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A Japanese firm plans to train a robot using AI to reproduce runners' movements, aiming to create a robotic running coach that can demonstrate proper form. The project, reported by Yomiuri Shimbun, seeks to leverage mach…
Black Forest Labs released Flux 3, a multimodal model that generates images, video, audio, and robot action predictions from a single unified architecture, rolling out through an early access program. The model follows F…
VIDRAFT deployed an on-device AI module enabling Korean-language voice command recognition for Boston Dynamics' Spot robot at the Seoul Robot & AI Museum, without modifying Spot's hardware or firmware. The system process…
A collection of Twitter bookmarks over the past year documents claims that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol models have solved multiple open mathematical problems, including six Erdős problems and the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture,…
The MIT Media Lab has received a $1 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to launch the first Cloud Laboratory for Learning, a platform enabling anyone with a computer and internet to conduct real bio…
Carlos3dprint built a real 3D-printed Linguo robot from The Simpsons using AI, 3D printing, and a Raspberry Pi, as shared on Instructables. The robot is a grammar-correcting creation inspired by the episode featuring Lis…
SpaceX's valuation may be undervalued because the market ignores its 'Physical AI' capabilities, according to an analysis that argues the company's autonomous landing systems and real-time trajectory optimization represe…
Given artificial general intelligence (AGI), automating physical production would likely be straightforward because a system capable of all remote cognitive work would also master real-time control, spatial reasoning, an…
Shanghai humanoid robotics firm AgiBot kicked off its Hong Kong IPO process on July 24, 2026, targeting a valuation between HK$40 billion and HK$50 billion ($5.1 billion to $6.4 billion). The three-year-old company, whic…
Generalist's GEN-1 embodied foundation model now supports a broad range of robot end effectors, from five-fingered hands to specialized tools, demonstrating that a single base AI model can learn sensorimotor policies tha…
Run Robotics, a Shanghai-based company, unveiled the world's first centaur wheel-leg hybrid robot at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China. The robot combines a horse-like body with wheels …
Hans Moravec, a Carnegie Mellon roboticist, predicted in his 1988 book 'Mind Children' that human-level artificial intelligence would arrive within 40 years, based on his calculation of the brain's computational capacity…
Unitree Robotics launched the As2-W, a quadruped robot weighing approximately 25 kg that can carry a static payload of 150 kg and a continuous walking payload of 16 kg, with a maximum speed over 6 m/s and a 3-hour unload…
In Episode 254 of The Robot Report Podcast, Doug Pagnutti, developer advocate at Tiger Data, discussed how time series databases like TimescaleDB improve industrial automation, robotics, and AI applications by integratin…
Black Forest Labs and mimic robotics have deployed FLUX-mimic, a video-action model that controls factory robots at Audi with a 101ms full-system reaction time, using a single NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU. The model, built on FLU…
Tesla reported second-quarter net income of $1.11 billion, or 32 cents per share, missing Wall Street estimates of 53 cents per share, as research and development spending surged 49% to $2.37 billion. Revenue rose 26% to…
Amazon is offering the Mammotion YUKA mini 2 1000H robotic lawn mower for $1,398.99, a $350 discount (20% off) from its $1,749 retail price. The wire-free mower uses 360-degree LiDAR and AI vision navigation to handle la…
The Enabot Ebo Max AI robot, a spherical companion droid about the size of a large grapefruit, can patrol homes, answer questions, monitor for falls, and distinguish up to 10 faces using its 4K camera and AI Vision, acco…
Thomas H. Lee Partners is exploring an initial public offering for Brooks Automation, the robotics and software company it acquired for $3 billion in 2021, as semiconductor demand surges from AI chips to crypto mining ha…
IEEE Spectrum's weekly Video Friday roundup features GENE.01, a fully functional humanoid robot developed in six months by Generative Bionics, capable of walking and sensing with a full-body multimodal skin. The collecti…