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AI Creation · 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.
World models · 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.
Microduck · 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.
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Skild AI S1 · 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.
Figure Index · 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.
XPeng IRON · 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.
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Robotaxis · 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.
Nori A3 · 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.
Home Robots · 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.
Apple 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.
Terafab · 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.
NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super · 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.
Gemini Robotics 2 · 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
Visual positioning · 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.
Spatial AI · 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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