowing readers to mark a site as a favorite source to be highlighted more prominently across Google Search, Discover, and Google News. The move follows criticism that AI-powered search features have reduced website traffic for publishers, and builds on Google’s…
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