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- Amazon is hiring for a home robot, per CNBC's job-post analysis
Amazon has formed a new home-robot team and is hiring for a "new-to-world robot product," CNBC reports from job posts. No form, price, or date.
- Yibotu / EABOT: nearly RMB 400M for heavy-duty Physical AI; company claims 100+ trucks on 60 routes
36Kr: Shanghai Yibotu (EABOT) raised nearly RMB 400M across two rounds; company claims 100+ heavy trucks on 60 short-haul routes.
- Apple HALO: Unitree G1 humanoid trained only in simulated homes crawls under tables in real ones
Apple's HALO trains a Unitree G1 in 1,000 simulated homes; authors report 91% success in 360 real-home trials.
- NYU's open-source MABEL robot has 56 DOF, dexterous hands and an $8,056 parts list
An NYU-led team released MABEL, an open-source wheeled robot with two arms and 17-DOF hands whose cheapest build costs $8,056 in parts.
- Apple J595 home robot: hardware done for two years, software may push launch to 2028
Apple's J595 tabletop robot, a 9-inch screen on a robotic arm, may slip to 2028 over software, The Information reports.