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Foxconn and Intel announced a strategic partnership on June 4 in Taipei to jointly develop next-generation AI infrastructure, including data center systems, edge computing platforms, and custom chip solutions. The collab…
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Seoul on Friday to meet with partners and builders behind South Korea's sovereign AI infrastructure and robotics innovations. Huang emphasized aligning the AI supply chain f…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is expected to meet Krafton executives in Seoul this week to discuss physical AI, robotics, and Nvidia's RTX Spark AI PC platform, according to industry sources. The meeting, which may include Kra…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Seoul on Friday to strengthen partnerships with Korean firms in robotics, physical AI, infrastructure, and gaming, seven months after a previous visit that led to large-scale AI acceler…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a four-day visit to South Korea from June 5 to June 8, appearing on a popular talk show and throwing a ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game to strengthen AI supply chain ties. The trip i…
Researchers have developed DiffSlack, a differentiable projection layer that enforces nonlinear inequality constraints in neural networks by reformulating them as equalities with learnable slack variables. Tested on vehi…
Researchers introduced Flash-WAM, a modality-aware distillation framework that compresses world-action model inference to a single step, reducing per-chunk latency from 8.1 seconds to 348 milliseconds on NVIDIA L40S hard…
Researchers developed a sensor-guided adaptive contrastive learning framework that uses privileged LiDAR data during training to teach visual encoders to focus on navigation-relevant geometry rather than scene-specific a…
Researchers have developed RePHO, a method that reconstructs physically plausible human-object interactions from monocular videos by combining kinematic estimates with reinforcement learning. The approach addresses commo…
Generalist AI raised $400 million in a funding round led by Radical Ventures, achieving a $2 billion post-money valuation. The San Mateo-based robotics startup, which builds general-purpose AI models for physical tasks, …
Hyundai Motor and Boston Dynamics announced Friday that their humanoid robot, Atlas, learned to play soccer and execute the complex "Ghost Rabona" kick by training itself in a digital simulator before transferring the sk…
The Japanese and U.S. governments announced a five-year, $1 billion plan on Thursday to jointly develop scientific technologies using artificial intelligence, with each country contributing $500 million. The initiative, …
Humanoid robots continue to stumble and fall in public demonstrations, including a face-plant during a dance performance in China and a collapse at the Beijing Half Marathon, highlighting their lack of readiness for real…
Humanoid robots performing acrobatic feats and household chores in viral videos do not prove they can reliably repeat those tasks in real-world conditions, robotics researchers said. The human tendency to anthropomorphiz…
NVIDIA researcher Yunze Man focuses on robotics as part of the company's AI research division. His work contributes to NVIDIA's broader efforts in spatial intelligence, computer vision, and autonomous systems.
Amazon unveiled an upgraded version of its Proteus warehouse robot on Thursday that can understand and execute tasks assigned in plain conversational language, replacing the need for technical commands. The new AI-powere…
Hobbyist Steven Cheng built an AI-guided laser system that eliminated all mosquitoes in his home, according to reports from SlashGear and Tom's Hardware. The prototype, which took four months to create, uses a custom dee…
Foxconn and Intel announced a strategic collaboration at Computex 2026 in Taipei on June 4 to jointly develop next-generation AI infrastructure and intelligent computing platforms, with SambaNova joining a rack-scale pro…
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li published "A Functional Taxonomy of World Models" on June 3, 2026, categorizing world models into three core functions—renderer, simulator, and planner—that form an interconnected loop for spatial i…
A Hacker News user posted a request for learning resources on physical AI and robotics after noticing a surge in companies selling robot data. The user cited Build AI's February launch as a starting point for their inter…