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AI News: This AI Labels Robot Video for 72 Cents an Hour #Shorts
NVIDIA's GEAR lab open-sourced Flora, which splits, describes and scores robot video. NVIDIA estimates 72 cents per hour ...
6 things we love about the Xiaomi Robot Vacuum 6 Series
Check out the entire Xiaomi Robot Vacuum 6 Series family.
An $89K AI Robot Is Learning to Interact With Humans in NYC Before Its Potential Future as a Babysitter
Faraday Future demonstrated an $89,000 humanoid robot in New York's Brooklyn Bridge Park, where it interacted with visitors under remote human control while developers collected da...
Robotis to Supply Actuators for Duck Robot That Impressed Jensen Huang
Robotis will supply about 750,000 Dynamixel actuators for Pollen Robotics' Micro Duck robot in a deal worth 3.5 billion won.
When humanoid robot fell during Kung Fu China demo, losing part of leg - What went wrong? Chinese social media reactions
Unitree’s newly unveiled H2-X humanoid robot lost part of its leg after a failed side flip during a kung fu demonstration in Hangzhou, China. The mishap drew mixed reactions online...
WorldMirror introduces an agentic real-to-sim framework that constructs interactive digital twins from in-the-wild robot...
WorldMirror introduces an agentic real-to-sim framework that constructs interactive digital twins from in-the-wild robot demonstrations.Source: arXiv cs.ROhttps://arxiv.org/abs/261...
EgoForesight introduces a vision-language-action framework that learns jointly from robot demonstrations and egocentric ...
EgoForesight introduces a vision-language-action framework that learns jointly from robot demonstrations and egocentric videos.Source: arXiv cs.ROhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2610.31845#M...
DynaSlots is a slot-centric 3D dynamics pretraining framework for robot manipulation that models dynamics at the per-slo...
DynaSlots is a slot-centric 3D dynamics pretraining framework for robot manipulation that models dynamics at the per-slot level.Source: arXiv cs.ROhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32330#...
Vietnamese engineers develop mini underwater robot for offshore inspections
Vietnamese engineers have successfully designed and manufactured a mini remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) capable of operating at depths of up to 100 metres, marking a sig...
Benchmarking Obstacle-Conditioned Safety in Household Robot Navigation
Safe household navigation requires robots to regulate clearance and speed according to what an obstacle is and how close it is, without unnecessary conservatism. Yet existing evalu...
Evaluating DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 for loss of control and harmful manipulation risks
As frontier language models grow increasingly capable and autonomous, independent third-party evaluations are critical for characterizing their systemic safety risks. While closed-...
$89K AI robot unleashed in NYC park to learn human behavior — and eventually become a babysitter
The AI-powered robot is still in the learning and development stages, relying on human interaction and real-world experiences to improve its intelligence.
Faraday Future's $89,000 AI robot makes NYC debut to learn human behavior - and potentially become a babysitter
A life-sized humanoid robot was recently showcased at Brooklyn Bridge Park, attracting visitors of all ages. Developed by Faraday Future, the robot sang, danced, and engaged with c...
Robot Kicks Child During Live Performance 🤖 #shorts #ai
Video captured the moment a humanoid robot kicked a child during a performance at an amusement park in Xinjiang, China.
China's humanoid robots impressive on stage, unproven in factories: Report
China's humanoid robots impressive on stage, unproven in factories: Report
Gemma couldn't tell my robot was upside down, so I gave it a head camera. Now I sleep while it trains.
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady At step...
Massive manipulation: Congress targets EC over refusal to disclose ECINET details
Congress accused the Election Commission of withholding details about ECINET software used in electoral roll revision. The dispute has intensified concerns over transparency, artif...
Tesla's Optimus robot is entering production, but what is still missing before humanoid robots are truly useful in facto...
Tesla's Optimus robot is entering production, but what is still missing before humanoid robots are truly useful in factories? A quick look on IA Dots:https://www.iadots.com/2026/10...
Hugging Face Just Shipped a $399 Robot Duck. Here’s What It Actually Means for NVIDIA.
Microduck is not an NVIDIA robot. Per Automate's teardown, it runs on a Rockchip RK3566, and it...
RynnVLA-Latent: Scaling Robotic Manipulation Foundation Models with 3D-Grounded Latent Actions
Scaling vision-language-action (VLA) models is constrained by scarce action-labeled demonstrations and incompatible control spaces across robot embodiments. We present RynnVLA-Late...
HuGe: Scaling Humanoid Generalist Vision-Language-Action Models with Egocentric Experience
Extending Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) to humanoid robots requires coordinated whole-body control and diverse demonstrations that are costly to collect in real-world scenar...
I Am Not A Robot For small and medium businesses navigating AI, cybersecurity and digital change without the hype. Hoste...
I Am Not A Robot For small and medium businesses navigating AI, cybersecurity and digital change without the hype. Hosted by Justin Melton and Luke Taylor... Great Australian Pods ...
China unveils 'kung fu' robot bodyguard that can fight attackers, lift cars
China unveils 'kung fu' robot bodyguard that can fight attackers, lift cars A Chinese technology company has unveiled a humanoid robot capable of performing martial arts moves, dis...