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Embodied AI and robotics — foundation models, humanoids, and autonomous machines.

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    Boston Dynamics

    Boston Dynamics

    Atlas humanoid, Spot quadruped, and Stretch logistics robots from the dynamics pioneer.

    The Hyundai-owned robotics company behind the Atlas humanoid, the Spot quadruped, and the Stretch warehouse robot. The production electric Atlas debuted at CES 2026, with its first fleets committed to Hyundai's Metaplant and Google DeepMind and factory deployment in Savannah targeted by 2028. Spot and Stretch are already sold commercially for industrial inspection and logistics.

    Worth knowing

    Passed from Google to SoftBank to Hyundai (majority owner since 2021); its electric Atlas won Best Robot in CNET's Best of CES 2026.

    • humanoid
    • quadruped
    • embodied-ai
    • industrial
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    Unitree

    Unitree Robotics

    Quadruped and humanoid robots shipped at consumer prices, from the world's top humanoid seller.

    Unitree Robotics builds quadruped robots (Go2, B2), humanoid robots (G1, H1, R1), robotic arms, and LiDAR systems you can actually order today. It shipped more than 5,500 humanoids in 2025 — roughly a third of global sales — and turned its first profit the same year, rare in a field of pre-revenue rivals.

    Worth knowing

    Cleared in June 2026 to list on Shanghai's STAR Market — the first embodied-AI company approved for China's A-share market.

    • humanoid
    • quadruped
    • embodied-ai
    • hardware
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    Apptronik

    Apptronik

    Apollo, a general-purpose humanoid robot for logistics and manufacturing.

    Austin-based Apptronik builds Apollo, a 5'8", 160 lb general-purpose humanoid robot with a 55 lb payload and swappable four-hour battery packs, designed to work in spaces built for humans. Apollo is being piloted in factories and warehouses with Mercedes-Benz and GXO Logistics under a robot-as-a-service model, and a strategic partnership with Google DeepMind pairs the hardware with Gemini Robotics models.

    Worth knowing

    Partnered with Google DeepMind to bring Gemini Robotics to Apollo; a Feb 2026 extension grew its Series A alone past $935M.

    • humanoid
    • logistics
    • manufacturing
    • apollo
    • +1
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    Agility Robotics

    Agility Robotics

    Maker of Digit, the humanoid robot already doing paid work in warehouses.

    Agility Robotics builds Digit, a bipedal humanoid for warehouse and factory material handling, orchestrated by its Arc cloud platform. Digit works production shifts at GXO — 100,000+ totes moved at a single site — with commercial agreements at Schaeffler, Mercado Libre, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada. Robots are assembled at the company's RoboFab factory in Salem, Oregon.

    Worth knowing

    Its 2024 GXO deal was widely reported as the first formal commercial humanoid deployment; a 2025 round valued it near $1.8B.

    • humanoid
    • warehouse
    • logistics
    • embodied-ai
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    Sanctuary AI

    Sanctuary AI

    Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot driven by the Carbon AI control system.

    Sanctuary AI builds Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot for work, powered by Carbon, a hybrid cognitive control system that blends symbolic reasoning, large language models, and reinforcement learning to mimic human cognitive subsystems. Phoenix features highly dexterous hands and can be taught new tasks in under 24 hours.

    Worth knowing

    Co-founded by Geordie Rose, who earlier founded quantum-computing pioneer D-Wave and robotics firm Kindred (sold to Ocado).

    • humanoid
    • general-purpose-robot
    • embodied-ai
    • carbon
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    Figure AI

    Figure AI

    Humanoid robots powered by Helix, an in-house vision-language-action model.

    Figure AI builds general-purpose humanoid robots (Figure 01–03) driven by Helix, its proprietary vision-language-action model that fuses perception, language, and learned control. Figure 03, announced in 2025, targets the home and broader applications; earlier models were piloted in BMW's automotive manufacturing.

    Worth knowing

    Reached a $39B post-money valuation in its Sept 2025 Series C — about 15x its valuation a year earlier.

    • humanoid
    • vla
    • embodied-ai
    • helix
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    Skild AI

    Skild AI

    A single, omni-bodied foundation model designed to control any robot.

    Skild AI builds Skild Brain, a general-purpose robotics foundation model intended to control diverse embodiments — quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms, mobile manipulators — without prior knowledge of a robot's exact form. It pretrains on large-scale simulation and internet video, then post-trains on targeted real-world data for customer deployments.

    Worth knowing

    Raised a $1.4B Series C led by SoftBank, with NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos, lifting its valuation past $14B in early 2026.

    • robot-foundation-model
    • embodied-ai
    • humanoid
    • manipulation
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    1X

    1X Technologies

    NEO, a home humanoid robot driven by the onboard Redwood vision-language-action model.

    1X (1X Technologies) builds NEO, a household humanoid robot powered by Redwood, a 160M-parameter vision-language-action model that jointly controls locomotion and manipulation for tasks like laundry and answering the door. Redwood runs on NEO's onboard GPU and pairs with an off-board language model for voice control. NEO ships from 2026 at $20,000 or $499/month.

    Worth knowing

    Founded in 2014 as Halodi Robotics, rebranded to 1X in 2022; an early OpenAI Startup Fund investment seeded its Series A.

    • humanoid
    • home-robot
    • vla
    • redwood
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    Physical Intelligence

    Physical Intelligence

    General-purpose foundation models that aim to control any robot to do any task.

    Physical Intelligence is a San Francisco lab building general-purpose AI for the physical world. Its π0 (pi-zero) vision-language-action model, built on a pretrained VLM and trained across many robot embodiments, can perform dexterous tasks like folding laundry. The company open-sourced π0's code and weights via its openpi repository.

    Worth knowing

    Raised $400M at a $2.4B valuation in 2024 led by Jeff Bezos and OpenAI, with a team drawn from Tesla, DeepMind, and X.

    • robot-foundation-model
    • vla
    • embodied-ai
    • open-weights
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    Wayve

    Wayve

    End-to-end embodied AI for self-driving that scales across any vehicle.

    Wayve builds AV2.0, an embodied-AI approach to automated driving that replaces hand-engineered perception-planning-control pipelines with a single end-to-end neural network mapping raw camera and radar input to driving commands. It develops the GAIA generative world model for training and the LINGO language model for interpretable driving. Backed by NVIDIA, Microsoft, and SoftBank, and partnered with Uber.

    Worth knowing

    Raised a $1.05B Series C in May 2024 led by SoftBank with NVIDIA and Microsoft — the UK's largest-ever AI fundraise.

    • autonomous-driving
    • embodied-ai
    • world-model
    • av2.0