Robotics News: AI-Powered Robots, Humanoids & Automation 🤖 Robotics
Robotics is where AI stops being software. This page covers embodied AI end to end: humanoid platforms from Figure, Tesla, Unitree and Agility; robot foundation models and vision-language-action systems; warehouse, logistics and manufacturing automation; surgical and lab robotics; and the sensor and actuator hardware underneath it all. We track funding rounds and commercial deployments as closely as research, because in robotics the gap between a lab demo and a machine that survives a real workday is where most of the story lives.
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Robotics — Frequently Asked Questions
Embodied AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that interact with the physical world through a body — such as a robot — rather than operating purely in software. It combines perception, planning and physical action.
Key players include Figure AI, Tesla (Optimus), Agility Robotics (Digit), Unitree, Boston Dynamics and 1X. Several are now in limited commercial deployment in warehouse and factory settings.
A robot foundation model is a large AI model pre-trained on diverse robot data that can be fine-tuned for specific tasks — similar to how LLMs work for language, but for physical manipulation and navigation.