#Robotics
Curated coverage on «Robotics»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.
Robot Replaced Volunteers: How a Nonprofit Organization Prepares Food in San Francisco
A charitable organization in San Francisco's Tenderloin district launched food preparation robotics to fill the volunteer shortage.
Swiss startup creates four-armed robot for space stations
Orbit Robotics unveiled Helios — a four-armed robot for work on space stations. In microgravity, two arms anchor to the station while two others perform operations.
Ford rehired laid-off engineers to fix failures in automated systems
Ford ranked first among mainstream brands in the JD Power ranking and admitted it had to bring back former employees — automated systems were making mistakes.
Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics 2 with full-body robot control
OpenAI vs. Anthropic: Why the AI Race Worries Researchers and Zuckerberg
UBTech U1 Pro Costs 159,800 Yuan: Chinese Buyers Are the First to Bring a Humanoid Home
FCC Bans Imports of New Chinese Robots to Protect US AI Infrastructure
Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics 2 With Whole-Body Intelligence for Robots
Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2, a system with whole-body intelligence: robots now coordinate their legs, torso and arms as a single unit.
Companion Robots Die by Day 30: What's Wrong With the AI Companion Niche
In ChinAI, researcher Jeffrey Ding dissects a systemic market problem: most companion robots lose their users before the first month is out.
Gemini Robotics 2: Google DeepMind Teaches AI to Control Humanoid Robots
Meta DINOv3 and SAM: University of Pittsburgh Builds $41.5M RAMMP Assistive Robot
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3: up to 20 seconds of video with sound from a single model
Moke Storms WorldArena's Top Ranks With a Robot World Model Trained on 32 Zhenwu 810E Chips
Physical AI and VLA Models: The Humanoid Race Between China and the US, and What Russia Has
Part two of Habr's deep dive into Physical AI covers humanoid economics, industrial rollout of VLA models, government programs, and Russia's place in the race with…
Cornell Tech Updates Robot AI With Light: An Optical Chip in Place of Power-Hungry Circuits
Cornell Tech researchers unveiled an optical receiver that uses QR-like flashes of light to rewrite neural network parameters directly in chip memory, without…