Today's Highlights
· Hyundai Motor completes full acquisition of Boston Dynamics (SoftBank exits at ~$325 million); production-version Atlas is scheduled to enter Hyundai's U.S. factory in 2028, with planned annual capacity of 30,000 units.
· DaxAI Robotics (Chinese embodied-AI startup) closes 4 funding rounds in its first year, with Jiangsha Capital (Chinese early-stage VC) leading the Pre-A; the company reports half-year orders exceeding 300 million yuan and is pushing deployment of thousands of units, with Zhu Xiaohu (prominent Chinese VC) among backers in the "productivity" embodied-AI space.
· HKU's World Engine brings autonomous driving into the "post-training" era: reinforcement learning inside a reconstructed closed-loop simulation world reduces collision rate by ~45.5% and achieves 200 km without takeover (simulation metric).
· Video world models address gaps in "spatial" and "memory" capabilities: CameraSquad (SIGGRAPH 2026) generates multi-view consistent video in a single parallel pass; Tencent × Tsinghua release open-source memory evaluation benchmark MBench.
