robotics

Reka released a research preview of Rho-1, a 19-billion-parameter model that handles text, image, video and robot-action generation in one network, trained on 320 H100 GPUs.

Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, letting AI agents read and write to lab and factory hardware through standardized drivers, cutting integration from weeks to hours in early tests.

JetPack 7.2.1 adds T3000 emulation on the Jetson Thor AGX Developer Kit plus new automated video-pipeline tools built on PyNvVideoCodec 2.2.

EndoQuest Robotics finished enrolling 49 subjects in its pivotal PARADIGM trial for robotic colorectal lesion removal, citing a 100% en bloc resection rate.

The FCC added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots to its Covered List, blocking new imports as China holds roughly 85% of the global market.

Atoms, Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics venture, closed a $1.7 billion round led by a16z, with Uber and Bain Capital among the backers.

EngineAI's Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend opened in Shenzhen with 32 teams fighting on standardized T800 humanoids for a gold championship belt worth 10 million yuan. One robot lost its head mid-match and finished the fight on torso-based systems.

Hyundai Motor's union struck for three days in Ulsan over pay and demanded a labor agreement before Boston Dynamics' Atlas robots enter its plants.

Intrinsic, folded into Google's core operations in February, debuted the Intrinsic Intelligence Cell at Automate 2026; Foxconn will pilot a customized version for electronics assembly later this year.

Engineers and surgeons at UC San Diego used two teleoperated humanoid robots, nicknamed Surgie, to complete two gallbladder-removal procedures, reporting the results in Nature.

AGIBOT unveiled its A3 humanoid in Europe and launched UK robot rental pricing starting at £1,999 a day, days after marking its 15,000th robot produced.

Mistral AI has unveiled Robostral Navigate, its first robotics model: an 8-billion-parameter navigation system that guides wheeled, legged, and flying robots with one RGB camera and language instructions, scoring 76.6% on the R2R-CE benchmark in unseen environments.