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The company Hugging Face has introduced ToyBlocks – an open-source simulation framework for robot learning featuring a robot and blocks on a table, which automatically generates training demonstrations without teleoperation and is used to test the impact of data on model performance.
The interview with Martin Saska for Živě.cz covers drones that, thanks to artificial intelligence, independently perceive their surroundings and carry out tasks without GPS. It also discusses the EU's effort to develop its own drones without dependence on Chinese technologies and components.
OKA has started selling Mori, a robotic lamp. According to the company, it responds to people's movements, music and what is happening on TV. Founder's Edition costs 649 USD including two years of subscription access; the standard edition costs 799 USD without a subscription.
The guide from Hugging Face connects locomotion training for the Microduck robot in Isaac Lab and Newton with ONNX export for the physical robot. It includes configurations for flat and uneven terrain; simulation and training require Linux and a supported NVIDIA GPU.
SimReady Central Library offers over 2 000 models in OpenUSD format on Hugging Face, free of charge and with no access approval required. It includes robotic arms, grippers and equipment for digital twins of AI infrastructure.
At a pilot Yusen Logistics facility in the northwestern United States, three robots move carts of goods. The robots are controlled by Destro's Vision system, while the Mothership system coordinates workers, carts, and trucks.
The Swiss startup Embodied AI has secured an investment round for robots that adaptively learn to work on the production line. The round was led by Faber VC, with participation from the Prague-based fund Look AI Ventures, the American Plug and Play San Francisco, and the Italian Techschop Capital.
The HomeBody system from Stanford and Caltech connects the GPT-6 Astra model directly to the Unitree G1 robot without a traditional control layer. Thanks to spatial memory and a skill library, the robot autonomously tidies up an unfamiliar kitchen.
Former Ukrainian minister Fedorov has launched the "Army of Robots" initiative to privatize military robotics; according to him, drones account for more than 95% of target hits, and the program is to be financed by private companies.
In May 2026, Tesla halted production of the Model S and Model X in Fremont and reassigned both workers and engineers to development of the Optimus robot. According to a report by The Information, development is being slowed by the complexity of robotic hands and employee resistance to training their own replacements.
The TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 conference (13–15 October, San Francisco) will host a panel of representatives from Shield AI, Waabi and General Motors on safety, testing and regulation of AI in autonomous drones, vehicles and robotics.
According to Sce Pike of Telus Digital, the development of humanoid robots is being held back by a shortage of training video data, its high storage and processing costs, and noise from diverse sensors - which also affects the physical safety of robots.
NVIDIA has released Isaac ROS 5.0 – a GPU-accelerated set of packages built on the open-source framework ROS, designed for developing robotic applications with physical AI models capable of perception, reasoning, and action.
Physical AI is moving from research to mass deployment, according to NVIDIA. ABI Research estimates 49 million autonomous vehicles at levels 3-5 by 2035, and Omdia estimates 60 million industrial robots in 2026-2035; the company emphasizes deployment safety.
The startup studio Vantora (formerly UP.Labs) has secured 100 million dollars from Silversmith Capital Partners and is shifting to a model of developing proprietary physical AI startups exclusively for corporate partners such as Porsche, Alaska Airlines or J.B. Hunt.
The Kijonka couple’s JSK Investments fund invested single-digit millions of dollars in the US startup Andromeda Surgical, which is developing an autonomous surgical platform with AI. The startup is now entering the commercial phase and has raised a total of 30 million dollars.
Xiaomi brought the humanoid robot CyberOne to Europe. According to the company, it makes autonomous decisions and gains experience while working in an electric vehicle factory. You can find details in the source article.
Hugging Face has clarified the capabilities of the Microduck robot, priced at 399 dollars: it can walk, pick up objects, get up after a fall and roller-skate. Behaviors are trained using reinforcement learning in simulation and deployed on the physical machine; the SDK is open source on GitHub.
New: The robot can perform specific behaviors: walking, picking up objects, recovering from a fall and roller-skating; Equipped with a camera, lidar and two inertial measurement units (IMU); Behaviors are trained in simulation, then deployed on the physical robot with the option of fine-tuning; Clem Delangue promotes it on X with a focus on 'democratization of physical AI'; The description emphasizes the role of RL training in creating learnable behaviors
The company Waymo, which currently operates robotaxis in 11 US cities, plans to expand to more than 20 new destinations. According to the source, it is also heading to Europe – first to London, then to Munich as well.
XPeng raised over 900 million dollars in the first external funding round for its robotics unit, valued at 6.3 billion dollars. The funds are intended to accelerate mass production of the Iron humanoid robot, with a target of 1 000 units per month by the end of 2026.
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