05 Jun 2026
Xpeng loses robotics product head as 2026 mass production target looms
The Xpeng Iron humanoid robot showcased at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2026. Credit: CnEVPost The sudden personnel change comes at a critical time as Xpeng sprints toward its goal of mass-producing humanoid robots by the end of 2026.
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
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 raises $400M to scale its general-purpose AI models
From left to right, Generalist’s co-founders: CEO Pete Florence, Chief Scientist Andy Zeng, and CTO Andrew Barry. | Source: Generalist
04 Jun 2026
Nvidia, Fei Fei Li back Generalist’s $400m round to scale AI robotics
From left: Pete Florence, Andy Zheng and Andrew Barry. Image: Generalist Generalist hopes to make ‘general intelligence’ robotics a reality. US AI robotics company Generalist has raised $400m at a reported $2bn valuation to accelerate its plans towards achieving “physical” artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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.
