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A developer published a tutorial on building a vision-language robot pipeline that combines camera perception with natural-language instructions on NVIDIA Jetson hardware running ROS 2. The guide walks through JetPack an…
Waymo posted an opening for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on its Predictive Planning (PrePlan) team, offering a base salary of $213,000 to $263,000 per year for an on-site role in Mountain View or San Francisco, Cal…
Researchers led by Xu Cao at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology unveiled GEAIR 2.0, a two-armed humanoid robot that pollinates tomato blossoms in under 10 seconds each, at th…
The Israel Defense Forces is establishing a new Unmanned Systems and Artificial Intelligence Branch, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir announced Wednesday at the IDF's 153rd Naval Officers Course graduation, with the br…
Skild AI launched S1, a robot foundation model that learns previously unseen, long-horizon tasks from a single video demonstration without retraining, built and researched on NVIDIA AI infrastructure. In Skild's tests on…
NVIDIA's modular robotaxi stack powers every major commercial-scale robotaxi program operating today, spanning AI training, simulation and in-vehicle computing, according to the company. The global robotaxi market is pro…
DFI, a Qisda Group company, launched the ARH171 and ARH173 Mini-ITX industrial motherboards, an AI-ready platform powered by Intel technologies for space-constrained, mission-critical deployments handling Physical AI wor…
UnifoLM-ER-1, a 4B-parameter embodied reasoning model built on Qwen3-VL-4B, leads open-source models on seven of 16 multimodal perception and understanding benchmarks and matches leading proprietary models overall, accor…
Five Chinese companies shipped 86% of the world's humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research, as Chinese firms move faster and at greater scale than U.S. rivals, said Selina Xu, China a…
CEOs of ANYbotics, Agility Robotics, and 1X outlined the convergence of humanoid hardware, synthetic labor economics, and hard-takeoff timelines at a Paris summit, pointing to $1-per-hour robot labor as a disruptor of tr…
JD.com launched a Physical AI Acceleration Plan at JDDiscovery 2026 in Beijing, expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network and reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous …
Five Chinese companies accounted for 86% of global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research, as China's humanoid robot industry moves from demonstrations toward commercial de…
A new arXiv paper (2609.05461v1) introduces ARC-Bench, a no-leak, fixed-candidate protocol that finds frozen JEPA-style world models rank candidate actions incorrectly, with the top-scored candidate almost always subopti…
A reinforcement learning framework that drives exploration through intrinsic curiosity achieved competitive performance against Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and the Intrinsic Curiosity Module (ICM) on the LunarLand…
Tiangong Ultra, a bipedal humanoid robot developed at the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, set new speed and agility records at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing in August 2026, winning the sprint and ob…
China's TianGong Ultra humanoid robot ran 100 meters in 8.64 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games, beating Usain Bolt's human world record by nearly a full second, according to the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation …
ML Systems is proposing a "Collective Ontology" — a shared grammar of typed codes and directed-acyclic-graph edges meant to let assessors, vision models, estimators, and eventually robotic crews describe a single roof as…
Pollen Robotics is hosting QuackDown, a livestreamed simulator sumo wrestling tournament for reinforcement-learning policies controlling its 25 cm open-source MicroDuck biped robot, with the winner taking the Golden Beak…
FieldAI is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Multiagent Simulation, an on-site role in Boston, MA, to build simulation environments for multi-robot fleet orchestration. The posting, listed among 618 of 841 AI Agents …
General Robotics Technology Inc. said its GRID robot intelligence platform now automates its own engineering work, cutting the time to get a new robot into production from about a month to as little as two hours. The Red…