Xiaomi announces Xiaomi-Robotics-0, its first-generation robot large-scale model

Xiaomi is best known for smartphones, smart home gear, and the occasional electric vehicle update. Now it wants a place in robotics research too. The company has announced Xiaomi-Robotics-0, an ...
TechCrunch

Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook

It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on ...
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Gemini’s Robotics On-Device outperforms Google’s other models

Google DeepMind on Tuesday introduced a new language model called Gemini Robotics On-Device. The firm revealed that the model can run tasks locally on robots without an internet connection. The new ...
InfoQ

Physical Intelligence Unveils Robotics Foundation Model Pi-Zero

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...
The Robot Report

NVIDIA adds Cosmos Policy to its world foundation models

Cosmos Policy is a new robot control policy that post-trains the Cosmos Predict-2 world foundation model for manipulation ...
Morningstar

Beyond Robotaxis: PIX Advances a New Global Model for City Robotics

CALIFORNIA CITY, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / February 2, 2026 / Recent attention around Robotaxi programs, including growing public interest in Zoox's purpose-built autonomous vehicles showcased at ...
VentureBeat

Ai2's MolmoAct model ‘thinks in 3D’ to challenge Nvidia and Google in robotics AI

Physical AI, where robotics and foundation models come together, is fast becoming a growing space with companies like Nvidia, Google and Meta releasing research and experimenting in melding large ...
MIT Technology Review

Gemini Robotics uses Google’s top language model to make robots more useful

The new model from Google DeepMind is a huge step toward robots that can generalize. Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with ...
TechCrunch

RLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for robotics

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of ...
CNBC

China's Alibaba launches AI model to power robots as tech giants talk up 'physical AI'

Alibaba's new AI model called RynnBrain is focused on powering robots. One video released by Alibaba's DAMO Academy shows a robot identifying fruit and putting it in a basket. Nvidia and Google are ...
Wired

This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...