Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.

Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six.