Persona AI focuses on shipyard welding as a commercially viable first task for humanoids, targeting skilled labor shortages. The company partners with major shipbuilders and steel producers, aiming to enable additional revenue rather than cost savings.
Galaxea Dynamics announces its Global Partner Night during WRC 2026, an event aimed at connecting global innovators to drive the future of embodied AI. The gathering will facilitate collaboration among industry leaders.
JD Logistics and Fast Retailing Group have formed a strategic partnership to build a global logistics supply chain network, enhancing automation, digitalization, and sustainability.
DEEP Robotics, with UK partner OLO, delivers an intelligent quadruped robotics solution for clean energy education at Redcar & Cleveland College, integrating Lite3 and Lynx M20 platforms with OLO's control capabilities.
Analog Devices has renewed its strategic sponsorship of MassRobotics, providing startups with access to its technology and expertise. The partnership includes participation in upcoming events like RoboBusiness and the Robot Block Party.
Unitree Robotics and Changjiang Institute of Technology have jointly launched Hubei's first Unitree Technology Industry College, focusing on training for robot debugging and support roles.
PaXini collaborated with ENGINEAI to integrate its world-first plantar multidimensional tactile sensor PX-FOOTRIX into ENGINEAI T800 robots, as shown in a video.
Five Chinese embodied AI startups, including Zhiyuan Robotics, jointly invested in an AI data company, reflecting a 'capital-for-time' strategy to secure critical data resources while still fundraising.
DPVR has partnered with a robot experience store in Qingdao to deploy its RoboPilot teleoperation and data collection solution. Using the E4 VR headset, users can control real robotic arms and dexterous hands in real time, while the system gathers data for embodied AI training.
HII signs long-term agreements with Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics for up to $900 million in shipbuilding work. The partnerships aim to deploy physical AI and robotic welding/sanding across U.S. Navy programs.
Ant Digital Technologies signed a framework agreement with Hubei Big Data Group's data development company to jointly build AI infrastructure, including a Token Factory and embodied intelligence data collection projects.
Mitsubishi Motors will partner with Tokyo University startup Highlanders to mass-produce humanoid robots by 2027, turning idle engine lines into a robot factory. The robots, about 1.75m tall, will first work in Mitsubishi's own plants, addressing labor shortages.
Beijing E-Town hosted its commercial aerospace open day, where a memorandum was signed to build China's first commercial space product reliability platform.
Magic Atom, a leading embodied AI company, has partnered with Shanghai Shibei High-Tech to establish a joint innovation center for embodied intelligence. The center will focus on data production, model evaluation, and scenario validation, aiming to accelerate the commercialization of embodied AI in Shanghai.