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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will deliver a keynote at Computex 2026 in Taipei on June 1, alongside a concurrent GTC Taipei event showcasing the Vera Rubin NVL72 supercomputer and Jetson Thor hardware. The company is deepenin…
UK autonomous-vehicle software company Wayve launched a new research unit called Wayve Labs, led by chief scientist Jamie Shotton, to study embodied AI including spatial reasoning and learning from consequences in real-w…
KIDZ AI amended its $500 million secured convertible financing facility to expand permitted uses to acquisitions, strategic investments, partnerships, working capital, infrastructure development, and international expans…
Shift, an AI training startup, is offering free home cleaning services in New York in exchange for recording the work to train future robots. Cleaners will wear a camera-equipped "magic hat" to capture footage from their…
Humanoid robots walked a runway alongside human models in coordinated outfits at the "Physical AI Fashion Show" in Seoul's Gangdong District. Galaxy Corporation organized the event, with its chief executive stating robot…
Shift, an AI training startup, is offering limited-time free home cleanings in New York City where cleaners wear head-mounted cameras to record first-person footage. The recordings capture tasks like scrubbing bathrooms,…
The University of Indonesia and South Korea's Kyungpook National University agreed to expand collaboration on artificial intelligence and multidisciplinary research, including joint lectures, faculty exchange, and an "AI…
Shift, an AI training startup, announced Thursday it is offering free home cleanings in New York City in exchange for allowing cleaners to record first-person footage with head-mounted cameras. The company will use the f…
A Capgemini survey of 1,700 organizations found that 79% are already actively engaged with Physical AI, with 67% of executives calling it a strategic game-changer. NVIDIA open-sourced its GR00T N1.7 vision-language-actio…
Researchers have introduced Embodied3DBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate low-level spatial intelligence in Vision Language Models (VLMs) within embodied 3D environments. The benchmark includes over 21,000 question-a…
Researchers have developed SalsaAgent, a multimodal embodied language model that generates expressive, full-body salsa dance motions in response to a human leader and synchronized to music. The system extends a large lan…
Researchers found that a world model trained on random physical exploration develops spatial semantic structure in its latent space that mirrors physical geometry, without any linguistic supervision. The model achieved a…
Researchers have proposed Ultra-Reduced-Impact-Encased-Logging (URIEL), a new selective logging method for tropical forests that combines heli-logging with airborne robotics and AI-driven post-harvest silvicultural treat…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will deliver a keynote on June 1 at Computex 2026 in Taipei, focusing on AI factories, physical AI, and robotics. The event, running June 2-5, features partners like Wiwynn and GIGABYTE showcasing…
Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-water) is deploying four-legged AI robots to inspect large-scale water treatment plants, with pilot programs launching in Seongnam, Hwaseong, Gosan and Gongju this year and next. The …
NVIDIA Research presented eight new papers at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) demonstrating simulation-trained policies transferring to physical robots. The COMPASS navigation framework ach…
LinkerBot, a Chinese startup founded in 2023, has shipped 10,000 dexterous robotic hands in the past year, capturing 80 percent of global demand. The company, which sells hands capable of playing piano and threading need…
Europe's Future Combat Air System (FCAS) aims to fundamentally transform air warfare by 2040 through a networked "combat cloud" linking fighters, drones, ships, satellites, and ground forces, rather than focusing solely …
Inference costs dropped 80% in 2026, but total AI spending rose as agentic systems consumed far more tokens than chat-based AI. Regulation went live, physical AI left the lab, and an invisible divide opened between organ…
At the Humanoids Summit Tokyo on Thursday, Chinese robotics firms like Booster Robotics and LimX Dynamics dominated the event, showcasing humanoid robots that build on Japanese and U.S. technology for cheaper mass produc…