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A woman was arrested in Philadelphia for blocking an Uber delivery robot. She was charged with disorderly conduct after refusing to move from the robot's path.
From The Verge AI
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OpenSmartRoute optimizes model selection for robotics physical AI applications, reducing latency and cost while ensuring reliable fallbacks for industrial...
From growth-engine
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Agility Robotics selected Nyobolt for Digit 5, a battery upgrade that doubles run-to-charge time.
From Unite.AI
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TIER IV and the Technical University of Munich launched a new research center for autonomous driving software. This hub unites three university groups to build safer, scalable self-driving systems using open-source tools.
From Unite.AI
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Day 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 features sessions on robotics, agent security, and the shift from chatbots to physical AI systems. Speakers discuss funding, hardware, and the new rules for building AI in the enterprise.
From TechCrunch AI
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Taisei, TIER IV, and Taisei Rotec were chosen for an eight-day autonomous driving test on Japan's Autoflow Road. The demonstration uses three vehicles to verify multi-vehicle coordination in a dedicated logistics space.
From Unite.AI
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Amazon plans to double its robotic arm fleet this year while introducing Vulcan arms with touch sensors. The company uses AI to improve picking success rates and manage robot traffic in warehouses.
From Ars Technica AI
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XPENG officially named its robotaxi service XPENG YOYO and opened public registration in China. The company claims this is the world's first fully in-house developed robotaxi ready for mass production.
From Unite.AI
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Nous Research raised $90 million in Series B funding led by Robot Ventures. Nvidia Corp and Samsung Electronics joined the investment round.
From SiliconANGLE AI
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 hosts breakout sessions on AI agents, physical AI, and fundraising at Moscone West in San Francisco. The event runs October 13-15 with limited room capacity for expert Q&A.
From TechCrunch AI
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Reka released a research preview of Rho-1, a 19B model that generates video and outputs robot actions. It replaces pipelines by handling all tasks within one context window.
From MarkTechPost
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A tutorial builds a pipeline to train robot policies using NVIDIA's Cosmos3-DROID dataset by reading only required data chunks instead of downloading the full repository.
From MarkTechPost
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Reka AI released a preview of Rho-1, a single model that handles text, images, video, and robot control.
From The Decoder
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SafeWorld launched with a seed round over $12 million to test generative AI robots in human-populated simulations.
From TechCrunch AI
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MIT Technology Review released EmTech Future 2026 sessions on AI, quantum, energy, and robotics. Yossi Matias of Google Research discussed how these fields converge.
From MIT Technology Review AI
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Learn how NVIDIA IsaacTeleop turns XR hand tracking and motion controller input into robot commands using a pure Python retargeting engine and NumPy. The post Inside NVIDIA’s IsaacTeleop: From Hand and Controller Tracking to Robot Action...
From MarkTechPost
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"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."
From TechCrunch AI
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From Latent Space
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Peak XV increased its seed investment limit to $5 million per startup. The Surge 12 cohort includes 18 companies across AI, robotics, healthcare, and more.
From TechCrunch AI
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