#robotics

#robotics

Kia's 2030 EV sales target now stands at 1 million units annually, a reduction of roughly 20% from the previous target of approximately 1.26 million units. This adjustment reflects the impact of eliminated US EV subsidies and a slowdown in battery-electric sales.

Eclipse Fund VI has raised $720 million for early-stage investments, while Early Growth Fund III has raised $591 million to support companies approaching commercial scale, reflecting a strategic focus on physical industries.

Robots excel at precise, repetitive, high-speed movements, but they struggle to pick up simple items and manipulate them. Even doing our laundry is extremely difficult.

This proof of concept in the manufacturing industry allows us to demonstrate how humanoid robots can act as extensions of an organization's operations by providing business context awareness and integration with existing workflows.

Kinetic's CEO Nikhil Naikal states, 'We have eyes, and when we need to correct vision, we go to an optometrist... In the same way, this is a digital prescription to correct the errors of the car's understanding of the world around it.'

The Roadrunner weighs roughly 15 kilograms and is designed for multi-mode locomotion, allowing it to switch mobility modes based on navigation requirements.

Decathlon's Portugal warehouse doubled its order preparation capacity from 57,000 to 114,000, showcasing the significant impact of Exotec's robotic systems on productivity.

The humanoid robot, clad in an orange and very ironic 'I'm good' apron, was shaking its moneymaker to beloved millennial Chinese song 'Love You' by artists Cyndi Wang and Sam Wang.

Janyla Amazing Haqq, 19, was charged in San Mateo County court Wednesday for kidnapping a 14-year-old girl in Daly City and taking her to Oakland to be forced into human trafficking. Prosecutors say Haqq convinced the girl and her male friend to get in a car with her and three strangers, when they proceeded to take the girl to International Boulevard in Oakland after dropping the boy off, who told the girl's mother. [KRON4]

An elephant's trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also stiff enough to grasp and maneuver even delicate objects like peanuts or a tortilla chip. That's because the trunk is highly sensitive when it comes to sensing touch. Scientists have determined that the whiskers lining the trunk are crucial for that sensitivity thanks to their unique structure, amounting to a kind of innate "material intelligence, according to a new paper published in the journal Science.

Dario Amodei shares his utopian and dystopian predictions for the near-term future of artificial intelligence. I want to try and focus on scenarios where A.I. goes rogue. I should have had a picture of a Terminator robot to scare people as much as possible. I think the internet... The internet does that for us. Are the lords of artificial intelligence on the side of the human race? My prediction is there'll be more robots than people.

Alibaba has launched RynnBrain, an open source AI model that helps robots and smart devices perform complex tasks in the real world. The model combines spatial understanding with time awareness. Alibaba's DAMO Academy introduced the foundation model that enables interaction with the environment. RynnBrain can map objects, predict trajectories, and navigate in complex environments such as kitchens or factory halls. The system is trained on Alibaba's Qwen3-VL vision language model.

It feels like an episode of The Jetsons come to life, but the truth is that the AI boom has officially entered the physical world. Most of us interact with artificial intelligence through screens- Gemini drafts our emails, ChatGPT summarizes our docs-but behind the scenes, engineers are racing to give AI hands and feet. Robots already pack boxes in warehouses and make guacamole in fast-food kitchens. Soon, they will be washing dishes, taking care of pets, and performing your manicure.

"If a rover comes across a crater in front of it, for instance, it can't decide what to do after communicating with Earth," he says, because sending signals across space takes too long. "It must decide on its own. So I think AI is very important for the nation's deep space exploration."