Tag: Robotics
Robot brain startup FieldAI nears a $10B valuation
The robotics AI developer is reportedly seeking about $700M as customers adopt models that navigate without a map.
AMD spends $8.2B to fold Fei-Fei Li’s lab into its chip roadmap
The chipmaker is buying World Labs in stock and installing its founder as chief scientist.
GPT-6 Astra steers a kitchen robot without a control layer
A Stanford and Caltech system lets a Unitree humanoid tidy an unfamiliar room by calling skills directly from…
Black Forest Labs releases an open robotics world model
FLUX 3 Action predicts the next move and the next state of the world from camera feeds alone.
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…