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Boston Dynamics presents Stretch for warehouse case handling
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 UAE-led $3 billion round is intended to support more than 150 km of tunnels
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 Spot Robots Are Supporting Security Patrols at Two FIFA World Cup 2026 Venues
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 plan up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs for robotics AI
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 03 Demonstrated Parts Sequencing at BMW’s Spartanburg Plant
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 BotQ has delivered more than 350 Figure 03 robots and demonstrated a one-per-hour production cycle
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 Helix 02 demonstrated full-body control in a four-minute dishwasher task
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 reports fewer injury-related crash involvements across more than 220 million fully autonomous miles
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 details 10 AI and safety lessons from more than 200 million fully autonomous miles
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 expand partnership around custom AI accelerators, PCs and vehicles
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 plan 2 million more GPUs for AWS infrastructure in 2027–2028
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 announces Index app to collect physical-task data for Helix robot training
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’s CES 2026 robotics showcase links humanoids, logistics and mobility systems
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 launches Index to collect human-generated physical-world data for robot training
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 shows Atlas, MobED and logistics robots at CES 2026
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 modernises Munich plant for Neue Klasse EV production
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 previews Model Hardware Standard for AI-controlled laboratory and manufacturing devices
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.
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Figure demonstrates two Helix-02 humanoids collaboratively resetting a bedroom
Figure says two Helix-02 humanoids reset a bedroom in under two minutes using one learned Vision-Language-Action policy; the demonstration has not been independently evaluated.
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Figure Shows Helix 02 in Living-Room Tidying Demonstration
Figure's Helix 02 humanoid robot demonstrated living-room tidying behaviours including tool use, bimanual manipulation and navigation through tight spaces, although the company provided no quantitative evaluation.
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Figure says Helix learned humanoid home navigation from human video without robot demonstrations
Figure announced Project Go-Big and said its Helix model can transfer behaviour from egocentric human video to humanoid-robot navigation in cluttered homes without robot demonstrations.