Paris-based UMA, founded by ex-Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadene and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Pierre Sermanet, demos its Northstar AI humanoid robot (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-07/ex-tesla-scientist-unveils-plans-for-european-humanoid-robot"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260707/i13.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260707/p13#a260707p13" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Benoit Berthelot / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-07/ex-tesla-scientist-unveils-plans-for-european-humanoid-robot">Paris-based UMA, founded by ex-Tesla Optimus scientist R&eacute;mi Cadene and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Pierre Sermanet, demos its Northstar AI humanoid robot</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; A former Tesla Inc. scientist who worked on Elon Musk's Optimus robot unveiled plans to produce a lightweight humanoid robot &hellip; </p>