🤖 Figure Streams the Factory
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Now the question is moving from “can it move?” to “can it keep working?”
Figure Streams the Factory
TL;DR: Figure AI says its Helix-02 humanoids have already sorted more than 28,000 packages during a nonstop autonomous factory livestream, and the run is still going. The test turns its earlier 8-hour shift claim into a live endurance trial, pushing humanoid work from polished demos toward continuous industrial labor. Read more →
Warehouses Get Digital Twins
TL;DR: GreyOrange launched GreyMatter Foundry, an AI warehouse simulator for modeling automation deployments before facilities spend on hardware. The platform helps operators test layouts, robot fleets, equipment mixes, labor flows, costs, and performance assumptions, using operational data from GreyMatter deployments across thousands of warehouses. Read more →
Jellyfish Robots Lose Batteries
TL;DR: Researchers developed a jellyfish-inspired magnetic soft robot that swims at 14.85 body lengths per second without onboard batteries. Powered externally by magnetic fields, the soft swimmer can navigate, carry payloads, support imaging, and perform biomedical tasks, pointing toward tiny robots that move through delicate environments without rigid motors. Read more →
Schaeffler Buys Robot Shifts
TL;DR: UK robotics firm Humanoid signed a deal with Schaeffler to deploy thousands of wheeled humanoid robots across global manufacturing sites by 2032. The first rollout starts in German production environments from late 2026, with box handling, near-full-scale factory testing, Robot-as-a-Service support, and Schaeffler actuators built into the plan. Read more →
ALLEX Gets Its War Chest
TL;DR: South Korea's WIRobotics raised KRW 95 billion, about $68 million, in Series B funding to expand from wearable walking-assist robots into integrated robotics platforms. The company is developing ALLEX, a humanoid robot platform aimed at human-level manipulation intelligence, while using real-world WIM data to support its physical AI push. Read more →
Robot Hands Need Feelings
TL;DR: RLWRLD unveiled RLDX-1, a dexterity-first robotics foundation model built for contact-rich tasks like grasping, pouring, and tool use. Developed with Nvidia's robotics stack, the model combines vision, language, action, tactile, and memory signals, aiming to make humanoid hands more useful in factories, kitchens, and warehouses. Read more →
Sanding Is Getting Replaced
TL;DR: GrayMatter Robotics says robot-powered surface finishing is moving past preset paths by using physical AI to understand contact, tools, materials, and force changes during work. The company frames ATLAS-driven Process Intelligence as a way to automate sanding, polishing, and other finishing jobs that have long depended on skilled human touch. Read more →
Tiny Surgery Goes Commercial
TL;DR: Microbot Medical reported first revenue from the limited market release of its LIBERTY Endovascular Robotic System and says adoption accelerated after full market release began. Q2 revenue has already passed Q1, account numbers more than doubled, and the company is seeing recurring orders across multiple U.S. sales territories. Read more →
Robot Arms Go Backpackable
TL;DR: PAL Robotics announced a new ROS 2-based robotic arm platform for advanced manipulation research and deployment. The unnamed arm has seven degrees of freedom, weighs under 10 kg, supports a 3 kg payload, runs a 1 kHz low-level control loop, and will be officially unveiled at ICRA 2026. Read more →
Subsea Robots Get a Sandbox
TL;DR: Fugro commissioned a new ROV test pool in Singapore to validate subsea robotics equipment before offshore deployment. The facility supports functional testing, calibration, system integration, and procedure optimization, helping teams catch technical problems early, reduce offshore time, and improve safety for marine and offshore robotics work. Read more →
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