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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Insider Brief American Rheinmetall and Harbinger have formed a partnership to develop a new family of robotic and uncrewed ground vehicles as part of the U.S. military’s modernization efforts. According to the companies, the collaboration combines American Rheinmetall’s experience integrating combat vehicles and mission systems with Harbinger’s hybrid, autonomy-ready vehicle platform to create scalable robotic […]
Trajectory's focus on continuous learning in AI could significantly advance real-time adaptability, impacting robotics and autonomous systems.
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Insider Brief Brain Corp is expanding its research collaboration with the University of California San Diego to develop technologies aimed at helping autonomous robots better understand and navigate complex real-world environments. “Robotics has reached a point where the challenge is no longer simply movement or perception, but understanding,” Brain Corp CTO John Black said in […]
Human Archive, a startup founded by Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world physical training data that AI and robotics labs are racing to acquire.
Insider Brief Logistics startup Stord has raised $250 million in a Series F round at a $3 billion valuation and launched a new physical AI and robotics lab in Atlanta to go up against Amazon’s e-commerce and fulfillment network. The round was led by existing investors and included Strike Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Franklin […]
Two model classes get conflated in robotics conversations: vision-language models and vision-language-action models. They sound similar, both ingest images and text, and both come from the same lineage of multimodal pretraining. But for anyone trying to deploy an AI system that moves — not just describes — the distinction is decisive. VLM vs VLA is […]
