Hey, you've gotta check out this Forbes article I just read! It's all about humanoid robots, and it gives the lowdown from a guy named Andrew Kang, who runs a Nasdaq fund that only invests in robot companies before they go public. So, basically, he's the expert on who's actually going to make it big. He says there are over a hundred humanoid robot companies in the US, but when you ask him which ones are truly going to deliver, his list is super short: Tesla Optimus, Figure AI, and Apptronik.

Ever wondered which robot companies are actually on the fast track to success? Andrew Kang, who literally runs a Nasdaq-listed fund dedicated to owning robot companies before they go public, has a surprisingly short list for American humanoid robot startups: Tesla Optimus, Figure AI, and Apptronik. Out of 112 companies in the US humanoid space, only these three truly stand out to him.

Идеята за универсален „мозък“ за роботи вече не е само изследователска цел. Google DeepMind се опитва да създаде интелект, който запазва уменията при преминаване между различни корпуси, ръце и задвижвания. В Gemini Robotics 2 компанията вече използва един и същ контролен отпечатък на AI модела за няколко робота, а локалната версия се адаптира към новото тяло за няколко часа. Google DeepMind представи Gemini Robotics 2 в края на юли. Системата управлява цялото тяло на хуманоида Apptronik Apollo 2, включително краката, корпуса, ръцете и пръстите, а същият контролен шаблон работи на две конфигурации на Apollo и на двуръката платформа Franka Duo.

On Humanoid Robotics as the Deployment Substrate for Navigational Cybernetics 2.5. Every major humanoid robotics program — Tesla Optimus, Figure, Boston Dynamics Atlas, Apptronik Apollo, 1X NEO, Unitr...

Google's Gemini Robotics ER 2 adds a shared reasoning layer above individual robot controllers. The model can process continuous video, plan multi-step physical tasks, track progress, call robotics APIs or VLA models and coordinate different robot bodies inside one workflow. Google demonstrates the architecture across platforms including Boston Dynamics Spot, Apptronik Apollo 2 and Franka's dual-arm hardware. The result is a robotics stack where planning can belong to the workflow while each machine keeps its own body-specific execution system.

RoboStrategy (Nasdaq: BOT), a registered closed-end fund focused on private robotics and physical AI companies, has released its first shareholder letter on its website. The letter covers the fund’s public listing, portfolio highlights, recent hiring, and views on the evolving robotics and physical AI markets.RoboStrategy seeks to give public investors access to high-conviction equity positions in what it describes as category-defining innovators such as Figure AI, Apptronik, Dyna Robotics, Dexmate, and other autonomous systems and supply-chain pioneers. According to the company, the fund is designed to connect public markets with private innovation in technologies reshaping labor, productivity, and human–machine interaction.

How a UT Austin business grad turned a university lab project into a $5 billion humanoid robotics company.

Google DeepMind released a series of videos demonstrating Gemini Robotics 2 utilizing the Apptronik Apollo 2 Humanoid Robot working alongside the Franka F3 Duo Dual-Arm System robot, and it looks…

中国人形机器人市场的领军企业宇树科技进行首次公开募股。人形机器人被广泛视为下一个重大技术突破，但短期内是否会出现大规模的商业市场仍存在极大的不确定性。

Catedrático de Ingeniería Aeroespacial en la Universidad de Texas y fundador de la empresa Apptronik desarrolló una teoría que ha sido clave para la robótica humanoide en todo el mundo.

Catedrático de Ingeniería Aeroespacial en la Universidad de Texas y fundador de la empresa Apptronik desarrolló una teoría que ha sido clave para la robótica humanoide en todo el mundo.

Google DeepMind demonstrated Gemini Robotics 2 performing household chores with the Apptronik Apollo 2 and Franka F3 Duo robots.