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Simate Unveils Simate-beta, Says Physical AI Model Tops RoboDojo
Simate launched Simate-beta, a physical AI fast system it says tops RoboDojo, plus an AI research platform and funding.
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Simate launched Simate-beta, a physical AI fast system it says tops RoboDojo, plus an AI research platform and funding.
AgiBot deployed more than 300 embodied intelligence robots across over 100 interactive points at Hengqin's Chimelong Spaceship Park, and its 20,000th robot, an Expedition A3 Ultra, was delivered to Chimelong Group the same day.
Tesla made several hundred Optimus robots a week last month, The Information reports, with manual assembly and precision issues slowing output.
A seven-metre autonomous Saildrone has begun a 22,000km voyage around Antarctica to measure carbon dioxide in the ocean and atmosphere for CSIRO research. The mission aims to track how the Southern Ocean absorbs human emissions and how that sink may change.
Skild AI showed a humanoid robot that learned dribbling, shielding and shooting in 140 years of simulated self-play.
Former Huawei large-model executives founded Xirang Kaiwu, which raised several hundred million yuan at a $500 million valuation to build a Large Physics Model for physical AI and robots, QbitAI reported.
Mifeng Technology launched Mifeng Pai on Sept. 23, a crowdsourced platform where users collect physical AI data with MEgo devices for pay. The company says 20,000 devices are deployed and one million hours of data collected, while Figure's Index pursues a similar model.
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, a 7B open-weights World Action Model for robot control. It ranks first on RoboLab-120 at 42.92% task success, leads larger rivals with fewer parameters, and ships under a non-commercial license with deployment caveats.
Amazon plans a $100 million-plus Indiana plant to build warehouse robot parts, its fourth robot-making site.
Nexterity, founded by former ExxonMobil engineer Lindsey Elliott, has built a remote-controlled robot that loosens and tightens bolted pipe flanges. The startup is part of TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200.
Ukraine says it staged a world-first robot airborne assault on Sept. 21, 2026, dropping ground robots behind Russian lines.
Feather Robotics is selling modular humanoid robots at $30,000 and has topped $1 million in revenue, betting developers will build applications on its hardware and software platform.
TechRadar has published a first-person article about Beni, a small robot that follows and films users. The headline calls Beni a "cute little robot" and compares it to a "ground drone." The provided text includes a biography of the writer but no product specifications or test results.
Shield AI, Waabi and General Motors leaders will discuss safety, testing and trust in autonomous systems at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Amazon cut the Shark PowerDetect Robot Vacuum & Mop Combo to $279.99, an all-time low, saving $1,020 and 78% off its $1,299.99 recommended retail price, according to Android Authority.
SeeAct AI创始人穆尧提出，具身智能的规模化不能只靠数据和模型扩张，更需要“经验规模化”，最终走向奖励驱动的递归自我进化。
诺因发布面向通用具身智能的生成式学习架构GLOW技术报告，称机器人可通过一次人类演示实现跨物体、跨环境、跨任务复用，并在RoboDojo、LIBERO-Pro及Embodied Arena等评测中取得领先成绩。
Tsinghua University and Infinigence AI have open-sourced RLark, a cloud-native platform for managing embodied devices, cloud and edge resources by task. QbitAI reports it cuts robot onboarding to about five minutes and starts cross-cluster tasks within 10 seconds.
Delft University's sub-100g drone uses artificial whiskers and 34KB software to navigate by touch in dark or dusty areas.
Vogue World Milan closed with Unitree humanoid robots on the runway, an act that overshadowed the fashion and intensified criticism of Vogue's ties to the technology industry, according to TechCrunch.
Finalists honored in the $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition demonstrated space-based fire detection and firefighting drones, but no team claimed either of the two grand prizes, Ars Technica reported.
A Hugging Face blog post explains how MJWarp, built on NVIDIA Warp, moves compatible MuJoCo models to as many as 2,048 parallel GPU environments and details Warp kernels, interop, differentiability and determinism.
PitPro Automation has installed its first automatic tire-changing system at a Kal Tire shop in Calgary, Alberta. The San Francisco startup says the robotic system, first revealed last year, can swap a full set of four tires in under 15 minutes.
Tashi Zhihang CEO Chen Yilun told a Shanghai event that China's manufacturing data and supply chain are pushing embodied AI from labs to factory floors.