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.
NVIDIA unveils Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000 modules powered by Blackwell architecture, delivering up to 865 FP4 teraflops for edge AI robotics, alongside the Cosmos 3 Edge world model enabling real-time on-device inference, with new agent skills slashing memory usage by up to 15GB — modules set to ship in …
Walden Robotics, a humanoid robot startup spun out of a Toyota research lab, bursts onto the scene with a $1.1 billion valuation after raising $300 million in seed funding, already deploying robots on real factory floors as the humanoid robotics market races toward a projected $5 trillion by 2050.
A new open-source project called Spectacles Dimensional OS now lets users control real Unitree robots in real-time using Snap Spectacles AR headsets, featuring manual spatial navigation and an AI-powered voice command mode backed by OpenAI.
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.