Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of Pokémon Go player photos into a 30-billion-image map that now powers real-world robot navigation, with Coco Robotics already deploying the technology across 1,000 delivery robots in major cities worldwide.
Nvidia GTC 2026 unveils a sweeping AI strategy spanning robotics, personal agents, and open models with the new Nemotron Coalition, as the company fights to defend its CUDA dominance against rising competitors and cement itself as the foundational platform of the entire AI industry.
China's £100bn robotics revolution is accelerating at breakneck speed, with 140 firms deploying AI-powered humanoid robots in factories and retail settings worldwide, as experts warn hundreds of millions of factory jobs could vanish by the mid-2030s.
A billion-dollar race to build world models is accelerating as AI giants and startups pour massive funding into technology that can simulate physical reality, with AMI Labs raising $1.03 billion and World Labs securing $1 billion to overcome the critical limits large language models face in robotics and autonomous driving.
A powerful new open-source framework called vla-evaluation-harness launches with the ability to evaluate 500+ robot AI models across 17 benchmarks at up to 47x faster speeds, completing 2,000 simulation episodes in just 18 minutes on a single GPU.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declares robotics' ChatGPT moment has arrived, unveiling autonomous vehicle software, a major Uber robotaxi partnership spanning 28 markets by 2028, and AI tools designed to power the entire robotics ecosystem at the company's annual GTC conference.
NVIDIA is partnering with robotics giants ABB, FANUC, KUKA, Medtronic, and others to deploy physical AI at industrial scale, unveiling powerful new tools including Cosmos 3, Isaac Lab 3.0, and GR00T N2—currently ranked No. 1 on multiple robotics benchmarks—spanning manufacturing, warehousing, and surgical robotics.
NVIDIA is supercharging the global race to autonomous vehicles, partnering with BYD, Uber, and major automakers to deploy AI-powered robotaxi fleets across 28 cities on four continents by 2028, while unveiling powerful new tools including the Alpamayo 1.5 reasoning model and Halos OS safety architecture to accelerate the development of …
Zoox and Uber are joining forces in a multi-year deal to bring fully autonomous, all-electric robotaxis to Las Vegas this year and Los Angeles by 2027, making Zoox's self-driving fleet bookable directly through the Uber app.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang declares AI infrastructure the largest buildout in human history, requiring trillions in investment across a five-layer stack of energy, chips, infrastructure, models, and applications, as open source models accelerate adoption and industries from drug discovery to robotics begin generating measurable economic value.