ZeroGantry — Independent tracking of the robotics industry (Page 4)
Daily news plus a plain-English reference for walking robots, robot dogs, and factory arms — what they cost, what they can actually do, and who fixes them when they break. Coverage spans humanoids, VLA models, actuators, patents, manufacturer profiles, and repair. Articles cite primary sources; robot specs are reference-only — we do not sell hardware.
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Latest articles — page 4 of 4
12 articles on this page. Each article includes sources when available and links into Inventory, Reviews, or Patents when relevant.
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Agility Robotics $2.5B SPAC: Digit Humanoid AGLT IPO Fuels Deployments
— Agility Robotics merges with Churchill Capital XI in a $2.5B deal listing as AGLT, the first US pure-play humanoid public company. With $300M+ in Digit orders from Amazon, GXO, Toy
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Apptronik Apollo Lands $935M at $5.3B for Warehouse Scale
— Apptronik closed a $935 million Series A at a $5.3 billion valuation to accelerate Apollo humanoid production and commercial pilots. Backers including Google, Mercedes-Benz, and Jo
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Unitree $6B STAR IPO: First Pure Humanoid A-Share Fleet Play
— Unitree Robotics cleared its Shanghai STAR Market IPO in a record 73 days, targeting ¥4.2B raise at ~$6B+ valuation. The filing reveals 2025 shipments exceeding 5,500 humanoids dri
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Skild AI's $1.4B Skild Brain: Omni-Bodied VLA Foundation Model
— Skild AI closed a $1.4 billion Series C at over $14 billion valuation, led by SoftBank with NVIDIA's NVentures and Bezos Expeditions participating. The funding accelerates developm
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Robotera Lands $200M+ for China Post Logistics Humanoids
— Beijing-based Robotera closed a $200M+ round led by SF Group to scale humanoid deployments in parcel sorting and industrial logistics. The M7 platform is already processing 1,200 p
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MIT PolyTouch: Multi-Modal Tactile Arrays Drive 2025 Diffusion Policies
— arXiv:2504.19341 details MIT CSAIL's PolyTouch finger integrating camera-based tactile, acoustic, and peripheral vision sensing for robust contact-rich manipulation. The design ach
- OpenVLA 7B Advances Zero-Shot VLA Control Over RT-2 — OpenVLA's 7B-parameter Transformer delivers superior zero-shot generalization on LIBERO benchmarks compared to RT-2-X while enabling high-frequency neural feedback in dexterous man
- Tesla Optimus Gen 3 Hand Patents Expose Forearm Actuator Bottlenecks — April 2026 international patents detail Tesla Optimus Gen 3's 25 linear actuators per forearm driving a 22-DoF tendon hand, shifting from Gen 2's 11 DoF. Boston Dynamics' January 2
- SimTac & DexSkin: Biomorphic Tactile Arrays and Hybrid MPC for Sim-to-Real — November 2025 arXiv paper SimTac (Zhang et al., King’s College London/BIT) introduces a physics-based MPM simulator for vision-based biomorphic tactile sensors supporting finger, t
- Figure 02 at BMW Spartanburg: 30,000+ Vehicles, 1,250 Runtime Hours — Figure AI's Figure 02 humanoid completed an 11-month production pilot at BMW Spartanburg, handling 90,000+ sheet metal parts and contributing to over 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles on 10-h
- Pi0.7 and Helix: VLA Transformers Advance Zero-Shot Dexterous Manipulation — Physical Intelligence's π₀.7 (April 2026) and Figure AI's Helix (February 2025) represent state-of-the-art Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, achieving open-world generalization
- CubeMars AK80 Concentric Actuators and Georgia Tech STL-Guided MPC — CubeMars AK80 integrated concentric brushless actuators deliver up to 44.9 Nm/kg torque density with harmonic-compatible planetary gearing for humanoid and exoskeleton joints, whil