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Eclipse's $1.3B Fund Makes Physical AI a Standalone VC Category

Eclipse Ventures closes a $1.3B fund dedicated to physical AI, combining robotics and embodied AI investment with a startup incubation model.

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Antioch Raises $8.5M to Build the Developer Tools Layer for Physical AI

Antioch raised $8.5M to build Cursor-style developer tooling for physical AI simulation, targeting robot builders underserved by NVIDIA Isaac and MuJoCo.

RoboticsAIHardwareIntelApr 23

Physical Intelligence's π0.7 Robot Brain Handles Tasks It Was Never Trained On

Physical Intelligence's π0.7 model claims zero-shot task generalisation for robots — executing unfamiliar tasks without task-specific training.

RoboticsAISoftwareSpaceApr 23

Embodied AI in Orbit: How ISS Robotics Is Reshaping Humanoid Development

Icarus Robotics is deploying embodied AI on the ISS — and the manipulation lessons from microgravity are reshaping how humanoid robots are built on Earth.

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1X Neo Costs $20,000 and Still Needs a Human Inside

The 1X Neo humanoid home robot costs $20,000 but still relies on remote human operators — raising serious questions about value and privacy.

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AI-Powered Robotic Fingertips Are Giving Surgeons Back Their Sense of Touch

EU-funded PALPABLE project builds an AI-powered soft robotic fingertip that restores tactile feedback to robotic surgery via fibre-optic sensing.

RoboticsHardwareApr 23

Graphene Tactile Skin Gives Humanoid Robots a Human-Like Touch

Cambridge researchers publish a graphene-based tactile sensor in Nature Materials that detects 3D force, slip, and texture at human fingertip resolution — a key gap for humanoid robots.

RoboticsSoftwareApr 23

Imitation Learning Goes Commercial: RoboTwin Lets Workers Train Robots in Minutes

Czech startup RoboTwin lets factory workers train industrial robots by physical demonstration in under a minute, no coding required — bringing imitation learning to SME manufacturers.

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MIT's Wall-Seeing AI Solves Warehouse Robots' Biggest Perception Problem

MIT's Wave-Former and RISE systems use generative AI with mmWave radar to reconstruct hidden objects and full rooms, boosting robot perception accuracy by up to 2×.

RoboticsApr 23

Driverless Trucks Are Here: Volvo Autonomous Solutions on the Driver Shortage Fix

Volvo Autonomous Solutions moves driverless trucks into early commercial deployment as a 60,000-driver US shortage makes autonomous freight economics unavoidable.

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GPT-4 Powered Robotic Guide Dogs Can Navigate and Narrate in Real Time

Binghamton University's GPT-4 robotic guide dog narrates routes and surroundings in real time, tested with 7 blind users at AAAI 2026.

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Locus Array Launches as Mobile Manipulation Enters the Lights-Out Warehouse Race

Locus Robotics launches Array, a fully autonomous mobile manipulation system for aisle picking, competing with Boston Dynamics Stretch in the race to lights-out warehousing.

RoboticsAIHardwareSoftwareSpaceApr 23

AGIBOT Genie Studio Agent Brings Zero-Code Deployment to Physical AI

AGIBOT launches Genie Studio Agent, a zero-code platform enabling non-engineers to deploy robot applications through drag-and-drop workflows, already validated in semiconductor manufacturing.

RoboticsHardwareIntelApr 23

Stereolabs ZED X Nano: Wrist-Mounted Camera Benchmarked Against RealSense and OAK

Ouster's Stereolabs ZED X Nano delivers 1920×1200 stereo vision at 120fps with sub-millimeter depth accuracy and GMSL2 connectivity for robotic wrist mounting.

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This Week in Robots: Atlas Bows Out, a Collective That Cannot Die, and a Home Robot That Folds Laundry

Atlas retires, an EPFL collective robot grows more reliable as modules fail, and Weave Robotics ships a laundry-folding robot to homes in February 2026.

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Humanoid Robot Performance Showdown: Spring 2025's Best Demos Ranked

Unitree, PNDbotics, Engine AI, and Humanoid UK all drop spring 2025 demo footage — here's how they stack up on performance, price, and deployment readiness.