Robot Model SOTA Now Ships With a Nationality Qualifier
Two open weight robot models landed the same week, both citing benchmarks that no longer separate them. The differentiator has moved to adaptation and control.
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Digit 5, Navy contracts, tactile data
Agility's Digit 5 bets on barrier-free humanoid safety, Gecko quadruples its Navy contract to $300M, and Daimon builds a tactile data pipeline.
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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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Gemini 4 Argon and Pi API beta
Google's Gemini 4 Argon claims 87 percent on embodied reasoning, Physical Intelligence opens a robot model API, and BMW evaluates dexterous factory robots.
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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.
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.
Atlas hand drops the pinky
Boston Dynamics' new Atlas hand trades a pinky for 13 degrees of freedom, NoDL lands for ROS 2, and two warehouse robot startups scale real deployments.