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Sep 30, 2026

ROBOTNESS Daily Brief

Top news

  1. 1Figure raises $1B Series C to scale humanoid production
  2. 2Boston Dynamics starts first paid Atlas shift at Hyundai Metaplant
  3. 3Physical Intelligence releases π0.5 with open-world home generalization
  4. 4Korea launches K-Humanoid Alliance with ₩1T public-private fund
  5. 5Tesla shows Optimus Gen 3 hand with 22 DOF and forearm-mounted actuators

Funding & deals

  1. 1Figure raises $1B Series C to scale humanoid production
  2. 2Demo Acquirer Corp to buy tactile-sensor startup for $90M
  3. 3Singapore AMR startup Hyperbot closes $8M seed led by Temasek

Research

  1. 1Massively Parallel Sim-to-Real for Humanoid Locomotion
  2. 2π0.5: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization
  3. 3Tactile Sensing for Dexterous Robot Hands: A Survey
  4. 4A Dual-System Vision-Language-Action Architecture for Whole-Upper-Body Humanoid Control
  5. 5Learning World Models from Egocentric Video for Home Robots

Companies in focus

  1. 1Hyundai Motor Group · 2 stories
  2. 2Tesla · 2 stories
  3. 3Agility Robotics · 1 stories
  4. 4Boston Dynamics · 1 stories
  5. 5Doosan Robotics · 1 stories

Market & policy signals

  1. 1Korea launches K-Humanoid Alliance with ₩1T public-private fund

What to watch tomorrow

  1. 1Confirmation pending: Skild AI and NVIDIA announce joint humanoid brain reference stack
  2. 2Confirmation pending: GXO expands Digit fleet to third US warehouse
  3. 3Confirmation pending: Demo Acquirer Corp to buy tactile-sensor startup for $90M