Robotics & Embodied AI
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Title: Sereact Cortex 2.0 raises $110M after 1 billion picks at BMW and Daimler
A robot brain trained on real warehouse work Sereact closed a $110M Series B led by Headline and is opening Boston as its first US office. It’s the brain running 200+ industrial picking robots already live for BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Daimler Truck, PepsiCo, Austrian Post and Rohlik. Track record: 1 billion real production picks, one human… Continue reading
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Tutor Intelligence Data Factory 1: 100 robots generate 10,000 hours of training data per week
MIT CSAIL spinout Tutor Intelligence cut the ribbon on a 35,000 sq ft headquarters in Watertown, Massachusetts in late April. Inside: ~100 dual-arm mobile manipulators clocking in around the clock, generating roughly 10,000 hours of real task data per week. That data trains the same robot workers Tutor already has deployed on factory and warehouse… Continue reading
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LG CLOiD × NVIDIA Isaac: Seoul deal puts a 7-DoF home robot inside Isaac Sim
LG’s CES 2026 stunt was a wheeled humanoid that folds laundry. This week it became a serious NVIDIA Isaac project. On April 27-28 in Seoul, LG CEO Ryu Jae-cheol sat down with Madison Huang from NVIDIA Omniverse and Robotics. The deal: CLOiD now trains inside Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, and Omniverse digital twins before it… Continue reading
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Waveshare UGV Beast turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into a $360 off-road tracked robot
Most Pi 4/5 robot kits are flat-floor toys. The UGV Beast is the one actually built to climb stairs, cross sand, and survive being driven by an LLM at 2am. CNX Software flagged it on April 21, then Hackaday and Hackster picked it up — the r/raspberrypi and r/ROS threads have been busy since. What’s… Continue reading
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SamuRoid AI Humanoid Robot undercuts Unitree R1 by 13x with a Raspberry Pi 4 brain
XiaoRGEEK shipped a 22-DOF desktop biped for $1,565. Unitree R1 starts at $20K. That gap is the story. A 22-DOF biped on a Pi 4 Brain is a Raspberry Pi 4. Body is a 2.3 kg aluminum frame with 22 high-voltage bus servos — every joint has overheat, overvoltage, and stall protection, which matters when… Continue reading
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Roborock Saros Z70’s OmniGrip arm grabs socks half the time. Amazon cut the price in half too.
The world’s first mass-produced robot vacuum with a five-axis arm shipped in March. By April Amazon had dropped the price from $2,599 to $1,299, it climbed onto Best Sellers, and r/smarthome was full of sock-picking videos. The hardware Robot vacuum, foldable five-axis manipulator. Arm folded takes ~10% of the body. Chassis is 7.98 cm —… Continue reading
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SS Innovations Vimana Aero Drone System lands two 7-DOF arms next to battlefield casualties
Indian-listed SS Innovations (Nasdaq: SSII) unveiled Vimana Aero on April 23 at SMRSC 2026 in New Delhi — 1,600 surgeons in the room, 1,800 more dialing in from 19 countries. Nobody has built this exact thing before. Hardware that flies and operates A heavy autonomous drone carrying two 7-DOF mini arms with 5mm surgical instruments.… Continue reading
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Apptronik Apollo + Mercedes-Benz Hannover Messe Demo: a humanoid actually working a Mercedes line, on camera
Hannover Messe 2026 (April 20–24) is where Mercedes-Benz turned its Apptronik partnership from a press release into footage. Apollo — the 5’8″, 160 lb, 55 lb-payload bipedal humanoid — is shown ferrying parts to assembly stations, delivering kit carts, and inspecting components inside a real Mercedes plant. Mercedes also said it’s expanding the deployment across… Continue reading
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PL-Universe ProWhite cuts factory line changeover from days to seconds
PL-Universe just made its European debut at Hannover Messe 2026, and the headline number is ±0.05mm absolute positioning accuracy on a wheeled industrial humanoid. The ProWhite Robot 2.0 is built for 3C electronics and automotive lines — the kind of place where switching a product variant used to mean days of retooling. PL-Universe says ProWhite… Continue reading
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NEURA Robotics 4NE-1 × Amazon AWS: a Porsche-designed humanoid heading to Amazon warehouses
NEURA Robotics just locked in AWS as its primary cloud, and Amazon is exploring putting NEURA’s flagship 4NE-1 humanoid into real fulfillment centers. That’s a 1.8m, 100 kg-lifting bipedal robot, styled by Porsche, brain powered by NVIDIA Thor T5000 — about to start picking boxes for the company that ships half the planet’s parcels. The… Continue reading
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