Tagged: robotics

Reward AI’s OM-1 cuts robot training data needs by skipping teleoperation

Sep 14

Mecka AI Nears $500M Valuation With Sequoia-Led Round

Sep 11

Ex-DeepMind researcher builds robots that plan ahead without trial-and-error

Sep 8

Browser-based AXIS dataset boosts robot policy scores by 4.9 points

Sep 8

XDOF rockets to $1.2B valuation just 3 months after stealth exit

Sep 5

TechCrunch Splits AI Stage in Two as Robots Await Their 'ChatGPT Moment'

Sep 2

Anthropic's New Hardware Standard Turns Weeks of Lab Integration Into Hours

Aug 30

Meta Tests Robots That Could Replace 80% of Data Center Workloads

Aug 30

This $399 Bipedal Robot Ships Its Entire Training Stack, Not Just Demos

Aug 29

Hugging Face's $399 duck robot ships before Christmas

Aug 27

Unitree's $66B IPO Just Lost Half Its Value. The Robots Still Can't Do the Work

Aug 26

Ex-Meta researchers release Isaac 0.5 to make warehouse robots actually think

Aug 26

Nvidia's $249 Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings data center AI to drones and robots

Aug 26

Generalist Hits $3B Valuation on $600M Round for Robot Brains

Aug 26

Robot sprinters beat Bolt's record, then crash and catch fire

Aug 25

Ex-SpaceX backer Valor eyes $6B bet on AI startup weeks after $320M round

Aug 24

Adding 'beliefs' to world models lifts AI action prediction by 24 points

Aug 22

GEN-1.5 teaches robots new tasks from a 3-second demo with zero training

Aug 20

Moxie's shutdown shows AI companion toys remain a risky bet for kids

Aug 17

Moxie the $800 AI companion robot is shutting down, leaving kids bereft

Aug 17

Sim-to-real training works: World Labs' virtual worlds run 4 robot platforms for hours

Aug 15

AWS's Strands Robots now streams training data from Hugging Face buckets

Aug 13

Trump’s FTC banned humanoid robot imports, and the AI industry should pay attention

Aug 4

FTC bans foreign humanoids, putting 90% of US robotics research at risk

Aug 3

LingBot-Map Demo: 3D Scene Reconstruction Tunes Itself to Your GPU's VRAM

Jul 31

DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 gives any robot a single AI brain to run its whole body

Jul 31

Google's Gemini 2 bots can now track their own screw-ups with 60% accuracy

Jul 30

FCC robot ban hits Roombas, mowers, and delivery bots — not just humanoids

Jul 30

FCC bans foreign humanoid robots and robot vacuums, citing cyber risk

Jul 29

1X's 'sexy' robot hands can cook dinner, but Grok's porn AI is the real horror

Jul 29

Anthropic's AI just crushed a record: 9 minutes vs. 181 for humans controlling a robot

Jul 27

Enigma lands $71M to figure out what humans actually want from a robot

Jul 27

Startups are wiring robot trainers with brain-wave sensors to fix AI's data drought

Jul 27

Flux 3 beats Luma 93% of the time in early tests, adds native audio

Jul 23

Anthropic held $11B buyout talks with Physical Intelligence before denial

Jul 22

Simulation Isn't a Game Anymore—It's How Robots Get Their Smarts

Jul 21

Gritt's robot installs 4,000 solar panels a day, lands $26M to speed build-out

Jul 21

Xiaomi's robot AI hit a 75% success rate by ditching expensive bots for a handheld gripper

Jul 21

NVIDIA drops a 4B world model that runs robots locally — no cloud required

Jul 21

OpenAI reveals 3 moonshot projects to measure 'true' AI

Jul 21

Deep inverse models close the sim-to-real gap for robots

Jul 21

A $250 Handheld Gripper Could Break the Robot Data Bottleneck

Jul 21

OpenAI's Headcount Hits 45, Recruits Ex-Planet, Palantir, Dropbox Talent

Jul 20

AI Learns by Watching You, Not Just Your Data

Jul 20

Nvidia drops a 4B-param world model that runs robots at 15 Hz on a Jetson

Jul 20

A single demo is all this robot needs to learn a new task

Jul 20

OpenAI trained a spam-detecting robot entirely in simulation

Jul 20

OpenAI's Robot Learns Tasks After Watching You Do It Once

Jul 20

OpenAI drops MuJoCo Python library with 400% speed boost

Jul 20

How remembering failure made robots learn 8x faster

Jul 20

Parameter noise cuts RL training time in half on HalfCheetah

Jul 20

Meta-learning robots adapt mid-wrestling match to beat stronger foes

Jul 20

OpenAI's Self-Play Robots Learn to Tackle, Duck, and Fake

Jul 20

Synthetic nonsense objects yield 80% real-world grasp rate

Jul 20

Asymmetric RL uses god-mode sim data to train real-world robots

Jul 20

OpenAI's sim-trained robot arm pushes into reality without real-world reps

Jul 20

OpenAI's robots learn real-world tricks without real-world training

Jul 20

RL agents learn to walk, then run through mazes

Jul 20

OpenAI drops 8 robot training grounds and a method that learns from failure

Jul 20

OpenAI's Gym gets a reality check with tricky robot tasks

Jul 20

Inside Nvidia's $2.3 Trillion Bet on Japan's Robot Future

Jul 20

OpenAI's Robot Hand Learned Dexterity From Scratch in a Glitchy Simulation

Jul 19

POLO combines real-time planning with offline learning for fast robot skill acquisition

Jul 19

Why your next RL agent might need a safety net

Jul 19

OpenAI's robot hand solves the Rubik's Cube, but only 20% of the time

Jul 19

OpenAI's Safety Gym lets robots learn without the bruises

Jul 19

Yann LeCun’s World Model Startup Won't Say AGI—or Superintelligence

Jul 16

World models are AI's next big bet, and they don't start with chat

Jul 13

China's Orca World Model Matches Robotics Systems Without Action Labels

Jul 11

Embodied AI's Foundation Model Future Is Here

Jul 9

Why autonomous robots are finally becoming a reality

Jul 8

Mistral launches its first robotics AI model

Jul 8

LeRobot v0.6.0 teaches robots to dream with 3 world models that vanish at runtime

Jul 7

GM Installs Robots

Jun 26

Agility Robotics to go public in $2.5 billion deal

Jun 25

New robot designed around human capability, not human appearance

Jun 17

AWS drops an open-source SDK that makes robots learn from Hugging Face in 5 lines of code

Jun 17

Reachy Mini cuts the cloud entirely with a local AI voice pipeline

May 27

NXP's 3-camera robot learns to make tea using a $70 chip

Mar 5

NVIDIA's Cosmos Reason 2 tops physical AI charts, giving robots better common sense

Jan 5

NVIDIA just showed how to build your own desk buddy robot with DGX Spark

Jan 5

AMD drops $10K prize for the best SO-101 robot hack in Tokyo and Paris

Nov 13

Hugging Face's LeRobot v3 packs millions of episodes into single files

Sep 16

Hugging Face’s async robot brains cut task time in half by never waiting to think

Jul 10

This $399 open-source robot from Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics ships as a kit you build yourself

Jul 9

SmolVLA packs 30% faster robot learning into a 450M model you can run on a MacBook

Jun 3

Generalist Robots Are Stuck in the Lab — Here's the Data Problem They Can't Solve

May 11

NVIDIA drops 15TB of robot training data and a humanoid brain model at GTC

Mar 18

Hugging Face and Yaak drop 90TB driving dataset to break robot AI bottleneck

Mar 11

Physical Intelligence drops π0-FAST: a VLA model controlling 7 robots on 68 tasks

Feb 4

Hugging Face's LeRobot shrinks robot datasets 86% with video codecs

Aug 27

Pollen Robotics drops open-source vision stack that finds any object in 3D

Mar 25