Robotics & Embodied AI
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Skild Brain × Fetch Robotics (via Zebra acquisition): $290M fleet, one foundation model, undisclosed price
Skild AI announced on April 15 that it bought Zebra Technologies’ entire robotics arm — which is the Fetch Robotics business Zebra paid $290M for back in 2021. The price this time wasn’t disclosed. What Skild actually got is a real, shipping AMR fleet: Freight for pallet and cart moves, Roller Top for conveyor hand-offs,… Continue reading
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title: “Siemens puts Humanoid HMND 01 Alpha on the Erlangen line — 60 totes/hour, 90% pick rate” A UK startup just walked a wheeled humanoid onto a real Siemens production floor and had it move boxes for eight hours straight. That’s the Hannover Messe headline this week, and robotics Twitter is treating it as the… Continue reading
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Unitree H2 “Destiny Awakening” opens North America pre-orders at $29,900, ships April 2026
Unitree just put a price on its full-scale humanoid. The H2 “Destiny Awakening” is a 182 cm, 70 kg robot with 31 degrees of freedom — 3-DOF waist, 7-DOF arms — 360 N·m leg actuators, 120 N·m arm actuators, and a bionic head packing binocular wide-FOV cameras, a mic array, and high-power speakers tuned for… Continue reading
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Alibaba Amap Embodied Quadruped + ABot-World: Alibaba’s first robot just beat Google and NVIDIA on the leaderboard
Alibaba’s map app is now shipping robots. Amap, the division most people know as China’s Google Maps, is debuting its first embodied robot at the 2026 Beijing E-Town Half Marathon. Alibaba’s first real piece of hardware, and it’s a dog. The brain is more interesting than the body. Amap spun up an embodied intelligence division… Continue reading
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Chery AiMOGA Mornine M1: A Chinese Automaker Is Now Selling Humanoid Robots on JD.com for $41,400
A car company putting a full-size humanoid robot on an e-commerce shelf — that’s where we are now. Chery, one of China’s largest automakers, just started selling the AiMOGA Mornine M1 through its JD.com flagship store on April 13. Price tag: 285,800 yuan (~$41,400). First shipments go out after May 23. What You Get for… Continue reading
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Asimov v1 DIY Humanoid Kit: A $15,000 Open-Source Humanoid You Build Yourself
K-Scale Labs collapsed in late 2025. Open-source humanoid robotics lost its poster child. Now Menlo Research is filling that gap with the Asimov v1 DIY Humanoid Kit — a “Here Be Dragons” edition that ships as a box of parts and a build manual. What You Get for $15K The kit includes everything: structural frame,… Continue reading
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Rapyuta Robotics ASRS + PA-AMR: 300 Robots, Zero Anchors, Deployed in Days
An ETH Zurich spinoff just showed up at MODEX 2026 with warehouse robots that don’t need you to rip up your floor. Rapyuta Robotics — already the top pick-assist AMR vendor in Japan, backed by JSR — unveiled upgraded versions of its two flagship hardware lines: the Rapyuta ASRS and the Rapyuta PA-AMR. What the… Continue reading
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Noblelift NobleOne AI Forklift Platform Turns Every Forklift Into a Connected Command Center
Warehouses have AMRs, autonomous sweepers, and humanoid robots. But the forklift — the thing that moves 90% of goods inside a facility — has been stuck in the analog age. Noblelift’s answer: bolt AI directly onto the truck. NobleOne, unveiled at MODEX 2026 in Atlanta this week, is the first fully integrated AI forklift platform… Continue reading
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Tennant X16 SWEEP: An 1,800-lb Autonomous Sweeper That Never Asks for a Break
Tennant, the 154-year-old cleaning equipment company, just shipped its first fully autonomous industrial sweeper — the X16 SWEEP. Unveiled at MODEX 2026 on April 7, this is an 816 kg robot that sweeps up to 105,000 sq ft per hour, runs six hours on lithium-ion batteries, and docks itself to charge when done. No human… Continue reading
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Ouster Stereolabs ZED X Nano: The Stereo Camera Built to Sit on a Robot’s Wrist
Every robot arm doing manipulation needs eyes at its fingertips — not on the ceiling, not on a tripod. Ouster just shipped exactly that. The ZED X Nano is a compact stereo vision camera module designed specifically for wrist-mount installation on robotic arms, and it’s 40% smaller than comparable solutions. What Makes It Worth Watching… Continue reading
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