An OpenAI-backed humanoid robot startup says it's moving away from using humans to train its Optimus rival

Humanoid robot companies employ armies of human operators to train their machines by doing tasks like squatting and washing ...
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Alibaba leads $100 million investment in Chinese humanoid robot startup

Chinese humanoid startup X Square Robot announced Monday it has secured around $100 million in a funding round led by Alibaba Cloud. HongShan, formerly Sequoia Capital China, also participated in the ...
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EQT cuts deal for 10,000 humanoids from robot startup it backs

(Bloomberg) -- Private equity firm EQT AB plans to deploy 10,000 humanoid robots to its portfolio companies that are made by a startup it has invested in. 1X Technologies AS, a robotics developer from ...
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Humanoid robot startup Figure raises $1B+ at $39B valuation

Figure AI Inc. today announced that it raised a funding round worth more than $1 billion from a group of prominent investors. Parkway Venture Capital led the Series C deal. It was joined by Nvidia ...