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Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the co-founder and CEO of the UC Berkeley artificial intelligence spinout tells TechCrunch the platform, “is basically a large language model (LLM), but for ...

Taking its first steps into humanoid robotics, Nvidia Corp. today announced Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation artificial intelligence model for bipedal humanoid robots, designed to further work on this new type of embodied AI research. In ...

Peter Chen, CEO of the robot software company Covariant, sits in front of a chatbot interface resembling the one used to communicate with ChatGPT. “Show me the tote in front of you,” he types. In reply, a video feed appears, revealing a robot arm over ...

Figure AI has given us a look at its idea of the robotic equivalent of the Model T as it rolls out its Figure 3 humanoid robot – the company's third-generation bipedal autonomous machine designed for general purpose work that's built for mass production. For aficionados of the history of technology, the Ford Model T is one of the great stand outs. It was so revolutionary that Aldous Huxley ...

The new model from Google DeepMind is a huge step toward robots that can generalize. Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with robotics. Plugging in the LLM seems to give robots the ability ...

The American robotics industry enters 2026 riding an unprecedented wave of commercial breakthroughs, venture capital, and FDA approvals that position the United States at the forefront of global automation.

TL;DR: NVIDIA and Carnegie Mellon's ASAP AI trains humanoid robots through simulation to replicate real-world movements, overcoming physics challenges to achieve agile motion. NVIDIA and Carnegie Mellon researchers have introduced a new AI model called ...

On Thursday, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, unveiled a long-awaited glimpse into the future with models for their new self-driving prototypes: the cybercab and the robovan. Also at the celebration was the new Tesla robot optimus, serving up drinks ...

It may come to your attention that we are inundated with technological hype. Self-driving cars, human-like robots and AI chatbots all have been the subject of sometimes outlandishly exaggerated predictions and promises.

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