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Austin, Texas, having relocated from Palo Alto, California
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How this brand positions its humanoid systems.
Build reliable robots that deliver measurable value in real-world environments.
Cutting-edge Electric Vehicle Technology
Tesla develops high-performance electric vehicles featuring advanced battery systems, autonomous driving capabilities, and over-the-air software updates.
Integrated Renewable Energy Solutions
With products like Powerwall and solar roofs, Tesla provides energy storage and generation solutions for residential and commercial use.
Focus on Sustainable Manufacturing
Tesla operates gigafactories designed for sustainable, high-volume production while minimizing environmental impact and maximizing efficiency.
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Tesla Bot
Tesla Bot (Optimus) is a humanoid biped robot Tesla is developing to perform repetitive or unsafe tasks in human environments.
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Affordable humanoid robot R1 launched by Unitree
With all those joints and a relatively low weight, this humanoid is plenty flexible. You can see what appears to be a video of its athletic capabilities below (it looks actual footage, but I just can't be sure... We've contacted Unitree to ask, and will update this piece if and when they get back to us). Unitree Introducing | Unitree R1 Intelligent Companion Price from $5900 Join us to develop/customize, ultra-lightweight at approximately 25kg, integrated with a Large Multimodal Model for voice and images, let's accelerate the advent of the agent era!🥰 pic.twitter.com/Q5pmkfFZZa— Unitree (@UnitreeRobotics) July 25, 2025 Unitree's R1 robot offers affordable humanoid robotics for research and education, priced at just $5,900 with flexible features. With all those joints and a relatively low weight, this humanoid is plenty flexible. You can see what appears to be a video of its athletic capabilities below (it looks actual footage, but I just can't be sure... We've contacted Unitree to ask, and will update this piece if and when they get back to us). Unitree Introducing | Unitree R1 Intelligent Companion Price from $5900 Join us to develop/customize, ultra-lightweight at approximately 25kg, integrated with a Large Multimodal Model for voice and images, let's accelerate the advent of the agent era!🥰 pic.twitter.com/Q5pmkfFZZa— Unitree (@UnitreeRobotics) July 25, 2025 While the movements above are indeed impressive, it's worth noting the R1 is missing a couple of key things – notably, hands. Unlike Unitree's more advanced humanoids, the R1 doesn't have dexterous mitts that can grip and manipulate objects. For reference, Unitree's general-purpose H1 robot that can climb stairs and do backflips costs $90,000, while the lower-end G1 comes in at $16,000. Tesla's hotly anticipated Optimus is expected to land somewhere between $20,000 - $30,000. So what's remarkable here is that in this early adoption phase, the price of a humanoid robot has dropped significantly with the R1, well before a path to mainstream adoption has been established.
Watch: Sneaker-wearing humanoid beats barefoot bot on Gobi fun run
The latest footage was shot late last month and features the company's new flagship humanoid robot, Star1. Well two of them actually, racing against each other on rocky routes, grassy vistas and winding roads along parts of the Gobi Desert. The latest footage was shot late last month and features the company's new flagship humanoid robot, Star1. Well two of them actually, racing against each other on rocky routes, grassy vistas and winding roads along parts of the Gobi Desert. And the rush is on to tap into what's expected to be a very lucrative market, with the Star1 just the latest in an increasingly long line of hopefuls from the likes of Tesla, Figure, Unitree and Fourier – to name a few. "The Star1 integrates AI and large language model technologies," said Robot Era in a press statement. "Trained on an end-to-end neural network, the STAR 1 quickly learns new skills and adapts to various tasks. Robot Era's flagship Star1 humanoids cross trail, grassland and road for a Gobi Desert run that tests barefoot against sneaker
Nvidia debuts Groot N1, a foundation model for humanoid robotics | TechCrunch
Nvidia is releasing what it’s calling an AI foundation model for humanoid robotics. [Announced at GTC 2025 in San Jose](https://techcrunch.com/storyline/nvidia-gtc-2025-live-updates-blackwell-ultra-next-gen-rubin-chip-architecture-and-much-more/), the model, dubbed Groot N1, is a “generalist” model, trained on both synthetic and real data. In a video introducing Groot N1, Nvidia says it features a “dual-system architecture” for “thinking fast and slow,” inspired by human cognitive processes. Groot N1 is an evolution of Nvidia’s Project Groot, which the company launched at its GTC conference last year. Project Groot was geared toward industrial use cases, but Groot N1 broadens the focus to humanoid robots in a range of different form factors. Groot N1’s slow-thinking system lets a robot perceive and reason about its environment and instructions, and then plan the right actions to take, according to Nvidia. As for the fast-thinking system, it translates the aforementioned plan into robotic actions, including actions that involve manipulating objects over multiple steps. Groot N1 is available in open source. Alongside the model, Nvidia is releasing simulation frameworks and blueprints for generating synthetic training data. “The age of generalist robotics is here,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement. “The age of generalist robotics is here,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement. Humanoid robots have attracted a lot of publicity in recent years. Companies like [X1](https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/11/openai-backed-1x-raises-another-100m-for-the-race-to-humanoid-robots/)and[Figure](https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/figure-rides-the-humanoid-robot-hype-wave-to-2-6b-valuation-and-openai-collab/) are attempting to create general-purpose robots that move more or less like humans. The challenges are formidable, but these companies claim that technology has reached the point where mass-produced humanoid robotic systems are a realistic near-term goal. ### Meet your next investor or portfolio startup at Disrupt #### Your next round. Your next hire. Your next breakout opportunity. Find it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, where 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders gather for three days of 250+ tactical sessions, powerful introductions, and market-defining innovation. Register now to save up to $410. [The](https://www.mhlnews.com/technology-automation/article/21280268/humanoid-robots-alone-wont-solve-the-warehouse-labor-crisis)[many](https://www.postsintheshell.com/p/the-false-promise-of-the-humanoid)[disappointments](https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/14/tesla-optimus-bots-were-controlled-by-humans-during-the-we-robot-event/)in recent robotics history suggest that will be easier said than achieved.
Norway's 1X is building a humanoid robot for the home | TechCrunch
Norwegian robotics firm 1X unveiled its latest home robot, Neo Gamma, on Friday. The humanoid system will succeed Neo Beta, which [debuted in August](https://www.1x.tech/discover/announcement-1x-unveils-neo-beta-a-humanoid-robot-for-the-home). Like its predecessors, the Neo Gamma is a prototype designed for testing in the home environment. Images of the robot show it performing a number of household tasks like making coffee, doing the laundry, and vacuuming. 1X says the bipedal robot is set to step outside the lab, with limited in-home testing, though the company is quick to add that the Gamma is a long way from commercial scaling and deployment.
Hugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startup | TechCrunch
AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount...
AI & Humanoid Robots
# AI and Humanoids ## Artificial Intelligence may prove to be a more significant milestone than the harnessing of fire, or the invention of the wheel. It's the fastest-evolving technology the world has ever seen, with the potential to completely upend white-collar jobs through language models and software agents – as well as blue-collar jobs through a rising generation of intelligent humanoid robots. It's the first invention that threatens to be superior to humans in nearly every conceivable way, perhaps sooner than we thought. Top News - EngineAI's T800 humanoid robot, backed by 1-billion yuan in funding, boasts acrobatic combat skills, human-like agility, modular batteries, and advanced AI. Mass production begins in 2026, aiming to revolutionize industrial applications worldwide. - Researchers from Swiss university EPFL have removed the AI middle-man. There's reportedly no need to access Big Data centers, as their new downloadable Anyway Systems software can handle your AI processing needs locally. - How are you using new AI technology? Surely you're only deploying things like ChatGPT to summarize long texts or draft up mindless emails. But what are you losing by taking these shortcuts? And is this tech taking away our ability to think? Load More Latest News - March 14, 2026 |[Michael Franco](https://newatlas.com/author/michael-franco/)Texas Instruments has teamed up with NVIDIA to link technologies designed to "accelerate the path from simulation to the safe deployment of humanoid robots in the real world." The partnership fuses real-world sensing tech with massive computing power. - March 07, 2026 |[Michael Franco](https://newatlas.com/author/michael-franco/)BMW is expanding its investigation of humanoid robotic workers at its factories. The automaker has just announced that it will trial a set of physical AI bots made by Hexagon for the first time at one of its European plants. - February 08, 2026 |[Chelsea Haney](https://refractor.io/team/chelsea-haney/)Researchers have developed an electronic skin that allows humanoid robots to distinguish everyday touch from damaging force. That ability, once reserved for living nervous systems, could reshape how robots interact with the physical world and with humans. - February 07, 2026 |[Abhimanyu Ghoshal](https://newatlas.com/author/abhimanyu-ghoshal/)Terrestrial data centers are so 2025. We're taking our large-scale compute infrastructure into orbit, baby! Or at least, that's what Big Tech is yelling from the rooftops at the moment. It's quite a bonkers idea, so let's unpack what it's all about. - February 04, 2026 |[Bronwyn Thompson](https://newatlas.com/author/bronwyn-thompson/)Shanghai robotics startup DroidUp has launched what it calls "a beautifully designed and expressive bionic robot" that is touted as "the world's first highly bionic robot that deeply integrates human aesthetics and advanced humanoid movement." - January 30, 2026 |[Abhimanyu Ghoshal](https://newatlas.com/author/abhimanyu-ghoshal/)Google's just begun opening up access to an AI model I can actually get behind. This one lets you generate a virtual world of any kind and travel through it with a vehicle or character like in a video game – all with a simple text prompt. - January 29, 2026 |[Bronwyn Thompson](https://newatlas.com/author/bronwyn-thompson/)AI has passed a new benchmark, scoring better than the average human on a recognized creativity test involving 100,000 people. But there's more to the story than the results, underpinning how difficult it is to put "creativity" in a measurable box. - January 29, 2026 |[Abhimanyu Ghoshal](https://newatlas.com/author/abhimanyu-ghoshal/)Tesla just wrapped up its earnings call for the 2025 fiscal year, in which it recorded that its year-on-year profits dropped by nearly half. Its next plan: take over the world with humanoid robots that do household chores and help factory workers.
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