UK-based Humanoid shared a clip of its first robot: HMND 01 Targeted at industrial needs, HMND 01 uses AI, motion control, and modular hardware to adapt to real-world usecases It moves at 1.5 m/s & supports 15 kg payloads with a 4-hr runtime and 41 DoF

Another big week of AI and Robotics news. So, I summarized everything announced by Booster Robotics, Adobe, OpenAI, Figure, ByteDance, Google, Perplexity, Apptronik, Humanoid, Mentee Robotics, and more Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:

China's Booster Robotics shared its T1 robot's shock test The 4ft-tall T1 can be seen moving unfaltered after hammer, bottle, and wooden stick blows They use high-strength metal and plastic to withstand impact here

Adobe released its Firefly Video Model in public beta (starting at $9.99/mo) It can generate 1080p videos from text/images, with camera control, shot framing, and motion graphics What makes it different is it's trained on licensed and public content

OpenAI announced its roadmap for GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 GPT-4.5 will be its final non-CoT model and then unify all offerings (including o3) into an all-in-one GPT-5 GPT-5 will simplify things with tiers offering different intelligence levels

News from Figure: we started shipping Figure-02 humanoids to our second commercial customer These robots use a single neural network to perform end-to-end work with object manipulation Stay tuned for more!

ByteDance debuted Goku and Goku+ AI, bridging image and video generation Goku stands out in image and video quality, while Goku+ targets marketing It has specialized tools for turning product photos into ad videos featuring human-product interactions

Google added infinite memory to Gemini, allowing it to remember & refer to past interactions while answering It's available in Gemini Advanced and can be tweaked by editing/deleting chats OpenAI is also working on a similar feature, but no release yet

Perplexity introduced Deep Research, a free tool (with limits) to generate in-depth reports on any subject Deep Research completes most tasks in under 3 minutes and beats Gemini Thinking, o3-mini, o1, DeepSeek-R1, and other models on Humanity's Last Exam

Austin-based robotics company Apptronik raised $350M, with Google in participation The company is working with Deepmind to develop embodied intelligence in 'Apollo' humanoid It's being tested by Amplifier, GXO, and Mercedes-Benz

Chinese researchers debuted HoST, an RL framework enabling humanoids to stand up across real-world environments Leveraging a multi-critic architecture, HoST enabled Unitree G1 to produce smooth standing-up motion, even when facing external forces

Israeli startup Mentee Robotics unveiled MenteeBot v3 The new robot comes with custom actuators, replaceable batteries, and promises improved torso mobility, 30N pinch force per finger, and 25kg payload support It's also targeted at industrial tasks

Santa Clara-based UCR shared a video of its Moby bipedal robot's walk test In the clip, Moby can be seen walking untethered on uneven surfaces, including grass. UCR hopes Moby will help with high-risk tasks in industries like mining and energy

Chinese robotics company Unitree updated the algorithm of its G1 humanoid, enabling it to learn any dance move In a new clip, the $16k G1 can be seen busting some moves by shaking its hands, legs and torso in sync with the music

A Japanese expo displayed a chained robot dog that was programmed to attack anyone who came near While the specifics of the creepy Black Mirror-like robot remain unclear, the message is evident: we need to do more on the AI safety front

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The more a company uses cinematic effects, the less impressive the robot is all by itself. That said, I have a huge amount of respect for everyone working on humanoids.

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