Generative Bionics plans Italian humanoid-robot training facility

Generative Bionics plans Italian humanoid-robot training facility

2 min read•Oct 24, 2026•
Ryan O'Connor
Ryan O'Connor

Generative Bionics plans a 5,000-square-metre humanoid-robot training facility in Italy, first reported by Roboticsandautomationnews. The planned site would pair Gene.01 humanoid robots working in recreated industrial settings with digital-twin simulations, allowing tasks to be repeated across thousands of variations before trained models and robot systems are validated on physical robots.

The facility is scheduled to become operational by the fourth quarter of 2027. Generative Bionics says it will be Europe’s largest physical AI training facility for humanoid robots.

The company plans for fleets of Gene.01 robots to perform tasks continuously in recreated industrial environments, generating physical data for training World Action Models and validating robot systems. Digital twins of those environments and robot configurations would let tasks be repeated across thousands of variations in layouts, objects, materials, operating conditions and potential failure modes.

Models trained and tested in simulation would then return to physical robots for validation, in a continuous development cycle Generative Bionics describes as real-to-sim-to-real. The plan puts physical data and digitally varied conditions into one training-and-validation loop.

AMD will provide computing infrastructure based on its Helios rack-scale architecture. The companies say the systems will process physical and synthetic data, train physical AI models and run large numbers of digital-twin simulations in parallel.

The partnership builds on AMD Ventures’ participation in Generative Bionics’ €70 million seed funding round; AMD computing technology is also used on board Gene.01. The wider network is planned to include a second facility elsewhere in Europe and a third serving global markets.

Plug-in vehicles reach 32% of global registrations in September

Plug-in vehicles reached 32% of global registrations in September, first reported by Cleantechnica. Battery-electric vehicles accounted for 23% of registrations and set a record at 1.54 million, up 8% year over year, while plug-in hybrids fell 9%; year to date in 2026, BEVs were up 12% and PHEVs down 10%.

Global plug-in registrations rose 3% year over year to around 2.16 million in September, close to the all-time record of 2.17 million set last December.

Year to date, plug-in registrations were up 4% year over year: BEVs grew 12%, while PHEVs fell 10%. Their combined share for 2026 stood at 25%, with BEVs at 18% and PHEVs at 7%. The overall growth rate therefore hides a clear split between the two categories.

The Tesla Model Y led the model rankings with a record 165,000 registrations, up 17% year over year. Tesla Model 3 came second with 65,000, enough to move ahead of Geely Xingyuan and BYD Song despite a 4% annual decline.

BYD Song finished fourth at 54,519 registrations, up 19% and the fastest growth rate among the top five. An export push and the new-generation Ultra body helped lift the model.

At the make level, Tesla had a record 232,000 registrations, up 9% year over year. Toyota reached 61,332 for its fourth record in a row, finishing ahead of Volkswagen’s year-best 58,000 to become September’s best-selling legacy make.