AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100
The AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series is a line of embedded x86 system-on-chip processors announced by AMD on 2026-07-23 at the company's Advancing AI 2026 conference in San Francisco, aimed at robotics…
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AgiBot A3
AgiBot A3, also marketed in China as Zhiyuan Expedition A3, is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot from AgiBot.
AgiBot World 2026
AgiBot World 2026 (styled AGIBOT WORLD 2026 by its publisher) is a real-world robot manipulation dataset released in stages during 2026 by the Chinese robotics company AgiBot.
Behavioral Cloning
Behavioral cloning is the approach to imitation learning that reduces control to a supervised learning problem.
Bionic hand
A bionic hand is a powered artificial hand, usually controlled by the electrical signals of the wearer's own muscles, that restores grasping function to a person who has lost a hand or was born without one.
Cognitive robotics
Cognitive robotics is the subfield of robotics and artificial intelligence concerned with endowing robots with higher-level cognitive capabilities: perception, attention, memory, reasoning, knowledge…
Config (company)
Config (legally Config Intelligence) is a robotics data startup that builds the data layer for robot foundation models, positioning itself as a neutral data supplier rather than a robot maker.
Cost of transport
Cost of transport (COT), also called specific cost of transport, specific resistance, or the dimensionless cost of transport, is the standard measure of how much energy a moving body spends to travel.
Dexterous hand
A dexterous hand (also called a dexterous robotic hand or multi-fingered robot hand) is an anthropomorphic end effector that reproduces the grasping, in-hand manipulation, and tactile perception of the human…
Droidlet
Droidlet is an open-source platform from Facebook AI Research (now Meta AI) for building embodied AI agents.
Dyna Robotics
Dyna Robotics (styled DYNA Robotics in its own materials) is an American embodied-AI and robotics startup, founded in 2024 and based in Redwood City, California, that builds robot foundation models for…
Dyna-2.1
Dyna-2.1 (styled DYNA 2.1 in the company's press release) is a robot system announced by Dyna Robotics on 29 September 2026.
Field AI
Field AI (also written FieldAI) is an American robotics software company based in Irvine, California, that develops foundation models specifically designed for autonomous robots operating in outdoor and…
Galbot ET1
Galbot ET1 is a bipedal humanoid robot introduced by the Chinese robotics company Galbot at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing.
Gemini Robotics 2
Gemini Robotics 2 is a family of three robotics models announced by Google DeepMind on July 30, 2026: a vision-language-action (VLA) model of the same name, an embodied reasoning model called Gemini Robotics…
Generalist AI
Generalist AI (branded Generalist, legally Generalist AI, Inc.) is an American artificial intelligence company building general-purpose foundation models for robots and other physical systems.
Generalist GEN-1
GEN-1 is an embodied robot foundation model and control system developed by Generalist AI.
Generalist GEN-1.5
Generalist GEN-1.5 is a proprietary robot foundation model announced by Generalist AI on August 19, 2026.
Genesis AI (company)
Genesis AI is a robotics startup building a universal robot foundation model and a high-fidelity physics-simulation engine to train it.
Helix (Figure AI)
Helix is a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for generalist humanoid control, developed in-house by Figure AI, the Sunnyvale, California humanoid-robot company founded by Brett Adcock.
Helix (VLA model)
Helix is a vision-language-action model (VLA) developed by Figure AI that controls humanoid robots by mapping camera images and natural language commands directly to continuous control.
Index (Figure AI)
Index is a proprietary data-collection program and mobile application operated by Figure AI.
Large Behavior Model
A Large Behavior Model (LBM) is a single neural network for robotics that is pretrained on large, diverse datasets of robot demonstrations and outputs robot actions
LeRobot
LeRobot is an open-source, PyTorch-native library for end-to-end real-world robot learning developed by Hugging Face and a global community of contributors, often described as the "Transformers for robotics"…
Light-O1
Light-O1 is a whole-body foundation model for humanoid robots developed by Light Origins (Chinese: 亮源新创), an embodied AI company with teams in Beijing, Shenzhen and Singapore.
Lumo-2
Lumo-2 is a 4B-scale robot-learning model developed by Astribot. Astribot describes it as a latent world-action model: instead of rendering a future video before acting, it predicts an action-relevant…
Matic
Matic is a camera-based robot vacuum and mop made by Matic Robots, Inc., a robotics company in Mountain View, California.
Mimic Robotics
Mimic Robotics is a Swiss robotics company that develops dexterous robot hands, human demonstration equipment, control software, and learned manipulation policies for industrial work.
MimicGen
MimicGen is a data generation system developed by researchers at NVIDIA's Seattle Robotics Lab and Learning and Perception Research group that automatically produces large-scale robot manipulation datasets…
Mobile ALOHA
Mobile ALOHA is an open-source, low-cost system for collecting bimanual mobile manipulation data and learning household tasks from it, developed at Stanford University by Zipeng Fu, Tony Z. Zhao
NVIDIA COMPASS
NVIDIA COMPASS is a framework and trained model for cross-embodiment robot navigation. Its name expands to Cross-Embodiment Mobility Policy via Residual RL and Skill Synthesis.
NVIDIA Cosmos
NVIDIA Cosmos is a world foundation model platform developed by NVIDIA for physical AI applications, including autonomous vehicles and robotics.
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7 is a 3-billion-parameter, cross-embodiment vision-language-action model developed by NVIDIA for humanoid and manipulation robots.
NVIDIA Newton
Newton is an open-source, GPU-accelerated physics engine built for robotics simulation and robot learning, co-developed by NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and Disney Research and stewarded by the Linux Foundation.
NexArm
NexArm is a desktop robotic arm sold by Hiwonder, a Shenzhen-based maker of educational robotics kits, for imitation-learning, teleoperation and embodied-AI coursework.
OM-1 (Omnibody Model 1)
OM-1, short for Omnibody Model 1, is a general-purpose robot manipulation policy announced by Reward AI on 14 September 2026 .
Octo (Robot Policy)
Octo is an open-source generalist robot policy for manipulation. It uses a transformer and a diffusion action decoder to turn camera observations and a task description into robot actions.
Odyssey-3
Odyssey-3 is a foundation world model announced on September 15, 2026 by Odyssey, an AI lab founded in 2023 by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke.
OpenAI Robotics
OpenAI Robotics is the robotics research and hardware group at OpenAI. OpenAI has worked on robots in two separate periods.
OpenArm
OpenArm is an open-source, seven-degree-of-freedom humanoid robot arm developed by Enactic, Inc., a Tokyo robotics company.
Physical AI
Physical AI is a contested umbrella term for artificial intelligence systems whose decisions are coupled to sensing and action in the physical world.
Physical Intelligence
Physical Intelligence (also known as Pi or π) is an American artificial intelligence robotics company that builds general-purpose foundation models and learning algorithms designed to control any robot for any…
RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model)
RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1) is an 8 billion parameter multimodal transformer for robotic manipulation announced by Covariant on March 11, 2024 at the MODEX 2024 trade show in Atlanta.
Reward AI
Reward AI is a robotics company that builds general-purpose manipulation policies meant to run on many different robot bodies . The company gives its location as the Bay Area, California, on its X account .
RoboCasa
RoboCasa is a large-scale simulation framework for training generalist robots to perform everyday household tasks.
RoboCat
RoboCat is a self-improving foundation agent for robotic manipulation developed by Google DeepMind.
Robostral Navigate
Robostral Navigate is an 8-billion-parameter vision language model developed by Mistral AI for instruction-following robot navigation.
Robot form factor
Robot form factor is the physical shape and mobility architecture of a robot: whether it moves on wheels, tracks, legs, or a hybrid of these; how many limbs and joints it carries
Robot skin
Robot skin is the outer covering of a robot: the layer, or set of layers, applied to the outside of a machine for appearance, protection, safety, hygiene, and, increasingly, touch sensing.
RobotEra L7
The RobotEra L7 (Chinese: 星动 L7, Xingdong L7) is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot developed by Beijing-based RobotEra (星动纪元), a Tsinghua University spin-off founded in August 2023.
Robotics and AI Institute
The Robotics and AI Institute (RAI Institute) is a robotics and artificial intelligence research organization headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a second office in Zurich, Switzerland.
SO-101
The SO-101 (Standard Open Arm 101) is a low-cost, open-source, 3D-printable robot arm designed by The Robot Studio in collaboration with Hugging Face and published in the TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100 repository…
Shenzhen Robot Valley
Shenzhen Robot Valley (Chinese: 机器人谷) is a robotics industry cluster in the Nanshan District of Shenzhen, China, concentrated along a roughly 10-kilometer corridor of Liuxian Avenue in the narrow valley…
Simulation (in AI and robotics)
Simulation in artificial intelligence and robotics is the use of computational physics, rendering, and procedural environments to recreate a synthetic version of a physical or virtual world inside which AI…
Skild AI
Skild AI is a robotics artificial intelligence company building a general-purpose foundation model for physical embodiments
SmolVLA
SmolVLA (Small Vision-Language-Action) is a compact, open-source vision-language-action model (VLA) for robotics developed by Hugging Face and released in June 2025.
T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation
T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation is a 2026 robot learning research system for contact-rich, bimanual manipulation.
Tactile sensing
Tactile sensing is the technology that gives robots a sense of touch: the ability to measure the physical contact between a robot and the world, including contact force, pressure distribution, shear, slip…
Teleoperation
Teleoperation is the operation of a machine by a human at a distance, with commands carried over a communication link and the machine's cameras, microphones and force sensors standing in for the operator's own…
Toyota Research Institute
The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is the United States-based research and development subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, founded in 2015 with an initial commitment of about $1 billion over five years to…