Results for “robotics”

1. topic
   Robotics

   Humanoids, industrial arms, mobile robots and the software stacks that make them useful.

2. trend
   Robotics — Parallax Index 78

   Humanoids capture attention; industrial arms and mobile robots capture revenue. Both are accelerating.

3. topic
   AI in Manufacturing

   Industrial AI, digital twins, robotics and software-defined factories.

4. company
   Figure AI

   Humanoid robotics company developing general-purpose robots for commercial and, eventually, domestic use.

5. company
   NVIDIA

   The dominant supplier of accelerated computing for AI training and inference, and increasingly a platform company spanning chips, networking, software and robotics.

6. research3 Sept
   Physical AI: state of play

   Deep Dive mapping the robotics and embodied AI landscape from foundation models to factory floors.

7. article21 Oct
   MMX Is on Its Way to Phobos With a 10-Gram Target

   JAXA launched the Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft on an H3 rocket at 04:41:03 JST on 20 October 2026 and confirmed the next day that its solar paddles, attitude control and antenna release had all worked.

8. article30 Sept
   AMD Buys a Model Lab to Learn What Its Chips Must Run

   The all-stock deal for World Labs is worth about $8.2 billion and puts Fei-Fei Li on Lisa Su's direct reports as chief scientist. AMD is not buying a product line; it is buying early sight of the workloads its next accelerators have to serve.

9. article22 Sept
   Perseverance Finds Three Water Episodes in Jezero's Margin Rocks

   A study published on 21 September shows the carbonate band orbiters linked to Jezero's ancient lake sits in igneous rock that groundwater, lake water and hot fluids altered in turn.

10. article13 Sept
    Humanoids Clock In: What the First Factory Contracts Reveal

    BMW is running a humanoid pilot in Leipzig and Schaeffler has signed for up to 2,000 robots. The shipment data says most humanoids still perform, teach or collect data. Both things are true.

11. signal13 Sept
    More than 85% of humanoids shipped last year went to stages, classrooms and data labs.

    IDC counted about 18,000 humanoid shipments in 2025, with industrial manufacturing and logistics still at pilot stage. Shipment growth and factory readiness are different stories.

12. signal13 Sept
    The first four-digit humanoid factory contract starts with boxes, not assembly.

    Humanoid's binding agreement with Schaeffler covers an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 wheeled robots by 2032 under robot-as-a-service pricing; phase one, from December 2026, is box handling at two German plants.

13. glossary
    Vision-language-action model

    A model that maps camera input and natural-language instructions directly to robot actions, replacing task-specific programming.