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Aigen trains solar-powered farming robots for new crops in under a week

6 October 2026 at 09:41
Aigen says it has developed a simulation and world-model system that can train its autonomous agricultural robots to work with new crops in less than a week. The company’s Alchemy simulation platform generates synthetic, pixel-level annotated training data that is used to train its solar-powered “Element” robots before they are deployed in fields. Aigen says […]

Agile Robots CEO: ‘Physical AI is going to be 10x bigger than automotive’

6 October 2026 at 09:18
Agile Robots CEO Zhaopeng Chen says “physical AI is going to be 10x bigger than automotive” as the Munich-based robotics company expands its manufacturing, AI development and humanoid robot operations. Chen made the prediction at the company’s Physical AI Media Day in Munich and Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany, where Agile Robots opened its engineering laboratories, Robots Academy […]

RobCo reaches $1 billion valuation as investors back US expansion

5 October 2026 at 22:26
RobCo says it has “surpassed a $1 billion valuation” as it builds the next generation of autonomous industrial robotics, doubling its valuation in just nine months. The deal brings new investment into RobCo while giving long-standing employees the opportunity to realize part of the value they have helped create since the company’s founding. Existing investors […]

Japanese nursing home operator Charm Care invests in humanoid company Donut Robotics

5 October 2026 at 21:15
donut robotics has entered into a capital and business alliance with Japanese nursing home operator Charm Care Corporation to develop humanoid robots for eldercare applications. Charm Care, which operates more than 100 private nursing homes in the Kansai and Greater Tokyo areas, will invest ¥300 million (approximately $2 million) in donut robotics through a subscription […]

Teradyne invests in Bright Machines to advance AI infrastructure manufacturing

5 October 2026 at 19:46
Teradyne, a provider of automated test equipment and advanced robotics systems, and Bright Machines, a next-generation manufacturer bringing AI and data center infrastructure production to the edge, have announced a strategic investment by Teradyne in Bright Machines. The investment accompanies a strategic collaboration focused on integrating Teradyne robotics and test technologies with Bright Machines’ software-defined […]

How to Use AI Agents to Prepare 3D Scenes for Simulation

16 September 2026 at 23:20
Agentic AI workflows can be used to prepare and validate digital twins for physical AI systems. Agents can inspect 3D scenes, author simulation-relevant data in...

Agentic AI workflows can be used to prepare and validate digital twins for physical AI systems. Agents can inspect 3D scenes, author simulation-relevant data in OpenUSD, add physics properties, render preflight views, and validate the result against simulation-ready (SimReady) requirements. This workflow follows that process from a scene in Blender to a simulation-ready OpenUSD handoff for NVIDIA…

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Frontier Reasoning Reaches the Edge: How to Deploy and Optimize Models on NVIDIA Jetson

4 September 2026 at 16:21
Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run...

Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run locally on edge hardware. Developers building agents have had to route inference through a data center, adding network dependency, increasing costs, and exposing data that may need to stay on device. That constraint is lifting.

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Scale AV Perception Across Vehicle Platforms with NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec

31 August 2026 at 16:00
Figure showing the original view and the new view after using NuRec to re-render a video.A perception stack is shaped by the vehicle that carries it. Move the same software to a new carline—for example, from an SUV to a sedan or another vehicle...Figure showing the original view and the new view after using NuRec to re-render a video.

A perception stack is shaped by the vehicle that carries it. Move the same software to a new carline—for example, from an SUV to a sedan or another vehicle variant in the portfolio—and its perception of the world changes. The sensor placement, calibration, fields of view, occlusions, body geometry, timing, and coverage all shift. A traffic light may appear in a different part of the frame.

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How to Train a Cross-Embodiment Robot Navigation Policy with AI Agents

26 August 2026 at 20:05
Navigation enables a robot to turn perception and motion into purposeful autonomy. Unlike locomotion, which produces stable movement, navigation must be used to...

Navigation enables a robot to turn perception and motion into purposeful autonomy. Unlike locomotion, which produces stable movement, navigation must be used to continuously localize the robot, interpret changing surroundings, select a route, and avoid obstacles to reach a goal safely. Moving this capability to a new robot or scene can require new data, simulation assets, robot interfaces…

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Post-Train NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge for On-Device Robot Control

19 August 2026 at 16:00
A robot picking up a tool.Robots need policies that can adapt to their sensors, environments, and tasks while running on onboard computing hardware. World models offer a foundation for...A robot picking up a tool.

Robots need policies that can adapt to their sensors, environments, and tasks while running on onboard computing hardware. World models offer a foundation for learning physical interactions, but their size can make on-device deployment difficult. This changes with the new NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge. Cosmos 3 Edge is a 4B omni-model (with a 2B NVIDIA Nemotron-based reasoner) in the Cosmos 3 family.

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Beyond VLAs: How World Action Models Reshape Robot Manipulation

4 August 2026 at 16:00
A GIF of a robot following directions” with a description of the actual robot, task, objects, and motion shown.A central challenge in robotics is building policies that generalize beyond the demonstrations they’re trained on. A policy that succeeds in a training scene...A GIF of a robot following directions” with a description of the actual robot, task, objects, and motion shown.

A central challenge in robotics is building policies that generalize beyond the demonstrations they’re trained on. A policy that succeeds in a training scene often fails when object shapes, positions, or lighting change. Generalizing to these new conditions requires the policy to understand the tasks underlying physics, not just mimic the demonstrations. This ability comes from the backbone it’s…

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Developing Healthcare Robotics with GPU-Native Medical Physics Simulation

28 July 2026 at 20:49
A surgeon using simulation on a computer to place a catheter.Unlike autonomous driving or industrial robotics, healthcare robotics can’t rely on internet-scale data collection or unlimited real-world experimentation....A surgeon using simulation on a computer to place a catheter.

Unlike autonomous driving or industrial robotics, healthcare robotics can’t rely on internet-scale data collection or unlimited real-world experimentation. Every demonstration requires specialized equipment, clinical expertise, and access to patients or laboratory environments. This creates three fundamental challenges for developers. First is the data gap. Training modern robotic policies…

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Integrate NVIDIA Omniverse RTX Sensor Simulation Into Existing Apps

20 July 2026 at 15:00
Developers building 3D, design, simulation, robotics, and industrial digital twin applications need ways to bring physical AI capabilities into the tools and...

Developers building 3D, design, simulation, robotics, and industrial digital twin applications need ways to bring physical AI capabilities into the tools and services they already use. Many of these workflows already depend on OpenUSD scenes, simulation-ready (SimReady) assets, Blender-based workflows, CAD pipelines, or domain-specific app stacks. The challenge is how to provide applications and…

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Post-Train NVIDIA Cosmos 3 in One Day Using Agent Skills

14 July 2026 at 16:00
What if autonomous coding AI agents could push your vision reasoning models above 90% accuracy with almost no manual effort? When adapting vision reasoning...

What if autonomous coding AI agents could push your vision reasoning models above 90% accuracy with almost no manual effort? When adapting vision reasoning models to production video tasks, developers often lose days to data formatting, container setup, training scripts, baseline evaluation, and hyperparameter sweeps before they even know whether post-training improves accuracy.

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Optimizing a Neural Reconstruction Pipeline Using NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools

30 June 2026 at 16:00
NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec is a neural reconstruction pipeline for building high-fidelity 3D representations of real-world environments from multisensor data such...

NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec is a neural reconstruction pipeline for building high-fidelity 3D representations of real-world environments from multisensor data such as cameras and lidar. It is used to reconstruct dynamic scenes captured by autonomous vehicle (AV) and robotics platforms into simulation-ready digital environments that can be rendered, replayed, and analyzed inside NVIDIA Omniverse and…

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Accelerating BEV Pooling on NVIDIA GPUs for Physical AI Applications

24 June 2026 at 16:30
An increasingly common design pattern for autonomous vehicles (AVs), robotics, and spatial AI systems is bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception. BEV models project...

An increasingly common design pattern for autonomous vehicles (AVs), robotics, and spatial AI systems is bird’s-eye-view (BEV) perception. BEV models project multicamera image features into a shared top-down grid, providing downstream perception and planning modules with a common spatial layout for reasoning about lanes, vehicles, pedestrians, and free space. A key operation in this pipeline…

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Inside NVIDIA Halos for Robotics: A Full-Stack Functional Safety System for Physical AI

Physical AI—robots working autonomously alongside people in factories, warehouses, hospitals, and homes—is arriving faster than most expected. Traditional...

Physical AI—robots working autonomously alongside people in factories, warehouses, hospitals, and homes—is arriving faster than most expected. Traditional safety which was built for structured environments can not work anymore as the spaces become more unstructured and robots move out of cages. AI-driven safety is the key. Marking a major milestone in the arrival of physical AI…

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