Tagged robotics
23 entries
2026-09-10
Brief · 10 September 2026OpenAI announced that a swarm of 10,000 AI agents produced a candidate solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem in just 88 hours, marking the first public claim of AI‑driven progress on a Clay Mathematics Institute challenge. (The Verge)
2026-09-02
Brief · 2 September 2026Nori Robotics unveiled a $1,688 bimanual humanoid robot aimed at developers and research labs, expanding the sub‑$2k entry tier for mobile manipulation platforms. (norirobotics.com)
2026-08-21
Brief · 21 August 2026Intel unveiled the Granite Rapids‑WS Xeon 678X, a 48‑core, 96‑thread, 300 W CPU, and Phoronix reported measurable hyper‑threading gains in workstation benchmarks today.
2026-08-20
Brief · 20 August 2026Unitree released a demo of its new ‘Superman’ humanoid, sprinting faster than Usain Bolt and leaping 2 m from a standstill, marking the fastest publicly shown bipedal robot to date. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubMtxGD7QZ4)
2026-08-19
Brief · 19 August 2026Unitree unveiled the Superman humanoid robot, claiming it can sprint faster than Usain Bolt and leap 2 m from a standstill, marking the first public demo of a robot with claimed sprint‑speed capability.
2026-07-31
Brief · 31 July 2026DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, claiming the model now drives whole‑body motion on humanoid platforms, expanding beyond its prior upper‑body‑only control.
2026-07-29
Brief · 29 July 2026NVIDIA unveiled a GPU‑native medical‑physics simulation pipeline for healthcare robotics, claiming real‑time catheter navigation and tighter integration of physics with robot control. The blog details how the approach leverages Blackwell GPUs to accelerate Monte‑Carlo dose calculations.
2026-07-27
Brief · 27 July 2026NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos‑H‑Dreams, a Blackwell‑based accelerator that claims sub‑30 ms latency for high‑fidelity generative simulation of surgical scenes, targeting real‑time practice on virtual patients.
2026-07-20
Brief · 20 July 2026Apple’s lawsuit alleging patent infringement could stall OpenAI’s announced hardware push, raising uncertainty for its planned AI‑chip venture. (TechCrunch, 2026‑07‑19)
2026-07-19
Brief · 19 July 2026A leak of Qwen 4.0 appeared on YouTube, and DeepSeek announced its V4 model will go GA on Monday, adding two new LLM contenders in the last 36 hours.
2026-07-16
Brief · 16 July 2026NVIDIA added Blackwell‑powered T3000 and T2000 modules to the Jetson AGX Thor line, coupled with new Jetson software memory‑optimisation and agent‑skill stacks for edge AI workloads. (NVIDIA dev blog)
2026-07-09
Brief · 9 July 2026SpaceXAI rolled out Grok 4.5, an Opus‑class model touted as faster and cheaper than its predecessor, marking the latest frontier‑model release. (TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/spacexai-releases-grok-4-5-which-elon-describes-as-an-opus-class-model/
2026-07-05
Brief · 5 July 2026China’s U‑World unveiled its U1 ultra‑bionic humanoid on July 4, demonstrating real‑time emotion recognition, face‑voice cloning, and fluid locomotion in a live YouTube demo.
2026-07-04
Brief · 4 July 2026DeepSeek announced DSpark, an acceleration layer for its V4 model, promising dramatically higher inference speed and lower serving costs. The claim appeared in a short video posted on July 3 – July 4. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7GBRPf7Zy8)
2026-07-03
Brief · 3 July 2026Anthropic entered talks with Samsung to design a custom AI accelerator, a move announced a day after OpenAI revealed a partnership with Broadcom on its own chip. The discussion signals a potential new supply source for Anthropic’s Claude models. (TechCrunch)
2026-07-01
Brief · 1 July 2026Anthropic announced on X that Claude Fable 5 is being restored to production after the Trump administration lifted the temporary ban, with access slated to resume Wednesday for all Claude platforms. (https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958964/anthropic-claude-fable-5-is-back)
2026-06-25
Brief · 25 June 2026AMD added an ONNX Runtime backend to FFmpeg’s DNN filter, letting AI models run directly in the video pipeline for up‑scaling, detection and segmentation tasks. (Phoronix)
2026-06-24
Brief · 24 June 2026Agility Robotics posted a new short showing its Digit humanoid executing a reactive shuffle around a moving obstacle, proving on‑board footstep planning works in real time. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2S_8irZnz3Q
2026-06-23
Brief · 23 June 2026A new video from a Chinese OEM shows its MOYA humanoid robot walking, gesturing, and responding with a claimed 92% human likeness rating, marking the first public demo of the platform in over a week. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdeO-D0tZD0)
2026-06-22
Brief · 22 June 2026A Chinese startup released a video of its MOYA humanoid robot, showing full bipedal walking, warm‑skin surface and camera‑based eyes, and claiming a 92% human likeness score.
2026-06-18
Brief · 18 June 2026Sanctuary AI released a new demo showing its Physical AI robot completing a high‑speed wire‑plug insertion task with a reported 99.5%+ success rate, marking the first public evidence of production‑grade reliability for a dexterous manipulation robot.
2026-06-17
Brief · 17 June 2026Genesis AI unveiled Eno, a humanoid‑style robot that drops its legs and folds onto a wheeled base, proving that future bots don’t need a human silhouette to move and manipulate in real environments. (The Verge)
2026-06-15
Brief · 15 June 2026Anthropic pulled public access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after a US government order, ending a three‑day window that let developers experiment with the frontier models.