AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the world-model startup co-founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, in an $8.2 billion all-stock deal. The purchase, coming weeks after Nvidia bought Hugging Face, has unsettled Chinese robotics and embodied AI founders.
A Chinese tactile-sensor maker has booked 100,000 orders for robot skin while starting to sell the touch data behind it. Whether that data works across different robots will decide if the full-stack bet pays off.
Researchers in Beijing have etched swirling wave patterns directly into thin plates, letting them trap and steer objects from tiny particles to centimeter-scale parts across a surface without touching them. The acoustic technique could reshape how micro-machines and smart factories handle delicate components.
A Berkeley-trained robotics expert argues that China's humanoid robot boom is no bubble, even as one listed company lost billions in market value. Meanwhile, the industry is scrambling to feed these machines the real-world data they need.
At Hangzhou's Global Digital Trade Expo, Unitree founder Wang Xingxing argued that humanoid robots still lack the precision for real work, and predicted a coming 'ChatGPT moment' for embodied AI once they can handle unfamiliar spaces.
China unveils world's largest embodied intelligence theme park featuring over 300 robots across diverse interactive scenarios, marking a milestone in human-robot collaboration.
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