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China’s Ant Group Deepens Bet on Humanoid Robots, Leads $74m Funding Round in Zeroth
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…
Symbotic acquires British vendor of warehouse orchestration software
Warehouse robotics vendor Symbotic has acquired ARMS Innovations Ltd., a UK-based software company specializing in real-time operational intelligence solutions for complex automated warehouse environments. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the firms said that ARMS’s software introduces a layer of AI-driven warehouse operations orchestration that coordinates people, robotics, and workflows. The solution dynamically…
#RoboCup2026 – humanoid league knockout stages
This weekend saw the finale of the league competitions at RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea, with the winners in the small, middle, and large humanoid divisions decided. Congratulations to the following teams, who finished in the top three positions in each size class: Small division Invic, Wuhan University, China Hamburg Bit-Bots, Universität Hamburg, Germany…
Context is king: How Avride uses cloud VLMs as a safety net for delivery robots
Avride has integrated vision-language models into its delivery robots. Source: Avride Avride Inc. has built its delivery robots for high level of autonomy. Every single day, hundreds of them navigate busy city streets entirely on their own, processing complex sensor data locally on their onboard compute units. Our sidewalk robots run with minimal human involvement,…
Why investors are betting billions on X Square Robot’s embodied AI vision
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