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EXL Buys AI Training Firm iMerit to Close the Gap Between AI Demos and Real Business Results
The New York services giant spent this month completing its purchase of iMerit, a company that prepares the data and human expertise AI models need before they can work reliably in hospitals, factories, and financial firms.

Meta testet Roboter heimlich in seinen Rechenzentren – Mitarbeiter sind besorgt
Roboterarme, Kabelwechsler und Tastendrücker führen bereits Tests im größten Rechenzentrum-Campus von Meta durch. Die dort arbeitenden Menschen beobachten das aufmerksam.

Eigentümer von Universal Robots verklagt chinesischen Konkurrenten JAKA wegen Kopiervorwürfen bei Cobots
Teradyne Robotics hat in diesem Jahr eine zweite chinesische Robotikfirma vor Gericht in Europa verklagt, diesmal wegen Patenten, die die Hardware und Software seiner Roboterarme mit Mensch-Maschine-Zusammenarbeit schützen.

NSF Commits $90 Million to Three New Research Centers, One Built Around Robots That Learn From People
The National Science Foundation is funding a new centre at the University of Texas at Austin where scientists will teach robots to adapt to the humans they work alongside.

Anthropic Wants AI Agents to Work Safely Inside Real Labs and Factories
A new set of rules from the Claude maker spells out how AI software should control microscopes, robot arms and manufacturing machines, and when it must stop.

BlackBerry Quietly Became a Robotics Software Company. Here Is How.
The phone maker turned automotive software firm says its QNX software is now one of its fastest-growing business lines, and robots are driving that growth.

Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200 million to expand driverless freight routes
The California company already runs dozens of autonomous trucks for customers like PepsiCo and Kroger. Now it has the cash to scale to thousands.

Two ex-Meta researchers want warehouse robots to finally understand what they're looking at
Perceptron's Isaac 0.5 is an open-weight vision model built to help industrial robots handle complex, multi-step tasks on their own. The startup raised $21 million and is targeting factories, warehouses and logistics hubs.

Robot brains are getting smarter, but they still can't do a real day's work
A wave of investment is pouring into physical AI, the technology that teaches machines to move through the world. But developers admit their robots are still stuck in an early, limited era, similar to where chatbots were before ChatGPT changed everything.

Generalist erreicht 3-Milliarden-Dollar-Bewertung nach Finanzierungsrunde von knapp 200 Millionen Dollar
Das Robotik-KI-Startup, gegründet von ehemaligen Google-DeepMind-Forschern, behauptet nun, dass seine Software einem Roboter eine neue Fähigkeit aus einem nur drei Sekunden langen Videoclip beibringen kann.

Sprintende Roboter brechen Bolts Rekord, dann brechen sie selbst zusammen: Einblick in Chinas Humanoid-Roboter-Spiele
Peking war Gastgeber der zweiten World Humanoid Robot Games, bei der Maschinen schneller liefen als je ein Mensch, Kung Fu praktizierten, Tischtennis spielten und gelegentlich Feuer fingen.

NVIDIA's new Jetson Orin Nano 2 chip aims to put frontier AI inside drones and home robots
The tiny computer uses 40% less power than its predecessor while doubling AI processing speed, and NVIDIA says it will let developers run the same kind of intelligence found in today's best chatbots directly inside physical machines.

Inside Shanghai's Robot Carnival: China's Push to Make Humanoids Everyday
Families queued up, children cheered robot duels, and a humanoid performed drunken boxing. A day at a Shanghai robotics showcase reveals how China is betting big on machines that walk, fold laundry, and make coffee.

The tractors are getting smarter, and farms may depend on it
An aging workforce and shrinking skilled labour pool are pushing AI off the screen and into the cab. Companies like Agtonomy are betting that the most important robots of this decade will look nothing like a human.

Vor dem Roboterkauf: Bauen Sie zunächst einen virtuellen auf
Digital-Twin-Software ermöglicht es Herstellern, Roboterzellen am Bildschirm zu testen, bevor sie einen Cent für Hardware ausgeben. Hier ist, warum das für jedes Unternehmen, das sich zum ersten Mal mit Automatisierung auseinandersetzt, wichtig ist.