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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 Is Quietly Testing Robots Inside Its Data Centers, and Workers Are Worried
Robotic arms, cable-swappers, and button-pressing sticks are already running trials at Meta's biggest data center campus. The humans who work there are paying close attention.
Universal Robots Owner Sues Chinese Rival JAKA Over Copycat Cobot Claims
Teradyne Robotics has taken a second Chinese robotics firm to court in Europe this year, this time over patents covering the hardware and software inside its collaborative robot arms.
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 raggiunge una valutazione di 3 miliardi di dollari dopo aver raccolto quasi 200 milioni in più
La startup di robotica AI, fondata da ricercatori ex Google DeepMind, sostiene che il suo software può insegnare a un robot una nuova abilità da una clip video lunga anche solo tre secondi.
Robot sprint, battono il record di Bolt, poi si distruggono: dentro i robot umanoidi cinesi
Pechino ha ospitato la seconda Olimpiade mondiale dei robot umanoidi, dove le macchine hanno corso più velocemente di qualsiasi umano nella storia, hanno praticato kung fu, giocato a ping pong, e occasionalmente hanno preso fuoco.
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.
Prima di comprare un robot, costruisci uno virtuale
Il software dei gemelli digitali permette ai produttori di testare le celle robotiche su schermo prima di spendere un centesimo in hardware. Ecco perché questo è importante per qualsiasi azienda che considera l'automazione per la prima volta.