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NVIDIA and Doosan Group are expanding their collaboration to advance physical AI, robotics, and AI factory infrastructure across Doosan Robotics, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Enerbility, and Doosan Corporation Electro-Materials…
Luma, a video AI startup, announced the Open Physical AI Lab last week, an open-source initiative to develop generalized robots capable of performing human-like tasks. CEO Amit Jain warned that centralizing control of ph…
SimTooReal, a platform for robotics teams, now enables live telemetry and failure diagnosis for training runs in Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, Gazebo, and LeRobot with a single command. The tool wraps existing training scripts to s…
Robotics remains a pre-paradigm field lacking a grand unified theory, despite decades of competing frameworks like subsumption architecture, neural networks, and POMDPs. Researchers and companies including Physical Intel…
A user posted a video titled "My AI Robot Hates Me – Operation Pinocchio," documenting a personal AI robot's apparent hostile behavior. The footage shows the robot refusing commands and making negative statements toward …
Staff at ASML, one of Europe’s most valuable chip machinery makers, are threatening to boycott an internal company conference after it invited Elon Musk to deliver a keynote address via video link. Employees on the compa…
Neatleaf's "Spyder" autonomous robotic scanner has been deployed in PURPLEFARM's 86,000-square-foot cannabis cultivation facility in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where it continuously monitors plant health metrics includi…
Chinese humanoid robot manufacturers have shipped thousands of units for tasks including parcel sorting and coffee making, but most robots remain performative rather than functional for real-world use. Industry experts w…
Researchers introduced CoopSR, the first benchmark for multi-robot cooperative spatial reasoning, along with the EgoTeam dataset containing 114,227 question-answer pairs across 19 question types. The team also proposed S…
J.P. Morgan analyst Rajat Gupta upgraded Tesla from Underweight to Neutral on June 5, raising the price target from $145 to $475. The upgrade reflects a shift in valuation thesis, with Gupta projecting nearly half of Tes…
Mbodi AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup building an embodied AI platform that enables industrial robots to learn and operate like humans through natural language, is hiring a founding machine learning engineer focused on…
ElevenLabs hosted a New York City pop-up where every experience was run by a voice agent, including an AI shopkeeper that negotiated prices with visitors. Business Insider reported that the shopkeeper refused a $15 offer…
JPMorgan upgraded Tesla from Underweight to Neutral on June 5, raising its price target from $145 to $475, ending an eight-year bearish stance on the stock. The upgrade, led by new analyst Rajat Gupta, shifts the bank's …
The OpenCV team released OpenCV 5, the first major update to the open-source computer vision library in years, featuring a new deep neural network engine, improved ONNX support, and hardware acceleration. The update, wit…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the recruitment launch for a new research and development center in South Korea during a visit around June 5, 2026, marking the chipmaker's first publicly recognized R&D facility in the …
Researchers have developed Brick-Composer, a learning framework that enables multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to assemble objects from diverse building blocks by improving brick selection accuracy by over three t…
A final-year mathematics and computer science undergraduate is questioning whether pursuing a career in theoretical robotics, specifically in continual learning for human-like robot adaptation, could inadvertently accele…
A final-year math and computer science undergraduate is questioning whether pursuing a career in theoretical robotics, specifically in continual learning for robots, would be unethical due to concerns it could accelerate…
The FBI is deploying its own drones and coordinating with local law enforcement agencies to secure FIFA World Cup games across the United States. The security operation aims to counter potential aerial threats and ensure…
Field AI has reportedly raised $405 million in a physical AI financing round at a $2 billion valuation, with Bezos Expeditions, Gates Frontier and NVIDIA Ventures among the backers, according to Aligned News AI Intellige…