Tactile skins, data factories, welding AI
MIT open sources a shear sensing tactile skin, Generative Bionics plans a humanoid data factory in Italy, and ESAB ships a cobot that plans its own weld path.
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The Robot Data Refinery Is the Real Product
Google, Physical Intelligence and Humxn all launched on 13 October. What they actually sell is the machinery that turns experience into training data.
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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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Frontier models fail humanoid control benchmark
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.
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.
World-Action Models Agree on the Bottleneck, Not the Fix
A vendor launch and four arXiv papers attacked the robot data bottleneck in one week, and disagree about where a policy's generality comes from.
The Robot Data Bottleneck Has Two Halves, and Only One Scales
Figure's Helix 2.5 shows human video scales robot policy, while four papers published the same week show what vision cannot see. Robot data is splitting in two.