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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the robotics desk.
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NVIDIA has added data-generation blueprints, model-training tools and simulation options to its Cosmos platform for developing physical AI. The company also reported customer examples and performance figures for selected tools.
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NVIDIA says DGX Spark can now be configured in clusters of up to eight systems, with software to help developers run local AI models. The company also announced a Windows version of DGX Station and open-source robotics workflows.
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Anthropic says NASA JPL engineers used Claude to plan an approximately 400-metre route for the Perseverance rover. Engineers checked the proposed waypoints in simulation and reviewed them before sending the commands to Mars.
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Waymo says it is preparing a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in the Region of Madrid, with first riders targeted for 2027. Its initial work will use manually driven vehicles before technical validation with trained local specialists.
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Elorian has made Glimpse, a visual-reasoning AI model, available in research preview through an API and chat interface. The company reports competitive results on multimodal benchmarks and lists input pricing at $0.60 per million tokens.
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Waymo says it will begin mapping and testing in Toronto as it prepares a fully autonomous ride-hailing service. The company aims to welcome its first riders in 2028.
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Waymo says it will begin manually driven mapping and testing in Toronto as it prepares an autonomous ride-hailing service, with first riders targeted for 2028. Element Fleet Management will provide fleet services and support local hiring.
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Security researcher Sammy Azdoufal’s report on Energizelab’s Eilik and Eiliko robots describes exposed child profiles, cloud access-control flaws and evidence of third-party access to a shared server. The report says 32 of 40 remotely testable findings remained open at its October 13, 2026 retest.
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Waymo says anyone in San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa can now hail a fully autonomous ride through its app. The service includes San Antonio International Airport.
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NVIDIA has announced a five-year compute donation valued at $250 million for AI safety and security research in the UK. The commitment provides for $50 million in compute access annually, with most intended for the wider research community.
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NVIDIA says French-linked organisations are applying its hardware and models to satellite operations, public services, retail, research and robotics. The projects range from systems already in use to platforms being launched and hardware planned for 2028.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover reached 45.22 kilometres driven on Mars on 11 October 2026, passing the record held by Opportunity. JPL credits the rover’s autonomous navigation with helping it cover the distance while exploring Jezero Crater.
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NVIDIA has presented developer projects using AI agents with Omniverse libraries to assemble and refine simulation applications. The examples range from humanoid-robot and autonomous-driving tests to digital twins, with NVIDIA staff directing and reviewing the work.
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Waymo says it has closed its first debt financing: a $5 billion term loan. The company plans to use the capital to support expansion of its autonomous ride-hailing service in the United States and internationally.
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The FCC’s October 2, 2026 update lists Matic Robots’ robotic floor cleaner and charging dock in its robotic-device conditional approvals table.
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Boston Dynamics mechanical engineer Diane Heinle describes how the company endurance-tests the moving cables on its Stretch warehouse robot. Lab rigs cycle cable sections millions of times, while customer-site data helps set the target for expected use.
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Boston Dynamics describes Spot deployments for hazardous inspections, suspected explosives and emergency incidents. The robot combines remote cameras and sensors with a mobile arm that can move objects.
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Boston Dynamics has detailed a four-finger, 13-degree-of-freedom hand for its Atlas humanoid, designed for dexterous manipulation and tool use. The company says early tests show sim-to-real transfer for dynamic tasks.
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Honda R&D plans CEATEC 2026 demonstrations of a smartphone-based driver-assistance system and an AI-supported avatar robot. The exhibition is scheduled for October 13–16 in Chiba, Japan.
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Figure says it retired most of its F.02 robot fleet by having robots trained in simulation jump into molten steel at a foundry in Finland. The company plans to turn the resulting metal into a limited series of commemorative artifacts.
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Fei-Fei Li says World Labs is joining AMD, where she will become executive vice president and chief scientist. The announcement links the startup’s spatial AI research with AMD’s hardware and software work.
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AMD has agreed to acquire AI research company World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.2 billion. The deal would add expertise in spatial-intelligence models and robotic learning to AMD’s AI research and infrastructure efforts.
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Waymo says its autonomous vehicles were involved in 82% fewer injury-causing crashes than human-driver benchmarks across more than 270 million miles in five US cities. The company estimates that 841 injury-causing crashes were prevented.
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NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 adds agent-ready development workflows, ROS Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04 support, and deployment across Jetson platforms. The open-source release is designed to help developers build and run physical AI applications more efficiently.
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Figure says its Helix 2.5 neural network performed three whole-body household tasks across 30 previously unseen Bay Area homes without collecting data or adapting in those environments. Index pretraining increased zero-shot success from 9% to 56% in a controlled comparison.
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Boston Dynamics has become an official DoW SkillBridge industry partner, creating transition opportunities for U.S. service members. The company is currently recruiting for Field Applications and Field Service roles.
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Lucid and Bolt have announced a partnership to develop and deploy at least 25,000 autonomous vehicles across European cities. The planned fleet will use a vehicle platform designed for SAE Level 4 autonomy and is expected to use NVIDIA Hyperion.
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Waymo says it is working with Singapore’s Ministry of Transport and Land Transport Authority to prepare an all-electric autonomous ride-hailing service. The company plans local operations in the coming months, a readiness phase in 2027 and an intended public launch through the Waymo app in 2028.
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Waymo, Nihon Kotsu and GO have agreed to prepare a commercial fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Tokyo for 2027. The launch depends on regulatory approvals and further validation of the technology and operating model.
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Waymo has opened its first public autonomous ride-hailing service in Las Vegas, covering a nearly 24-mile area. The rollout uses Ojai vehicles powered by the company’s sixth-generation Waymo Driver and will expand across Clark County in stages.
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NASA’s NIAC programme has awarded $3.2 million across 18 Phase I investigations into early-stage space technology concepts. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is leading three of the projects, covering solar radiation, Venus exploration and planetary-ring science.
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered an unusually extensive field of polygonal fractures in a Martian valley. Scientists are studying whether the honeycomb-like patterns formed through drying, temperature changes or processes that compressed ancient sediments.
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Zurich Airport has begun operating two automated employee shuttles without a safety driver onboard. The Level 4 pilot is monitored from a remote cockpit on a defined airport route.
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NASA engineers have redesigned Voyager 2’s power use so that three science instruments can continue operating in interstellar space for at least one extra year. The change addresses the spacecraft’s steadily declining electrical supply after almost half a century in operation.
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has tested a lightweight, fabric-based Vivaldi antenna for the SkyFall Mars helicopters’ ground-penetrating radar. The prototype survived simulated temperature swings and 200 Mars landings without losing signal performance, but it still needs further testing before flight qualification.
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Boston Dynamics presents Stretch as a mobile warehouse robot for trailer unloading, case picking and palletized order building, but supplies no independent performance data.
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The Boring Company says a $3 billion UAE-led Series D is intended to support more than 150 kilometres of planned UAE tunnel infrastructure and expand its Loop projects.
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Boston Dynamics says its Spot robots are supporting FIFA Security with perimeter patrols, visual and thermal data collection and alert escalation at two 2026 World Cup venues.
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Figure and Nscale have announced a planned partnership for up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs, with initial deployment targeted for the second half of 2027 in Barstow, Texas, to support training of Figure's Helix robotics models.
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Figure says its Figure 03 humanoid robot is being demonstrated at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, combining parts sequencing, manipulation, repositioning and cart pulling under Helix 02 control.
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Figure says its BotQ facility has delivered more than 350 Figure 03 humanoid robots and reported a demonstration of a perception-conditioned controller traversing real stairs after simulation training.
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Figure says its Helix 02 humanoid uses a hierarchical neural-control system to coordinate walking, manipulation and balance, including a four-minute autonomous dishwasher demonstration.
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Waymo says its fully autonomous vehicles were involved in substantially fewer serious-injury, airbag-deployment and injury-related crashes than human drivers in the same operating areas and period, based on more than 220 million miles.
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Waymo's company-authored account describes how multimodal sensing, HD maps, independent validation, simulation, AI evaluation and continuous retraining shape its autonomous-driving system, while providing no independent safety comparison.
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NVIDIA and MediaTek are expanding their collaboration from local and automotive computing into custom AI infrastructure, with MediaTek adopting NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion platform and NVIDIA announcing a $3.5 billion investment in MediaTek convertible bonds.
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AWS and NVIDIA say they plan to deploy 2 million additional NVIDIA GPUs across AWS infrastructure in 2027–2028, alongside new work on CPUs, networking, memory, models and robotics.
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Figure says its Index app is collecting real-world physical-task videos for training the Helix robotics system, but the company has not published independent evidence that the dataset improves robot performance.
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Hyundai Motor Group used its CES 2026 exhibition to present humanoid, quadruped, logistics, mobility and workplace-assistance robots, while outlining planned and current deployments.
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Figure says Creators have uploaded more than 16 million videos through its Index app, but the announcement provides no independent evidence that the data improves robot performance.
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Hyundai Motor Group used its CES 2026 exhibition to demonstrate Boston Dynamics robots, MobED mobility platforms, autonomous charging systems, industrial wearables and factory logistics technologies.
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BMW Group says its Munich plant has been extensively modernised for Neue Klasse production, with new facilities, robotics, digital tracking and AI-assisted quality checks. In its 2 April 2026 announcement, BMW said BMW i3 series production was scheduled to begin in August 2026, while the plant was planned to produce only all-electric vehicles from 2027; the supplied evidence does not provide a later status update.
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Anthropic has opened a research preview of a model-agnostic specification intended to let AI agents discover, control and coordinate programmable laboratory and manufacturing equipment.