MBZUAI and Minerva Humanoids reach strategic partnership to develop humanoid robots for the energy sector

MBZUAI and Minerva Humanoids announced a two-year strategic research partnership framework to develop next-generation humanoid robots for safety-critical scenarios in the energy sector, with the goal of reducing the need for personnel to enter high-risk areas such as refineries. Research directions include multimodal perception foundation models, computer vision and reinforcement learning, and digital twin simulation for pre-deployment validation; robot autonomy spans from teleoperation to fully autonomous execution. MBZUAI students will join the joint project team to take part in R&D and testing.