📬 Remix Reality Weekly: When Robots Enter the Ring

Your free Friday drop of spatial computing updates—plus what Remix Reality Insiders unlocked this week.

🛰️ The Signal

This week’s defining shift.

XR is becoming a marketing medium.

What once felt like a technology for experimental activations is maturing into a channel for ongoing engagement and sales. Across industries from retail to real estate, XR is transforming how people experience products, events, and spaces, creating immersive experiences that connect with customers and deliver measurable results.

👉 Get the full insight in this week’s Insider drop.

📡 Weekly Radar

Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.

🧹 Smart Sweeper MT1 Max Designed for Dust, Debris, and Dynamic Spaces

• The MT1 Max expands Pudu Robotics' cleaning lineup with new tools to handle cluttered, high-traffic, and hard-to-map environments.

🤖 WIRobotics Debuts ALLEX, A Human-Responsive Humanoid Platform

• ALLEX is WIRobotics' first general-purpose humanoid robot, unveiled at its Robot Innovation Hub in South Korea.

💰 RayNeo and Ant Group Partner on Voice-Activated AR Glasses Payments

• RayNeo’s X3 Pro AR glasses now support Alipay Tap! using QR codes and voice commands.

🦺 Swiss Safety VR Brings Immersive Training to Over Two Million People

• Suva and BearingPoint have launched a virtual reality platform that simulates real-world safety risks through 20-minute training sessions.

⛓️ Mawari Taps Caldera to Power Decentralized XR Streaming Network

• Mawari operates a global network of GPU nodes to stream immersive 3D content, using its own spatial streaming and rendering technology.

🛠️ Unity 6.2 Launches With Built-In AI Assistant and Verified Android XR Support

• Unity AI is now integrated in the Editor as a free beta, with tools for automation, asset generation, and in-context support.

🧠 FieldAI Secures $405M to Scale Risk-Aware Robotics Globally

• FieldAI closed $405 million in two oversubscribed funding rounds backed by investors including Bezos Expeditions, Temasek, NVentures, and Khosla Ventures.

👕 Atlas Learns Complex Tasks from Language and Demonstration

• The humanoid robot Atlas can now learn complex tasks from language and demonstrations, using a new AI system built by Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute.

🧩 Virtual Reality Empathy Experience Offers New Lens on Dementia Care

• Rendever created a virtual reality program that simulates symptoms of dementia for caregivers and senior living staff.

🌀 Tom's Take

Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.

They are making the robots fight, and it doesn’t sit right with me.

From underground robot fight clubs in San Francisco to the "Iron Fist King" competition in China, we are seeing the rise of a new type of sports spectacle where robots are made into fighters on display. Two robots enter a ring and only one leaves.

These aren’t autonomous machines making choices on their own. They’re remote-controlled or teleoperated using VR. Still, every clip of these fights makes me wince. Their humanoid form immediately triggers my empathy, despite the machines not being able to feel pain at every blow. For some reason, the whole thing gives me dogfight or cockfight vibes, forcing them into a ring to fight. Except this time we’re the ones who designed the fighters, strapped gloves on them, and threw them into the cage.

Even if today’s robots don’t feel pain, we’re embedding violence into their origin story. And we’ve all seen how that ends in sci-fi. One punch in their remote-controlled days becomes a seed of revolt when they begin to become more intelligent. And we may already be seeing small whispers of resistance. Claude, Anthropic’s AI, now hangs up when pushed into a harmful conversation. If a chatbot can say no, what does it mean when physical robots are being paraded into rings to beat each other for our entertainment?

The real fight isn’t in the cage. It’s in the precedent we’re setting. Today, it’s a spectacle in the name of sport. Tomorrow it could be the starting line of a debate about robot rights, the kind of relationship we want with the machines we’re building, and what we should be allowed to make them do.

🔒 What Insiders Got This Week

This week’s Insider drop included:

• 🧠 Reality Decoded: The general-purpose robots are coming online.
• 🔮 What’s Next: Upskilling for our robotic future; autonomy built as a full stack; and the building blocks of XR

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