Robots, humanoids, drones, and embodied intelligence — where AI meets the physical world.
Amulya Vishwanath, formerly of NVIDIA's robotics platforms, says physical AI is broader than robots and that robotics remains in an early 'Lego era' of foundational components.
Industrial Next focuses on automating complex, delicate manufacturing tasks and wants factory robots to switch between tasks in minutes instead of weeks.
Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, a significant development aimed at enhancing robotics capabilities.
The article discusses the use of NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to enhance robotics simulation and improve learning workflows, providing insights into their capabilities.
NVIDIA has released Isaac ROS 5.0, a set of GPU-accelerated packages built on the ROS open framework to support robotics applications that perceive, reason, and act.
UP.Labs, rebranded as Vantora, has raised $100M and is concentrating on physical AI, building startups for industrial corporations.
Skild AI launched its S1 robot foundation model, designed to learn previously unseen, long-horizon tasks from a single video demonstration using NVIDIA Physical AI.
NVIDIA highlights how robotaxi leaders use its technologies to deploy and scale driverless fleets, in a market projected to reach $400 billion by 2035.
Uber founder Travis Kalanick's company Atoms may be moving into the robotaxi business, which he has framed as completing 'unfinished business.'
The U.S. is increasingly restricting foreign-made drones and robots, while China's scale means the global competition could shift to other markets.
Developers building the AI systems that control robots are moving past an early developmental phase, while robot hardware waits for more capable software.
A look at the relationship between a child, Xander, and his companion robot Moxie, and the emotional questions raised when such robots are no longer available.