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After Raising Hundreds of Millions in Funding, Top Rankings Achieved: WuJie Dynamics Releases MWA Latent Space World Model

WuJie Dynamics officially released the MWA Embodied General Brain, a latent space world model based on long-horizon bidirectional physical causal chains, and topped the RoboCasa GR1 TableTop leaderboard. The company recently completed a $200 million angel round.

Genesis AI Releases Eno: Robot Commercialization May Not Require a Humanoid Form

Genesis AI unveils Eno, a non-humanoid general-purpose robot with a foldable torso and advanced dexterous hands. The design prioritizes functional capability over human appearance, targeting industrial and laboratory applications first.

General Robotics Unveils AstraBrain-WBC 0.5: The GPT Moment for Humanoid Robot 'Cerebellum'

General Robotics launches AstraBrain-WBC 0.5, the world's first general-purpose cerebellum foundation model for humanoid robots. With 80.4 million parameters, it becomes the first in its field to reach the GPT-1 scale, addressing the trade-off between agility and generalization in motion control.

From Zhiyuan's 6-Day Factory Operations, Viewing the 'Deployment Phase' Turning Point of Embodied AI

Zhiyuan's Genie G2 robots completed over 11,000 tablet quality inspections with a 99.985% success rate in a transparent 6-day factory trial, marking the industry's shift from experimental 'development phase' to scalable 'deployment phase'.

Behind the Unitree Controversy: NVIDIA's New Compute Business

While Unitree faces regulatory scrutiny, NVIDIA is leveraging its Isaac GR00T reference design to build a 'CUDA-like' ecosystem for embodied AI, turning robot training into a sustainable compute business.

Li Auto's Livis Day: Moving Beyond Car Manufacturing to Define Embodied AI

At Livis Day, Li Auto unveiled its transition from a traditional automaker to an AI-driven company, showcasing new chips, embodied AI models, and concrete OTA milestones for 2026.

JiJia Vision Secures Another 1 Billion RMB in Funding: How World Models Are Entering Homes and Factories?

JiJia Vision has completed a 1 billion RMB B2 round of financing, bringing its total funding to 3.5 billion RMB in just three months. The company is leveraging its "Dual Pyramid" data and algorithm system to deploy embodied AI with world models in both C-end home scenarios and B-end industrial applications.

Robots Are Starting to 'Eat Data': From Indian Data Factories to the Hidden Supply Chain of Billion-Dollar Humanoid Robots

As Embodied AI companies face a critical data shortage, a new supply chain is emerging. This article explores how human demonstration data, particularly Ego Data from low-cost labor hubs like India, is becoming the key asset in training general-purpose humanoid robots.

Starting from Bottom-Up Instincts, Oakfruit Robotics Unveils 'Instinct-Driven' Technical Route

Oakfruit Robotics has released its 'instinct-driven' technical route for Embodied AI, adopting a bottom-up approach where robots acquire operational instincts at the foundational level and autonomously emerge with intelligent manipulation through interaction with the physical world.

Can VLA Models Finally Do Away with Post-Training? Self Variable's Open-Source WALL-OSS-0.5 Deploys Directly from Pre-training

Self Variable Robotics has open-sourced WALL-OSS-0.5, an Embodied AI foundation model that achieves strong zero-shot generalization on real robots directly after pre-training, challenging the industry norm that VLA models require post-training for deployment.