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Xiaomi’s 3nm Xuanjie O1 Chip Surpasses One Million Shipments
RoboticsAIHardware5d ago

Xiaomi’s 3nm Xuanjie O1 Chip Surpasses One Million Shipments

Xiaomi's in-house 3nm Xuanjie O1 chip just passed one million shipments, and plans to extend it to EVs and smart devices signal a coming robotics play.

LG and NVIDIA Talks Reveal Home Robot Edge Inference Challenges
RoboticsAIHardware5d ago

LG and NVIDIA Talks Reveal Home Robot Edge Inference Challenges

LG and NVIDIA are in talks to solve the edge inference and cooling challenges required to bring dexterous home robots like CLOiD to market, highlighting the infrastructure gap between industrial automation and consumer physical AI.

Launchpad Build AI's Manufacturing Language Model Speeds Robot Assembly Design
RoboticsAISoftware5d ago

Launchpad Build AI's Manufacturing Language Model Speeds Robot Assembly Design

Launchpad Build AI launches a Manufacturing Language Model that uses production data to cut robot assembly design time by 50%, targeting the 95% of factories that are small and midsize.

Scout AI Raises $100M to Train Physical AI Agents for Autonomous Combat Fleets
AI6d ago

Scout AI Raises $100M to Train Physical AI Agents for Autonomous Combat Fleets

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Accenture: Humanoid robot runs warehouse pilot project in Germany
RoboticsMay 1

Accenture: Humanoid robot runs warehouse pilot project in Germany

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CMU Robotics Institute Challenges Teams to Navigate Without a Map
RoboticsAIHardwareMay 1

CMU Robotics Institute Challenges Teams to Navigate Without a Map

CMU's Robotics Institute strips ground truth from its Vision-Language-Navigation Challenge, forcing teams to build robots that reason from raw sensor data alone.

Matternet's NHS Drone Network Proves Physical AI Works in Cities
AISoftwareMay 1

Matternet's NHS Drone Network Proves Physical AI Works in Cities

Matternet's M2 drone now flies medical payloads between Central London NHS hospital campuses, marking the first operational urban healthcare drone network in the UK.

Zebra Sells Fetch Robotics to Skild AI After $300M Acquisition Fails
RoboticsAIHardwareSoftwareMay 1

Zebra Sells Fetch Robotics to Skild AI After $300M Acquisition Fails

Zebra sells its $300M Fetch Robotics acquisition to Skild AI, whose omni-bodied Brain platform aims to unify AMRs, humanoids, and arms under one intelligence layer.

Robot Dexterity Breakthrough: Handling Curved Objects Like Bananas and Cups
RoboticsSoftwareMay 1

Robot Dexterity Breakthrough: Handling Curved Objects Like Bananas and Cups

New curvature-aware manipulation framework enables robots to grasp and precisely place irregular objects like bananas, cups, and tools — a key barrier in flexible automation.

FingerEye Sensor Fuses Touch and Vision for Dexterous Robot Manipulation
RoboticsHardwareSoftwareMay 1

FingerEye Sensor Fuses Touch and Vision for Dexterous Robot Manipulation

FingerEye integrates visual and tactile sensing in one fingertip sensor, giving robots continuous object perception across the pre- and post-contact boundary.

Robotics Dexterity Hype vs. Reality: When 'ChatGPT Moments' Mislead
RoboticsAIApr 29

Robotics Dexterity Hype vs. Reality: When 'ChatGPT Moments' Mislead

Eka Robotics' dexterous manipulation demos are impressive — but do they represent a real 'ChatGPT moment' or a well-staged party trick? Here's how to tell the difference.

Waymo, Zoox, and the Physical AI Stack Powering Today's Robotaxi Boom
RoboticsAIHardwareApr 29

Waymo, Zoox, and the Physical AI Stack Powering Today's Robotaxi Boom

Waymo tops 150,000 weekly rides as transformer-based AI stacks drive the robotaxi industry from testing to commercial scale — with direct implications for industrial robotics hardware.

Starship's 10 Million Deliveries Mark a New Threshold for Physical AI
RoboticsAIApr 29

Starship's 10 Million Deliveries Mark a New Threshold for Physical AI

Starship Technologies has passed 10 million autonomous deliveries, marking a measurable maturity threshold for Physical AI systems in real-world commercial deployment.

Schaeffler and VinDynamics Target the Joints Powering Humanoid Robots
RoboticsHardwareApr 29

Schaeffler and VinDynamics Target the Joints Powering Humanoid Robots

Schaeffler and VinDynamics are co-developing planetary gearboxes for humanoid robots — revealing who actually builds the joints that make humanoids move.

Flex and Teradyne's Vertical Integration Playbook for Physical AI Scale
RoboticsAISoftwareApr 29

Flex and Teradyne's Vertical Integration Playbook for Physical AI Scale

Flex and Teradyne expand their partnership to deploy UR cobots and MiR AMRs across 100+ global facilities, testing a vertical integration model for physical AI at scale.

Humanoid Robot Speed Records: Who's Fastest and Does It Matter?
RoboticsApr 29

Humanoid Robot Speed Records: Who's Fastest and Does It Matter?

Humanoid robots are closing in on the 100-metre sprint record — but does raw speed translate into real warehouse or home utility value?

Tesla Optimus Production Falls Behind: What the 5,000-Unit Shortfall Reveals
RoboticsAISoftwareApr 29

Tesla Optimus Production Falls Behind: What the 5,000-Unit Shortfall Reveals

Tesla is reportedly behind on its target to produce 5,000 Optimus humanoid robots, raising questions about scaling challenges across the entire humanoid sector.

Runway Targets Robotics as the Next AI Revenue Frontier
RoboticsAIHardwareApr 29

Runway Targets Robotics as the Next AI Revenue Frontier

Runway is building a robotics team and fine-tuning its world models for physical AI, joining NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI in targeting embodied AI as the next revenue frontier.

SoftBank Acquires ABB Robotics to Build a Physical AI Empire
RoboticsAIApr 29

SoftBank Acquires ABB Robotics to Build a Physical AI Empire

SoftBank acquires ABB's robotics division, combining it with Boston Dynamics and Arm to build a vertically integrated Physical AI empire.

The Dexterity Gap: Why Billions in Humanoid Funding Can't Solve Fine Motor Skills
RoboticsAIHardwareApr 29

The Dexterity Gap: Why Billions in Humanoid Funding Can't Solve Fine Motor Skills

Billions in humanoid investment haven't solved fine motor skills — and the depreciation risk for early buyers is steeper than the industry admits.

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