⊲ WIRED ⊳ Eka Robotics in Cambridge have developed a robot that demonstrates unusually fluid, tactile manipulation, from grasping keys to screwing in a light bulb. Cofounders Pulkit Agrawal and...
Tag: robotics
Sony AI Serves Robotics Milestone
⊲ The Guardian ⊳ Sony AI's robot Ace has beaten elite table tennis players in matches played under official competition rules, winning three out of five against elite amateurs but losing both...
$60m Simulation Startup Targets Physical AI
⊲ TechCrunch ⊳ New York's Develop autonomy at the speed of software startup Antioch, has raised an $8.5 million seed round at a $60 million valuation to build simulation tools for robot developers....
A Single Photo Becomes a Simulation
⊲ The Decoder ⊳ The article reports that Nvidia’s Lyra 2.0 turns a single photo into a coherent 3D scene that can extend about 90 metres, with improved memory of earlier views and better resistance...
Simulation and Training in an Uncrewed Future
aka Drones - UAV – sUAS - RPAS - UMS – USV – UUV – UGV – OPV … Remotely Operated - Autonomous. This analysis by Andy Fawkes was presented at the Joint Military Training & Simulation...
Nvidia Advances Robotics Simulation Tools
⊲ eWeek ⊳ At GTC 2026, Nvidia highlighted the rise of physical AI for robotics, introducing new simulation tools and models aimed at improving how robots are trained and deployed. The company...
VR-Equipped Humans Train Robots
⊲ Euronews ⊳ Euronews reports from Wuhan, where researchers are training humanoid robots through VR headsets and hand controllers to perform daily jobs including making coffee, sorting packages and...
Gamers Quietly 3D Mapping Cities Worldwide
⊲ MIT Technology Review ⊳ Niantic Spatial, an AI spinout from Niantic is turning images captured by players of Pokémon Go and Ingress into a detailed visual positioning system for robots. 30...
Robotic Surgery Over 2,400km
⊲ The Guardian ⊳ Professor Prokar Dasgupta at The London Clinic in Harley Street has performed the UK's first remote robotic surgery, operating on a prostate cancer patient 2,400km away in...
Simulation Drives Embodied AI
⊲ Sources ⊳ Skild AI chief Deepu Talla sets out a case for building a general-purpose “brain” for robots that can operate any hardware and perform varied tasks. Drawing on academic work at Carnegie...
Spatial Intelligence Gets Major Funding Boost
⊲ CGTN ⊳ Fei-Fei Li's startup, World Labs, has successfully raised $1 billion to enhance "spatial intelligence," a new AI approach that enables reasoning about the 3D world. Notable investors...
DeepMind Models 4 Dimensional Perception
⊲ Google DeepMind Blog ⊳ Google DeepMind have announced D4RT, a research model designed to help AI systems understand how three-dimensional scenes change over time. By learning from video, depth...