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Cloud-based inference for robot AI models is a viable engineering path that could let generalist robots run models too large for on-board GPUs, according to an analysis arguing that scaling laws will continue to drive em…
OpenAI has listed 27 robotics jobs on its careers page, up from 11 in May, with publicly advertised base salaries ranging from $177,000 to $500,000 a year before equity, according to a Business Insider review of the post…
Figure AI unveiled Helix 2.5, a new neural network for humanoid robots, on September 17, 2026, demonstrating robots performing extended household chores such as tidying, towel folding, and bed making in 30 homes where no…
Figure AI unveiled Helix 2.5 on September 17, 2026, a humanoid neural network that achieved a 56% success rate across 237 completed tasks out of 420 attempts in 30 Bay Area homes its robots had never entered, using a sin…
Nvidia has patented a context-aware error concealment system that selects a repair method for each corrupted video frame based on the location of the damage and the frame's region of interest, rather than applying a gene…
ParticleSplat, a self-supervised object-centric learning method detailed in arXiv paper 2609.19463v1, decomposes scenes into latent "particles" representing semantic entities via feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting. Buildi…
A deep-learning perception framework using the YOLOv12-m-seg model achieved a segmentation AP@0.5 of 83.7% with an inference time of 20.4 ms per image, the most favorable balance of accuracy and speed among direct segmen…
MAGMA-GEN, an on-policy data-generation pipeline from researchers publishing as arXiv:2609.20056v1, converts ambiguous failed rollouts in hierarchical robotic systems into validated recovery supervision by retaining a pr…
Waymo announced on Friday that it plans to launch its robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, its first foothold in Southeast Asia. Fully electric Jaguar I-Pace vehicles are due to arrive in the city state in the coming m…
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 hit 65%, and v3 failed…
Skild AI released S1, an in-context learning model for robotics that the company claims is a foundation model capable of learning 10-minute tasks from a single video prompt without fine-tuning, and the startup has surpas…
China installed 54% of the world's new industrial robots in 2024 and produces 94% of the magnets used inside them, according to Forbes contributor Robert J. Szczerba. Sen. Dave McCormick said U.S. assembly of robots does…
Figure AI unveiled Helix 2.5 on September 17, 2026, a humanoid control model that achieved a 56% success rate across three household tasks in 30 previously unseen Bay Area homes, completing 237 of 420 attempts against a …
A public GitHub repository, Awesome-Astra-Embodied-AI, has catalogued reported GPT-6 Astra robotics demonstrations spanning 12 simulation cases, 10 real-world deployments, six real-to-sim replay or data-rollout cases and…
An engineer's ablation found that the pi0-FAST vision-language-action model scores 84.7% on LIBERO-10 when a duplicated DeltaActions transform is removed during fine-tuning, versus the 60.5% baseline widely cited from th…
Figure AI introduced Helix 2.5, a neural network pretrained on its Index dataset of human behavior that achieved zero-shot whole-body autonomy across 30 unseen Bay Area homes, performing living-room tidying, towel foldin…
Greg Ombach, a Forbes Councils Member, argues in a Forbes Innovation piece that physical AI requires a new architecture to scale, proposing a path of defining the operating domain, proving performance under real conditio…
Arm launched Arm Total Design for Physical AI, a program that brings together more than 80 developers, alongside its new Robotics Capability Framework, according to The Robot Report. Arm said the program and framework ai…
Researchers are pursuing in-context robot learning with vision-language model (VLM) agents to let robots adapt to unfamiliar environments, according to a report on the work. The approach aims to address the limitation th…
Lidl has begun using a cab-less autonomous electric truck for regular store deliveries in Germany, running a daily replenishment route between its Edermünde distribution centre and a nearby store. The truck, supplied by …