An OpenAI model helped me teach the Microduck to waddle and moonlight as a tiny cat butler.
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With Gemini Robotics 2.5, robots can “perform significantly more tasks with greater performance and dexterity,” according to Carolina Parada, DeepMind’s head of robotics. The model lets robots combine a “number” of skills, including “advanced tool use, complex manipulation of deformables, and handling delicate objects with finesse,” Parada says. [Link: Gemini Robotics 2.5: Accelerating Physical Intelligence | https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-5-accelerates-real-world-physical-intelligence/ | Google DeepMind]
Amazon-owned Ring is pushing into robotics with the launch of a home security drone and a rolling robot designed to patrol and protect businesses.
SoftBank Group reports results on Tuesday after an 11% share drop, record credit risk and China’s block on its $5.4bn ABB robotics deal.
AI video start-up Hedra has launched a service that trains, runs and keeps improving custom AI models for robotics, biology and defence.
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Amazon has formed a new home robotics team and is hiring for a “new-to-world robot product,” according to CNBC’s analysis of job posts.
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Decision made in order for factory in Texas to be used for Cybercab, the carmaker’s self-driving taxi
Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly-traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
Industrial robotics startup Aformic raised a $6.95M seed round led by Veteran Ventures Capital. It says it has $34M in orders and robots at Toyota and 3M.
Robotics could help Europe transform its ailing manufacturing sector and take on Chinese competition.
Robotics could help Europe transform its ailing manufacturing sector and take on Chinese competition.
Entourage closes a €100m Fund II. Founder Pieterjan Bouten says ‘great founders don’t need babysitting’, so it rarely takes board seats.
OpenAI will point its robotics programme at data centres, Sam Altman told Cheeky Pint, setting out his idea of self-replicating data centres.
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Curious, ambitious and confident, Freesia Gaul raised $600,000 from Blackbird for her virtual reality and robotics project.
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Bedrock Robotics, which is now valued at $4.1 billion, is particularly focused on autonomous excavators, in part because of a growing shortage of skilled operators.
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Faraday Future sold its robotics unit to sister firm FFR in an all-share deal. YT Jia will run both, and FFR expects to ship about 2,000 robots in 2026.
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US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk.
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Watch as Techable VC founder and former Nvidia exec Amulya Vishwanath tells Equity why robotics’ ChatGPT moment can wait, and why the real opportunity is rebuilding its basic building blocks.