Tesla receives just 10 robotaxi permits in Nevada after applying for 5,000, with strict rules limiting vehicles to 45 mph on the Las Vegas Strip under human supervision — raising serious doubts about the company's ambitious autonomous ride-hailing timeline as full-scale deployment isn't expected until late 2026 or early 2027.
WPP slashes humanoid robot training time from 24 hours to under one hour using NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs on Google Cloud, while a cutting-edge motion capture and digital twin workflow enables robots to mimic natural human movement with remarkable stability.
Xiaomi open-sources its robotics AI foundation model, Xiaomi-Robotics-1, trained on over 100,000 hours of data, offering a rare end-to-end blueprint in a proprietary-dominated field, but missing key details like model architecture and parameter count raise serious questions about its real-world utility.
NVIDIA launches Alpamayo 2 Super, a commercially available open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles that ranks first on all major autonomous driving benchmarks, outperforming Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-4o, while offering developers full fine-tuning and deployment rights under a permissive license.
The Trump administration's FCC has banned future imports of foreign robot vacuums and autonomous ground robots, targeting any software-controlled, wirelessly connected ground robot over 4.4 pounds capable of perceiving its environment, citing national security concerns, while existing approved devices like Roombas remain unaffected.
Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2, a groundbreaking AI system giving humanoid robots whole-body intelligence, multi-robot collaboration, and built-in safety features across three specialized models.
Google launches Gemini Robotics 2, its most advanced AI model enabling humanoid robots to convert vision and language into full-body motor control, as a wave of generalist robotic AI startups reshapes the industry and the FCC moves to ban foreign-made robots over 4.4 pounds, threatening to upend US robotics supply …
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3, a groundbreaking multimodal AI capable of generating images, video with audio, and robotic action predictions from one unified model, but its gated early access, absent pricing, and lack of production SLAs leave enterprise buyers unable to fully evaluate it against already-available rivals like Google's …
Rumors swirl that Anthropic is acquiring robotics startup Physical Intelligence, even as its CEO denies the reports, while past acquisition talks and OpenAI's existing investment stake in the company add fuel to speculation and could complicate any potential deal.
Travis Kalanick secures a massive $1.7 billion in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz for Atoms, his rebranded robotics holding company evolved from Cloud Kitchens, with Uber among investors and ambitions to revolutionize physical world automation across robotics, mining, and heavy industry.