Runway releases its robotics model Praxis-1 with open weights and source code under the Apache 2.0 license. The model uses knowledge from video training for robot control and leads the World Action Model category on Nvidia's RoboLab-120 benchmark. It can't yet plan complex action sequences on its own, though.
OpenAI is dissolving its standalone robotics team for the second time, but not because it lacks data. General-purpose models like GPT-6 Astra can apparently control robots directly, making a dedicated unit unnecessary. The researchers are being redistributed across other teams in what the company frames as a way to accelerate its robotics efforts.
This walkthrough showcases a beverage can pick-and-place task that uses the UR17G arm , Robotiq 2F-140 gripper , and beverage can to compose a scene in Isaac Sim, check their behavior, and run a pick-and-place example with agent-generated controls.
The startups work across the deep tech sector, including healthcare, fintech, energy, semiconductors, and AI. All nine are looking to enter the US.
Amazon's roaming Ring Robotics devices will debut in late 2026 and early 2027.
Google Deepmind introduced Gemini Robotics 2.5, a new control model for robots, and tested it with Apptronik on active Mercedes-Benz production lines in Hungary and Germany. The humanoid robot Apollo 2 sorted metal parts there with a reported success rate of 96 percent.
Nvidia's new AI model GR00T 2 is designed to teach robots new tasks without laborious teleoperation. Instead, the system transfers human hand movements from videos to robotic arms, trained on about 400,000 hours of video footage. Success rates still vary widely, though, ranging from 10 to 80 percent depending on the task.
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.
The new model is up to twice as successful at some tasks.
Our most capable vision-language-action model enhances robot dexterity, reliability, and safety
Ring is finally shipping a flying indoor drone camera. For real this time. The Ring Drone Cam will arrive on January 27th, 2027, for $249.99, Ring founder Jamie Siminoff said at a launch event in New York City this week.
The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) takes place November 9–12, 2026, in Austin, Texas. BAIR faculty, postdocs and students will be presenting research at various sessions, including an Early Career Keynote from Professor Negar Mehr. See below for the full schedule of sessions with BAIR members, including papers co-authored with collaborators at other universities and companies.
CrossnoKaye brought physical AI to heavy industry with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Its ATLAS platform and AURA agentic system ground AI reasoning in live plant data and run verifiable Python in isolated AgentCore sandboxes, giving plant engineers checkable, math-backed answers instead of model guesses.
Simulation, which has long been the proving ground for robots learning to walk, roll and hop, is now helping researchers teach robots tasks that require a finer touch: aligning gears, connecting cables and assembling small components.
Tapping into the country’s strengths in manufacturing and engineering, NVIDIA is helping advance Korea’s physical AI ecosystem. The country’s industry leaders are applying accelerated computing, AI and simulation to everything from semiconductor manufacturing to robotics and autonomous vehicles. These efforts are helping bring physical AI from development into real-world production.
Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and NVIDIA hosted the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum at COEX. Representatives from the Ministry of Science and ICT and NVIDIA met with over 20 Korean startups across foundation models, physical AI, AI infrastructure and AI semiconductors.
Today we're introducing a framework for creating these environments; we call them FoundationWorlds. Our first foundation world is ToyBlocks : an open simulation framework built around a robot arm and blocks on a tabletop.
Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
I’m not the sort of person who typically pays for a house cleaner. I’m too frugal, and I kind of enjoy putting on a podcast and going to town on my tub with a Magic Eraser.
NVIDIA Cosmos world model development platform adds four new open-weight checkpoints to its Cosmos 3 model family for generating interactive world simulation and multi-sensor multi-view driving scenes. All four models are post-trained examples of Cosmos 3 Nano and have 16B trainable parameters. The models use OpenMDW1.1, permitting commercial and non-commercial use under its terms.
US leader in deploying humanoid robots goes public on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
President orders trade talks on foreign-made factory robots, threatens tariffs.
Every manufacturer has its own industrial intelligence. Some is documented, and some resides in the knowledge of experienced workers. Consider an experienced operator preparing to restart a line after a changeover.
US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk.
Toyota wants to turn itself into a global robotics company, and it's betting on humanoid robots and factory automation to get there.
Nvidia's new data engine Flora labels one hour of robot video for 72 cents instead of $88 with GPT-6 Astra, while scoring slightly higher on quality. The open system, built on three fine-tuned Qwen3.5 models, catches errors in robot actions far more reliably than any competitor but sometimes falls short on descriptive accuracy.
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
The company plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
SimReady Central Library brings together more than 2,000 simulation-ready (SimReady) OpenUSD assets on Hugging Face, giving developers a free, ungated starting point for physical AI training environments and AI factory digital twins.
It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.
Ukraine’s latest drone innovation may boost bleak odds of evacuating casualties.
Today, we take the next step and introduce Cosmos3-H-Dreams, bringing interactive generative simulation to the visual and procedural complexity of clinical surgery with our most convincing in-body imagery to date. To our knowledge, this is the first real-time generative surgical simulator trained on clinical cholecystectomy recordings to support live kinematic control.
Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.
University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, October 13-15 in San Francisco.
Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way.
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt.
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt.
Google's Gemini 4 Argon controls robots, generates simulations from photos or sketches, and evaluates training videos. On Google's own ERQA benchmark, it scores 87 percent. But the published example prompts show that the demos still need a lot of human guidance.
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