Tagged robotics

2026-08-21

Intel 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

Unitree 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

Unitree 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

DeepMind 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

NVIDIA 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

NVIDIA 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. [source](https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/cosmos-h-dreams)

2026-07-20

Apple’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

A 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. [1]

2026-07-16

NVIDIA 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. (source: NVIDIA dev blog)​

2026-07-09

SpaceXAI 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

China’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

DeepSeek 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

Anthropic 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

Anthropic 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

AMD 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

Agility 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

A 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

A 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

Sanctuary 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. [source]

2026-06-17

Genesis 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

Anthropic 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.