Tag: robotics
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AMD Just Bought Itself The Godmother Of AI For $8.2B
AMD just made its biggest move since buying Xilinx, and this one is about a very different kind of chip problem. The company is buying World Labs, the startup built by Fei-Fei Li, for eight point two billion dollars in an all stock deal. If you do not know the name, Fei-Fei Li is one…
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Google Just Gave Away Its Whole Robot Playbook
Google’s robotics arm Intrinsic just did something companies in this space almost never do. It open sourced the core software that runs its actual factory robots and put it out under a license that lets anyone use it, free, for whatever they want. It is called Intrinsic Core, and it is not a toy demo.…
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Anthropic Just Gave Claude Hands in the Real World
Anthropic just released something called the Model Hardware Standard, and it’s a bigger deal than the name makes it sound. Up until now, an AI assistant like Claude could read your screen, write your code, plan your trip. It couldn’t actually touch anything. This is Anthropic’s first real step toward changing that. The idea is…
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China’s Unitree Opens IPO Subscription, DeepSeek Buys In
Unitree, the Chinese company behind those humanoid and quadruped robots you have probably seen in viral videos, opened subscription for its Shanghai IPO on August 10. It priced shares at 150.80 yuan each, valuing the company at roughly 61 billion yuan, about 9 billion dollars. This makes Unitree the first humanoid robot maker to list…
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DeepSeek Reopens Its $8B Round and Buys Into Robots
DeepSeek paused its own funding round last month after its founder got frustrated over leaked comments he made to investors. That round is back open now, and it came back bigger and stranger than before. The company is going after roughly $8 billion at a valuation near $74 billion, according to Bloomberg. Monolith Management, an…
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China’s Top Robot Maker Is About to Go Public
Unitree just confirmed the dates for its Shanghai stock listing. Price consultations start August 5th, and the subscription window opens August 10th. If this goes through as planned, it becomes the first major humanoid robot company to list on mainland China’s stock market. The number attached is about 610 million dollars raised, valuing the company…
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Google DeepMind Teaches a Robot to Use Its Whole Body
Most robot demos you’ve seen are an arm on a table, picking up a block, over and over. Google DeepMind just showed something different: a humanoid that walks across a room, bends its knees, and places an object on a shelf, all as one continuous motion instead of a chain of separate tricks. The system…
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This Startup Wants Strangers Driving Its Robots
A year old startup called Enigma just came out of stealth with 71 million dollars in seed funding, and the way they plan to spend it is genuinely different from the usual robotics playbook. Instead of locking their robots in a lab and training them in isolation, Enigma is opening up more than a hundred…
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Google DeepMind Just Put Brains in Boston Dynamics Robots
Boston Dynamics is now running Gemini Robotics integrated into its Spot robot. That partnership, announced this week through Google Cloud, means the robots that navigate physical space and make real decisions are now powered by multimodal AI that understands what it sees and what to do about it. The Spot robot with Gemini is being…
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Nvidia Is Building the Robot Brain
Nvidia announced Cosmos 3 Edge on July 16, and this is the first real world model built specifically for robots to see and navigate physical space. The model takes what a robot camera sees and builds a mental simulation of what comes next. It understands physics. It understands occlusion. It understands how objects move and…