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Saturn Dynamics says its world model beats Nvidia's Cosmos by 73% ... and runs 38X faster

Saturn Dynamics says its world model beats Nvidia's Cosmos by 73% ... and runs 38X faster

London startup Saturn Dynamics says its physics-based Arc world model beats Nvidia’s Cosmos by 73% on trajectory accuracy and generates data up to 38X faster on Jetson Thor. CEO Elisa Seghetti explains why reinforcement learning environments are the key to getting robots from 80% success to deployment-grade reliability.
Oct 31, 2026
Europe's first humanoid robot factory is in Serbia, and it's Chinese

Europe's first humanoid robot factory is in Serbia, and it's Chinese

AGIBOT and Minth Group opened Europe's first humanoid robot mass-production facility in Šabac, Serbia in August 2025, weeks after the US banned Chinese robots on national security grounds. One year in, it looks like one of the shrewder strategic moves in the industry.
Oct 29, 2026
Inside Neura Robotics' massive physical AI strategy: more than humanoids

Inside Neura Robotics' massive physical AI strategy: more than humanoids

In two weeks, Neura Robotics has unveiled a new humanoid, launched its own AI foundation model, announced a partnership on robotic memory, and opened a major training facility. Add in its $1.4 billion funding, industrial partnerships, acquisitions, and an expanding robot portfolio, and a much bigger strategy comes into focus.
Oct 29, 2026
The engineer who taught 1X's NEO to walk just raised $30 million to give robots a sense of touch

The engineer who taught 1X's NEO to walk just raised $30 million to give robots a sense of touch

Zurich startup Enact Intelligence raised a $30M pre-seed, Switzerland’s largest, from redalpine, Notion and firstminute, with Yann LeCun and Arthur Mensch as angels. Founder Manuel Galliker taught 1X’s NEO to walk. Enact’s robots sense force through their own motors, aimed at small-batch European assembly: “China wins on volume; we win on variety.”
Oct 28, 2026
Agile Robots and Audi piloting humanoids ... on a task done 1 million times a day

Agile Robots and Audi piloting humanoids ... on a task done 1 million times a day

Agile Robots launched its Agile ONE SN research humanoid at NVIDIA GTC Berlin and announced a 4-way proof-of-concept with Audi to automate a task performed roughly 1 million times daily at Audi's Ingolstadt plant.
Oct 27, 2026
Samsung robots for surgery, UK's biggest seed round, Boston Dynamics employee revolt, and hello BlackBerry!

Samsung robots for surgery, UK's biggest seed round, Boston Dynamics employee revolt, and hello BlackBerry!

Today in Humanoid Daily ... the UK's biggest ever robotics seed round, Samsung brings robots into surgery, Boston Dynamics employee revolt as they prep for for 10,000 Atlas robots, Digit gets more jobs, we see more robots building robots, BlackBerry wants to power physical AI, an $89,000 humanoid strolls through New York, and the number of the day is 185.

Oct 27, 2026
ANYmal solved a Rubik's Cube with its feet. Hello ... pedipulation?

ANYmal solved a Rubik's Cube with its feet. Hello ... pedipulation?

A quadruped robot with no arms autonomously scanned, planned, and solved a 0.4-meter Rubik's Cube using only its feet. The result from ETH Zurich and NVIDIA, published October 17 on arXiv, is proof that whole-body RL policies can learn dexterous sequential manipulation without dedicated end-effectors.
Oct 23, 2026
Killer hacked robots, Optimus in production, NVIDIA's platform wins, micro-factories staffed by robots, and more!

Killer hacked robots, Optimus in production, NVIDIA's platform wins, micro-factories staffed by robots, and more!

Today in Humanoid Daily ... Tesla starts building Optimus (but how many), NVIDIA wants to own the robot platform, 1 word turns a robot violent, Unitree's CEO warns investors, tiny micro-factories powered by humanoids, a humanoid with personality, and the number of the day is 348!

Oct 22, 2026
The $400 humanoid, Digit the forklift, Germany's robot gyms, and 6 chip companies focusing on humanoid robots

The $400 humanoid, Digit the forklift, Germany's robot gyms, and 6 chip companies focusing on humanoid robots

Today in Humanoid Daily ... a new $400 humanoid powered by a smartphone, Digit 5 is the forklift of humanoids, Germany's robot billionaire is building robot gyms, China unveils a 13-foot humanoid robot that lifts half a ton, and the number of the day is 6 ... 6 chip companies focusing on robots.

Oct 19, 2026
Why Germany's humanoid billionaire is building robot gyms

Why Germany's humanoid billionaire is building robot gyms

Neura Robotics CEO David Reger has a $7 billion company and a counterintuitive thesis: real-world training data, not better hardware, decides who wins the humanoid race. So he is building robot gyms.
Oct 18, 2026
Hexagon's path to 1,000 humanoids at Schaeffler runs on two metrics and a set of wheels

Hexagon's path to 1,000 humanoids at Schaeffler runs on two metrics and a set of wheels

Schaeffler wants at least 1,000 Hexagon Aeon humanoids in its factories by 2032. Hexagon Robotics president Arnaud Robert explains what it takes: a multipurpose fleet rather than single-task robots, two metrics that matter (cycle time and human intervention), no teleoperation, a sim-to-real-to-sim data loop, and wheels that he says can even climb stairs.
Oct 6, 2026
Top 10 countries globally for industrial robots: who's growing, who's falling behind

Top 10 countries globally for industrial robots: who's growing, who's falling behind

China installed 354,000 industrial robots in 2025, 59% of the global total and nearly 3X the next four countries combined. The US passed Japan for second place but still imports most of its robots. Japan and Europe are sliding, while India is rising fast, according to the IFR's World Robotics 2026 report.
Oct 5, 2026
Hello Panasonic, Telsa cuts Optimus' memory budget, and Munich takes center stage

Hello Panasonic, Telsa cuts Optimus' memory budget, and Munich takes center stage

Today in Humanoid (almost) Daily ... Panasonic joins the humanoid race,Tesla trims Optimus memory because RAM is costly and rare these days, US VCs tour China’s robot factories and Munich gets another robotics unicorn AND a big partnership. Plus, the number of the day is 250,000.

Oct 5, 2026
New IDC data: humanoid robot shipments up 432% year over year, jobs for robots, and much more ...

New IDC data: humanoid robot shipments up 432% year over year, jobs for robots, and much more ...

Today in Humanoid Daily ... Singapore puts humanoids on the police beat, Korea wants 200,000 robots by 2030, the U.S. Army and Ukraine push robots toward military use, robots are moving into hospitals and homes, and today's number of the day is 25,000. As in ... shipped robots, up 432% year over year.

Oct 1, 2026
NEURA Robotics launches a healthcare division with a robot that moves hospital beds

NEURA Robotics launches a healthcare division with a robot that moves hospital beds

NEURA Robotics has launched NEURA HealthTech, a new business division targeting hospital logistics, starting with an autonomous robot that transports beds through corridors and elevators. The $1.4B-backed German company is pitching into the EU's projected 4.1 million health worker shortfall, with a RaaS subscription model and a broader portfolio including MiPA and MAiRA.
Sep 30, 2026
Inside China's robot schools: 70 training grounds where humanoids drill 45 skills up to 600 times a day

Inside China's robot schools: 70 training grounds where humanoids drill 45 skills up to 600 times a day

China has built a state-backed network of 70-plus embodied AI training facilities where competing robot manufacturers train side by side and feed data into a shared national pool — a structural advantage no private US company has an equivalent for.
Sep 28, 2026
Tesla third-generation Optimus robot leaked, Saudi Arabia's all-in on humanoid robots, and more ...

Tesla third-generation Optimus robot leaked, Saudi Arabia's all-in on humanoid robots, and more ...

In this Humanoid Daily: the Tesla Gen 3 Optimus design leaks, humanoid robots are breaking into mainstream entertainment, and Japan is exploring military support roles for humanoids. Plus, 80% of humanoid robots are being designed for industrial use, while Saudi Arabia could deploy up to 10,000 robots over five years through a major new partnership.

Sep 24, 2026
Machine vision conference VISION 2026 surpasses exhibitor record and leads the way

Machine vision conference VISION 2026 surpasses exhibitor record and leads the way

VISION 2026 will bring around 500 machine vision exhibitors to Stuttgart from October 6–8, setting a new record, with 30% exhibiting for the first time and roughly two-thirds coming from outside Germany. The show will focus heavily on AI and emerging technologies, with new features including a Synthetic Data Symposium, VISION Makeathon, expanded industry tours, and a dedicated AI tour.
Sep 16, 2026
Hello Digit 5, Foundation goes to war in Ukraine, and a new Chinese factory is pumping out 1 humanoid every 10 minutes

Hello Digit 5, Foundation goes to war in Ukraine, and a new Chinese factory is pumping out 1 humanoid every 10 minutes

Today in Humanoid Daily: Agility's Digit 5 kills the safety cage, military humanoids are no longer hypothetical, Unitree G1+ gets six big upgrades, Atlas heads to Europe, but the IPO doesn't, the number of the day is 1 humanoid every 10 minutes ... AND ALSO ... today we are launching HumanoidMegaHub out of beta!

Sep 15, 2026
The robot is not the product: the factory of the future

The robot is not the product: the factory of the future

Inside Agile Robots' bet that the factory — not the humanoid — is what you actually sell. And the humanoid is just one part of many components that altogether form the factory of the future.

Sep 8, 2026
Samsung accelerates its humanoid robot program, and China looks at humanoids for war

Samsung accelerates its humanoid robot program, and China looks at humanoids for war

Today in Humanoid Daily: Samsung races toward a humanoid robot, aiming to launch at CES 2027, China explores robots for war Agility Robotic’s finances go public, humanoids spread into real markets, there's a new robot that draws blood, and the number of the day is 26 million ... as in 26 million humanoids a year.

Sep 7, 2026
Hello OpenAI, Europe gets 2 humanoid robot production lines, and everyone needs a humanoid

Hello OpenAI, Europe gets 2 humanoid robot production lines, and everyone needs a humanoid

Today in Humanoid Daily ... OpenAI is building humanoids as CEO Sam Altman confirmed it himself, humanoids get warehouse jobs, Europe starts humanoid mass production in several locations, World Labs gives robots a world model, Zeroth opens up humanoid development, and we get predictions that humanoids could dwarf the car market and possibly even number one billion in a decade.

Sep 3, 2026