Published on: 2025-06-05 16:10:30
It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments, Hugging Face claims. “SmolVLA aims to democratize access to vision-language-action [VLA] models and accelerate research toward generalist robotic agents,” wr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 16:42:12
Hugging Face is best known as a platform for machine learning and AI development, but it has also been dabbling in the world of robotics. This week, the company revealed two new robots it plans to bring to market—including a humanoid one that it would sell for around $3,000, far less than many of the other options that have been floated, like Unitree's $16,000 G1. Dubbed the HopeJR, Hugging Face's robot has up to 66 actuated degrees of freedom. According to Hugging Face Principal Research Scien
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AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots. The company announced a pair of open-source robots, HopeJR and Reachy Mini. HopeJR is a full-size humanoid robot that has 66 actuated degrees of freedom, or 66 independent movements, including the ability to walk and move its arms. Reachy Mini is a desktop unit that can move its head, talk, listen, and be used to test AI apps. Meet HopeJr, a full humanoid robot lowering the ba
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 03:03:00
What just happened? A team of engineers at the University of Edinburgh has unveiled a new chapter in robotics: soft, four-legged robots that can walk off a 3D printer as soon as they're made. This innovation, powered by a desktop machine called the Flex Printer, could make advanced robotics accessible to a much wider audience and spark fresh advances in fields from medicine to nuclear safety. Unlike traditional robots built from rigid materials and packed with electronics, these new devices are
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What just happened? A team of engineers at the University of Edinburgh has unveiled a new chapter in robotics: soft, four-legged robots that can walk off a 3D printer as soon as they're made. This innovation, powered by a desktop machine called the Flex Printer, could make advanced robotics accessible to a much wider audience and spark fresh advances in fields from medicine to nuclear safety. Unlike traditional robots built from rigid materials and packed with electronics, these new devices are
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 17:00:00
Nvidia said it is racing ahead with humanoid robotics technology, providing a custom foundation model for humanoid reasoning, a blueprint for generating synthetic motion data, and more Blackwell systems to accelerate humanoid robot development. At the Computex 2025 trade show in Taiwan, Nvidia unveiled Isaac GR00T N1.5, the first update to Nvidia’s open, generalized, fully customizable foundation model for humanoid reasoning and skills; Nvidia Isaac GR00T-Dreams, a blueprint for generating synt
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This Robotic Centipede Crawls Farms to Kill Weeds — and Might Join the Military Just keep them far away from us. Creepy Robo Crawlers Engineers have developed a giant robotic centipede that can scuttle across farmland to root out weeds. As IEEE Spectrum reports, Georgia Tech spinoff Ground Control Robotics has created a bio-inspired centipede that uses sensors and plenty of motor-actuated limbs to control weeds. "Centipede robots, like snake robots, are basically swimmers," founder Dan Gold
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust A hot potato: Recent efforts by tech companies to develop increasingly human-like autonomous robots have invited endless comparisons to the Terminator films. While the criticisms are usually made in jest, a couple of recent incidents with Unitree robots present some of the strongest evidence yet of the risks of humanoid robotics. A chilling video that recently began circulating on social media alle
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-06 04:47:35
Hugging Face, the startup best known for the AI developer platform of the same name, is selling a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that can pick up and place objects and perform a few other basic chores. Called the SO-101, the arm is the follow-up to Hugging Face’s previous robotic arm, the SO-100, released last year. The company’s robotics division, LeRobot, partnered with French robotics firm The Robot Studio to debut the SO-100 for around $100 in October. Hugging Face teamed up with T
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 09:15:51
As Donald Trump's trade war brings new levels of uncertainty to American manufacturing sector, one issue seems to have been vastly overlooked: China's massive legion of robot workers. New reporting by the New York Times on Chinese robotics is shedding light on the enormous scale of automation happening across the Pacific. The article highlights the fact that China is currently one of the most automated countries in the world, with more capacity than the US, Germany, or even Japan — and more rob
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 08:41:42
It’s time to give Roborock a hand, because they’re giving us an arm. The Roborock Saros Z70 is the world’s first mass-produced robotic vacuum with a foldable mechanical arm that can intelligently identify and remove obstacles from its path, and even put them away for you. It’s the most groundbreaking advance in home cleaning technology in recent memory, and it’s sure to usher in an entirely new era in home robotic appliances and assistants. The Roborock Saros Z70 is now officially available for
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-20 22:00:57
WYBOT S2 Solar Robotic Pool Cleaner The WYBOT S2 Solar is a great option for those who don't want to worry about carrying a robotic pool cleaner to and from the pool to charge. It lives on your pool wall and charges using a solar panel. It's expensive compared to similar competitors, so know you are mostly paying for convenience. That said, it's a pleasure to use, as you barely have to interact with it. Everyone loves taking a dip in the pool on a nice summer day, but all that pleasure comes wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-22 00:00:37
Beatbot AquaSense 2 Ultra The Beatbot AquaSense 2 Ultra is the robotic pool cleaner for those who want no compromises and a device that requires little to no human help. It is among the most expensive of its class, but it is very powerful, convenient, and has a few unique features you rarely find in rival models, such as surface cleaning and a water clarity system. Robotic pool cleaners seem to be all the hype among pool owners these days. It’s an evolving market, but it’s moving quickly. Optio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-29 15:00:00
Lapeyre says that selling humanoid robots remains challenging because the use cases are unclear and the systems are still unreliable—though some companies are starting to find success. Today, the technology is mostly developed by a few well financed companies including Tesla, Figure, and Agility Robotics. “With Hugging Face, we hope to democratize that,” he says. Many AI models, software frameworks, and tools that researchers and engineers rely on to build AI models and applications are already
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In Brief AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount. Wired reports that Hugging Face plans to sell Pollen’s humanoid robot, Reachy 2, and let developers download and suggest improvements to its code. Pollen Robotics, which aims to bring affordable humanoid robots to the home, was founded in 2016 by Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet. The company managed to raise €2.5 million (around $2.83 million) from investors inc
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Lapeyre says that selling humanoid robots remains challenging because the use cases are unclear and the systems are still unreliable—though some companies are starting to find success. Today, the technology is mostly developed by a few well financed companies including Tesla, Figure, and Agility Robotics. “With Hugging Face, we hope to democratize that,” he says. Many AI models, software frameworks, and tools that researchers and engineers rely on to build AI models and applications are already
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A few years ago, Chef Robotics was facing potential death. “There were a lot of dark periods where I was thinking of giving up,” founder Rajat Bhageria tells TechCrunch of his six-year-old company. But friends and investors encouraged him, so he persevered. Today, Chef Robotics has not only survived, it’s one of the few food tech robotic companies that is thriving. The startup, which recently raised a $23 million Series A, has 40 employees and marquee customers like Amy’s Kitchen and Chef Bomb
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-05 08:39:15
Boston Dynamics Inc. and Hyundai Motor Group yesterday announced plans to deepen their partnership, which includes Hyundai purchasing “tens of thousands” of robots in the coming years. The automaker will also help Boston Dynamics grow by integrating its manufacturing capabilities with Boston Dynamics. Hyundai said it is already deploying Spot robots for industrial inspection and predictive maintenance at its facilities. The Seoul, South Korea-based company plans to deploy Atlas across its facto
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-16 01:47:38
“We’d trained models to help robots with specific tasks and to understand natural language before, but this was a step change,” Carolina says. “The robot had never seen anything related to basketball, or this specific toy. Yet it understood something complex — ‘slam dunk the ball’ — and performed the action smoothly. On its first try.” This all-rounder robot was powered by a Gemini Robotics model that is part of a new family of multimodal models for robotics. The models build upon Gemini 2.0 th
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The design of Samsung’s Android VR headset was clearly ‘inspired’ by Vision Pro, but Vivo has taken things to a whole new level with its Vivo Vision. While there are differences, it could certainly pass for the real thing at first glance … UploadVR called it a blatant Vision Pro clone. Vivo Vision verges into the realm of outright cloning. Its grey fabric facial interface, rear strap, external battery, and connector look almost identical to Apple’s, and even the name Vision was copied. The onl
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Nvidia GTC earlier this month brought out robots I'd never seen in person before like Neo Gamma, familiar faces performing new feats like Digit and leading humans in the robotics business. We caught up with industry leaders from Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, 1X and Disney to learn more about the specific challenges each company is trying to solve, their dreams for the future and the technology that might help them get there. Neo Gamma from 1X 1X had its Neo Gamma robot on display in a hom
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Chinese robotics company Dobot has shown off its humanoid robot, dubbed Atom, preparing a sumptuous breakfast. The video, titled "Rise and Shine with Atom, Your New Breakfast Buddy!" shows the robot using its long, flexible arms to place pieces of ham, sausages, slices of toast, and cherries onto a plate. The robot even poured a glass of milk and lifted the tray for serving. "Add some cherries, too," an American-accented voiceover says. "Such thin stems won't trouble me. Just two fingers are e
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Boston Dynamics has treated us to a lot of impressive videos over the years and the company is back today with the latest example of its robotics mastery. In the clip above, its Atlas robot demonstrates several types of full-body movement, starting with a walk and advancing to a cartwheel and even a spot of break dancing. The different actions were developed using reinforcement learning that used motion capture and animation as source materials. At this rate, our future robot overlords will be a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-10 15:12:00
OK, this is not a drill. The robots are coming. Nvidia announced a portfolio of technologies to supercharge humanoid robot development, including Nvidia Isaac GR00T N1, the world’s first open, fully customizable foundation model for generalized humanoid reasoning and skills. The other technologies include simulation frameworks and blueprints such as the Nvidia Isaac GR00T Blueprint for generating synthetic data, as well as Newton, an open-source physics engine — under development with Google D
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-12 02:00:00
You might be wondering if this means your home or workplace might one day be filled with robots you can bark orders at. More on that soon. But first, where did this come from? Google has not made big waves in the world of robotics so far. Alphabet acquired some robotics startups over the past decade, but in 2023 it shut down a unit working on robots to solve practical tasks like cleaning up trash. Despite that, the company’s move to bring AI into the physical world via robots is following the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-17 15:17:00
The big picture: While companies continue to improve robotic hardware, developing AI software to truly bring these machines to life has remained an elusive goal. This is especially disappointing given the remarkable advancements in "smart" language models. Now, Google's AI research lab has come closer than ever to bridging this gap. DeepMind has unveiled Gemini Robotics, an evolution of their powerful Gemini 2.0 language model that could unlock new capabilities for robots. The goal of Gemini R
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-19 11:09:46
In Brief Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, on Wednesday announced new AI models called Gemini Robotics designed to enable real-world machines to interact with objects, navigate environments, and more. DeepMind published a series of demo videos showing robots equipped with Gemini Robotics folding paper, putting a pair of glasses into a case, and other tasks in response to voice commands. According to the lab, Gemini Robotics was trained to generalize behavior across a range of differen
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-19 15:38:57
On Wednesday, Google DeepMind announced two new AI models designed to control robots: Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER. The company claims these models will help robots of many shapes and sizes understand and interact with the physical world more effectively and delicately than previous systems, paving the way for applications such as humanoid robot assistants. It's worth noting that even though hardware for robot platforms appears to be advancing at a steady pace (well, maybe not always)
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Research Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world Share Copy link × Introducing Gemini Robotics, our Gemini 2.0-based model designed for robotics At Google DeepMind, we've been making progress in how our Gemini models solve complex problems through multimodal reasoning across text, images, audio and video. So far however, those abilities have been largely confined to the digital realm. In order for AI to be useful and helpful to people in the physical realm, they have to demonst
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-20 02:59:52
Robotics firm iRobot, originator of the robotic vacuum Roomba facing stiff competition from lower-priced competitors, told investors Tuesday that there was "substantial doubt" about the company's survival "as a going concern" in the next year or so. Investors took iRobot at its word, and its stock price had fallen nearly 40 percent as of 10:20 am Wednesday from the day before. The dire accounting language and market reaction are nothing new for tech firms, but iRobot's annual report suggests de
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