Robotics Sanctuary AI hits 99.5% on a wire-plug task, no humanoid needed
Sanctuary AI reports a 99.5%+ success rate on a contact-rich wire-plugging task at a Tier 1 auto supplier — and quietly admits the win required no humanoid at all.
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Robotics Sanctuary AI reports a 99.5%+ success rate on a contact-rich wire-plugging task at a Tier 1 auto supplier — and quietly admits the win required no humanoid at all.
Robotics At VivaTech, Foxconn showed a humanoid doing the pick-and-place and screw-fastening that defines its assembly lines — trained on simulation, not a salaried worker's months of practice.
Robotics New IFR figures show US industrial-robot installations up 11% to 38,000 units, with the fastest growth in food plants — while America's total still trails China's volume by an order of magnitude.
Robotics China shipped ~90% of 2025's humanoids, and in June its open-source models beat Nvidia on a real-robot benchmark — collapsing the idea that the West still owns the robot 'brains'.
Robotics Rivian's RJ Scaringe gave the first detailed look at Mind Robotics, a >$3B humanoid startup whose first customer and live testing ground is Rivian's own plant.
Robotics Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raised $12B at a $41B valuation to build an 'artificial general engineer' — pointing physical AI at high-end engineering work, not the factory floor.
Robotics EngineAI, founded in 2023, has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong listing — the latest sign that public markets now want to fund the machines built to replace human labor.
Robotics China's MIIT and SASAC launched a 2026 campaign ordering humanoid robots from demos into real jobs: 100+ scenarios, 10,000-unit deployment, provincial plans due end of June.
Robotics Geekplus says 436 of its autonomous mobile robots now run in-plant logistics across multiple Toyota factories in Japan, with labor shortages and trucking rules driving the rollout.
Robotics X Square Robot open-sourced XRZero-G0 on June 11: a VR headset plus handheld grippers that turn human demonstrations into robot training data, cutting real-robot data needs up to 20x.
Robotics Four senators introduced a bill creating a National Commission on Robotics to assess U.S. competitiveness, with industry from Agility to Boston Dynamics cheering — and workers cast mainly as recruits.
Robotics German firm Neura Robotics closed a record Series C of up to $1.4 billion on June 10, targeting 5 million robots by 2030 — the largest round ever for a full-stack robotics company.