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🚨 BREAKING: Amazon has officially acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, the startup behind the soft-bodied Sprout humanoid. While Amazon has aggressively pursued automation in its fulfillment centers, this acquisition signals a massive escalation in the race for the consumer home market. Sprout is a bipedal robot designed specifically for the "messy reality" of shared human spaces.

🚨 BREAKING: Amazon has officially acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, the startup behind the soft-bodied Sprout humanoid. While Amazon has aggressively pursued automation in its fulfillment centers, this acquisition signals a massive escalation in the race for the consumer home market. Sprout is a bipedal robot designed specifically for the "messy reality" of shared human spaces.

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Figure 03 hospitality demo

Figure 03 hospitality demo

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"You’ll be bankrupt in <12 months." That was the prediction from Figure’s CEO just two weeks ago. Figure posted 90k parts yesterday. Agility posted 100k totes today. 📦 Coincidence? 🤔🧵

"You’ll be bankrupt in <12 months." That was the prediction from Figure’s CEO just two weeks ago. Figure posted 90k parts yesterday. Agility posted 100k totes today. 📦 Coincidence? 🤔🧵

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How do you stop a robotic hand from overheating on the factory floor? Xiaomi’s answer: bionic sweat glands. Packing 20+ motors into a human-sized hand generates a thermal load. Xiaomi's redesigned CyberOne hand uses 3D-printed liquid cooling channels and an evaporative micro-pump system to strip away 10 watts of heat, enabling continuous heavy-duty operations without stalling. Watch an animation of the evaporative cooling below 👇

How do you stop a robotic hand from overheating on the factory floor? Xiaomi’s answer: bionic sweat glands. Packing 20+ motors into a human-sized hand generates a thermal load. Xiaomi's redesigned CyberOne hand uses 3D-printed liquid cooling channels and an evaporative micro-pump system to strip away 10 watts of heat, enabling continuous heavy-duty operations without stalling. Watch an animation of the evaporative cooling below 👇

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SoftBank is reportedly in early talks to back a massive $800M funding round for Munich-based Agile Robots, with a contribution of over $ 300M. The move signals a major escalation in Masayoshi Son's "brains and bodies" strategy to dominate physical AI infrastructure. Why this matters for the robotics industry: 🤖 The Flywheel: Agile Robots isn't just hardware. Founded by German Aerospace Center (DLR) alumni, they vertically integrate AI software with humanoids, warehouse automation, and robotic arms. 🧠 Frontier Ecosystems: Agile ONE was recently named a founding member of NVIDIA’s Cosmos Coalition and is deep in a research partnership with Google DeepMind to bring Gemini to the factory floor. 💰 The Capital Race: Global investment in robotics more than tripled in 2025. SoftBank is pairing this hardware play with its recent $1.4B investment in Skild AI and its $5.4B acquisition of ABB Robotics. While both companies have declined to comment on the early-stage talks, the deal highlights a furious shift toward deploying foundational AI in physical manufacturing and logistics.

SoftBank is reportedly in early talks to back a massive $800M funding round for Munich-based Agile Robots, with a contribution of over $ 300M. The move signals a major escalation in Masayoshi Son's "brains and bodies" strategy to dominate physical AI infrastructure. Why this matters for the robotics industry: 🤖 The Flywheel: Agile Robots isn't just hardware. Founded by German Aerospace Center (DLR) alumni, they vertically integrate AI software with humanoids, warehouse automation, and robotic arms. 🧠 Frontier Ecosystems: Agile ONE was recently named a founding member of NVIDIA’s Cosmos Coalition and is deep in a research partnership with Google DeepMind to bring Gemini to the factory floor. 💰 The Capital Race: Global investment in robotics more than tripled in 2025. SoftBank is pairing this hardware play with its recent $1.4B investment in Skild AI and its $5.4B acquisition of ABB Robotics. While both companies have declined to comment on the early-stage talks, the deal highlights a furious shift toward deploying foundational AI in physical manufacturing and logistics.

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Who are you drafting for your robotic starting eleven? ⚽️🤖 Both Booster Robotics and Boston Dynamics are showing off serious capabilities ahead of the World Cup. While Booster’s new T2 is building on a championship-winning RoboCup pedigree, Hyundai is proving the electric Atlas can handle complex full-body coordination and dynamic balance in real time.

Who are you drafting for your robotic starting eleven? ⚽️🤖 Both Booster Robotics and Boston Dynamics are showing off serious capabilities ahead of the World Cup. While Booster’s new T2 is building on a championship-winning RoboCup pedigree, Hyundai is proving the electric Atlas can handle complex full-body coordination and dynamic balance in real time.

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Deep Robotics has unveiled the DR02, an all-weather humanoid built for industrial work. With an IP66 rating, –20°C to 55°C temperature range, and modular design, it’s made to operate where most humanoids can’t — from rain-soaked sites to hot workshops.

Deep Robotics has unveiled the DR02, an all-weather humanoid built for industrial work. With an IP66 rating, –20°C to 55°C temperature range, and modular design, it’s made to operate where most humanoids can’t — from rain-soaked sites to hot workshops.

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🧵In the world of physical AI, we’re used to seeing videos sped up to hide how slow robots actually are. Eka Robotics, Inc. is doing the exact opposite. They’re showing their robots at 1/25x speed because the movement is so fast and the force-sensitivity so precise, you’d miss the "superhuman" dexterity in real-time.

🧵In the world of physical AI, we’re used to seeing videos sped up to hide how slow robots actually are. Eka Robotics, Inc. is doing the exact opposite. They’re showing their robots at 1/25x speed because the movement is so fast and the force-sensitivity so precise, you’d miss the "superhuman" dexterity in real-time.

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In a masterclass at Sequoia Capital AI Ascent, Jim Fan laid out the "Great Parallel": how robotics is speedrunning the LLM playbook. 🔹 VLA → WAM: Moving from language-heavy models to "World Action Models" that dream in physics. 🔹 Teleop → EgoScale: Replacing manual data with human egocentric video. 🔹 Simulation 2.0: Using neural simulators like DreamDojo to turn compute into environments. "Our generation was born too late to explore the earth and too early to explore the stars. But we are born just in time to solve robotics." He believes that robots will pass the Physical Turing Test in the coming 2–3 years.

In a masterclass at Sequoia Capital AI Ascent, Jim Fan laid out the "Great Parallel": how robotics is speedrunning the LLM playbook. 🔹 VLA → WAM: Moving from language-heavy models to "World Action Models" that dream in physics. 🔹 Teleop → EgoScale: Replacing manual data with human egocentric video. 🔹 Simulation 2.0: Using neural simulators like DreamDojo to turn compute into environments. "Our generation was born too late to explore the earth and too early to explore the stars. But we are born just in time to solve robotics." He believes that robots will pass the Physical Turing Test in the coming 2–3 years.

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At the 2026 Abundance Summit, Clone CEO Dhanush Radhakrishnan revealed the company can already manufacture a musculoskeletal "synthetic human" for under $20,000 today. By producing artificial Myofibers "by the kilometer," Clone aims to disrupt the industry with high-end performance at a low-cost price point. The ultimate goal? "True Clones" that are indistinguishable from humans by 2028.

At the 2026 Abundance Summit, Clone CEO Dhanush Radhakrishnan revealed the company can already manufacture a musculoskeletal "synthetic human" for under $20,000 today. By producing artificial Myofibers "by the kilometer," Clone aims to disrupt the industry with high-end performance at a low-cost price point. The ultimate goal? "True Clones" that are indistinguishable from humans by 2028.

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AheadForm just dropped a new character skin for the Origin F1

AheadForm just dropped a new character skin for the Origin F1

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Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun offers a critical take on the humanoid robot boom. Speaking at MIT, LeCun claimed the "big secret" of the industry is that current companies "have no idea" how to make their robots "smart enough to be generally useful." He argues that while humanoids can be trained for narrow manufacturing tasks, a truly autonomous domestic robot is impossible without fundamental AI breakthroughs. For LeCun, this means moving beyond current generative models and toward "world model planning-type architectures"—systems that can learn to understand and predict the physical world. The future of these billion-dollar startups, he says, depends entirely on this next wave of AI research.

Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun offers a critical take on the humanoid robot boom. Speaking at MIT, LeCun claimed the "big secret" of the industry is that current companies "have no idea" how to make their robots "smart enough to be generally useful." He argues that while humanoids can be trained for narrow manufacturing tasks, a truly autonomous domestic robot is impossible without fundamental AI breakthroughs. For LeCun, this means moving beyond current generative models and toward "world model planning-type architectures"—systems that can learn to understand and predict the physical world. The future of these billion-dollar startups, he says, depends entirely on this next wave of AI research.

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In a new Google DeepMind video, Hannah Fry threw a curveball into the scene: a squishy stress ball the model had never encountered. Watch it adapt to the physics in real-time. This is what open-ended robotics looks like.

In a new Google DeepMind video, Hannah Fry threw a curveball into the scene: a squishy stress ball the model had never encountered. Watch it adapt to the physics in real-time. This is what open-ended robotics looks like.

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The response to Boston Dynamics is here. 🤖🍻 BD's Atlas gripped the fridge directly, managing "complex contact points." AGIBOT's X2, powered by their new AGILE Foundation Model, achieved the same result by adding custom handles and custom end effectors. Different approaches, same cold beverage delivered!

The response to Boston Dynamics is here. 🤖🍻 BD's Atlas gripped the fridge directly, managing "complex contact points." AGIBOT's X2, powered by their new AGILE Foundation Model, achieved the same result by adding custom handles and custom end effectors. Different approaches, same cold beverage delivered!

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The man who put 50 million Roombas in our homes is back with a new vision for "Artificial Life". iRobot co-founder Colin Angle’s new startup, Familiar Machines & Magic, just unveiled "Familiars"—expressive, soft-coated quadrupeds designed for human connection rather than factory labor. With 23 degrees of freedom and strictly on-device AI, these robots aim to conquer the $2.5 trillion "emotional work" frontier without the privacy risks of the cloud.

The man who put 50 million Roombas in our homes is back with a new vision for "Artificial Life". iRobot co-founder Colin Angle’s new startup, Familiar Machines & Magic, just unveiled "Familiars"—expressive, soft-coated quadrupeds designed for human connection rather than factory labor. With 23 degrees of freedom and strictly on-device AI, these robots aim to conquer the $2.5 trillion "emotional work" frontier without the privacy risks of the cloud.

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Figure CEO Brett Adcock says his "major competitors" are using tele-op (human operators) in their videos and calls it "deceiving." His analogy: "It's like if a self-driving car pulled up... and we found out there was some guy from Tennessee driving it."

Figure CEO Brett Adcock says his "major competitors" are using tele-op (human operators) in their videos and calls it "deceiving." His analogy: "It's like if a self-driving car pulled up... and we found out there was some guy from Tennessee driving it."

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Dodgeball champion 2026? 🏆 AGIBOT’s X2 humanoid is dodging incoming balls completely autonomously. Powered by their new AGILE Foundation Model, this is what's possible when real-time perception seamlessly meets locomotion

Dodgeball champion 2026? 🏆 AGIBOT’s X2 humanoid is dodging incoming balls completely autonomously. Powered by their new AGILE Foundation Model, this is what's possible when real-time perception seamlessly meets locomotion

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A notable strategic pivot from Xpeng's AI Day: The 'Iron' humanoid is being designed for deep customization, including "different body shapes and sexes". CEO He Xiaopeng detailed plans for "bionic muscles," "full coverage soft skin" , and options to "choose the sex", comparing it to customizing a car. The stated goal is to make the robot "warmer and also more intimate". A significant departure from the neutral, sexless designs seen from most competitors.

A notable strategic pivot from Xpeng's AI Day: The 'Iron' humanoid is being designed for deep customization, including "different body shapes and sexes". CEO He Xiaopeng detailed plans for "bionic muscles," "full coverage soft skin" , and options to "choose the sex", comparing it to customizing a car. The stated goal is to make the robot "warmer and also more intimate". A significant departure from the neutral, sexless designs seen from most competitors.

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High-speed running at 13 km/h and human-like agility: KAIST’s v0.7 is a masterclass in in-house hardware optimization. 🧵

High-speed running at 13 km/h and human-like agility: KAIST’s v0.7 is a masterclass in in-house hardware optimization. 🧵

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Everyone’s seen the Figure 03 demo — but few noticed the details. Six cameras. Inductive heels. Charging hooks on the pelvis. Here’s a closer look at the design decisions behind Figure’s new humanoid.

Everyone’s seen the Figure 03 demo — but few noticed the details. Six cameras. Inductive heels. Charging hooks on the pelvis. Here’s a closer look at the design decisions behind Figure’s new humanoid.

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Reliability is a ground-up problem. 🤖 Figure CEO Brett Adcock demonstrates why the Figure 03 needs to master the "burpee". From low-battery safety to emergency recovery, the ability to transition to the floor and back up safely is a cornerstone of Figures "Never Fall protocol". Achieving this requires a significant range of motion in the hips and legs.

Reliability is a ground-up problem. 🤖 Figure CEO Brett Adcock demonstrates why the Figure 03 needs to master the "burpee". From low-battery safety to emergency recovery, the ability to transition to the floor and back up safely is a cornerstone of Figures "Never Fall protocol". Achieving this requires a significant range of motion in the hips and legs.

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PNDbotics has released new footage of their 'Adam' humanoid, claiming it to be the first full-size humanoid robot to successfully scale a 1-meter (approx. 3.3 feet) wooden box. It's interesting to note that PNDbotics leans directly into a "future warrior" angle in their messaging, which certainly fits the slightly intimidating, raw mechanical aesthetic on display here.

PNDbotics has released new footage of their 'Adam' humanoid, claiming it to be the first full-size humanoid robot to successfully scale a 1-meter (approx. 3.3 feet) wooden box. It's interesting to note that PNDbotics leans directly into a "future warrior" angle in their messaging, which certainly fits the slightly intimidating, raw mechanical aesthetic on display here.

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This clip shows 1X's core design philosophy. Instead of the heavy, rigid harmonic drives common in robotics, NEO uses a complex, tendon-driven system. You can see the layers: from metal actuators, to the "3D Lattice Polymer" mesh, to the final knit suit. This architecture is the key to its 66 lb weight, 22 dB noise level, and 154 lb lift capacity.

This clip shows 1X's core design philosophy. Instead of the heavy, rigid harmonic drives common in robotics, NEO uses a complex, tendon-driven system. You can see the layers: from metal actuators, to the "3D Lattice Polymer" mesh, to the final knit suit. This architecture is the key to its 66 lb weight, 22 dB noise level, and 154 lb lift capacity.

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While uniform stairs seems to be a solved problem, AGIBOT's X2 shows off how its AGILE foundation model adapts to uneven obstacles. Watch it handle a mix of 15cm, 25cm, and 20cm steps.

While uniform stairs seems to be a solved problem, AGIBOT's X2 shows off how its AGILE foundation model adapts to uneven obstacles. Watch it handle a mix of 15cm, 25cm, and 20cm steps.

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Disney is doing what only Disney can: spending massive R&D budgets to make robots "lovable." 💸🤖 By solving the physics of character animation with Olaf, they are creating the blueprint for mainstream acceptance. Here is how startups like Cartwheel, Sunday & Tangible are following that lead to get robots into our homes. 👇

Disney is doing what only Disney can: spending massive R&D budgets to make robots "lovable." 💸🤖 By solving the physics of character animation with Olaf, they are creating the blueprint for mainstream acceptance. Here is how startups like Cartwheel, Sunday & Tangible are following that lead to get robots into our homes. 👇

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Would you like one of these? 🤔 A Chinese company called Luvbotics just announced "RUMI" (小伴), a 65cm humanoid companion robot. According to their site, the specs include: ✦ Full-Body Touch: Supposedly differentiates between a hug, a tickle, and a hit. ✦ Unique Voices: Claims every single bot gets a distinctly generated voice. ✦ Evolving Personality: Behaviors and skills unlock over time based on your interactions. ✦Autonomy: Indoors it roams independently; outdoors it follows you.

Would you like one of these? 🤔 A Chinese company called Luvbotics just announced "RUMI" (小伴), a 65cm humanoid companion robot. According to their site, the specs include: ✦ Full-Body Touch: Supposedly differentiates between a hug, a tickle, and a hit. ✦ Unique Voices: Claims every single bot gets a distinctly generated voice. ✦ Evolving Personality: Behaviors and skills unlock over time based on your interactions. ✦Autonomy: Indoors it roams independently; outdoors it follows you.

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Sharpa Robotics officially launched its dexterous hand, the SharpaWave, on October 16, moving it into mass production. The hand, which impressed many at ICRA 2025, is built around what the company calls a "Dynamic Tactile Array" (DTA) for high-fidelity sensing. Key specs from the official brochure are noteworthy: • Human-like design: 22 degrees of freedom in a 1:1 human-sized form factor. • Advanced sensing: The DTA features >1000 tactile pixels per fingertip, 20 N of fingertip strength with a movement speed of >4 Hz across all gestures. With out-of-the-box support for ROS and MuJoCo simulation, Sharpa is making a clear play for the robotics R&D community.

Sharpa Robotics officially launched its dexterous hand, the SharpaWave, on October 16, moving it into mass production. The hand, which impressed many at ICRA 2025, is built around what the company calls a "Dynamic Tactile Array" (DTA) for high-fidelity sensing. Key specs from the official brochure are noteworthy: • Human-like design: 22 degrees of freedom in a 1:1 human-sized form factor. • Advanced sensing: The DTA features >1000 tactile pixels per fingertip, 20 N of fingertip strength with a movement speed of >4 Hz across all gestures. With out-of-the-box support for ROS and MuJoCo simulation, Sharpa is making a clear play for the robotics R&D community.

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Robotics has a massive, silent bottleneck. It isn’t just data collection—it’s the brutal 1x speed of the physical world. Genesis AI Genesis AI just unveiled Genesis World 1.0, and they are attempting to turn the notorious Sim2Real gap into a pure compute problem. Evaluating a robotics foundation model across edge cases usually means hundreds of hours of physical lab testing. With Genesis World 1.0, what traditionally takes nearly a week of continuous, real-world operation is being compressed into 30 minutes in simulation. What makes this different from just dropping a robot model into an off-the-shelf game engine? 1️⃣ Nyx Renderer: A custom, real-time path-traced engine rendering noise-free 1080p frames in under 4ms. Game engines use rasterization tricks that confuse AI; Nyx uses physically accurate multi-bounce lighting so the model's "eyes" see exactly what real sensors see. 2️⃣ Quadrants Compiler: A custom Python-to-GPU compiler to run heavily parallelized multi-physics simulations (rigid bodies, fluids, deformables) natively across architectures. 3️⃣ Evaluation First: They aren't rushing to train on synthetic data. They are using this purely for closed-loop evaluation to perfect the physics first, currently claiming an impressive 89% correlation with real-world hardware tests. If the industry can accurately evaluate models in simulation without the physical world bottleneck, humanoid development stops moving at wall-clock time and starts scaling with compute.

Robotics has a massive, silent bottleneck. It isn’t just data collection—it’s the brutal 1x speed of the physical world. Genesis AI Genesis AI just unveiled Genesis World 1.0, and they are attempting to turn the notorious Sim2Real gap into a pure compute problem. Evaluating a robotics foundation model across edge cases usually means hundreds of hours of physical lab testing. With Genesis World 1.0, what traditionally takes nearly a week of continuous, real-world operation is being compressed into 30 minutes in simulation. What makes this different from just dropping a robot model into an off-the-shelf game engine? 1️⃣ Nyx Renderer: A custom, real-time path-traced engine rendering noise-free 1080p frames in under 4ms. Game engines use rasterization tricks that confuse AI; Nyx uses physically accurate multi-bounce lighting so the model's "eyes" see exactly what real sensors see. 2️⃣ Quadrants Compiler: A custom Python-to-GPU compiler to run heavily parallelized multi-physics simulations (rigid bodies, fluids, deformables) natively across architectures. 3️⃣ Evaluation First: They aren't rushing to train on synthetic data. They are using this purely for closed-loop evaluation to perfect the physics first, currently claiming an impressive 89% correlation with real-world hardware tests. If the industry can accurately evaluate models in simulation without the physical world bottleneck, humanoid development stops moving at wall-clock time and starts scaling with compute.

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The biggest bottleneck for General Purpose Robots isn't hardware, it's data. Enter X-Humanoid: A pipeline from Mike Shou and team that "robotizes" huge human video datasets for training. The Key Insight: It solves the "visual embodiment gap." 🧠 Robots learn faster when the training pixels match their own hardware (metal & joints) rather than human skin and fluid motion. Read more here:

The biggest bottleneck for General Purpose Robots isn't hardware, it's data. Enter X-Humanoid: A pipeline from Mike Shou and team that "robotizes" huge human video datasets for training. The Key Insight: It solves the "visual embodiment gap." 🧠 Robots learn faster when the training pixels match their own hardware (metal & joints) rather than human skin and fluid motion. Read more here:

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A rare glimpse under the textile "clothes": 1X’s new factory reveal offers a peek at the slim metallic skeleton powering NEO. While competitors often lean into rigid, heavy frames, 1X is betting on this lightweight, tendon-driven anatomy to keep NEO at ~30kg for "meaningfully safer" home interaction.

A rare glimpse under the textile "clothes": 1X’s new factory reveal offers a peek at the slim metallic skeleton powering NEO. While competitors often lean into rigid, heavy frames, 1X is betting on this lightweight, tendon-driven anatomy to keep NEO at ~30kg for "meaningfully safer" home interaction.

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The "sim-to-real" gap just got a massive 2,300m² bridge. 🤖🏗️ NEURA Robotics and TUM are launching the TUM RoboGym at Munich Airport—Europe’s largest training center for Physical AI. Starting mid-2026, a fleet of humanoid robots will begin real-world training to fuel the Neuraverse ecosystem with high-quality, sovereign data.

The "sim-to-real" gap just got a massive 2,300m² bridge. 🤖🏗️ NEURA Robotics and TUM are launching the TUM RoboGym at Munich Airport—Europe’s largest training center for Physical AI. Starting mid-2026, a fleet of humanoid robots will begin real-world training to fuel the Neuraverse ecosystem with high-quality, sovereign data.

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