Robotics & Embodied AI
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Tennibot Partner V2: A 35-Pound AI Tennis Robot That Coaches From the Baseline
A tennis ball machine that thinks. Tennibot just started shipping the Partner V2 — a 35-pound AI-powered robot that designs drills on its own, fires balls with adjustable spin and placement, and takes commands from your Apple Watch. What It Actually Does The Partner V2 is a compact ball-launching robot (17.7 × 21.75 × 19.2… Continue reading
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Figure 03 (Helix 02) Runs 67 Hours Autonomous with One Error — 2026 Production Already Sold Out
67 consecutive hours of autonomous kitchen work. One error. No human intervention. That’s Figure AI’s latest demo with Figure 03, and it’s the number that separates this humanoid robot from everything else on the market. The Hardware 5’8″, 61 kg. Eight cameras, custom tactile sensors detecting forces down to 3 grams, and a 2.3 kWh… Continue reading
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100 TOPS, 120 Grams: DJI Matrice 4 + Manifold 3 Opens the Enterprise Drone Onboard AI Challenge 2026
DJI just turned its enterprise drones into an open AI dev platform. The Enterprise Drone Onboard AI Challenge 2026, announced April 2, invites developers worldwide to build and deploy custom AI models that run directly on the drone — not in the cloud. The hardware combo: the Matrice 4 series enterprise drone plus the Manifold… Continue reading
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AGIBOT G2 + GO-2 Foundation Model: 2,070 TFLOPS of On-Board AI in a Wheeled Humanoid
AGIBOT dropped GO-2 on April 9 — a next-gen embodied AI foundation model that claims to solve what the company calls the “last mile” between reasoning and physical execution. The predecessor GO-1 could see and plan, but stumbled on consistent execution. GO-2 unifies both into a single architecture: Action Chain-of-Thought for spatial reasoning, plus an… Continue reading
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Anvil Robotics OpenARM: The $5,000 Dual-Arm Robot Kit Already Shipping to NVIDIA
Physical AI teams burn 3–6 months and up to $150K just setting up hardware before training begins. Anvil Robotics wants to kill that bottleneck. The company raised $6.5M (led by Matter Venture Partners) and has shipped 100+ OpenARM units to NVIDIA, Path Robotics, Intrinsic AI (Google), and startups across the US and Southeast Asia. What… Continue reading
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VLAI Robotics L1: A $4,188 Wheeled Humanoid That Actually Does Housework
A Shenzhen startup just made humanoid robots affordable. VLAI Robotics’ L1 is a wheeled humanoid starting at RMB 28,800 (~$4,188) — roughly a tenth of what most humanoid robots cost. Twitter robotics accounts blew up over it this week, and the price tag is the obvious reason. The Hardware No legs. The L1 uses a… Continue reading
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Faraday Future FX Aegis: $2,490 for a Quadruped Robot You Can Program in Plain English
Faraday Future — yes, the EV company — just got FCC certification for a four-legged AI robot. The FX Aegis is a quadruped built for security patrol and companionship, starting at $2,490. That’s consumer-grade pricing in a market where most quadrupeds cost $10K+. The Hardware 48Nm peak joint torque. Clears 33cm obstacles, climbs 40-degree slopes,… Continue reading
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Yarbo SAM Module + Open Platform: The First Outdoor Robot With an Open API for Developers
Yarbo — the modular yard robot that snow-blows, mows, and leaf-blows — just opened its platform to developers. On April 4, the company announced the Smart Assist Module (SAM) and a full Open Platform strategy. This is the first outdoor autonomous robot shipping an API and SDK for third-party integrations. What SAM Adds to the… Continue reading
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