CircuitHub's Grid, A3 orders, world model tests
CircuitHub shows a factory-scale PCB robot, A3 reports a 24.8 percent order jump, and WorldOracle scores world models against real executions.
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Ex-proof quadrupeds, batched planners, agent harnesses
ANYbotics certifies ANYmal X for explosive atmospheres, BMW passes a million automated car moves, and three open tools for planning and robot agents ship code.
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.
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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Isaac ROS 5.0 lands at ROSCon
NVIDIA ships Isaac ROS 5.0 with agent skills, Intrinsic open sources its industrial robot runtime, and a new serving layer cuts VLA latency on Jetson Thor.
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Gazebo armhf EOL, NSF physical AI
Gazebo ends 32-bit ARM binaries, NSF opens a physical AI funding topic, Hirebotics adds line tracking and a rail, and a defense for backdoored VLA policies.
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.
Universal Robots Gen 7, Unitree UnifoLM
Universal Robots ships its Gen 7 cobot platform, Unitree opens a 6B humanoid foundation model, plus ROS 2 releases and new VLA safety work.