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A sleek white and silver wheeled robot with a humanoid upper torso and articulated five-fingered hands stands in a bright modern warehouse, rows of shelving vis
Robotics

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 adds a stage dedicated to AI in the physical world

Robots, autonomous weapons, and de-extinction headline the new Real World AI Stage at San Francisco's Moscone West this October.

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Robotics

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.

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Frontier Labs

Liquid AI Squeezes Its Small Models onto Phones and Raspberry Pis Without Losing Much Quality

A new training trick called Quantization-Aware Distillation lets Liquid AI's compact language models run on cheap hardware while keeping 97% of their full-precision accuracy.

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Frontier Labs

Liquid AI's LFM2.5-VL-3B Can Run on Your Phone and Still Read Your Screen

The new 3-billion-parameter vision model fits in 3 GB of memory, beats larger rivals on screen-reading benchmarks, and runs fast enough on a smartphone to be genuinely useful.

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Robotics

This Four-Legged Robot Inspects Factories Using AI, No Cloud Connection Needed

Avnet and Weston Robot have built a dog-like inspection robot that thinks for itself on-site, spots problems in real time, and works even when the internet is not available.

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Robotics

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 adds a second AI stage focused on robots, battlefields and de-extinction

The Real World AI Stage debuts at Disrupt 2026 this October, bringing together founders building autonomous systems for defence, space, and biology, including the company trying to bring back extinct animals.

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Frontier Labs

Liquid AI's new 2.6B model runs AI agents directly on your laptop or phone

LFM2.5-2.6B is a compact AI model that can handle multi-step tasks without sending your data to the cloud, and it competes with models four times its size on key benchmarks.

4 min read
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Robotics

Shining Light onto a Chip Could Give Robots a Faster AI Brain Update

Cornell Tech researchers have built a receiver that rewrites a chip's memory using flashes of light instead of electrical wires, and it could one day let warehouse robots refresh their AI models on the fly.

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Science & Space

NASA Ran a Google AI Model Inside a Satellite. Here Is What It Found.

A small, efficient AI model analyzed real images from orbit and sent back plain-text descriptions instead of raw data. It could cut wildfire alerts from 90 minutes to near-instant.

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