Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, its first humanoid engineered to work safely near people. The robot takes different precautions depending on how close someone is.
Skild AI's S1 robot foundation model learns long, unseen tasks from a single video demonstration. Weights are not updated; the method is in-context learning.
Danijar Hafner left DeepMind to found his own company. His method trains robots not by real-world trial and error but inside a model that emulates physical reality. There is no auditable result yet.
Walking, kicking, standing back up after a fall — every move is a neural policy trained in simulation. The reward functions are on GitHub as well.
A research preview aimed at letting AI agents drive robot arms and sensors without writing a bespoke driver for each one.
Robots that plug in cables and reset servers are under test. The company declined to comment, though an executive described the long-term goal last year.
At the Beijing games, humanoid robots surpassed human world records. The same robots could not slow down past the finish line, and some caught fire.
Robot bodies are improving while robot brains produce little value. The industry's own diagnosis comes down to one word: data.
Nearly 90 percent of the 13,000-plus two-armed, two-legged robots delivered globally last year were made in China. The carnival is that strategy's public face.
Dyna Robotics has released Dyna-2, pre-trained on more than a million hours of egocentric human video. The work tests whether ordinary human video can substitute for teleoperation data.
Microsoft Research's MindTopo benchmark measures whether multimodal models understand relations like connectivity and knottedness. They do well on static images, not on action.
Edward Warchocki in Poland, Rizzbot in Austin and Bart Robot in New York are the same device: the Unitree G1. The company goes public in about two weeks.
World Labs, founded by Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled its Real-to-Sim-to-Real engine, which turns a single real robot task into thousands of simulated variations.