Published on: 2025-04-29 18:00:00
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 19:37:22
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 19:00:26
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: 2025-05-06 11:39:15
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: 2025-05-17 04:47:38
“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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-27 03:37:03
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 23:00:06
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 23:30:18
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 02:13:30
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: 2025-06-10 18:12:00
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: 2025-06-12 05:00:00
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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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: 2025-06-19 14:09:46
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: 2025-06-19 18:38:57
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: 2025-06-20 05:59:52
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 10:14:58
Although the robot wasn’t perfect at following instructions, and the videos show it is quite slow and a little janky, the ability to adapt on the fly—and understand natural-language commands— is really impressive and reflects a big step up from where robotics has been for years. “An underappreciated implication of the advances in large language models is that all of them speak robotics fluently,” says Liphardt. “This [research] is part of a growing wave of excitement of robots quickly becoming
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 10:00:00
In sci-fi tales, artificial intelligence often powers all sorts of clever, capable, and occasionally homicidal robots. A revealing limitation of today’s best AI is that, for now, it remains squarely trapped inside the chat window. Google DeepMind signaled a plan to change that today—presumably minus the homicidal part—by announcing a new version of its AI model Gemini that fuses language, vision, and physical action together to power a range of more capable, adaptive, and potentially useful rob
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 10:00:00
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google DeepMind is launching two new AI models designed to help robots “perform a wider range of real-world tasks than ever before.” The first, called Gemini Robotics, is a vision-language-action model capable of understanding new situations, even if it hasn’t been trained on them. Gemini Robotics is built on Gemini 2.0, the latest version of Googl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 23:25:13
SemiAnalysis is hosting an Nvidia Blackwell GPU Hackathon on Sunday March 16th. It is the ultimate playground for Blackwell PTX tech enthusiasts, offering hands-on exploration of Blackwell & PTX infrastructure while collaborating on open-source projects. Speakers will include Philippe Tillet of OpenAI, Tri Dao of TogetherAI, Horace He of Thinking Machines, and more. Sponsored by: Together, Lambda, Google Cloud, Nvidia, GPU Mode, Thinking Machines, OpenAI, PyTorch, Coreweave, Nebius. Apply to be
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The city of Odense, in Denmark, is best known as the site where King Canute, Denmark’s last Viking king, was murdered during the 11th century. Today, Odense it’s also home to more than 150 robotics, automation, and drone companies. It’s particularly renowned for collaborative robots, or cobots—those designed to work alongside humans, often in an industrial setting. Odense’s robotics success has its roots in the more traditional industry of shipbuilding. During the ‘90s, the Mærsk shipping com
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 22:15:53
We may now be nearing the point where humanoid robots are no longer just clumsy curiosities, but genuine candidates — if not outright replacements — for human jobs. As the Wall Street Journal reports, two bipedal helpers, built by Agility Robotics, are currently moving bins around in a busy warehouse in Georgia. Dropped right into an environment designed for humans, the robots bend over to pick up the containers, then amble over to a nearby conveyor belt to drop them off. Rinse and repeat. Of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 17:00:00
That began to change with the partnership between the shipyard and the university. In the ’90s, that relationship got a big boost when the foundation behind the Mærsk shipping company funded the creation of the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute (MMMI), a center dedicated to studying autonomous systems. The Lindø shipyard eventually wound down its robotics program, but research continued at the MMMI. Students flocked to the institute to study robotics. And it was there that three researchers had t
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Regions like the U.S. and Europe have been doubling down on rebuilding their industrial muscle, after decades of closing down factories and outsourcing the work to countries like China. To that end, a fast-growing Polish startup called Nomagic, which builds robots — specifically robotic arms — for logistics operations, is announcing $44 million in funding, money it will use for both technology and business development, including breaking ground on its first efforts to sell its robots to customer
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 01:07:33
Forget valleys; we're now entering veritable Grand Canyons of uncanniness. Behold the robot known as "Protoclone," built by Clone Robotics. It's supposedly the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android. But it's mostly just got people extremely creeped out. In a promotional video shared on X this Wednesday, the startup — of which little is known — makes every effort possible to subvert the industry's favored image of robots as servile little helpers there for the good of humankind. Nope.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 04:20:13
It's not clear that anyone was asking for a company to build a muscular, sinewy robot or to see a video of it dangling, helpless from a hook, but life is full of surprises and this YouTube video of Clone Robotics' "Protoclone" is here all the same. The Protoclone appears to be a prototype version of the "Clone" robot the aptly named Clone Robotics is working to build. The video shows the Protoclone flexing its arms and legs, with visible artificial muscle fibers moving underneath its white "ski
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