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Humanoid signs Bosch and Schaeffler deals to scale wheeled robot production
Humanoid has signed manufacturing and deployment agreements with Bosch and Schaeffler to scale production of its wheeled bimanual manipulator for European industrial markets. The deals position the 2-year-old startup to deploy a four-digit number of robots across Schaeffler facilities by 2032, while...

Universal Robots patches critical command injection flaw in cobot OS
Universal Robots has patched CVE-2026-8153, a critical command injection vulnerability in its PolyScope 5 operating system that powers collaborative industrial robots. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers with network access to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux OS, potentially ...

Yarbo robotic lawnmowers contain hardcoded backdoor and bypass emergency stop
Security researcher Andreas Makris discovered critical vulnerabilities in Yarbo's modular robotic lawnmowers and snow blowers that allow remote takeover, emergency stop bypass, and extraction of owner data including Wi-Fi passwords and GPS coordinates. All 11,000+ deployed devices share a hardcoded ...
Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5 model with human-scale robotic hands
Genesis AI has launched its first foundational model, GENE-26.5, alongside human-scale robotic hands developed with China's Wuji Tech. The hands perform complex manipulation tasks including cooking, piano playing, and lab work — trained on human video data and teleoperation collected via a lightweig...

Unitree robots vulnerable to firmware poisoning via hard-coded encryption keys
Security researchers have disclosed CVE-2026-1442, a critical vulnerability in Unitree's firmware update system that uses hard-coded encryption keys. The flaw allows anyone with physical or remote access to create and deploy malicious firmware packages that Unitree robots — including models deployed...

Genesis AI raises $105M seed to build robotics foundation model using synthetic data
Genesis AI emerged from stealth with a $105M seed round from Eclipse and Khosla Ventures to develop a foundation model for robotics trained on synthetic data generated by a proprietary physics engine. The approach aims to sidestep the cost and latency of collecting real-world training data, a key bo...
