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NVIDIA's vision-AI toolkit adds 13 agentic skills, multi-view 3D tracking and automatic calibration, shipping on JetPack 7.2 for Orin and Thor with unified, openly licensed code.
Tokyo will buy 27,500 of Nvidia's next-generation Rubin accelerators to build a homegrown AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Preferred…
XCENA raised $135M Series B at $570M valuation for MX1, a chip placing compute inside DRAM to eliminate the memory round trip bottlenecking AI inference.
Helsing is raising $1.2B at $18B. The real story: a €1.46B German drone contract backs the valuation—and signals Europe’s shift to AI-native defense.
April 2026 robotics roundup: Tesla targets 10 million Optimus units, Pudu raises $150 million in funding, and Generalist AI unveils GEN-1 with 99% success rate.
Japan Airlines launched a two-year trial of humanoid robots at Tokyo Haneda Airport, deploying 130-cm Unitree robots to handle baggage loading amid.
Tesla will replace Model S and Model X production with 1 million Optimus robots annually. Consumer sales start in late 2027, but who's buying them?
Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence to build AI for humanoid robots, joining Tesla in the race for physical world AGI training and $5T market.
Samsung posted an 8.3x Q1 profit jump on HBM demand—AI companies can't get enough chips. The shortage is real, and Samsung's pockets are getting deeper.
Ukraine's 130+ AI ground robots cut engagement times from 20 min to 90 sec, with Russian equipment losses at $28B. NATO is racing to keep pace.
