Physical AI is becoming one of the most discussed areas of artificial intelligence, with humanoid robots often taking centre stage. Yet the technology’s potential extends far beyond machines designed to look and move like humans. From factory automation to materials science and life sciences, physical AI could transform how businesses manufacture products, conduct experiments, and […]
Artificial natural language is an emerging approach in which AI agents develop a shared communication system based on the information they perceive and the tasks they need to perform. Rather than relying entirely on English or another human language, these systems can develop their own vocabulary to describe patterns and concepts in complex data. A […]
A Cambridge startup advised by Yann LeCun says it has licensed almost 1 million hours of gameplay to train AI world models. We explain why labs want video game data, what Minecraft and Bleeding Edge research shows, who else is betting on it, and why Nvidia thinks game physics falls short.
Robot fleet management software turns individual robots into a coordinated system. This guide explains what it does (task allocation, traffic control, charging, maps, monitoring and updates), the three kinds of platform, the VDA 5050 3.0, Open-RMF and MassRobotics interoperability standards, architecture and WMS integration, safety rules including ISO 3691-4 and the EU Machinery Regulation, the KPIs to track, a worked fleet-sizing example, illustrative three-year costs and how to choose a platform.
Shield AI CTO Nathan Michael, Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun and GM robotics strategy director Mikell Taylor share the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (13-15 October, Moscone West) for “Building AI Systems When Failure Is Not an Option”. This article covers the session, each company’s record on validation, RAND’s miles-to-safety arithmetic, the standards behind a release decision and the questions founders should ask about safety-critical AI.
China’s National Data Administration said on 13 September 2026 that it will promote embodied intelligence data standards “at an appropriate time” after a symposium chaired by Liu Liehong. We set out who attended, the embodied AI standards already published, the training grounds and datasets behind the policy, and how it compares with the EU Data Act.
Jetson Orin Nano 2 is the module NVIDIA announced on 25 August 2026 to put physical AI inside delivery drones, inspection drones, home robots and factory vision systems. The headline everyone ran was the same one NVIDIA led with: twice the inference performance of the outgoing Jetson Orin Nano Super, in the same form factor, […]
Hugging Face and its Pollen Robotics subsidiary opened pre-orders on 27 August 2026 for Microduck, a 25 cm bipedal robot duck priced at $399 before taxes and shipping, with first deliveries targeted before Christmas 2026. The machine carries 15 motors, a wide-angle camera, an 8×8 time-of-flight LiDAR array, two IMUs and an articulated beak that works as a gripper, on a Rockchip RK3566 with 1 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage running its neural policy at 50 Hz. Seven behaviours ship on the device — walking, rolling on skates, grasping, kicking, standing up after a fall, sitting and a generated audio identity — and every one was trained in MuJoCo with proximal policy optimisation and transferred to hardware. The control stack and the full training pipeline are published under Apache 2.0, but the hardware is not open and Pollen Robotics says it has no plans to change that. This breakdown covers the pack pricing, the complete published specification, the Open Duck Mini project the design grew out of, how it compares with the Reachy Mini line, and the battery, payload and compute ceilings that decide who should actually buy one.
Workers in China are living through the fastest AI adoption drive on earth. Enterprise use of AI models and agents jumped from 9.6% to 47.5% in a single year, Beijing’s AI Plus plan targets 90% penetration by 2030, and programmers, scriptwriters and translators are already losing work to the tools their employers adopted. This article follows the Associated Press reporting on three workers who lived through it, sets their stories against the verified numbers — youth unemployment at 17.9%, a record 12.7 million graduates, 54% of the world’s industrial robot installations — and draws out what China’s adapt-or-be-replaced moment means for businesses everywhere else.
AI agents create virtual playgrounds that are transforming the way robots learn, adapt, and perform real-world tasks. Instead of relying solely on expensive physical testing environments, robotics companies are increasingly using AI-powered simulation platforms where robots can safely practice millions of interactions before ever touching the real world. These virtual environments generate vast amounts of […]
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