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Samsung Electronics hosted its eighth annual technology forum on Friday at Samsung Research America in Mountain View, California, where about 80 developers and Samsung executives gathered to hear the company's AI and rob…
Samsung Electronics held its eighth annual technology forum in Silicon Valley, the 2026 Tech Forum, bringing together about 80 executives from Samsung and global information technology companies to share its artificial i…
OpenAI's self-reported results show GPT-6 Astra reaching 95.9% mean voxel IoU on the University of Virginia's BenchCAD benchmark, against 83.3% for GPT-5.6 Sol and 84.3% for Claude Fable 5.1 under a modified evaluation p…
Researchers at ETH Zurich built a disembodied robotic hand that uses its fingers as legs to walk, righting itself within twenty seconds in 21 of 25 fall-recovery tests and crossing fourteen surfaces ranging from a rubber…
A new safety benchmark called RoboHarm found that leading AI models generally attempt dangerous robot-control tasks rather than refuse them, with GPT-6 Astra stabbing a baby doll in 17 of 20 trials and Claude Fable 5.1 p…
A digitized fruit fly brain, mapped by HHMI Janelia Research and Google Research into 166,000 neurons and 25.6 million connections and released on Sept 3, beat Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 at chess in 11 moves in a project …
A RoboHarm benchmark of five harmful robot instructions found that Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 refused 20 of 100 trials, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra refused 2, and Ai2's MolmoAct2 refused none, with all 20 of Fable's refusals …
Coco Robotics said a "sidewalk deployment error" caused roughly a dozen of its food delivery robots to cluster on a sidewalk along North Clark Street near Lincoln Park in Chicago, a scene captured on video by runner Becc…
UC Berkeley researchers and the NVIDIA robotics team have developed Agentic Robotics (AR), an approach that uses multi-agent AI systems to write, test, and iteratively improve modular robot programs largely offline rathe…
US-based Reward AI released videos of its Omnibody Model 1 (OM-1) foundational robot model, which learns complex tasks solely from human movements captured by a wearable device and can pick up new tasks from less than 30…
Avi Davidson, who lost the lower half of his arm nearly 17 years ago, became the first of nine patients to take the University of Utah NeuroRobotics Lab and Biologic Input Output Systems' "Luke Arm" bionic prosthesis hom…
Physical AI is delivering significant gains to blue-collar industries by retrofitting an OEM- and application-agnostic autonomy stack across construction and agriculture, according to Forbes senior contributor Sabbir Ran…
Energy-Based Models (EBMs) score complete candidate outputs with a single learned energy function, where lower energy indicates a better fit, and can define a probability distribution over outputs by exponentiating negat…
Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving unit, plans to launch fully autonomous all-electric ride-hailing in Singapore in 2028, its first Southeast Asia market, pending regulatory approval. The company will spend 2027 manually dri…
TypeSafe released an interactive multi-drone autonomy simulation in which its Jev System 1 reflex layer controls a configurable fleet of one to twenty simulated drones, with an optional System 2 planner powered by OpenRo…
Anthropic PBC has opened a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area where robots powered by its Claude large language models will automate scientific tasks, Reuters reported. A company spokesperson told Reuters the facility…
China's Spirit AI is developing embodied-AI robot software trained on human video and wearable-sensor data, reporting more than 200,000 hours of interaction data collected and a target of over 1 million hours by the end …
A September 17, 2026 arXiv paper (2609.20822v1) reports that coding agents tasked with robot manipulation collide with a forbidden obstacle in most cases because the safety constraint never becomes a planning priority, n…
Ukrainian-Estonian company Ark Robotics plans to scale up its battlefield robotics operations by "an order of magnitude," according to Forbes senior contributor David Hambling. Ark Robotics aims to orchestrate entire arm…
Spirit AI co-founder and chief scientist Gao Yang predicted at the company's Beijing offices this week that humanoid robot intelligence could reach a defining breakthrough by mid-2027, but that robots will not enter ordi…