# robotics insights Rangoon Insights reporting and guides tagged robotics. Canonical: https://rangoon.ai/insights/tags/robotics/ ## Topics - [Agent systems](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/agents/): Agent runtimes, handoffs, tools, and the boundaries that make them reviewable. - [Governance](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/governance/): Policy, identity, authorization, approvals, and evidence for consequential work. - [Infrastructure](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/infrastructure/): Model serving, sandboxes, tool services, and deployment boundaries. - [Models](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/models/): Inference choices, local serving, compatibility, and operational tradeoffs. ## Stories - [BMW opened a Figure 03 sequencing project in Spartanburg after its earlier Figure 02 deployment](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-bmw-figure-03-sequencing-project-june-2026/) BMW announced on June 25, 2026 that Figure 03 would start a logistics sequencing use case at Plant Spartanburg, while Figure later reported its arrival in Hall 52. - [Hyundai Mobis publicly detailed an Atlas actuator-supply framework after CES](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-hyundai-mobis-boston-dynamics-atlas-actuators-january-2026/) Hyundai Mobis published a January 8, 2026 account of a CES framework with Boston Dynamics to supply Atlas actuators when the humanoid enters mass production. - [Boston Dynamics unveiled Atlas as a product at CES, with manufacturing underway and future deployments scheduled](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-boston-dynamics-atlas-product-ces-january-2026/) Boston Dynamics unveiled the product version of Atlas on January 5, 2026, saying manufacturing had begun and 2026 fleet deployments were scheduled for Hyundai and Google DeepMind. - [Mercado Libre and Agility announced a Digit agreement beginning with a Texas fulfillment facility](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-agility-mercado-libre-digit-agreement-december-2025/) Mercado Libre and Agility announced a December 10, 2025 agreement to integrate Digit into a San Antonio fulfillment facility, with additional use cases still exploratory. - [Figure reported an 11-month F.02 BMW deployment with site-specific production measures](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-figure-bmw-f02-deployment-november-2025/) Figure reported on November 19, 2025 that its F.02 humanoid had completed an 11-month BMW Spartanburg deployment, with task and runtime measures tied to that site. - [Physical Intelligence’s π*0.6 used deployment experience and corrections as VLA training inputs](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-physical-intelligence-pistar06-recap-november-2025/) Physical Intelligence introduced π*0.6 and its RECAP method on November 17, 2025, combining demonstrations, autonomous rollouts and expert corrections for robot-policy training. - [DeepMind’s SIMA 2 research preview used Gemini to plan and learn in virtual 3D worlds](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-google-deepmind-sima-2-november-2025/) Google DeepMind introduced SIMA 2 on November 13, 2025, a limited research-preview agent that used Gemini reasoning in interactive 3D virtual worlds. - [LeRobot v0.4 joined scalable datasets, plug-ins and simulation without merging their evidence](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-hugging-face-lerobot-v040-october-2025/) Hugging Face released LeRobot v0.4.0 on October 24, 2025, packaging dataset v3, robot plug-ins, simulation support and selected vision-language-action policies. - [Gemini Robotics 1.5 joined robot motor control with a separate embodied-reasoning model](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-google-gemini-robotics-1-5-september-2025/) Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 1.5 on September 25, 2025, pairing a vision-language-action model with embodied reasoning for multi-step robot tasks. - [LeRobotDataset v3 changed robot-data scale through chunked episodes and streaming](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-hugging-face-lerobot-dataset-v3-september-2025/) Hugging Face released LeRobotDataset v3.0 on September 16, 2025, combining multi-episode files, relational metadata and streaming for larger robot-learning collections. - [Skild presented vision-based locomotion as a specific result within its broader omni-bodied robot-model program](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-skild-vision-locomotion-august-2025/) Skild AI published its vision-based locomotion result on August 6, 2025, describing end-to-end control from visual input while framing it within its Skild Brain research program. - [Figure described its F.03 battery design and certification path for a future humanoid platform](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-figure-f03-battery-development-july-2025/) Figure described F.03 battery development on July 17, 2025, including a 2.3 kWh pack and a certification process, while separating targets from completed certification. - [Hugging Face and Pollen introduced Reachy Mini as an open desktop robot with an SDK and simulation path](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-hugging-face-reachy-mini-july-2025/) Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics introduced Reachy Mini on July 9, 2025 as an open-source desktop robot for AI experimentation, with a public SDK and simulator. - [Amazon introduced DeepFleet to coordinate mobile robots, then documented four model design paths](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-amazon-deepfleet-robot-coordination-june-2025/) Amazon announced DeepFleet on June 30, 2025 as a foundation model for coordinating its mobile robot fleet and stated a projected 10% travel-efficiency improvement. - [Apptronik created Elevate Robotics to pursue industrial automation beyond its Apollo humanoid](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-apptronik-elevate-robotics-june-2025/) Apptronik announced Elevate Robotics on June 24, 2025 as a wholly owned subsidiary for industrial automation outside the Apollo humanoid form factor. - [Google’s Gemini Robotics On-Device put a vision-language-action model on the robot](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-google-gemini-robotics-on-device-june-2025/) Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics On-Device on June 24, 2025, an on-robot vision-language-action model designed for dexterity and fast adaptation. - [Amazon introduced Vulcan as a touch-guided pick-and-stow system, then moved its pilot toward beta testing](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-amazon-vulcan-touch-robot-may-2025/) Amazon introduced Vulcan on May 7, 2025 as a fulfillment-center system that combines vision and force sensing for selected pick and stow work. - [Agility outlined Digit battery, safety and AMR-integration changes for commercial use](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-agility-digit-market-innovations-march-2025/) Agility Robotics announced Digit changes on March 31, 2025 spanning battery, stop functions, charging and AMR integration for its commercial humanoid program. - [Figure presented BotQ as a planned high-volume humanoid manufacturing facility](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-figure-botq-manufacturing-march-2025/) Figure presented BotQ on March 15, 2025 as a manufacturing facility and process plan for its humanoid robots, with a stated first-line capacity target. - [Apptronik and Jabil paired Apollo production with a manufacturing pilot and validation environment](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-apptronik-jabil-apollo-manufacturing-pilot-february-2025/) Apptronik and Jabil announced a February 25, 2025 pilot and strategic collaboration to build Apollo robots and test selected manufacturing work at Jabil. - [1X introduced NEO Gamma as a home-humanoid development platform with internal testing ahead](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-1x-neo-gamma-home-humanoid-february-2025/) 1X introduced NEO Gamma on February 21, 2025 as a new home-humanoid generation with hardware and AI changes, while describing internal home testing as its next step. - [Apptronik announced a $350 million Series A for Apollo development and planned scaling](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-apptronik-series-a-humanoid-scaling-february-2025/) Apptronik announced a $350 million Series A on February 13, 2025 to support Apollo development and planned manufacturing and deployment work, before a later financing update. - [Jetson Thor made edge-robotics compute a systems-integration question](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-nvidia-jetson-thor-general-availability-2025/) NVIDIA made Jetson AGX Thor developer kits and production modules generally available on August 25, 2025, pairing a Blackwell-based robotics computer with JetPack 7 software. - [SmolVLA put a 450M action policy and community robot data into an open package](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-hugging-face-smolvla-june-2025/) Hugging Face introduced SmolVLA on June 3, 2025: a 450M vision-language-action model using multi-view images, robot state, language, and continuous actions. - [Isaac GR00T N1.5 made synthetic-trajectory provenance part of robot learning](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-isaac-groot-n1-5-may-2025/) NVIDIA announced Isaac GR00T N1.5 on May 19, 2025, pairing a humanoid-model update with a blueprint for generating synthetic motion data. - [π0.5 tested a single VLA on home-cleaning tasks outside its training scenes](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-physical-intelligence-pi05-april-2025/) Physical Intelligence introduced π0.5 on April 22, 2025, using mixed robot and multimodal data to test long-horizon cleaning in new homes. - [Isaac GR00T N1 made humanoid action generation a deployment-boundary question](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-isaac-groot-n1-humanoid-2025/) NVIDIA introduced Isaac GR00T N1 on March 18, 2025 as an open humanoid-robot foundation model with a reported dual-system architecture. - [Gemini Robotics made the controller boundary visible in physical AI](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-gemini-robotics-embodied-action/) Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics in March 2025 as a Gemini 2.0-based vision-language-action model, while retaining embodiment-specific low-level safety controls. - [Physical Intelligence’s π0 connected a vision-language backbone to continuous robot actions](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-physical-intelligence-pi0-october-2024/) Physical Intelligence introduced π0 on October 31, 2024, a generalist robot policy combining cross-embodiment data, language prompts, and flow-matched actions. ## More information - [Documentation index](https://rangoon.ai/llms.txt) - [AI access and policies](https://rangoon.ai/ai/) - [Source repository](https://github.com/hypler-dev/rangoon)