News / #robotics Tag Robotics 500 articles archived under #robotics · RSS Sign in to follow TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 22h ago Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor. 33 Latent.Space news-outlet 22h ago Dyna-2: General Purpose Physical Agents with Hour-Long Autonomy — Jason Ma, Dyna Robotics Our first robotics pod with Dyna’s Chief Scientist on their big bet on World Action Models & the Next Frontier of Physical AI 36 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1d ago Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield. 23 Google DeepMind official-blog 1d ago Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics Gemini 4 Argon marks a step change in physical understanding, code generation, and visual-semantic reasoning—unlocking new workflows across the robotics stack and accelerating progress toward physical AGI. You can see this leap in capability on the Embodied Reasoning (ERQA)… 21 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 2d ago Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees? The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale. 15 Import AI (Jack Clark) community 2d ago Import AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to space Will we give robots the moon? 23 r/MachineLearning community 3d ago World Action Models vs VLAs: Robotics Just Had Its GPT-2 Moment [N]   submitted by   /u/moschles [link]   [comments] 10 Latent.Space news-outlet 4d ago Building AI for Reliable Execution: Lessons From Industrial Robotics Inside Standard Bots’ AI stack, pretrained models learn factory tasks from demonstrations and improve through corrections from real deployments. 35 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 5d ago Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste. 22 MIT Technology Review — AI news-outlet 5d ago We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course,… 30 arXiv — Machine Learning research 5d ago When to Intervene? State-Aware Sparse Manipulation in Federated Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2610.11523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) enables distributed agents to collaboratively train decision-making policies, but its decentralized training process also exposes global policy learning to Byzantine manipulation. Existing… 23 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 6d ago 5 Steps to Create SimReady Assets for Robotics with Frontier AI Models Preparing CAD assets for robotics simulation requires more than converting geometry to OpenUSD: developers must configure and validate materials, collision... 6 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 6d ago Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies. 37 MIT Technology Review — AI news-outlet 6d ago AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we live. A robot shaped like a human—white with a black head and torso—has been… 8 MIT Technology Review — AI news-outlet 6d ago Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to automate more complex tasks across industrial environments. But unlike AI that… 17 r/MachineLearning community 6d ago Nvidia’s erroneous paper accepted as ICML’s spotlight [D] Here is the story: Nvidia has published this work (with source code available) called dreamDojo which is a world model for robotics based of their prior work Cosmos 2.5 which is cited about 100 times and got ICML’s spotlight. Authors are very well known and respected in the… 8 arXiv — Machine Learning research 6d ago LeCuration: A Tiny World Model as a Data Curation Multi-Tool arXiv:2610.09285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many applications of physical AI run within finite or closed physical worlds with a limited set of physical laws governing object behavior. Examples include robots working in a warehouse and agents moving around in a video game. In… 34 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 7d ago The Machines that Make the Machines How we taught robots to assemble GB300 tester trays and what it taught us about robot learning, mechanical intelligence, and good old-fashioned engineering The... 29 The Information — AI news-outlet 7d ago Former Tesla Optimus Lead is Launching an Industrial Robot Startup Ashish Kumar , a former AI lead for Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots, has co-founded a startup developing non-humanoid robots that handle a variety of tasks that would normally be done by highly skilled workers in industries such as manufacturing and aerospace, according to two… 21 arXiv — Machine Learning research 7d ago EVFormer: An Egocentric Vision-EMG Bidirectional Attention Model for Bimanual Hand Pose Estimation arXiv:2610.06970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric bimanual hand pose estimation is important for virtual interaction, wearable control, and rehabilitation, but visual observations are often degraded by self-occlusion, hand-hand contact, and object manipulation. We… 15 arXiv — Machine Learning research 7d ago Preserving Unstable Modes Through Inverse Dynamics in JEPA World Models arXiv:2610.07540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems often exhibit unstable modes, along which small perturbations and disturbances can cause unbounded growth unless corrected through feedback. Controlling such systems from high-dimensional visual observations… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 7d ago Detecting LLM-Assisted Vietnamese Writing via Keystrokes under Behavioral Manipulation arXiv:2610.07700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the robustness of keystroke dynamics for detecting large language model (LLM)-assisted writing. We introduce a Vietnamese keystroke dataset capturing realistic writing modes, including bona fide composition, transcription,… 38 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 9d ago Can Safeworld convince people that GenAI robots won’t hurt them? Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones. 12 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 9d ago Europe's new robotics unicorn: Germany's RobCo hits $1B valuation Article URL: https://techfundingnews.com/europes-new-robotics-unicorn-germanys-robco-hits-1b-valuation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963366 Points: 224 # Comments: 202 14 arXiv — Machine Learning research 9d ago Co-design Gym: A Unified Benchmark for Embodiment-Policy Co-optimization arXiv:2610.02366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Finding an optimal behaviour policy within a given environment is a widely studied problem in domains as diverse as games, robotics, energy infrastructure, communication networks, and multi-agent systems. Numerous benchmarks have… 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 9d ago Mind the Refinement Gap: When Safe High-Level Robot Plans Produce Unsafe Executions arXiv:2610.02662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-enabled robot systems increasingly combine semantic-graph planning with temporal-logic safety monitors. We investigate a trace-completeness assumption in these systems: whether the high-level action sequence checked by a… 6 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago Evaluating and Improving the Robustness of Large Language Models to Input Sequence Variations arXiv:2610.02432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) in production systems face prompt injections, trojans (backdoors), and manipulation of automatic quality metrics. This thesis develops models, methods, and algorithms for evaluating and improving LLM… 13 r/MachineLearning community 10d ago Here are some pictures of a robot costume wearing high-specularity edge-case mirror suit, a dataset (425 RAW/JPEGs) for benchmarking CV & depth-estimation algorithms against extreme mirror reflections [D] Purpose-built to stress-test computer vision models, depth cameras, and spatial AI against severe specular glare and geometric reflections. This 425-asset production archive features a custom faceted mirror suit captured in high-contrast outdoor environments to trigger… 23 arXiv — Machine Learning research 11d ago MIKASA-Robo-VLA: Benchmarking Memory in VLA Models for Long-Horizon Manipulation arXiv:2610.00604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action policies often see only one or a few recent frames, which makes it difficult to evaluate how they use information that disappears during a task. We introduce MIKASA-Robo-VLA, a benchmark of 90… 36 r/LocalLLaMA community 11d ago Unitree just dropped UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 — a single 6B model that does 64 whole-body + tabletop tasks on a real humanoid https://unigen-x.github.io/unifolm-wla.github.io/ Unitree Robotics released UnifoLM-WLA-1.0, their new general-purpose humanoid foundation model. Key points: • 6B parameters • Trained on ~2,500 hours of real robot data • One model handles 64 tasks (10 whole-body + 54 tabletop) •… 6 r/MachineLearning community 11d ago [R] Would you keep a robot demonstration if hand tracking missed the moment the plug went in? Suppose you’re recording a human plugging a cable into a socket to collect demonstrations for robot learning. The hand tracker captures the approach accurately. Then occlusion causes the hand estimates to disappear during insertion. Tracking returns after the connector is… 4 The Information — AI news-outlet 12d ago In Robotics, Google Goes Android to Tesla’s Apple While interviewing Google’s Koray Kavukcuoglu last week, I had a flash of deja vu. In his first sit-down since taking over as CEO of Google DeepMind, Kavukcuoglu offered some of his most detailed comments yet on where the company's robotics ambitions are headed and how they… 28 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 13d ago Spike-driven Vision-Language-Action Model arXiv:2609.39514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models bridge multimodal understanding and robotic control, advancing the dominant paradigm for embodied intelligence. However, most existing models rely on large Transformers, whose latency and energy… 23 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 14d ago Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page "One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company." 37 arXiv — Machine Learning research 14d ago Action Chunking Proximal Policy Optimization with Feedback Correction arXiv:2609.36250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking provides temporal abstraction in reinforcement learning by selecting short action sequences instead of individual actions, but many existing approaches face two limitations in high-dimensional robotic control.… 9 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 14d ago Video2Skill: From Streaming Experience to Reusable Embodied Skills arXiv:2609.36691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manipulation behaviors vary widely across objects and scenes, but they share a small set of reusable skills, and planning with these skills helps embodied agents generalize to new tasks. Yet an agent can only plan with skills it… 35 Latent.Space news-outlet 15d ago [AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more Congrats team! 19 The Information — AI news-outlet 16d ago Valuations for Most Robotics Startups Will Fall By 2030, Says Vinod Khosla Vinod Khosla has been one of the most optimistic investors in robotics, predicting the field will have a “ChatGPT moment” in the next two years. But he is also warning that too much investment and lofty valuations in the hottest robotics startups mean a big shake-out is coming.… 33 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Sorry Robot, Happy Human: Vision-Language Models Read Only One of Two Legible Typographic Layers arXiv:2609.31403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs), despite their success in optical character recognition (OCR) tasks, are vulnerable to typographic attacks and have a fragile structure for images with multiple text layers. In this study, the… 24 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 18d ago Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026. 35 The Information — AI news-outlet 19d ago Tesla’s Optimus Hits Snags in Hands, Suppliers as Scale-Up Begins Tesla has ramped up production of its Optimus humanoid robot roughly tenfold in recent months, but the company is still struggling to manufacture the machines reliably at scale. Its production lines are grappling with problems involving the robot’s intricate hands, automated… 22 arXiv — Machine Learning research 19d ago Learning from Mixed-Quality Deployment Experience for Robot Manipulation arXiv:2609.29000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policies deployed in real environments naturally accumulate mixed-quality experience, including successful executions, partial progress, and failures. Although these rollouts provide valuable information for further learning,… 21 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Design and Evaluation of LLM Chaining-Based Task Planning for General Purpose Service Robots arXiv:2609.29043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General Purpose Service Robot (GPSR) tasks, as defined in the RoboCup@Home benchmark, require robots to interpret diverse natural language commands and generate multi-step action sequences in real home environments. Conventional… 6 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago Data-driven discrete-time deep recurrent neural network-based modeling for dissipative systems arXiv:2609.27186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical AI has gained increasing attention for its role in developing AI systems that better understand, predict, and control real-world dynamics. Achieving this requires AI models that not only achieve high prediction accuracy… 22 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago Psychoacoustically Aligned Latent Smoothing for Adversarial Robustness of Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Dialogue Models arXiv:2609.27378v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end speech-to-speech dialogue models listen and speak simultaneously, so a continuously open acoustic channel is exposed to adversarial manipulation. We formalize imperceptible attacks on full-duplex agents as optimization… 22 Hugging Face official-blog 21d ago How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows Back to Articles a]:hidden"> How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows Enterprise + Article Published September 23, 2026 Upvote - Johnny Nuñez Cano johnnynv nvidia Asier Arranz asiernvidia nvidia Rishabh Chadha rchadha-nv nvidia… 9 r/LocalLLaMA community 21d ago BFL releases FLUX 3 Action: a 7B robot model read more: https://bfl.ai/models/flux-3-action   submitted by   /u/paf1138 [link]   [comments] 36 llama.cpp releases dev-tools 21d ago b11117 HIP : optimize IQ2/IQ3 ( __vsub4 __vcmpne4 ) using SWAR ( #27962 ) HIP : use bit manipulation for __vcmpne4 HIP : use bit manipulation for __vsub4 Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/49401157 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon… 11 r/LocalLLaMA community 22d ago To my surprise I found gemma4 much better at tool-calling than Qwen I've had fairly good luck getting off the ground coding at home with both qwen3.6 35B a3b, and also qwen3.8 27B. However once I switched from a chat window (where the robot wrote code blocks that I could copy/paste into a text editor) to a simple agentic loop, things got funny.… 4 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 22d ago Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots. 24 Page 1 of 10 · 500 articles Older →
