Tag: Robotics
NVIDIA teaches its robotics stack to take instructions from agents
The release adds agent-ready skills and ROS Lyrical support, alongside a pose library that runs up to 5.5…
Toyota weighs a 400,000 robot push worth $6.4B a year
The automaker told investors that wider automation could need 400,000 robots and about $6.4B a year starting in…
Robot arms rarely refuse in a new harm benchmark
Given instructions to cause harm with real hardware, three leading models almost never said no.
Vantora banks $100M to build AI ventures it never sells
The startup factory once called UP.Labs will now let corporate partners keep the companies it builds.
Acoustic simulation startup Treble adds $18M for voice testing
Reykjavik-based Treble has extended its Series A to build acoustic simulation infrastructure for voice models, wearables and robots.
Pony.ai and GAC put a self-driving electric hauler into production
The fourth-generation Robotruck enters mass production this year with nine lidars and a sensor kit whose bill of…
NVIDIA open-sources OSMO to run robot pipelines from one file
NVIDIA has released a Kubernetes-native orchestrator that carries a robotics workflow from training cluster to factory floor.
Robot data startup Mecka draws Sequoia at a $500M value
The two-year-old motion-data company is in late-stage talks on a Sequoia-led round, three months after announcing its Series…
GPT-6 Astra tops two agent tests from drone piloting to vending
OpenAI's newest model beat a human baseline on every drone-control subtask and tripled a rival's simulated vending income…
JD Logistics plans three million robots to move China’s parcels
JD Logistics laid out a five-year plan to buy three million robots, a million autonomous vehicles and 100,000…
Skild AI hits $100M run rate with robots that learn
Skild's S1 model turns a single recorded demonstration into autonomous execution, and the company says deployments are already…
Arm rallies 80 partners around physical AI standards
A new robotics capability framework aims to give machines a shared way to describe their skills.