From Operations to a Robot Arm
An operations researcher spent two months training a low-cost SO-ARM101 robot arm to pick up a Kirby toy and drop it in a bowl, reaching 90% success with a fourth model version after v1 hit 60%, v2 hi…
An operations researcher spent two months training a low-cost SO-ARM101 robot arm to pick up a Kirby toy and drop it in a bowl, reaching 90% success with a fourth model version after v1 hit 60%, v2 hi…
Japan should focus on edge AI for factory floors rather than large data centers, according to a commentary highlighting deployments at Toyota, FANUC, and Musashi Seimitsu. Toyota's casting plant uses …
An engineer outlines a practical framework for managing spare parts inventory for industrial robots, emphasizing the importance of structured data to reduce downtime during repairs. The approach inclu…
NVIDIA shipped Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter world foundation model that runs entirely on-device, and paired it with two Jetson Thor modules for factory floors, eliminating cloud dependency for…
Nvidia has recruited 22 Japanese industrial robotics companies, including FANUC and Yaskawa Electric, into its Cosmos Coalition to adopt its open world models for physical AI, with no binding commitme…
NVIDIA introduced the Jetson T3000 and T2000 modules based on the Thor architecture, delivering 865 FP4 TeraFLOPS of AI compute in a compact form factor for mass-market robotics and edge AI. The modul…
NVIDIA announced that Japan's physical AI leaders, including AIRoA, FANUC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, NEC, SoftBank Corp., Sony Group Corporation and Yaskawa Electric, intend…
NVIDIA introduced the Jetson T3000 and T2000 modules based on the NVIDIA Thor architecture to advance mainstream robotics and edge AI, with the T3000 delivering 865 FP4 teraflops of AI compute in a co…
The Automate 2026 trade show highlighted the robotics industry's shift from humanoid hype to practical deployment of physical AI and edge computing, with companies like ABB, FANUC, and Siemens showcas…
The US government ordered Anthropic to suspend its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models due to jailbreak vulnerabilities reported by Amazon, then allowed their swift restoration after fixes. This interv…
Alphabet's Intrinsic debuted a modular, software-first robotic workcell powered by IntrinsicOS at Automate 2026, aiming to replace manual robot coding with drag-and-drop automation. The company is pre…