Neura Robotics is going to build new robots on top of Qualcomm’s new IQ10 processors that were released at CES.
China’s push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S. competitors in a still-nascent market.
Skild AI, which is building general-purpose robotic software, just raised a $1.4 billion funding round led by SoftBank.
1X released a new world model that it says is a solid step toward its robots being able to teach themselves new tasks.

Usually, I start off these annual highlights posts by saying that it was the best year ever for robotics. But this year, I’m not so sure. At the end of 2024, it really seemed like AI and humanoid robots were poised to make a transformative amount of p…