Robotics & Embodied AI
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XELA Robotics uSkin v2 (CAN FD + Magnetic-Interference Compensation) brings 500Hz tactile streaming to humanoid fingertips
Tactile skin for robots that doesn’t blind itself when it grabs a steel bolt. XELA announced two upgrades on April 29 ahead of the Boston Robotics Summit. uSkin is a 3-axis (Fx/Fy/Fz) hall-effect tactile sensor that wraps around robot fingers and palms. Each taxel is 7×7.5×4.7mm, picks up forces down to 0.1 gram-force, samples at… Continue reading
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AGIBOT MEgo collects robot training data without a robot
The world has about 500,000 hours of embodied AI training data. AGIBOT just shipped a wearable kit that aims for tens of millions of hours this year — collected without ever powering on a robot. What MEgo actually is Three pieces of hardware plus a cloud engine. MEgo Gripper is a hand-held capture device with… Continue reading
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MagicLab Robotics MagicBot X1 + H01 Dexterous Hand + Magic-Mix Model: $1B Silicon Valley Push
On April 29, MagicLab Robotics rolled into Silicon Valley’s Global Embodied Intelligence Summit and put its full stack on stage: the MagicBot X1 humanoid, the H01 dexterous hand, and Magic-Mix, a foundational world model fusing vision, language, and action into one model. The Chinese embodied-AI player is now telling investors it’s chasing $14B in annual… Continue reading
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Asylon’s DroneDog turns Boston Dynamics’ Spot into a 24/7 security guard for $150K
Asylon Robotics bolted a custom payload onto Boston Dynamics’ Spot and shipped it as DroneDog — a four-legged security robot now patrolling construction sites, substations and warehouses without a handler in sight. The Hardware A yellow Spot with a brain transplant. The PupPack adds a 20x optical thermal camera, AI/ML classifiers for humans and vehicles,… Continue reading
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Title: Faraday Future EAI Brain & Open Developer Platform + FF Futurist ships SDK for vibe-coding humanoids
The EV company that almost died is now selling humanoid robots. On April 25 in San Francisco, Faraday Future ran its EAI Developer Ecosystem Forum and dropped two things at once: a full-size humanoid called FF Futurist and the developer stack behind it. What’s in the box FF Futurist is a full-size professional humanoid. Onstage… Continue reading
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MAMMOTION SPINO S1 Pro climbs out of the pool by itself — $1,699 on Kickstarter
Pool cleaning robots all share one annoyance: when the battery dies, you fish them out by hand. MAMMOTION’s SPINO S1 Pro just made that obsolete with a robotic arm dock that hauls the robot onto the deck to recharge. The robotic arm trick The patent is called AutoShoreCharge. An articulated arm dock sits on the… Continue reading
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Humble Hauler ditches the driver cab for a 360° sensor pod and a VLA stack
Eyal Cohen ran autonomy at Apple, Uber ATG and Waabi. His new company Humble came out of stealth on April 21 with $24M from Eclipse and a Class 8 freight truck that has no cab. The photo went viral on X within hours — less Peterbilt, more low-slung sled with a shipping container bolted on… Continue reading
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Coco Robotics x Uber Eats (San Jose Expansion): the first time sidewalk bots are hailed from a super-app
Coco’s pink, knee-high delivery robots turned on in downtown San Jose this week. Twenty bots, 1-mile radius, summoned straight from the Uber Eats app — first time these things are dispatched from a super-app instead of Coco’s own merchant flow. That last detail is the part worth paying attention to. The hardware on the sidewalk… Continue reading
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Title: AGIBOT OmniHand 3 Ultra-T packs 22 DoF into 500g — and ships with a foundation model SDK
AGIBOT dropped this at their April 17 Beijing Partner Conference and the manipulation crowd hasn’t shut up. NVIDIA Robotics retweeted it. Chris Paxton retweeted it. The Robot Report wrote it up. The spec sheet rewrites what a dexterous hand looks like. The hardware A dexterous robotic hand for humanoids and industrial arms. 22 finger DoF… Continue reading
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Dobot Rover X1 undercuts Unitree Go2 by $570 — and ships with an open SDK
Dobot quietly priced its new quadruped at RMB 7,499 — roughly $1,030. That’s $570 below Unitree’s Go2, the cheapest “real” robot dog most people have heard of. Consumer robot dogs just got a new price floor. What you actually get for $1,030 It’s a wheel-plus-leg hybrid, not a pure quadruped. Top speed 1.8 m/s, 3–7… Continue reading
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