Mechanical hands dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ones to help with deliveries were on display Thursday as the Humanoids Summit Tokyo opened. Chinese newcomers,

RobOmni gives embodied AI teams an omni-modal evaluation benchmark, including tactile sensing for physical interaction in contact-rich tasks.

The real measure for robotic capabilities involves conducting “quantitative, large-scale evaluations” in real-world environments, Levine explained. “There’s always a gap between the kind of things that somebody can show in a demo and what the real capability of the robot is,” he said.

Kairos-HomeWorld is purpose built for embodied intelligence and represents the first unified framework capable of

Robotics is positioned to do to service businesses what AI did to software — and the moat belongs to whoever builds it first.

Moving robots into everyday environments is one of the most significant transitions the industry has faced, and one of the most unforgiving.

Artificial intelligence startup Generalist AI Inc., a startup building embodied robotics intelligence, said today it has raised $400 million in new funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $2 billion.

May 2026 was a busy month full of robotics news, and it was topped off by the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston.

Sixth form students win Cumbria robotics challenge by building and programming robots to tackle a mock nuclear waste task.