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Insider Brief Brighter Signals, a Dutch startup developing fabric-based sensing technology for vehicles and robotics, has raised €1.6 million in new funding as it expands pilot programs with automotive and industrial partners. According to the company, the financing included investment from Wake Up Capital and ELOKON Ventures, alongside regional innovation funding and a Eurostars grant […]
Read full articleInsider Brief Spirit AI and Bosch China announced a strategic partnership focused on bringing embodied AI systems into industrial environments, combining Spirit AI’s robotics foundation models with Bosch’s manufacturing and automation infrastructure. According to the companies, the partnership is aimed at accelerating deployment of what Spirit AI describes as a “universal brain” for robots — […]
Insider Brief Genesis AI unveiled a new robotics foundation model called GENE-26.5 alongside a proprietary robotic hand and data collection system designed to improve how robots learn complex physical tasks from human behavior. The system is intended to address the difficulty of collecting large amounts of usable training data for physical tasks, which the company […]
A familiar pattern has emerged in robotics and autonomous systems: a flagship demo runs beautifully on stage, the same system stumbles in a live warehouse two weeks later, and the post-mortem blames “reality” for being messier than the test environment. Some voices in the field argue the missing layer is hardware — better grippers, force-torque […]
Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, but also a demo showcasing a set of robotic hands performing complex tasks.
Jensen Huang called it "the ChatGPT moment for robotics." Deloitte says 80% of businesses plan to use physical AI within two years. Here is what you actually need to know, and do, to prepare…
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — China has launched its 15th Five-Year Plan by placing robotics at the heart of its modern industrial system. The aim is to pivot its AI research towards physical applications with robots as main drivers for economic growth. This is a next step in the country´s strong automation development: China´s manufacturing […]
Colin Angle revealed a prototype of an artificial pet, called the Familiar.
An egocentric dataset is a structured collection of first-person video and sensor recordings — captured from a head, chest, or wrist-mounted camera — used to train robotics and embodied AI systems on how people see, move, and act. It’s the closest match to what a robot’s onboard camera will see during operation, which is why […]
