ISO 21423 gives mixed fleets a language
A3 publishes ISO 21423 for mixed mobile robot fleets, an open hardware cable robot covers a whole room, and Bazel builds reach ROS 2 Lyrical.
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RAX agents, ABB vision, sonar SLAM
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.
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Intrinsic Core, AWS stack, Atlas hands
Intrinsic open sources its industrial robot stack, AWS packages an open Physical AI pipeline, and a new benchmark shows frontier models failing at control.
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Boston Dynamics' new CEO and Atlas hand
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.
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.
PickNik to Qualcomm, Intrinsic goes open
Qualcomm buys the steward of MoveIt, Google's Intrinsic open sources its industrial stack, Boston Dynamics starts Atlas training, and a VLM drives a humanoid.
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.
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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.
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.