Tag: Humanoid Robots

Xpeng VP Gu Jie says solid-state batteries designed for the Iron humanoid robot have entered small-batch production, while Iron itself is still pre-SOP. Mass production is targeted for the end of 2026, with Xpeng stores first in 2027.

KDDI and ELYZA have launched ELYZA Robotics, a physical-AI company backed by ¥30 billion (about $190 million) in R&D through fiscal 2030. The goal: more than 1,000 robots working at real job sites, starting with Lawson and other KDDI group companies.

Schaeffler has opened a 7,500-square-meter humanoid robotics factory in Taicang, China, where six humanoids at five stations assemble actuators for the next generation of humanoids. The German supplier says its humanoid orders have reached about €400 million (about $448 million).

Amap and Alibaba's Token Hub have released λ0, a whole-body humanoid model trained mainly on 500 hours of first-person video and motion data from people doing everyday tasks. The team says it runs zero-shot on a Unitree G1 with a 62.5% success rate, though nobody has reproduced it yet.

At Unitree's World Physical AI Conference in Hangzhou, founder Wang Xingxing said the company is researching a self-evolution loop where AI writes, simulates, tests and rewrites robot code, and that embodied AI's ChatGPT moment could come as early as next year.

Figure's humanoid has walked nine straight days and 1.2 million steps on a treadmill in a stress test that's still running. Here's what it does and doesn't prove.