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TOKYO – Mitsubishi Motors and Highlanders, a startup founded from the University of Tokyo, announced on July 10 that they will jointly develop humanoid “physical AI” robots and move toward mass production as Japan faces growing labor shortages. The companies plan to manufacture the robots at Mitsubishi Motors’ Kyoto plant. Designed with a human-like structure,…

Today we’re introducing Robostral Navigate, our first model built for embodied navigation. It’s an 8B model that takes RGB images and a plain-language instruction and moves a robot through an environment: “Leave the lobby, walk through the corridor, enter the supply room, and stop to face the second shelf.” To perform such tasks, other models…

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RSS 2026: 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July–4 August 2026,…

Soochow University Professor’s Robotics E-Skin Startup Secures Angel Funding  Pandaily

Robbyant said the launch represents a major step forward in robotic spatial perception, helping robots develop a more accurate understanding of the physical world and improve their ability to navigate complex environments. Building on the foundation of LingBot-Depth, which introduced the Masked Depth Modeling (MDM) technique to address challenges in depth sensing for transparent and…

Alibaba-affiliate Ant Group is accelerating its push into humanoid robotics, leading a 500 million yuan ($73.6 million) funding round in Chinese robotics startup Zeroth as the company expands beyond fintech and artificial intelligence into one of the fastest-growing frontiers of AI-powered hardware. The investment marks Ant’s latest move to build a strategic presence across China’s…