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As of Aug. 12, Amazon is offering the Shark AV2511AE AI Ultra robot vacuum for $299.99, a 50% discount from its $599 list price, saving shoppers $299.01. The limited-time deal includes features like Matrix Clean grid-pat…
A new AI chip developed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego mimics the human brain's split-second motor control, solving problems using 10,000 times fewer calculations than traditional chips. The ch…
Honor will launch its Robot Phone in China on Aug. 12, a device combining a smartphone with a motorized gimbal camera and AI-assisted subject tracking. The company also highlighted an imaging collaboration with ARRI, but…
Fei-Fei Li and the World Labs team propose a functional taxonomy of world models, dividing them into renderers, simulators, and planners, all connected by the reinforcement learning loop of the partially observable Marko…
Humanoid robotics may never have a single ChatGPT moment, but the industry could still succeed through a staircase of narrower commercial breakthroughs, according to an analysis of recent developments. OpenAI's ChatGPT r…
SUPCON Technology and Singapore security services firm Certis announced a strategic cooperation agreement on August 12 to validate, deploy, and integrate robotics in security and public-facing service environments, cover…
Physical Intelligence, the robotics company founded by Chelsea Finn, targets over 90% reliability for robots performing tasks like operating an espresso machine, a bar most robot demos never clear because they only need …
Chelsea Finn, founder of Physical Intelligence, argues that robotics is nearing a ChatGPT-style breakthrough, but physical AI faces a reliability bar that chatbots never had to clear. Finn's team set a concrete bar for t…
Junyang Lin, former technical lead of Alibaba's Qwen model family, launched Pragmatik Labs in Shanghai on Tuesday to research AI agents operating across software and the physical world. HSG and Gaorong Ventures co-led th…
Saildrone, a leading maker of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) based in Alameda, California, produces wind- and solar-powered drones that collect ocean data for government and commercial clients, including hurricane rese…
InfiMaker launched a Kickstarter campaign on Aug 11, 2026, for its K1 desktop CNC mill, which uses AI to convert 2D images into 3D millable models, eliminating the need for CAD experience. Early bird pledges start at $5,…
SpaceX and Tesla announced plans for a joint semiconductor factory in Grimes County, Texas, spanning over 100 million square feet, with an initial investment of $16.8 billion and potential full buildout cost of $119 bill…
SpaceX and Tesla Inc. announced plans to build Terafab, a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor facility in Grimes County, Texas, with an initial $16.8 billion investment that could reach $119 billion. The facility will …
Morgan Stanley analyst Andrew Percoco said Tesla has one big financial question to answer for investors regarding its Robotaxi rollout, Full Self-Driving software, and Optimus, with concerns about weaker gross margins an…
Alexander Reben, an entrepreneur, roboticist and cofounder of Phyzify, a lab using AI tools to create physical objects based on your imagination, discusses AI's next frontier in physical items on the Adventures in AI pod…
Vietnamese aerospace company VinSpace has signed a contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch its first satellites aboard a SpaceX Transporter rideshare mission in 2027, as Vietnam moves to develop its space industry. Vi…
Ukraine's Ministry of Defense approved the MUL.E, the country's first all-wheel-drive electric military motorcycle, for operational use late last month. The bike features dual electric motors, wide low-pressure tires to …
NXP introduced the FRDM-IMX95-PRO development board based on the i.MX 95 processor, featuring 10GbE, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, 802.15.4, dual M.2 Key-M slots, 16 GB LPDDR5-6400 memory, and 32 GB eMMC flash. The board targe…
Nvidia has partnered with six major financial institutions to launch compute financing platforms offering loans or lease-to-own options for its hardware and cloud services, aiming to lower barriers to AI infrastructure a…
Chinese robotics company Unitree's Shanghai IPO was oversubscribed 5,500 times by retail investors, raising $904 million at a market value of about $9 billion. The company allocated 40.4 million shares, or 10% of outstan…