America’s A.I. Is Futuristic. China Is Just Making It Work.
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — China has launched its 15th Five-Year Plan by placing robotics at the heart of its modern industrial system. The aim is to pivot its AI research towards physical applications with robots as main drivers for economic growth. This is a next step in the country´s strong automation development: China´s manufacturing […]
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Nanoleaf teased a trio of new products focused on embodied AI as it looks to move its brand beyond smart lighting. | Image: Nanoleaf Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been unusually quiet recently. While competitors such as Govee and Philips Hue have been pumping out new products and innovative features at an impressive pace, Nanoleaf has launched just a handful of smart lighting products in the last two years. There's a reason for this lull - the company has been going through a "brand evolution" focused on wellness, robotics, and, of course, AI. "The smart home is getting kind of boring," says the ever-candid Gimmy Chu, CEO and cofounder of Nanoleaf, which he now doesn't want me to call a smart lighting company. "Our brand needs to evolve to incorporate some of the … Read the full story at The Verge.
Insider Brief Sony Semiconductor Solutions and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufaccturing Company announced a plan to form a strategic partnership focused on developing and manufacturing next-generation image sensors, with the companies highlighting future applications in robotics, automotive systems and physical AI. According to a joint press release, the companies signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to create […]
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Insider Brief Spirit AI and Bosch China announced a strategic partnership focused on bringing embodied AI systems into industrial environments, combining Spirit AI’s robotics foundation models with Bosch’s manufacturing and automation infrastructure. According to the companies, the partnership is aimed at accelerating deployment of what Spirit AI describes as a “universal brain” for robots — […]
Insider Brief Genesis AI unveiled a new robotics foundation model called GENE-26.5 alongside a proprietary robotic hand and data collection system designed to improve how robots learn complex physical tasks from human behavior. The system is intended to address the difficulty of collecting large amounts of usable training data for physical tasks, which the company […]