18 Jun 2026
Young minds meet humanoids as study trips gain momentum
Students watch the performance of an intelligent robot dog at a middle school in Pengshan district of Meishan, Sichuan province, on Feb 17, 2025. WENG GUANGJIAN/XINHUA
17 Jun 2026
Why Some U.S. Robot Makers Are Reducing Dependence On China
1X, which makes the Neo humanoid robot, is probably the most vertical-integrated robot manufacturer on the planet. The Washington Post via Getty Images The New York Times says it’s "nearly impossible" to build a humanoid robot without China.
17 Jun 2026
Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.
Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest AI labs are racing to teach machines to operate in the physical world. But building capable robots requires something the AI industry doesn’t yet have, which is the training data to match that used for language models. That gap is creating a new kind of infrastructure…
17 Jun 2026
Ceiling Mounted Robot Picks Up Toys and Clothes for You
Nathaniel Nifong’s $1,000 DIY ceiling gripper uses four cables and a Raspberry Pi to autonomously sort laundry and toys for about an hour
17 Jun 2026
Not human, but helpful - Eno is the debut multi-purpose robot from start-up Genesis AI
There are plenty of players in the field of humanoid robotics, with new entrants arriving to shore up the cyborgs that fall by the wayside. As previously noted, we’d all do well to be a little paranoid about androids, especially given the way in which AI – now considered a foundation technology for future robotic hopes – has run away with itself with few tangible benefits.
17 Jun 2026
This $1,990 phone-powered robot is Faraday Future’s new classroom companion
Rhea-AI Impact (High) Rhea-AI Sentiment (Neutral) Key Terms embodied ai technical Embodied AI is artificial intelligence built into a physical device or robot that can sense, move, and interact with the real world rather than just run in software on a server. For investors, it matters because adding a “body” turns AI into products that require manufacturing, maintenance, sensors and software…
16 Jun 2026
Alibaba Is Building Qwen-Robot: The Operating System for the Robot Economy
In brief Alibaba unveiled the Qwen-Robot Suite, a trio of AI models designed to handle robot navigation, manipulation, and physics-based world simulation through a unified software stack. The company says its models top multiple robotics benchmarks, using millions of training samples and tens of thousands of hours of open-source robot data. Real-world robot deployment remains years away.
16 Jun 2026
Meet Qwen-RobotSuite: Three Embodied AI Models for VLA Manipulation, Video World Modeling, and Navigation
The Qwen team has released three embodied AI models, grouped as Qwen-Robot-Suite. The three are Qwen-RobotManip, Qwen-RobotWorld, and Qwen-RobotNav. Each is built on a Qwen vision-language backbone and targets a different robotics problem.
16 Jun 2026
New wheeled robot says no thanks to humanoid hype
The robot race has a familiar look right now. Two legs. A face-like head. A body that tries very hard to look human. Genesis AI is taking a different route with Eno, its first general-purpose robot. Instead of building another humanoid that looks like all the others out there, the company designed a wheeled robot that focuses on work first.
