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NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp are being presented as tools to accelerate robotics simulation and learning workflows, according to a September 23, 2026 Hugging Face Blog post. The post covers how the two NVIDIA technologies are …
Arduino S.r.l., a Qualcomm Technologies subsidiary, opened pre-orders for the VENTUNO Q, an edge AI robotics board built on the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 Series. The board pairs a Dragonwing IQ-8275 processor rated at up t…
Skild AI revealed on September 22 that its S1 model learned to play football through self-play training entirely inside NVIDIA Isaac Sim, compressing roughly 140 years of simulated experience into a few weeks and transfe…
A developer published a guide on optimizing NVIDIA TensorRT models for Physical AI pipelines spanning smart glasses, Flutter/Kotlin apps, NVIDIA Jetson, and ROS 2/Isaac ROS. The writeup recommends end-to-end latency meas…
MSI IPC unveiled the MS-C9ZA, a compact fanless Edge AI Box PC powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8 GB module for machine vision, robotics, and embedded edge AI applications. The MS-C9ZA pairs a 6-core Arm Cortex-A78…
Samsung Electronics was named the exclusive AI network vendor for South Korea's Hyper AI Network initiative, deploying 5G standalone private networks for KT and SK Telecom to validate AI RAN capabilities. For KT, Samsung…
RoboBusiness 2026 will open Day 2 on Oct. 21 with a "State of Humanoids" keynote panel featuring Agility CTO Pras Velagapudi, Apptronik head of product management Parker Conroy, Persona AI head of commercial strategy Mic…
A restaurant in Karachi, Pakistan has deployed locally built AI-powered robots to deliver food to customers, according to AP video reported by Muhammad Farooq. The robots mark an example of automation moving beyond facto…
Google's robotics unit Intrinsic released Intrinsic Core, an Apache 2.0 open-source release of the production infrastructure it uses to run industrial robots in real factories, on September 22 at ROSCon 2026 in Toronto. …
RX Japan will host the 29th Manufacturing World [Osaka] exhibition at Intex Osaka from October 7-9, 2026, featuring a "Manufacturing x Physical AI Exhibition" that showcases domestic humanoid and mobile manipulator robot…
London-based Automata Technologies is developing lab automation infrastructure that combines robotics and software with existing scientific instruments to make life sciences labs AI-ready, according to a Business Reporte…
Researchers presented PAANI, an on-device perception-to-guidance architecture for river monitoring robots that fuses a project-trained YOLO11n detector with a custom MobileNetV3 Small semantic segmenter on an Arduino UNO…
Persona AI is partnering with HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, HD Hyundai Robotics and Posco to deploy bipedal humanoid robots in South Korean shipyards and steelmaking, with a prototype slated for welding t…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra achieved a 95% success rate on a physical zero-shot pick-and-place task, completing 19 of 20 attempts with dual bimanual I2RT YAM robot arms in evaluations conducted by third-party organization RoboC…
Ukraine is deploying AI-guided drone autonomy in two forms: "last mile" guidance, in which a human pilot flies a drone near a target and onboard AI takes over for the final stretch, and full "mission autonomy," in which …
Researchers Ying Wang and colleagues introduced temporal straightening, a curvature regularizer that encourages locally straightened latent trajectories in a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) world model, ac…
OpenRoboto, the team behind Bittensor Subnet 80, launched a decentralized data-collection platform called Shift that pays contributors to film egocentric video of real-world environments such as factories and kitchens an…
Intel's Nagesh Puppala will discuss the infrastructure required to scale physical AI at RoboBusiness, arguing that the next phase of robotics innovation depends on more than bigger models or better simulations. The Robot…
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses can capture first-person video that the company could use to train AI systems for robots, according to a 72-hour test of the glasses' AI features and associated data. Meta's former chief AI s…
WIM-Z, a tracked pet-care robot built on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a Hailo-8 AI accelerator, reported barking reductions of up to 83% across seven field trials run between May and September 2026, with four hand-built robots …