Topic: physical ai
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Nvidia Unveils Open AI Models for Autonomous Driving Research
Nvidia has launched the open-source Alpamayo-R1 model, a vision language action model designed to advance autonomous driving by enabling vehicles to process visual and textual data for better environmental interpretation and navigation. The model, built on Nvidia's Cosmos Reason architecture, aim...
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Bone AI Secures $12M to Take on Asia's Defense Giants with AI Robotics
South Korea's defense industry is rapidly expanding with a $69 billion order backlog and has become the second-largest arms supplier to European NATO members, while its defense-tech startup ecosystem remains underdeveloped. Bone AI, a startup with dual headquarters in Seoul and Palo Alto, is deve...
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Nvidia Aims to Be the Android of Robotics
Nvidia unveiled a comprehensive suite of tools at CES 2026 to become the foundational platform for next-generation robotics, mirroring Android's role in smartphones and enabling AI's shift from the cloud to physical devices. The ecosystem includes new open foundation models for robot reasoning an...
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Nokia, NestAI Secure €100M to Build AI for Defense
NestAI secured €100 million in funding led by Tesi and Nokia to develop AI products for defense applications, including unmanned vehicles and autonomous systems. The startup is partnering with Nokia to advance "physical AI," focusing on applying large language models to control robotics and manag...
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SoftBank Bets $5.4 Billion on AI-Powered Robotics
SoftBank is investing $5.4 billion to acquire ABB's robotics division, marking a major return to robotics and expanding its automated systems portfolio despite past setbacks like the Pepper robot. The acquisition strengthens SoftBank's position in industrial robotics and aligns with founder Masay...
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AI Companion Robots: The Future of Pets and Partners
A new trend in robotics focuses on creating AI companions designed for emotional connection and presence, rather than for performing specific practical tasks. Examples include interactive desk buddies, mobile companion robots, and robotic pets that use AI to offer personality, comfort, and social...
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Coco Robotics launches AI lab led by UCLA professor
Coco Robotics has launched a new AI research facility to utilize five years of data from its delivery robots, aiming to advance full autonomy and reduce costs. The lab is led by Professor Bolei Zhou, whose expertise in computer vision and robotics aligns with Coco's goals, and he is expected to a...
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SoftBank Expands Robotics Empire with ABB Unit Acquisition
SoftBank Group has agreed to acquire ABB's robotics division for $5.375 billion, marking a strategic expansion into "physical AI" and robotics as a core growth area, with the deal expected to close by late 2026. The ABB robotics unit, which employs 7,000 people and generated $2.3 billion in reven...
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Caterpillar Partners with Nvidia to AI-Power Construction Equipment
Caterpillar is partnering with Nvidia to integrate AI into its construction equipment, starting with a pilot on an excavator that uses Nvidia's Jetson Thor platform for an assistive system called Cat AI. The Cat AI system provides operators with real-time support, safety guidance, and data analys...
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AI2's MolmoAct Uses 3D Thinking to Rival Nvidia, Google in Robotics AI
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) developed MolmoAct 7B, an open-source 3D-aware model that outperforms competitors like Nvidia and Google by enabling robots to navigate physical spaces more precisely using spatially grounded perception tokens. Early tests show MolmoAct achieves a 72.1% task...
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Gartner's Top Strategic Tech Trends for 2026 Revealed
Gartner identifies key strategic technology trends for 2026, emphasizing responsible innovation, operational excellence, and digital trust in an AI-driven, interconnected business environment. Top trends include AI supercomputing platforms for complex workloads, multiagent systems for automation ...
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Google's AI Rise, RL Frenzy & Party Boat: The Industry's Biggest Week
The AI field is shifting from a focus on scaling computational power to a new "Age of Research," prioritizing foundational innovation and architectural breakthroughs. Key technical frontiers include reinforcement learning for building capable AI agents, continual learning to prevent catastrophic ...
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2026: The Year AI Gets Real and Practical
The AI industry is shifting from building large, general models to focusing on practical integration, deploying smaller, specialized models for cost-effective, task-specific enterprise applications. Key research is moving toward new architectures like "world models" for 3D understanding and AI ag...
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Gartner's Top Tech Trends Shaping 2026
Businesses must adapt to transformative technology trends by 2026, focusing on AI, cybersecurity, and data governance to stay competitive and redefine operational models. Key trends include AI security platforms for risk management, preemptive cybersecurity using AI to prevent threats, and confid...
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Alibaba Integrates Nvidia AI Hardware Into Its Platform
Alibaba is integrating Nvidia's AI tools into its cloud platform to enhance offerings for developers in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and smart environments. The partnership centers on Nvidia's Physical AI software for creating 3D digital replicas to generate synthetic data for training AI model...
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Nvidia Expands Open Source AI with Acquisition and New Models
Nvidia acquired SchedMD, the developer of the open-source Slurm workload manager, to accelerate its development and integration for scaling AI and high-performance computing clusters. The company launched the open Nemotron 3 AI model family, designed for building efficient AI agents, with variant...
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Nvidia Deepens AI Partnerships with Hyundai, Samsung, SK, Naver
Nvidia is expanding its presence in South Korea through strategic alliances with Hyundai Motor, Samsung, SK Group, and Naver to enhance the nation's AI infrastructure and capabilities in physical AI systems. The South Korean government will procure over 260,000 of Nvidia's latest GPUs, with 50,00...
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Mistral Narrows Gap With AI Giants via New Open Models
Mistral has launched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight AI models, including a large multimodal model and nine smaller, customizable options, to challenge closed-source systems and make advanced AI more accessible for business applications. The company argues that fine-tuning its smaller, ef...
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Tech Leaders Unite on Future Industries at GITEX 2025
GITEX GLOBAL 2025, the world's largest tech and AI exhibition, will take place from October 13-17 in Dubai, featuring over 6,800 enterprises and 2,000 startups from 180 countries focused on AI infrastructure and critical sectors like biotech and quantum computing. The event highlights record inte...
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Nvidia's Alpamayo AI Enables Human-Like Thinking for Autonomous Vehicles
Nvidia has launched the open-source Alpamayo AI model family at CES 2026, designed to give autonomous vehicles advanced reasoning capabilities for navigating complex real-world environments. The flagship Alpamayo 1 model uses chain-of-thought reasoning to interpret novel scenarios, like a broken ...
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