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Tactile Sensing, ICRA Keynotes and Plenary Videos, Humanoid Lite from Berkeley
Plus Brighter Signals, Enchanted Tools, Tangible Robots, Apptronik and Elevate Robotics, InBolt and Axiles Bionics
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Masayoshi Son planning massive AI robotics hub in the US
SF Deep Tech Week and open house robot playground coming up!
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Humanoids are the front line of the US/China tech war
Good insights from The Information... the summary and some pushback
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:sad face: We broke Hugging Face!
Global Lerobot Hackathon underway with multiple tracks and lots of prizes
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🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds in 2025
So far... Going forwards I'll update the list every month
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VLAs and the Robot Data Gap
Lerobot Hackathon, CASE, Hard Tech Venture Summit and SF Deep Tech Week
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The five things humanoid robots need to scale
Humanoids Summit, plus Pollen Robotics, Hugging Face etc.
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May 2025

ICRA, Humanoids Standards Study Group Report and OpenAI
OpenAI is already betting on some humanoid robot companies... now add Jony Ives
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Kinisi wins Automate Start-Up Challenge
Plus Space Robotics, ICRA, Humanoid Summit and China's incentives for humanoid robots
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DARPA Triage Challenge, Humanoid Safety Standard and the Physical Turing Test
Diligent Robotics celebrates 1,000,000 deliveries and Kiwibot becomes Robot.com
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Recognition for Hello Robot, HEBI Robotics and more Hugging Face hackathons
And is Alphabet quietly becoming the Berkshire Hathaway of Tech, AI and Robotics?
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April 2025

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