The Stop Function Is Certified. Everything Feeding It Is Not.
A delivery robot read an advert as a green light and nine passengers fell. Its stop function worked as designed; the problem is the inputs are not verified.
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Force models, backdoored planners, open arms
Eka bets on force instead of vision, a trigger word hijacks LLM robot planners, and open hardware gets a dual arm platform and five hands.
Atlas Metaplant opens, Halos safety stack
Boston Dynamics starts training Atlas inside Hyundai's Metaplant America, NVIDIA argues safety has to be a whole stack, and robot policies rarely refuse.
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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.