Google showcased its Gemini AI animating Aloha 2 robots, demonstrating its integration of artificial intelligence into robotics, with the potential for teleoperation, data gathering, and affordable tabletop setups for developers.
NVIDIA unveiled groundbreaking platforms, models, and technologies like Isaac GR00T N1.5, GR00T-Dreams, Blackwell systems, Cosmos Reason, and Isaac GR00T-Mimic for advancing humanoid robot development, with major robotics companies adopting NVIDIA's solutions.
A creepy-looking AI robot nurse called Nurabot has been unveiled to tackle healthcare worker burnout by patrolling hospital halls, delivering medicine, tracking vitals, and potentially assisting with patient care tasks like lifting in the future.
Waymo achieves 10 million robotaxi rides milestone, doubling its volume in five months while delivering over 250,000 weekly paid trips across four major cities, as Tesla prepares to launch competing autonomous taxi service in Austin next month.
In this AI Minds newsletter, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt explains why the AI revolution is underhyped, Mark Zuckerberg discusses AGI and China's AI progress, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang unveils plans for physical AI and robotics, and insights into medical AI, vision-language models, GAN inversion, voice AI agents, and more.
Foxconn is partnering with NVIDIA to develop smart hospital solutions, including collaborative nursing robots like Nurabot, AI models for patient monitoring, and digital twins of healthcare facilities, leveraging NVIDIA technologies from data centers to edge devices to transform medical centers into AI-powered smart hospitals.
Boston Dynamics' unveiling of its robust electric humanoid Atlas signals an industry shift, with new models like X1 Gamma, Figure 02, and upgraded Unitree H1 showcasing visual and performance upgrades as companies scale up production and deployment of humanoid robots.
Escalating U.S.-China trade tensions and expanded U.S. chip controls are disrupting the global humanoid robot supply chain, potentially giving American makers an edge due to China's reliance on advanced AI chips and hardware components from Chinese companies.
Amazon's groundbreaking Vulcan robot boasts a sense of touch, revolutionizing robotics by deftly manipulating objects, easing employee workloads in fulfillment centers, and marking a pivotal fusion of robotics, engineering, and AI to comprehend physical interactions.
Figure AI, a US startup, has unveiled ambitious plans to mass-produce AI-powered humanoid robots, targeting 12,000 units per year from its BotQ facility, with a goal of shipping 100,000 robots by 2029 for industrial, logistics, and eventually home applications.