Robotics & physical AI
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TechNodeAsiaCleaning robotics startup Jingji Intelligent raises tens of millions of RMB in seed funding Shanghai-based cleaning robotics startup Jingji Intelligent has raised tens of millions of RMB in seed funding from Haowen Tianshu Robotics and Shanghai Lanyun Industrial Development.
SemiEngineeringSiliconScaling Data Movement For Physical AI Physical AI poses a host of new challenges for chip engineers. These systems contain a mix of compute elements, which collectively must process a stream of real-time data, analyze it, make decisions…
PandailyAsiaPeking University and PrimeBot's HIL-UMI Collects Robot Correction Data Without a Robot Arm A team led by Hao Dong at Peking University, working with Shanghai personal-robot maker PrimeBot, has introduced HIL-UMI, a method for post-training vision-language-action models that collects…
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The InformationValleySpaceX’s Musk Lauds Its Soaring Cloud Business and Possible Tesla Merger SpaceX put on a bit of a show for shareholders today—and I’m not referring to the sizzle reel of rocket and space videos it showed on its earnings call.
The Robot ReportResearchReservoir launches new agricultural robotics incubator for Washington growers Reservoir opened Reservoir Farms – Salinas, its flagship innovation hub. | Source: Reservoir Reservoir, Washington State University’s Prosser Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center…
Simon WillisonVoicesBattle Drones - a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer My latest vibe coded game experiment is a Command & Conquer style RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called Battle Drones ( play it here ).
The Robot ReportResearchRoboBusiness rebrands as Robotics Summit & Expo West Arrowfly , an award-winning B2B media and marketing company, today announced that RoboBusiness , the leading robotics industry event for the past 20 years, is being rebranded as Robotics Summit &…
The Robot ReportResearch2027 TRR50 Robotics Innovation Awards open nominations Aaron Parness, director of applied sciences at Amazon Robotics, and Bhavana Chandrashekhar, the senior manager of applied science at Amazon Robotics, speaking at the 2026 RBR50 gala.
Software Engineering DailyVoicesPhysical AI at NVIDIA In recent years, the main impact of AI has been on the digital world, and most notably software engineering.
AI BusinessHow Boston is becoming a physical AI hub Robotics talent, customers and investment are concentrating in Boston, and what that means for the U.S. physical AI industry.
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchThe Robot I Didn’t Expect to Build Agility Robotics , the company I cofounded out of my robotics lab at Oregon State University in 2015, has just launched Digit 5 .
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: When Two Robots Become One Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.
Big TechnologyVoicesRivian CEO: Robotics Is Progressing Much Faster Than You Think Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is behind the wheel of a fully-loaded R1 SUV, plodding through traffic on a dreary Wednesday New York City afternoon, when he tells me people are underestimating the progress…
Practical AIVoicesOpen models and the future of Physical AI with NVIDIA As AI moves beyond the cloud and into robots, vehicles, and other physical systems, new approaches to models, simulation, and inference are emerging.
Google Developers BlogLabsGemini 4 Argon for Robotics Gemini 4 Argon is a general-purpose physical reasoning model designed to enhance workflows across the robotics stack with advanced capabilities in physical understanding, code generation, and…
TechNodeAsiaRobot hardware startup YITA secures funding from Galbot and Fourier Chinese robot hardware startup YITA announced on October 20 that it has raised more than RMB 100 million across its seed and seed-plus rounds.
PandailyAsiaSenseTime Open-Sources SenseNova-RoboRSI Embodied AI Harness and a 27B Robot Brain Model SenseTime has open-sourced SenseNova-RoboRSI, a framework for evaluating embodied AI systems, together with an embodied model called SenseNova-RoboRSI-27B-Preview.
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Financial Times TechEuropeSpaceX and Tesla boards explore potential merger Elon Musk says combining his two public companies would be a ‘good idea’ as the world approaches an AI singularity
SiliconANGLEValleyEka Robotics nets $150M at a $1.45B valuation for robot hands that sense force Robot dexterity startup Eka Robotics Inc. said today it has raised $150 million in new funding at a reported valuation of $1.45 billion.
TechCrunch AIValleyEx-Nvidia-turned-VC Amulya Vishwanath: ‘Physical AI is in its LEGO era’ It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.
TechCrunch AIValleyEka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking up a wide range of objects, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.
Tom's HardwareSiliconIntel asks FCC for waiver to buy foreign robots Intel has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make an exception for the automated guided vehicles (AGVs) that the company uses to transport the sensitive silicon wafers and other…
The Robot ReportResearchGecko Robotics secures $300M contract with the U.S. Navy Gecko’s suite of technologies ensures data integrity by collecting and integrating full-coverage, high-fidelity data layers.
TechNodeAsiaChina’s Magnetic-Sensor Champion Bets on Robot Joints Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart , a TechNode Group publication. Sinomags is approaching a Hong Kong IPO with two measures of its position: first among Chinese magnetic…
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