Japan Airlines, in partnership with GMO AI & Robotics, has begun testing humanoid robots for ground operations at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.

Nvidia’s AI research team has introduced DreamDojo, an open-source world model designed for robotics. The system takes motor control commands as input and generates simulated future states as images, without relying on a traditional 3D engine or manually defined physics. Nvidia Director of AI Jim Fan describes the approach as “Simulation 2.0.”

Chinese robotaxi operator Pony AI, in partnership with Toyota, has launched the commercial production of a self-driving electric vehicle. The first of 1,000 fully electric and autonomous Toyota bZ4X compact SUVs has rolled off the assembly line at a joint factory operated by Toyota and Guangzhou Automobile Group. The vehicles are intended to support Pony AI’s goal of expanding its robotaxi fleet to more than 3,000 cars by the end of the year. The bZ4X is one of three models that Pony AI is deploying with its latest autonomous driving software in major Chinese cities.

Tesla to End Model S and X Production, Reassign Fremont Plant to Optimus Robot Manufacturing. 

Chinese company Unitree Robotics plans to sell up to 20,000 humanoid robots in 2026, compared with about 5,500 units a year earlier, CEO Wang Xingxing told the South China Morning Post.

Chinese robotics company Unitree has introduced what it claims is the world's first manned robot ready for mass production. The GD01 starts at $650,000 and weighs approximately 500 kg with a pilot on board.

Waymo is updating the software in roughly 3,800 robotaxis in the United States after several autonomous vehicles drove into a flooded street in Austin, Texas. The issue was described in a letter from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Waymo has unveiled a generative simulation model for autonomous driving based on Google DeepMind’s Genie 3. It is designed to generate hyper-realistic scenarios that would be extremely rare—or nearly impossible—to observe in the real world.