04 Jun 2026
The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet
It may appear that humanoid robots capable of handling any task have almost arrived—especially when tech companies showcase them performing acrobatic feats or handling household chores. But there is still a significant gap between these robot demonstrations and proving that the same robots can reliably and repeatedly manage such tasks in the real world.
04 Jun 2026
AI backlash has come for Elon Musk's massive Terafab chip factory in Texas
Grimes County residents crowd a public meeting to discuss SpaceX's proposed Terafab chipmaking factory. Courtesy/Marie Egyed It's not just data centers . Residents in a small Texas county are also now protesting SpaceX's proposed Terafab semiconductor facility in another sign of growing backlash against AI across the country.
04 Jun 2026
How Hyundai, LG stole the spotlight from Samsung for Huang's Korea visit
LG Electronics' CLOiD robot was introduced at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's speech at GTC Taipei 2026 in Taiwan on June 1.
04 Jun 2026
1X Launches World Model Lab to Scale Humanoid Intelligence
Today, we're excited to announce that 1X has officially established the 1X World Model Lab, our new frontier research organization dedicated to accelerating the path to fully autonomous humanoids through large-scale embodied world model pretraining. Also, we’re proud to welcome Sam Sinha– previously a founding research scientist at Luma AI and a leader in scaling multimodal generative video…
04 Jun 2026
Accelerate Physical AI Development from Prototype to Production with Amazon Kiro
AWS Physical AI Blog Introduction Physical AI development today faces a critical bottleneck. Engineering teams spend disproportionate hours on infrastructure setup, environment configuration, and dependency management—time that could be spent building intelligent robots. The iterative cycle of environment setup, data collection, policy training, and simulation validation consumes weeks of…
04 Jun 2026
Generalist AI Raises $400M in New Funding to Develop Physical AGI
Generalist AI has raised $400 million in new funding, bringing its total funding to more than $500 million, to accelerate development of what it calls physical artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
04 Jun 2026
Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.
Martinez, California, is about as far as you can get from Silicon Valley and still be in the San Francisco Bay Area. Perched on the northeast edge of the bay, the small city is home to Hello Robot, a startup that itself is about as far as one can get from the maximalist promises of its robotics rivals 45 miles south.
04 Jun 2026
China's new humanoid robot sprints while carrying firefighting gear
Chinese robotics company Deep Robotics has released a new video showcasing the latest capabilities of its DR02 humanoid robot, demonstrating improved mobility and greater readiness for industrial tasks as competition in the country’s rapidly expanding humanoid robotics sector intensifies.
03 Jun 2026
Robots join hotel staff: inside Singapore’s new training lab
YY Group (NASDAQ:YYGH) launched a Humanoid Robotics Training Lab in Singapore, powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing , and began pilot humanoid robot deployments in a major mall and luxury hotel. These steps extend its April 2026 AI training data strategy and support FY2026 revenue guidance of US$103–110 million and a path to profitability.
