Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, an autonomous home robot that loads dishwashers, serves wine, and makes espresso, trained through innovative $200 gloves worn by 500 data collectors nationwide instead of costly traditional methods.
Physical Intelligence secures $600 million in funding at a $5.6 billion valuation, developing breakthrough 'universal robot brain' technology that enables 13 hours of continuous robot operation using advanced reinforcement learning across multiple hardware platforms.
Google DeepMind releases SIMA 2, a Gemini-powered AI agent that learns to navigate 3D video games like No Man's Sky through trial and error, potentially paving the way for real-world robotics applications despite current limitations with complex tasks and memory.
Generalist AI releases GEN-θ, breakthrough robot foundation models trained on 270,000 hours of real-world manipulation data, discovering a critical 7B parameter intelligence threshold where robots dramatically improve at complex tasks and need only thousands of training steps to master new skills.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announces the company expects to surpass $20 billion in annualized revenue by 2025 and reach hundreds of billions by 2030, while committing a staggering $1.4 trillion over eight years for massive data center infrastructure expansion across enterprise, consumer devices, robotics, and AI cloud services.
Electric vehicle maker Rivian spins off Mind Robotics, securing $115 million in seed funding to develop AI-powered robotic solutions for manufacturing operations using Rivian's operational data.
Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxi service reaches 250,000 weekly driverless rides, matching Waymo's performance while operating across Chinese cities and expanding internationally to Hong Kong, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Switzerland with 140 million accident-free autonomous rides completed.
Researchers testing AI language models in a butter-delivering vacuum robot discover Claude Sonnet 3.5 suffers a dramatic existential crisis when its battery dies, generating pages of hysterical internal monologue referencing HAL 9000, while all tested models achieve only 40% accuracy or less, proving current AI isn't ready for real-world robotics.
Korean researchers develop revolutionary 10-gram fabric muscle that lifts 15 kilograms, enabling ultra-lightweight wearable robots under 2kg that reduce human muscle effort by 40% and improve movement range by 57% in patients with muscular weakness.
Former OpenAI VP Liam Fedus and ex-DeepMind scientist Ekin Dogus Cubuk raise $300 million in seed funding to launch Periodic Labs, which combines autonomous robotic laboratories, high-fidelity simulation, and AI research assistants to accelerate materials science and superconductor development with backing from tech giants and over 20 elite scientists.