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Tesla begins building production Optimus units in Fremont, NVIDIA opens Cosmos blueprints and training tools, and PlanSys2 4.0.0 covers PDDL 1.2 through PDDL+.
Eka bets on force instead of vision, a trigger word hijacks LLM robot planners, and open hardware gets a dual arm platform and five hands.
Agility's Digit 5 bets on barrier-free humanoid safety, Gecko quadruples its Navy contract to $300M, and Daimon builds a tactile data pipeline.
Open source RAX agents learn manipulation by exploration instead of demos, ABB ships an AI vision trainer, and sonar SLAM goes 6-DoF in a forest.
Intrinsic open sources its industrial robot stack, AWS packages an open Physical AI pipeline, and a new benchmark shows frontier models failing at control.
Perseverance passes Opportunity's driving record using AutoNav, TIER IV and TUM open an Autoware research center, and SafeWorld funds robot safety simulation.
NVIDIA ships open vision models sized for robot hardware, Agility names the battery supplier behind Digit 5, and Stryker invests in surgical robotics.
Vals AI's Robo-bench scores frontier models under 2 out of 100 on humanoid control, Hitachi and FANUC partner on physical AI, and ABB ships new robots.
Google's Gemini 4 Argon claims 87 percent on embodied reasoning, Physical Intelligence opens a robot model API, and BMW evaluates dexterous factory robots.
Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad CEO and shows a 13 DOF Atlas hand, Intrinsic open sources its core stack, and Amazon passes one million warehouse robots.