Spot for ICE, Digit at GXO, ROS 2 agents
Boston Dynamics staff fail to stop an ICE Spot sale, Agility adds two GXO sites, Bedrock raises $600M, and a free ROS 2 to VLA course ships its code.
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Nemotron edge models and Digit 5 charging
NVIDIA ships open vision models sized for robot hardware, Agility names the battery supplier behind Digit 5, and Stryker invests in surgical robotics.
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.
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.
Open 7B action model, all-linear hand
Black Forest Labs opens a 7B world action model that tops a public robot benchmark, a Duke lab builds a hand from linear motion, and HFlow opens data tooling.
Five million robots, and no refusal layer
The IFR counts five million industrial robots, frontier agent policies follow harmful commands, ANYmal learns to pass doors, and a Jetson runs targeting.
Qualcomm buys PickNik, keeps MoveIt open
Qualcomm acquires PickNik and keeps MoveIt open source, Arduino's VENTUNO Q targets robot builders, rclrs 0.8 ships, and Joby flies across the US autonomously.
Gorai, Jetson strike drone, humanoid recycling
A Go and NATS robotics framework, autonomous target selection running on a Jetson Orin Nano, and why retired humanoids are a hard recycling problem.
Digit 5, SoftBank RAI, JOY microgravity
Agility's Digit 5 adds a cooperative safety architecture, SoftBank moves to buy the Robotics and AI Institute, and Icarus tests a free-flying robot in microgravity.