Physical AI moves closer to factory floors as companies test humanoid robots

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — RLWRLD, a physical AI company developing robotics foundation models for dexterous manipulation, unveiled RLDX-1 at “Dexterity Night in SF,” introducing a model designed to help humanoid robots perform contact-rich tasks such as grasping, pouring and tool use. The company also reported benchmark results across humanoid tabletop, kitchen manipulation and real-world […]

Insider Brief UK robotics startup Humanoid has announced a deployment and supply agreement with Schaeffler to bring humanoid robots into live manufacturing operations. According to Humanoid, the agreement calls for phased deployment of Humanoid’s wheeled humanoid robots across Schaeffler facilities, with the first systems expected to begin operating at plants in Germany before the end […]

The post What wealthy donors gain if ‘Trump Accounts’ allow stock donations appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. President Donald Trump onstage at the Treasury Department’s Trump Accounts Summit, in Washington, Jan. 28, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. With the Trump administration weighing whether to allow stock donations to “Trump Accounts” for American children, the potential expansion is raising questions about the legal path — and highlighting the powerful tax benefits — to doing so. “We all want to maximize more multi-billion gifts into kids accts & the gifts may be cash / shares!” wrote Brad Gerstner, the hedge fund manager who pioneered the investment accounts, in a post on X last week after the New York Times first reported the discussions. The move would mean a notab

The post Humanoid’s 1,000+ Robot Deal with Schaeffler Hints At 100,000 Units By 2031 appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Over 1,000 humanoid robots by Humanoid, a UK company, will now be working for Schaeffler, the German automotive and industrial supplier. Humanoid Two-year-old British startup Humanoid has signed a deal to integrate “a four-digit number of humanoid robots into live manufacturing operations” at German industrial giant Schaeffler’s factories starting later this year. The bigger news, however, might be that Humanoid has committed to buying a “seven-digit number of actuators” from Schaeffler over the term of the agreement, suggesting that Humanoid intends to ship a staggering 100,000 humanoid robots across all of its clients over the next five years. Four months ago, Schaeffler and a two-year-old British startup called Humanoid announced they’d put “several hundred” humanoid robots into the German industrial giant’s factories over the next five to six years. Something mu

The post ECB to hike interest rates in June – Reuters poll appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. According to a Reuters poll, the European Central Bank (ECB) will hike the deposit rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 2.25% in June, said 59 of 70 economists (vs 44 of 85 in April survey). The poll also showed the ECB to hike the deposit rate at least twice in 2026, said 37 of 70 economists (vs. 34 of 85 in April poll). ECB FAQs The European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany, is the reserve bank for the Eurozone. The ECB sets interest rates and manages monetary policy for the region. The ECB primary mandate is to maintain price stability, which means keeping inflation at around 2%. Its primary tool for achieving this is by raising or lowering interest rates. Relatively high interest rates will usually result in a stronger Euro and vice versa. The ECB Governing Council makes monetary policy decisions at meetings held eight times a year. Decisions are made by heads of the Eurozone nationa

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE —Hello Robot, the team behind the Stretch mobile manipulation platform, today announced the release of Stretch 4. Available now for $29,950, Stretch 4 is an open-source robotics platform designed for researchers, developers, and application engineers building the next wave of Physical AI applications for general purpose robotics. Designing Stretch 4 to […]

Humanoid robots are crossing the gap from lab demos to real warehouses, kitchens, and factory floors — but most teams discover the hard part isn’t the model. It’s the data behind it. Foundation models can recognize a cup; deploying a humanoid that picks one up, hands it to an elderly person, and adapts when the […]

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE  — Nomagic, a leading robotics company applying advanced Physical AI to warehouse automation, announced a partnership expansion with Swiss online retailer, Brack.Alltron, to include Vision-Language-Action (VLA) systems in live warehouse operations, highlighting the growing need for this industry-transforming innovation. Brack, the second-largest e-commerce platform in Switzerland, has been increasingly adopting Nomagic’s robotic solutions […]