AR4 Mark 5: This Open-Source 6-Axis Robot Arm Is Finally Done
A six-axis robot arm sitting on your desk used to mean five figures and a service contract. Chris Annin's AR4 quietly tore that idea up — and with the…
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Physical AI just got its platform layer. Nvidia is the only candidate. Here's what you missed this week.
NEURA closed a $1.4B record round, robots grew hands that can feel, and someone is racing to own the Physical AI ecosystem. Value Description $1.4BN N…
Physical AI has Scaling Laws now. The Race just became something else.
NVIDIA discovered the first scaling law for robot dexterity this week. Paired with Apache 2.0 licensing, BYD's 20,000-unit push, and a $400M foundatio…
How to Add Live Telemetry and Failure Diagnosis to Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or Gazebo Training in Under 5 Minutes
If you train robot policies long enough, you eventually realize the main problem is not launching runs. It is answering these questions fast enough: I…
NVIDIA Cosmos 3: Unifying Physical AI Reasoning and Generation with Two-Tower Architecture
Training a robot to pick up an object sounds simple until you realize how many separate systems are involved: a vision model to understand the scene, …
NVIDIA Cosmos 3: How a Two-Tower Architecture Unifies Physical AI Reasoning and Generation
Training a robot to pick up an object sounds simple until you realize how many separate systems are involved: a vision model to understand the scene, …
BLDC Motor Torque Density Optimization for Robot Joints: A Practical Design Guide
BLDC Motor Torque Density Optimization for Robot Joints: A Practical Design Guide Introduction In robotic joint design, torque density (torque per uni…
Treating Robots as Code: Why We Built a Programmable IR for ROS 2
How LinkForge v1.4.0 moves beyond static XML (URDF/SRDF) to bring modern software engineering ergonomics to robotics simulation. If you work in roboti…
I Told a Robot to "Clean the Kitchen", and It Actually Did
I typed "Clean the kitchen" into a chat box. A robot turned toward the right room, drove over, swept the floor in a tidy back-and-forth pattern, and c…
79% of companies are already deploying Physical AI. Is yours one of them? Here's what you missed this week.
Capgemini surveyed 1,700 organizations and 79% are already engaged with Physical AI. NVIDIA open-sourced GR00T N1.7 on Apache 2.0. Japan Airlines sign…
Meet the G2 Nano: A 1GHz Dev Board Built for Robotics
What if a development board could be as friendly as an Arduino, yet powerful enough to drive industrial-grade robots? That is exactly the gap the new …
Помидор, которого нет: почему VLA-модели не понимают, что они держат
Современные VLA-модели (RT-2, π0, Helix) научились впечатляюще двигать роботом, но не понимают, что он держит. Помидор для них — кластер пикселей, ста…
A Startup founded in 2024 just signed a contract for thousands of robots at $25,000 each. Here Is the Moment Physical AI Made That Real.
Humanoid prices fell from $85,000 to $25,000 in two years. Schaeffler signed a binding RaaS deal for thousands of robots starting December 2026. Hyund…
How an ESP32 Turned a LEGO WALL-E Into a Real Working Robot
A LEGO WALL-E set on a shelf is nice, but a LEGO WALL-E that actually drives around your living room is something else entirely. Maker Crostplay2 stuf…
Recovering Corrupted ROS 2 Bags Without a ROS 2 Runtime
Robots do not always fail gracefully. A delivery robot can hit an obstacle. A lawn-mowing robot can lose power. An inspection robot can emergency-stop…
Three Humanoid Robots Just Quietly Cracked Their Records
In the seven days ending May 15, 2026, three humanoid robotics milestones landed almost on top of each other. Figure crossed 30 hours of continuous au…
VLAs are dead, long live World Action Models - a summary of Jim Fan's Robotics End Game talk
"Our generation was born too late to explore the Earth and too early to explore the stars, but we are born just in time to solve robotics." -- Jim Fan…
Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data
Samsung, Hyundai and LG just bet on the startup that wants to be robotics' data backbone.
Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full-stack, demo shows
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…
Marc Lore says that AI will soon enable anyone open a restaurant
Wonder wants to turn its robotic kitchens into AI-powered “restaurant factories,” letting anyone spin up a virtual food brand with a prompt.
Convert URDF to MuJoCo MJCF Without Installing Anything API + Python SDK
The Problem (3 paragraphs) MuJoCo is the fastest-growing robotics simulator Converting URDF to MJCF is painful (./compile is buggy, urdf2mjcf ignores …
How to Validate URDF Files in GitHub Actions Without Installing ROS
The Problem (3 paragraphs) MuJoCo is the fastest-growing robotics simulator Converting URDF to MJCF is painful (./compile is buggy, urdf2mjcf ignores …