#physical AI
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This Robot Knows When to Back Off: Palm Garden AI Builds a Social Awareness Layer for Service Robots
A small startup says service robots already know how to move and speak. What they lack is the judgment to know when not to.
This startup just raised $115 million to put robot excavators on building sites
TerraFirma wants one skilled operator to control an entire fleet of diggers and dozers from a screen, making each worker up to three times as productive.
AMI Labs' CEO Says 'Superintelligence' Is a Meaningless Word. Here's What He's Building Instead.
Alexandre LeBrun raised over a billion dollars to teach AI how the physical world works. He thinks the buzzwords his rivals love are, at best, unhelpful.
One operator, one button: Xpanner's robot arm now lifts solar panels so crews don't have to
A California startup has turned a standard excavator into an automated solar panel lifter, cutting a ten-person manual crew down to three.
How Satellites and AI Are Catching Illegal Fishers in Indonesian Waters
Indonesia tracks nearly 15,000 fishing vessels from shore using satellite feeds and pattern-spotting software. The results are concrete. The cat-and-mouse game is just beginning.
America's Humanoid Robot Moment: Agility Robotics CEO Lays Out a Six-Point Plan
Peggy Johnson wants federal policy to catch up with the factory floor. Here's what she's asking for, and why it matters for American workers.
US Military Used Explosive Drone Boats in Combat for the First Time
On the night of July 12, three unmanned sea drones destroyed an Iranian submarine and a naval maintenance facility. America had never used this kind of weapon in a real attack before.
Uber's Product Chief Wants Fewer Things Done Better, Starting With Robotaxis and Your Bank Account
Uber's top product executive talks self-driving car partnerships, a new data business, and AI features that riders and drivers will actually feel.
Chinese Robotics Firm AI² Robotics Raises $735 Million at a $2.8 Billion Valuation
The Shenzhen company bets that wheeled robots, not walking ones, will win the race to put AI-driven machines on factory floors.
The Welding Robot That Teaches Itself the Perfect Path
Path Robotics uses AI vision to guide welding torches in real time, and it's now sending robot dogs into shipyards. Here's what that means for the factory floor.
Train the Robot in a Fake World First, Then Send It Into the Real One
Before a robot ever touches a warehouse shelf or a factory floor, it can spend thousands of hours learning inside a computer-built copy of that environment. Here is why that matters.