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Robotics · September 30, 2026
NVIDIA’s Robo Olympics sends simulated robots sprinting, skating, and kickboxing
Sports videos and written prompts guided OpenAI’s Astra in building the events, with NVIDIA’s simulation tools turning motion references into tested robot movements.
Capture & Create · September 29, 2026
MultiSet Adds 3D Scan Exports for NVIDIA’s Robot Simulator
The latest update also lets devices find nearby maps automatically, combines separate survey scans, and makes mapped spaces shareable in a browser.
Robotics · September 28, 2026
AMD to Buy World Labs for $8.2 Billion
Fei-Fei Li will become AMD’s chief scientist, bringing the team behind Marble and Atlas closer to the chips that power its research.
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Robotics · September 27, 2026
Niantic Launches 100 Real-World Scenes for Robot Training
The Places Library pairs detailed 3D scenes with physical surfaces for simulation, with free samples of a London street and a New Jersey warehouse.
Robotics · September 17, 2026
Figure Introduces Helix 2.5, Bringing LLM-Style Scaling to Robot Learning
Figure’s robots tidied rooms, folded towels, and made beds across 30 homes without training in those spaces.
Robotics · September 15, 2026
Hyundai Recreates Real Roads in 3D to Test Its Driving AI
Hyundai uses Gaussian splatting to replay difficult driving scenarios in simulation, alongside plans to bring NVIDIA-powered driver assistance to production cars in 2028.
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Robotics · September 10, 2026
Pony.ai and Verne Begin Driverless Robotaxi Test Rides in Zagreb
Invited passengers can travel a 22-kilometer route to Zagreb’s airport with no onboard driver, bringing Verne’s service closer to fully driverless operation.
Capture & Create · September 8, 2026
World Labs Previews Real-Time World Generation With Atlas
The AI model creates new views as you move, using reference images and earlier frames to keep the scene consistent.
Capture & Create · September 6, 2026
Runway’s New AI Generates Worlds as You Play
GWM Worlds 2 makes AI-generated video interactive, creating each moment in response to your actions.
Capture & Create · September 1, 2026
World Labs’ Atlas Combines World Creation, Capture, and Simulation
One model generates camera-controlled video, reconstructs explorable 3D scenes, and reframes motion captured with as few as three cameras.
August 2026
Robotics · August 27, 2026
Hugging Face Unveils a $399 Robot Duck You Can Teach
Microduck can walk, pick up objects, get back up after a fall, and roller-skate. Its open software lets builders train and share new moves.
Robotics · August 25, 2026
Skild AI’s S1 Teaches Robots New Tasks From One Video
Skild says the foundation model can follow unseen, ten-minute jobs without fine-tuning and reached 66 percent per-step success on its internal benchmark.
Robotics · August 25, 2026
Figure Launches Index to Pay People for Videos That Train Robots
The app asks contributors to record tasks at home and work, while Figure says 16 million videos are already feeding its humanoid robot AI.
Robotics · August 25, 2026
XPeng Lines Up $900 Million to Put IRON Humanoids to Work
The human-shaped robot is headed for XPeng stores and campuses before a wider 2027 launch in retail and service jobs.
Robotics · August 20, 2026
Nevada Clears Tesla, Uber, and Waymo Robotaxis for Las Vegas
The three permits set first-year ceilings of 5,000 Tesla vehicles, 1,000 Waymo vehicles, and 1,000 Uber partner vehicles across Clark County.
Robotics · August 19, 2026
Nori Opens a Second Batch of Its $1,688 A3 Home Robot
The wheeled bimanual robot has two arms, four cameras, LiDAR, and software designed to let owners teach household tasks and share skills.
Robotics · August 13, 2026
Matic Robot Vacuum Adds Voice and Gesture Controls
Cues understands commands in more than 70 languages and uses on-device vision to turn a pointing gesture into a specific place to clean.
Robotics · August 11, 2026
Apple has 16 open roles that explicitly name robots
Four Cupertino jobs focus on AI-powered behavior, while nine Special Projects roles span touch, simulation, interaction, and hands-on robot hardware.
Robotics · August 8, 2026
SpaceX and Tesla Plan a 100-Million-Square-Foot AI Chip Factory
Terafab would put logic, memory, packaging, and testing under one Texas roof to feed Optimus robots, Cybercabs, and computers in orbit.
Robotics · August 4, 2026
NVIDIA Opens Its Alpamayo 2 Super Self-Driving AI Model for Commercial Use
The 34-billion-parameter model lets autonomous vehicle developers fine-tune surround-view reasoning on proprietary fleet data and commercially redistribute what they build.
Robotics · August 2, 2026
Google’s Gemini Robotics 2 Now Moves a Humanoid From Feet to Fingertips
DeepMind says the same model can adapt to a new robot body in a few hours, even when its shape and sensors are different.
July 2026
Capture & Create · July 28, 2026
AI-powered visual positioning can find you from just one photo.
MultiSet matched an ordinary photo against a 3D scan of Austin. The visible scene led it back to the camera’s exact position.
Capture & Create · July 27, 2026
InSpatio turns one video into a moving 4D Gaussian scene.
The research preview creates new camera angles from one video clip, without a multi-camera setup.
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