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Cortical Labs Is Now Renting Out Human Brain Cells in the Cloud
Australian startup Cortical Labs has opened its Cortical Cloud, allowing anyone with a hefty budget to rent and program …
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Generalist's GEN-1 Brain Hits 99% Success, 3x Speed
Generalist's new GEN-1 model for robots achieves 99% reliability and 3x speeds, showing emergent 'intelligent improvisation' that may finally unlock commercial viability.
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Linux Foundation's Newton Aims to Unify Physics for All Robots
With backers like NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and Disney, the new open-source Newton 1.0 physics engine wants to become the …
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Xiaomi's CyberOne Robot Now Sweats to Keep Its Bionic Hands Cool
Xiaomi's CyberOne humanoid gets a massive upgrade with bionic hands that use liquid cooling—or 'sweating'—to handle …
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Bezos Is Raising $100B to Buy Factories and Replace Humans with AI
Jeff Bezos is moving beyond e-commerce with a $100 billion fund to acquire and automate key manufacturing industries …
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Best Robot Lawn Mowers of 2026: The Ultimate Guide to Your Lawn's New Overlords
Forget perimeter wires. The 2026 robot mower battle is all about AI brains, with LiDAR, RTK, and Tri-Fusion tech. We …
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Sunday Robotics Bags $165M to End Demos and Actually Ship a Home Robot
With $165 million in fresh funding, Sunday Robotics is making a bold promise: stop the endless cycle of flashy demos and …
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EON Uploaded a Fruit Fly's Brain, and It Actually Works
EON has successfully emulated a fruit fly's brain using the FlyWire connectome, achieving 91% behavioral accuracy in a …
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Allonic's $7.2M Bet to Weave Robot Bodies Like Muscle Tissue
A deep dive into Allonic, the Hungarian startup that just raised Hungary's largest-ever pre-seed round to solve the …
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Cortical Labs Plugs Human Brain Cells Into an LLM After They Mastered DOOM
After teaching 200,000 lab-grown human neurons to play Pong and DOOM, Cortical Labs has now wired them into an LLM, …
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Uber's New AV Play: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Become Their Operating System
Uber re-enters the autonomous vehicle race with Uber Autonomous Solutions, a platform to power its rivals' robotaxis. Is …
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Kinexus: The Open-Source Brain Bridge to Command Your Robot Army
A new open-source project, Kinexus, aims to solve robot fleet management by allowing users to control humanoid robots …
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The Dueling Architectures: Humanoid's KinetIQ Takes on Figure's Helix 02
A deep dive into the two dominant philosophies for humanoid AI. Humanoid's structured KinetIQ bets on fleet management, …
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The Uncanny Valley of the Heart: When Robot Companions Get Too Good
We're building robots to cure loneliness, but a new study on AI deception suggests we might be programming our own …
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Ant Group Drops a Full AI Stack for Robots—And It's Free
Ant Group has released LingBot, a suite of open-source foundation models for robotic perception, action, and simulation, …
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Figure's Helix 02 Ditches Code for a Brain That Can Do the Dishes
Figure AI just unveiled Helix 02, a single AI model giving its humanoid full-body autonomy. It autonomously completed a …
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Microsoft's Grand Plan to Build a Brain for Every Robot
Microsoft is leveraging its AI prowess to create a universal foundation model for robotics, aiming to bring common-sense …
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Robotics' Real Revolution Is a Tsunami of Open-Source Data
Forget dancing humanoids. The biggest breakthrough in robotics is a 2,400% surge in open datasets, turning a hardware …
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Skild AI Teaches Robots to Cook by Making Them Watch YouTube
Skild AI is tackling the biggest bottleneck in robotics by training its AI to learn complex tasks like cooking simply by …
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1X's NEO Robot Learns by Watching Videos, Not Tedious Training
Robotics firm 1X has unveiled a new world model that allows its NEO humanoid to learn complex tasks from internet-scale …
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Tesla's Optimus Hand Patent Is a Masterclass in Robotic Design
A deep dive into Tesla's patent for the Optimus Gen 2 hand reveals a brutally efficient design philosophy that ditches …
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Boston Dynamics' Electric Atlas Is Here to Do Your Job, Not Steal Your Moves
Boston Dynamics has unveiled the enterprise version of Atlas, an all-electric humanoid robot designed for heavy lifting …
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From Light Shows to Kill Shots: The AI Drone War Is Here
AI-powered drone swarms have evolved from record-breaking light shows to autonomous killing machines on the battlefield. …
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Beyond the Hype: A Brutally Honest Guide to Investing in Robotics in 2026
The next gold rush is in humanoid robotics. This is your no-nonsense guide to the companies, ETFs, and brutal realities …
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Sunday AI Skips Robot Puppets, Teaches Chores by Hand
Sunday AI's ACT-1 model learns complex chores from a human-worn glove, bypassing the industry's reliance on expensive, …
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NVIDIA Halos: A Safety Net or Golden Cage for Physical AI?
NVIDIA's Halos certification aims to tame autonomous robots and vehicles. We dissect if it's a true safety revolution or …
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Olaf Deconstructed: Disney's Snowman is a Robotics Marvel
A deep dive into the surprisingly advanced engineering of Disney's Olaf robot, from its unique leg design to its …
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LimX Tron2: A Shape-Shifting Robot That Backflips
LimX Dynamics' Tron2 is a multi-form bot that rides on two wheels, transforms, and offers a wildly modular platform for …
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Robot Christmas 2025: The Holiday Bots Strike Back
Just when you thought the holiday robot videos were over, a new batch of dancing, LEGO-building, and eerily graceful …
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China's 'Uber for Robots' Platform Has Officially Launched
China's new BotShare platform aims to make renting a humanoid robot as easy as hailing a cab, targeting a booming $1.4 …
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Robot Christmas 2025: Dancing Presidents and Popcorn-Serving Optimuses
This year's Christmas robot videos range from a dancing Venezuelan president to Tesla Optimus and Boston Dynamics' …
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FunctionGemma: The Tiny AI That Could Power Cheap Robots
Google's 270M parameter FunctionGemma runs on-device without the cloud. For robotics, this means affordable, autonomous …
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MS: Tesla Robotaxi Fleet Nears 'Inflection Point'
Morgan Stanley analysts predict Tesla's robotaxi fleet could grow from a small experiment to one million vehicles, …
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Google's Robots Now Think Before They Act
Google DeepMind's latest robots use Gemini's 'chain of thought' to tackle complex tasks, from packing your lunch to …
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Integral AI Claims AGI Breakthrough With 'World Model'
A Tokyo startup led by an ex-Google AI pioneer claims the world's first AGI-capable model. We dissect the hype, the …
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EngineAI T800: Killer Specs, But Where's the Brain?
A deep dive into the EngineAI T800 humanoid robot's impressive specs, solid-state battery, and the glaring questions …
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AI 'Jailbreak' Hype Masks Real Robot Threat
A viral video of a gun-toting robot sparks AI panic, but the real danger lies in simpler, human-controlled …
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Can Robots Finally Do Chores? BEHAVIOR Challenge Says 'Hold My Beer'
The BEHAVIOR Challenge at NeurIPS 2025 pushes embodied AI to its limits with 1,000 household tasks. Can robots finally …
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Tesla vs. XPeng: The Robot Wars Are Here 🍿
Elon Musk's Optimus V3 plans meet XPeng's mass-production goals for 2026. The humanoid robot race is on, and we've got …
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Tesla's 2025 Plan: Robots, Robocabs, and Infinite Money
Elon Musk's 2025 shareholder meeting revealed ambitious plans for Optimus, the CyberCab, and Tesla Semi, promising to …
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Figure's Bot Drops the Bass with Deadmau5
Figure AI's humanoid robot shared the stage with Deadmau5, signaling a shift from industrial machine to cultural icon. …
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XPeng's IRON Robot: More Human Than Human?
XPeng's 2025 AI Day revealed the IRON humanoid, featuring a bionic skeleton, soft skin, and the industry's first …