NVIDIA released open-source physical AI agent skills across Omniverse, Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis, Alpamayo, and Jetson. The company points to manufacturing gains including 67% faster training and deployment at Pegatron and a 17% detection-rate improvement at Delta Electronics.
NVIDIA released Cosmos 3 as an open physical AI omnimodel with Super and Nano variants. Its technical post points to six synthetic datasets, Hugging Face checkpoints, and GitHub recipes for domain adaptation.
NVIDIA’s open humanoid reference design combines Unitree H2 Plus hardware, Sharpa five-finger hands, and Jetson AGX Thor T5000 compute. The 75-DoF system is aimed at making humanoid research more comparable across labs.
OpenAI is moving its robotics work from research framing toward hiring for hardware, operations, systems, and ML execution. Sam Altman’s post drew more than 2.16 million views and 11,400 likes, making embodied AI the clearest signal in this 48-hour X window.
AI startup Shift is offering New York residents free house cleaning services in exchange for allowing cleaners wearing camera-equipped 'magic hats' to record the work—capturing real-world home environment data to train future household robots.
Figure AI's Figure 03 robots completed a 50-hour nonstop package sorting run on May 15 with zero human intervention, running fully on the onboard Helix-02 neural network -- a key milestone for autonomous industrial deployment.
Google DeepMind's Genie world model now connects to Street View, letting users simulate real-world locations as interactive 360-degree environments. The integration also helps Waymo train on rare driving scenarios.
Figure AI's 03 humanoid robot worked continuously for over 30 hours without any breaks. The footage underscores the widening capability gap between human and robotic labor in industrial environments.
Figure AI's Helix-02 humanoid robot completed a full 8-hour autonomous package-sorting shift on May 13, processing packages at the same 3-second-per-item rate as human workers with zero human resets.
Chinese embodied AI startup Vbot raised $73M in Pre-A funding led by Oriental Fortune Capital to expand production and develop full-size humanoid robots. Having shipped 500 AI robot dogs, the company targets 2,500+ monthly units by June 2026.
Chinese humanoid robot startup Robotera raised over $200M led by SF Group, with Alibaba, IDG Capital, Lenovo, and Haier participating. The company has begun delivering 1,000 units across 10 logistics centers operated by China Post and SF Group in Q2 2026.
UK-based Humanoid on May 13 signed a binding phased deployment agreement with Schaeffler to place up to 2,000 wheeled humanoid robots across global manufacturing sites by 2032, starting with two German plants in late 2026.