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Japan Airlines tests having robots instead of humans handle travelers’ luggage

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Humanoid robots are getting a new gig as baggage handlers and cargo loaders at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport—part of a Japan Airlines experiment to address a human labor shortage as airport visitor numbers have surged in recent years. The demonstration, set to launch in May 2026, could eventually test humanoid robots in a wide range of […]

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Top 10 Physical AI Models Powering Real-World Robots in 2026

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Top 10 Physical AI ModelsNVIDIA Isaac GR00T N-Series (N1.5 / N1.6 / N1.7)Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics 1.5Physical Intelligence π0 / π0.5 / π0.7Figure AI HelixOpenVLAOctoAGIBOT BFM and GCFMGemini Robotics On-DeviceNVIDIA Cosmos World Foundation ModelsSmolVLA (HuggingFace LeRobot) The gap between language model capabilities and robotic deployment has been narrowing considerably over the past 18 months. A

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NVIDIA and Google infrastructure cuts AI inference costs

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At the Google Cloud Next conference, Google and NVIDIA outlined their hardware roadmap designed to address the cost of AI inference at scale. The companies detailed the new A5X bare-metal instances, which run on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems. Through hardware and software codesign, this architecture aims to deliver up to ten times lower

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The New Unicorn Count Reached A 4-Year High In March, Led By Robotics, Frontier Labs And AI Infrastructure 

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A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The robotics sector led unicorn creation last month, with six new billion-dollar startups, including three from China. Frontier labs added four new unicorns, including two that are building models for robotics.

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Robot runner handily beats humans in half-marathon, setting new record

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Humanoid robots outran the fastest human competitors while surpassing the human world record during a half-marathon event held in Beijing on April 19. The demonstration of fast-improving robotic speed and autonomy comes as China’s tech industry is rapidly scaling up mass production of humanoid robots to explore possible uses in the real world. The fastest

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Cadence expands AI and robotic partnerships with Nvidia, Google Cloud

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Cadence Design Systems announced two AI-related collaborations at its CadenceLIVE event this week, expanding its work with Nvidia and introducing new integrations with Google Cloud. The Nvidia partnership focuses on combining AI with physics-based simulation and accelerated computing for robotic systems and system-level design. The companies said the approach targets modelling and deployment across semiconductors,

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Google DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Bringing Enhanced Embodied Reasoning and Instrument Reading to Physical AI

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Google DeepMind research team introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a significant upgrade to its embodied reasoning model designed to serve as the ‘cognitive brain’ of robots operating in real-world environments. The model specializes in reasoning capabilities critical for robotics, including visual and spatial understanding, task planning, and success detection — acting as the high-level reasoning model

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Human-machine teaming dives underwater

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The electricity to an island goes out. To find the break in the underwater power cable, a ship pulls up the entire line or deploys remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to traverse the line. But what if an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) could map the line and pinpoint the location of the fault for a diver

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China Leads Asia’s Startup Funding To Its Highest Level In More Than 3 Years

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Asia’s startup funding swung higher in the first quarter of this year, boosted by a rebound in Chinese venture investment. Overall, investors put $27.4 billion to work across seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian companies in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 20% from the prior quarter and nearly double year-ago levels. Total funding

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China Leads Asia’s Startup Funding To Its Highest Level In More Than 3 Years

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Asia’s startup funding swung higher in the first quarter of this year, boosted by a rebound in Chinese venture investment. Overall, investors put $27.4 billion to work across seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian companies in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 20% from the prior quarter and nearly double year-ago levels. Total funding

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