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PONGBOT launched Aura S, the first AI-powered ball machine designed specifically for padel, on Kickstarter. The device uses a large language model for voice control and simulates wall rebounds to help players train the s…
RealSense unveiled the D585 Pro AI-native depth camera at Automate 2026, designed for humanoids, AMRs, and industrial robots. The camera features on-device AI processing, a sub-15cm minimum range, and IP65 protection, wi…
MPS is hosting a webinar on July 21, 2026, to discuss intelligent power solutions for next-generation robotics compute platforms, addressing the increasing power demands of humanoid robots driven by AI workloads. The eve…
Wilco 63 Corporation, a blank-check company sponsored by family office HGM, priced its $200 million IPO at $10 per unit, targeting acquisitions in artificial intelligence, automation, and robotics. The units begin tradin…
Richtech Robotics Inc. launched a 24/7 interactive livestream featuring its ADAM humanoid robot, allowing global audiences to chat with the AI-powered robot in real time. The company aims to build public trust and demons…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted that AI will create more jobs for humans, not replace them, during an appearance at VivaTech Paris. He argued that the technology will unlock new opportunities and increase demand for …
A new concept for a non-humanoid home robot controlled by a large language model (LLM) was proposed on Hacker News. The wheeled robot uses swappable tools for tasks like cooking and cleaning, with a target price of $2,00…
XDOF, a robotics data infrastructure startup founded by Philipp Wu, Fred Shentu, and Nemo Jin, emerged from stealth on June 17 with $70 million in funding from Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz. The …
AO World founder John Roberts blamed the Labour government's tax hikes for offshoring 150 sales jobs to South Africa, saving £2 million annually, with plans to move most customer contact operations overseas by March. The…
Researchers introduced R2D-RL, a reinforcement learning environment that bridges the RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulation platform with Python-based multi-agent reinforcement learning workflows. The environment supports full-fie…
Researchers achieved first place in the ICRA 2026 GOOSE 2D Fine-Grained Semantic Segmentation Challenge by combining a DINOv3 ViT-L/16 backbone with a Mask2Former decoder and inference-time aggregation, scoring 76.57% co…
Researchers introduced Ghost Attractor Networks, a dynamical decoder that uses basin-structured latent representations for closed-loop sequential generation. The 2.3-million-parameter Ghost matched the offline accuracy o…
Researchers introduced BeliefDiffusion, a framework combining diffusion models and model predictive control for navigation in partially observable environments. The method outperformed reinforcement learning and other ge…
Nvidia's GEAR lab, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University and UC Berkeley, developed the ENPIRE framework that enables AI coding agents to autonomously train fleets of physical robots on precision tasks with a …
NVIDIA GEAR lab researchers developed ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that enables AI coding agents to autonomously train robots to perform tasks like cutting zip-ties and installing GPUs. The system, tested with Open…
IO-AI Tech, a Shenzhen startup, lets workers remotely control humanoid robots using VR headsets and motion-tracking gear for tasks like stocking shelves, while also gathering training data for future autonomous operation…
Radical AI founder Joseph Krause says the company's self-driving lab produced and characterized 1,200 alloys in six months, a nearly 10x speedup over the DARPA/GE MACH program. The lab uses an AI scientist to generate hy…
The Orange Pi 6 single-board computer features a 12-core CIX CD8180 processor, up to 24GB of RAM, and 45 TOPS of AI compute power, including a 28.8 TOPS NPU. It supports 8K video decoding, dual 2.5GbE, and multiple opera…
Nvidia opened registration for GTC Berlin, its flagship AI conference in Europe, scheduled for October 20-22 at Tempodrom and STATION-Berlin. CEO Jensen Huang will deliver the keynote, with over 40 sessions on AI infrast…
The Allen Institute for AI released MolmoMotion, a language-guided 3D motion forecasting model that predicts future 3D point trajectories of objects based on video frames and action descriptions. Alongside the model, the…