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South Korean lawmakers pledged parliamentary support for expanding economic ties with Uzbekistan into advanced industries such as artificial intelligence and robotics, as well as supply chains for critical minerals, ahea…
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player, is building Kyber, an open-source infrastructure layer for real-time remote control of robots and drones. The Paris-based startup raised $5 million from Lightspeed…
Noah Wardlow created lerobot-mcp, a tool that provides persistent context for lerobot command tools, aiming to speed up agent workflows by eliminating repeated lookups. The project is available on GitHub.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley demonstrated software that enables robots to learn physical, dexterous tasks autonomously through trial-and-error using reinforcement learning. The experimental robot…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 autonomously completed robotics tasks 20 times faster than the fastest human team in a follow-up to Project Fetch, demonstrating rapid AI progress in physical-world tasks. The model performed …
The Pentagon used Elon Musk's Grok AI to fire missiles at Iran, an official said, as the Army looks to small UGVs and AI warfare reaches a point of no return, reshaping battlefield robotics amid Ukraine's Operation Spide…
Biwei Huang's Aether AI raised $20 million in seed funding on June 17 to develop causal world models for robots, aiming to enable machines to reason about cause and effect rather than just correlations. The San Diego-lin…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned investors that early production of the Optimus humanoid robot and Robotaxi service will start 'quite slow,' despite the company reporting $22.39 billion in Q1 2026 revenue and beating earnings …
Researchers at Rice University's RobotPI Lab released EgoInfinity, a web-scale data engine that generates synthetic video data for training robots to learn actions from video. The tool aims to address data scarcity in ro…
Amazon Prime Day 2026 offers the Ecovacs DEEBOT X12 OmniCyclone robot vacuum-mop at $400 off, its lowest price since release. The device features 22,000Pa suction, AI navigation, and auto-lifting mop for carpets, targeti…
A humanoid robot kicked a child during a public martial arts demonstration in June 2026, sparking debate over liability for AI-powered robot harms. The incident highlights governance gaps as humanoid robot installations …
MicroAGI, a German startup, is offering free home cleanings in New York City through its Shift app in exchange for first-person video footage of cleaners at work, which it uses to train and license AI and robot datasets.…
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player, raised $5 million for his startup Kyber, an open-source SDK that synchronizes video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs with ultra-low latency for remote machi…
Shift, an AI startup, provided free housekeeping and a three-course meal to a New York journalist in exchange for filming her apartment to train robots. The service, which included cleaners and a chef wearing cameras, le…
NVIDIA released JetPack 7.2 for its Jetson edge AI platform at GTC Taipei on June 1, 2026, adding one-command deployment of NemoClaw, CUDA 13 on Orin, Yocto Project support, MIG on Jetson Thor, and a Super Mode boosting …
Japan's government growth strategy council targets 370 trillion yen ($2.3 trillion) in public and private investment across 17 strategic sectors by fiscal 2040, aiming to quintuple domestic semiconductor sales to 40 tril…
Researchers published Sashimi-Bot in npj Robotics, a three-armed robotic system that uses tactile sensing to cut salmon for sashimi. The system achieved 95% accuracy in detecting blade-to-board contact and successfully c…
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the ERNEST rover prototype in California's Colorado Desert, covering 16 miles in 37 hours at speeds up to 0.6 mph—10 times faster than current Mars rovers. The four-wheeled rover u…
Alibaba unveiled its first suite of AI models for robots, the Qwen Robot Suite, on June 16, 2026, developed by Tongyi Lab. The suite includes three models for navigation, world modeling, and manipulation, with selected A…
Aether AI, a San Diego-based startup, raised $20mn in seed funding to develop causal world models that teach machines cause and effect, challenging the industry's focus on scaling larger models. The company targets robot…