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19 stories taggedphysical AI.
This humanoid robot can feel your touch, and it is coming to shipyards first
Generative Bionics built Gene.01 in six months. It has skin that senses temperature and force, and it is already being trained to weld ships.
Inside the Simulators Teaching Robots to Move, Grip and Learn
Training a real robot costs a fortune and breaks things. A new generation of GPU-powered physics simulators is changing that, one virtual arm at a time.
Meet the robots being trained to build solar farms faster than any human crew
A startup called Gritt says its AI-controlled machines can help an eight-person crew install four times as many solar panels in a day. It just raised $34 million to prove it.
Think it, move it: BrainCo's headset lets a person control a robot arm with thought alone
At a major AI conference in Shanghai, a user wearing a lightweight brain-reading headset thought about grabbing a cup, and a robotic arm did exactly that, in under a fifth of a second.
NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 Edge Brings Robot Brains Down to Earth
A new, compact AI model lets robots and factory cameras think for themselves, without needing a data centre nearby.
Jensen Huang's Tokyo Trip Just Reshaped Japan's Robot Future
Nvidia's CEO spent two days in Tokyo and left with deals covering AI factories, robotics giants, and Toyota's next cars. Here is what it actually means.
The Hidden Labor Problem Inside the Humanoid Robot Boom
Billions in funding are quietly paying humans to drive robots by remote control. One researcher argues that is not a stepping stone to machine intelligence, it is a trap.
Nvidia launches a new robot brain and builds a Japanese AI coalition
The chip giant's Cosmos 3 Edge model aims to give robots and cameras a better sense of the physical world. Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Kawasaki are signing on.
This Robot Knows When to Back Off: Palm Garden AI Builds a Social Awareness Layer for Service Robots
A small startup says service robots already know how to move and speak. What they lack is the judgment to know when not to.
This startup just raised $115 million to put robot excavators on building sites
TerraFirma wants one skilled operator to control an entire fleet of diggers and dozers from a screen, making each worker up to three times as productive.
AMI Labs' CEO Says 'Superintelligence' Is a Meaningless Word. Here's What He's Building Instead.
Alexandre LeBrun raised over a billion dollars to teach AI how the physical world works. He thinks the buzzwords his rivals love are, at best, unhelpful.
One operator, one button: Xpanner's robot arm now lifts solar panels so crews don't have to
A California startup has turned a standard excavator into an automated solar panel lifter, cutting a ten-person manual crew down to three.
How Satellites and AI Are Catching Illegal Fishers in Indonesian Waters
Indonesia tracks nearly 15,000 fishing vessels from shore using satellite feeds and pattern-spotting software. The results are concrete. The cat-and-mouse game is just beginning.
America's Humanoid Robot Moment: Agility Robotics CEO Lays Out a Six-Point Plan
Peggy Johnson wants federal policy to catch up with the factory floor. Here is what she is asking for, and why it matters for American workers.
US Military Used Explosive Drone Boats in Combat for the First Time
On the night of July 12, three unmanned sea drones destroyed an Iranian submarine and a naval maintenance facility. America had never used this kind of weapon in a real attack before.