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Robotics researchers warn humanoid demo videos hide teleoperation and cherry-picked runs
Agility's Jonathan Hurst and Berkeley's Sergey Levine say viral humanoid clips routinely mask human control, replayed environments, and sped-up footage.
Hello Robot ships Stretch 4 at $30,000, betting on home deployment over humanoids
The Martinez, California startup is shipping a wheeled home-assistance robot in cardboard boxes while rivals chase humanoid moonshots.
Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, a foundation model for physical AI reasoning
Nvidia Research positions Cosmos 3 as the bridge from scripted robotics demos to embodied autonomy in open-world environments.
Robotics startups pay households for chore footage to train physical AI
Shift, Pronto, and Human Archive are buying first-person video of cleaning and cooking — the bottleneck for home robots is real-world data.
Shift offers free home cleanings in exchange for robot training footage
The startup's cleaners wear a camera-equipped 'magic hat' to capture point-of-view data for future household robots.
Nvidia shows eight sim-to-real robotics papers at ICRA, led by COMPASS and PEEK
The research push targets multi-arm scheduling, cross-body navigation, and grasping, with one pipeline delivering a 41x real-world accuracy gain.
Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5 model and in-house robotic hands after $105M seed
The Khosla- and Eclipse-backed startup is building its own human-shaped hands and a sensor glove to close the embodiment gap in robotics data.
Roomba creator Colin Angle returns with Familiar, an AI robot pet
Familiar Machines & Magic unveiled Ami, a quadruped companion robot with 23 degrees of freedom running on Nvidia Jetson Orin.
SoftBank lines up Roze AI, a robot-built data center venture, for a $100B IPO
The Japanese conglomerate wants to take Roze AI public as soon as the second half of 2026, with autonomous robots assembling US server farms.
Eka's robots screw in light bulbs and sort chicken nuggets, claiming a path to superhuman dexterity
MIT's Pulkit Agrawal and ex-DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja say simulation, not human demos, will crack the dexterity problem.
Sony's Ace Robot Beats Elite Human Players at Table Tennis, Lands Nature Cover
Sony AI's table tennis robot is the first autonomous machine to win real matches against professional players, with planning loops under 200 milliseconds.
Sony AI's Ace robot beats amateur table tennis players 3-2 in Nature study
Ace took three of five matches against high-level amateurs but managed only one win in seven against pros from the Japanese league.
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