Dario says robotics will be revolutionized once AI models can control them, whether through human-like learning, training on simulations, or in-context learning. The path doesn't matter. Both robot design and control will improve, happening maybe 1-2 years after key AI breakthroughs.
Brett Adcock says Figure aims to deploy robots in unseen homes doing full household tasks by end of 2026, measuring success by intervention frequency. Potential customer shipments targeted for 2027.
Figure AI's Helix-02 robots completed a full bedroom reset in under two minutes, performing tasks like hanging clothes, making a bed, operating a trash can pedal, and pushing a chair, all driven by a single learned Vision-Language-Action policy with no central coordinator between them.
1X has opened a new humanoid robot factory in Hayward, CA. After receiving over 10,000 pre-orders in just five days, the company rapidly built what they call America’s most vertically integrated humanoid factory in the Bay Area in only three months to scale production.
Figure AI just scaled humanoid robot production 24x in 120 days — from 1 F.03 per day to 1 per hour at BotQ, with over 350 robots built and 55 scheduled this week (plus >9,000 actuators produced).
AWS and NEURA Robotics announced a strategic collaboration to scale Physical AI by integrating NEURA's cognitive robotics platform with AWS cloud and AI services for training, validation, and global robot deployment.
Physical Intelligence's π0.7 model demonstrates emergent capabilities in a single generalist policy, including zero-shot control of a new robot embodiment for shirt folding without task-specific training data on that hardware.
SkildAI has acquired Zebra Technologies’ Fetch Robotics division for its autonomous mobile robots and warehouse orchestration tech. The deal merges SkildAI’s AI capabilities with Fetch’s deployed hardware fleet to accelerate fully autonomous warehouses, expanding data collection across more robots and real environments.