Insider Brief Human Archive has raised $8.2 million in seed funding from Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, Y Combinator and a group of angel investors from “frontier AI labs” as it looks to expand its platform for collecting real-world training data for robotics and physical AI systems. “Despite decades of research, we still barely understand […]
Genesis AI released Genesis World 1.0 on May 27, 2026 — a four-component simulation platform covering physics, rendering, compilation, and tooling. The system achieves a Pearson correlation of 0.8996 between simulation and real-world robot rollouts, and reduces policy evaluation time from over 200 hours to under 0.5 hours.
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AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch - because, despite what its website says, there's always a catch - is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots.
Shift announced the unusual offer on social media on Thursday, explaining that the value of the training data generated from the cleanings is more than enough to fund the service. As its website puts it: "You get a spotless apartment. We get training data. Everyone wins."
A promotional video shows a cleaner in a crisp white uniform and awkward-looking hat (more on that later) washing windows …
Read the full story at The Verge.
Asana has acquired StackAI, a Y Combinator-backed AI workflow automation company, for $75 million, as the project management platform repositions itself as an operating system for human-agent teams. StackAI co-founders Tony Rosinol and Bernard Aceituno will join Asana as part of the deal. StackAI had raised just under $20 million, including a $16 million Series […]
Are we ready for autonomous drones to make life-and-death decisions on the battlefield? Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, explains on “Interesting Times” that the Pentagon’s official policy leaves the door for autonomous weapons wide open.
Robotics is entering a new phase: moving from controlled demos and scripted automation toward generalizable, reliable embodied autonomy in the real world. At the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), eight of NVIDIA Research’s 28 accepted papers show how simulation-to-real transfer is becoming a foundation for that shift, helping robots perceive, reason, plan and […]
Insider Brief Rocket Lab announced it has completed its acquisition of California-based space robotics company Motiv Space Systems to support its push into planetary robotics, autonomous space systems and large-scale orbital infrastructure. Motiv, rebranded as Rocket Lab Robotics, develops robotic arms, motion control systems and precision spacecraft mechanisms used in several high-profile space missions, including […]
Last month at Beijing’s half marathon, a robot named Lightning beat the human world record by nearly seven minutes. It’s the latest in a string of AI-powered milestones that have got people wondering whether robots are about to enter our everyday lives, just as chatbots have. And the country leading the charge is China, where the government has pledged to invest more than £100bn in robotics over the next 20 years. To find out how robots are already entering the workforce, and what needs to happen to get them cleaning our homes and weeding our gardens, Ian Sample hears from the Guardian’s senior China correspondent, Amy Hawkins, and from Nathan Lepora, professor of robotics and AI at Bristol University, who researches how robots can achieve human-like dexterity
Clips: Global News, BBC, CGTN
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