Mistral AI expands into robotics with Robostral Navigate, a new model that lets robots navigate complex environments using only a single camera and language prompts, requiring no specialized hardware and trained entirely in simulation.
European AI startup UMA unveils a humanoid robot powered by Real-Time Learning architecture that watches and learns from human demonstrations, positioning Europe as a serious contender in the global robotics race against the US and China.
General Intuition secures $320M at a $2.3B valuation, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, to train a groundbreaking AI model on millions of hours of gamer footage — powering video games, simulations, and real-world robots, while giving gamers a way to earn income through its new Nerve platform.
Standard Bots hits a $1 billion valuation after raising $200 million led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, accelerating US robotic arm manufacturing as competition with China in AI-powered robotics intensifies.
Nvidia-backed startup Generalist raises $400M at a $2B valuation in the physical AI race, even as experts and industry leaders warn that allowing a handful of companies to monopolize generalized robotics technology poses serious risks to humanity, prompting calls for open-source collaboration and government accountability.
Generalist AI secures $400 million in new funding, pushing total capital raised past $500 million, as its robots achieve 99% reliability and speeds three times faster than previous benchmarks, signaling a major leap toward commercially viable physical AI.
Nvidia-backed robotics startup Generalist AI raises $400 million in a new funding round led by Radical Ventures, catapulting the company to a $2 billion valuation as it pushes to build advanced AI models that enable robots to tackle increasingly complex real-world tasks.
NVIDIA launches Cosmos 3, the world's first fully open omnimodel capable of natively processing text, images, video, sound, and actions for robotics and autonomous vehicles, while simultaneously unveiling the global Cosmos Coalition to accelerate open world model development across industries.
NVIDIA unveils Cosmos 3, a groundbreaking open world foundation model combining vision reasoning, multimodal generation, and native action output to help robots and autonomous vehicles understand real-world scenarios, already topping multiple benchmarks and available now to developers worldwide.
AI startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services by having cleaners wear camera-equipped hats to record household tasks, using the footage to train future autonomous cleaning robots.