Singapore-based no-code robotics startups Augmentus Pte. Ltd. announced today that it has raised $11 million in new funding. It will use the funds to accelerate deployment of its fully autonomous ...

Covariant, the artificial intelligence spinout from UC Berkeley, has unveiled RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1), positioned as a "large language model (LLM) for robot language" by CEO Peter Chen.

If you thought it was decades away before AI would be programming robots you might be mistaken when you see this Robo-dog trained by GPT-4 staying balanced on rolling yoga ball. In a groundbreaking ...

Claude AI robotics benchmark shows Opus 4.7 finishing physical robot programming in 9 minutes, against 181 minutes for ...

Hugging Face and Physical Intelligence have quietly launched Pi0 (Pi-Zero) this week, the first foundational model for robots that translates natural language commands directly into physical actions. ...

Figure AI has unveiled HELIX, a pioneering Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that integrates vision, language comprehension, and action execution into a single neural network. This innovation allows ...

Advancements in large language models, robotics, and software such as text-to-speech, have made it possible to develop robots that can understand language, interact physically, and communicate ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Before my daughter got to test out Dash and Dot, our dogs were already getting to know them. I’d gotten the two kid-friendly robots — Dash, who sits up high on three wheels, and Dot, his more static ...

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