Isaac ROS 5.0 lands on Pixi
Isaac ROS 5.0 arrives as conda packages for Pixi, a 617 hour human motion dataset targets humanoid policies, and ros2_control 6.12.0 breaks deprecated APIs.
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Physical AI toolchain, a walking hand
AWS open sources a physical AI toolchain, an ETH Zurich hand walks on its fingers, and EasyNav 0.5.0 gives ROS 2 a new navigation stack.
Robot data, cobot software, local AI
Mecka AI raises $60M for robot training data, Universal Robots ships Gen 7 as a cobot lawsuit ends, and NVIDIA puts a petaflop of AI on Windows desks.
Boston Dynamics picks Alexa's Prasad as CEO
Boston Dynamics hands the chief executive job to an AI product veteran, and two papers measure what VLA policy routing and recovery actually buy.
Siemens closes a solver, robots go local
Siemens closes OpenRadioss, Teradyne bets on AI factory robotics, and a CMU spinout raises $12M to validate generative AI robot safety.
Zero-copy ROS 2 and a $10 tactile skin
ROS 2 gains zero-copy GPU buffers, a mission state that survives restarts, and SoTa tactile skins that make human demonstrations count.
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Mobile robot safety rules, open hand
A3 closes the user-side AMR safety standard, an open 15-DOF hand ships a ROS 2 driver, Tesla explains Robotaxi night limits, and benchmark means hide failures.
Runway bets robot policies on video
Runway's open-weight world action model learns control from video, ANYbotics opens a fleet platform, and an open quadruped runs Nav2 on a Jetson.
Atlas hand drops the pinky
Boston Dynamics' new Atlas hand trades a pinky for 13 degrees of freedom, NoDL lands for ROS 2, and two warehouse robot startups scale real deployments.
NVIDIA's OpenShell watchdog for robot agents
NVIDIA ships an open runtime and a hardware watchdog for robot agents, NASA traces its space arm trouble to the transporter, and ScaFi scales a swimming robot.