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IBM's NorthPole brain-inspired chip is more than 20 times as fast and roughly 25 times as energy efficient as any microchip currently on the market for AI tasks, according to an IBM study led by Dharmendra Modha, IBM's c…
NVIDIA's IsaacTeleop framework converts XR hand tracking and motion-controller input into commands for simulated and real robots through a graph-based retargeting engine, according to a Marktechpost tutorial built on the…
Kazakh Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov told the AI & Digital Bridge 2026 forum in Astana that Kazakhstan has the legal framework in place for large-scale artificial intelligence adoption, citing the country's Digital Code…
Researchers Alpay Ozkan and colleagues released UnRL, an adaptive 3D mapping framework that refines voxels using semantic entropy, geometric curvature, and texture richness, and adds a reinforcement learning agent that l…
JEPA-TTT, a method that adapts the latent dynamics predictor of a pretrained action-conditioned Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture world model throughout test time, improved planning on all eight dynamics shifts acr…
Ambi Robotics deployed an AI coding agent harness within its AmbiOS platform that solved a package-placement problem for its AmbiSort robot in 10 hours, a task the company estimated would take engineers several weeks of …
A developer built a simulated system combining privacy-preserving active learning and embodied agent feedback loops for autonomous rover swarms conducting planetary geology surveys. The architecture uses PyTorch, a custo…
Runway debuted Runway Ads, a product for generating and optimizing paid ad campaigns, and Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that adapts to new robotic embodiment with light fine-tuning, at its Runway AI Summit …
Runway AI Inc. introduced Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that turns the company's large-scale video pretraining into robot control, and plans to release it publicly with open weights in the coming months. Ru…
A researcher proposes dedicated robotics evaluations that measure the capabilities supported by a robot's hardware rather than its control software, arguing that current policy evals conflate the two. The proposed evals …
RLE-Bench has been introduced as a qualifying exam that evaluates coding agents as robot learning engineers, according to the benchmark's announcement. Existing robotics benchmarks primarily focus on the performance of i…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1246 on 30 September 2026, allowing cities to fine robotaxi operators up to $10,000 when their autonomous vehicles block emergency services for more than 30 minutes, wi…
An Anthropic study projects it will take 40 years for robots to replace just 10% of job tasks if robot prices decline along past trends, citing capabilities, preferences and regulations as further barriers beyond price. …
PyRUA-Lean, a robot-agent framework that replaces per-step tool calling with generated Python cells, raised task success to 71.7% from 63.1% while cutting input tokens 65% (276k vs 788k), LLM calls 49% (8.7 vs 17.0) and …
Boston Dynamics announced a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot, built for mass production in the tens or hundreds of thousands rather than research use. The new hand increases degrees of freedom from 7 to 13, adds finge…
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, with collaborators from the University of Gothenburg and the University of Cambridge, built a closed-loop AI scientist that autonomously forms hypotheses, designs and run…
A new arXiv paper (2609.38383v1) presents a conditional energy-based model that learns temporal log-density ratios from random exploration, without action or reward labels, to enable long-range planning. Trained via nois…
A controlled CarRacing study found that Disagreement-Regularized Imitation Learning (DRIL), which converts disagreement among cloned policies into a reinforcement-learning reward, improved over the strongest behavior-clo…
Runway announced Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that converts its large-scale video pretraining into control policies for real robots, and said it is testing the model with early partners Noble Machines, Sta…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo on September 30, 2026 ordering the creation of a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, called AutoWarCom, with a target stand-up date of October 1, 2027, and directed his staf…