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Robots Need to Feel Friction to Truly Understand the Physical World
A new model class called VμA puts the physics of grip at the centre of robot thinking. Here is why that matters for every robot that picks things up.

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.

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.

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.

PixVerse Raises $439 Million and Hits $2 Billion Valuation in AI Video Push
The Singapore startup lets users generate 4K video from a single image. Alibaba is already a customer, and 150 million people have signed up.

Beyond Chatbots: World Models Are Teaching AI to Simulate Reality
The next big wave in AI is not about language. It is about teaching machines to understand how the physical world actually works, and the race is already on.

A Chinese robotics startup wants to build the 'recipe' that gives robots general intelligence
X Square Robot is open-sourcing an AI stack that aims to do for physical robots what large language models did for text. The approach is interesting. The independent evidence is still thin.