BAE Systems Put AI Role Players in Its War Simulator—The ‘Enemy’ Now Never Sleeps
BAE Systems' Mimesis maritime simulator now uses a large language model as a role player, trained with call signs, responses, and doctrine. The enemy never sleeps,…
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Industrial robots, AI hardware, wearables, and physical AI systems
XREAL One Pro Cuts Price to $599—AR Glasses Now Cost $2,900 Less Than Vision Pro
XREAL permanently cut the One Pro AR glasses to $599, undercutting Apple's Vision Pro by nearly $2,900. The 57-degree FOV headset is available now.
Applied Digital Lands $7.5B Hyperscaler Deal—Its Fifth AI Campus Just Hit the Jackpot
Applied Digital announced a $7.5 billion 15-year lease with a U.S.-based 'high investment-grade hyperscaler' at its Delta Forge 1 campus, bringing total contracted revenue to over…
Tesla Delays China FSD Approval to Q3—Musk Cites Shanghai Output Constraints
Tesla pushed Full Self-Driving approval in China to Q3 after expected Q2 launch. Musk cited Shanghai factory production limits after Ford CEO criticism.
Era Raises $11M to Build the ‘Android for AI Gadgets’—While Humane Sells to HP
Era Computer raised $11 million to build an operating system for AI gadgets, offering hardware makers access to 130+ LLMs as the industry struggles to find…
Google Splits Its TPU Line for the First Time—Training and Inference Get Dedicated Chips
Google Cloud debuted TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference, breaking from its unified architecture to compete with Nvidia's dominance. The eighth-generat
Physical Intelligence’s Robot Brain Can Solve Tasks It Was Never Trained On—And Nobody Saw It Coming
Physical Intelligence's new π0.7 model demonstrates compositional generalization, letting robots combine learned skills to handle unfamiliar tasks without additional training data.
Google DeepMind’s New Robotics AI Reads Industrial Gauges With 93% Accuracy — Up From 23% in Previous Version
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 brings advanced spatial reasoning and industrial instrument reading to robots, enabling fully autonomous facility inspections in collaboration with Boston Dynamics.
Toyota Unveiled a 219cm Basketball Robot at a Pro League Halftime Show — and It Runs Entirely on Reinforcement Learning
Toyota unveiled Cue7, its seventh-generation basketball humanoid, at a professional game in Tokyo, showcasing reinforcement learning-driven movement and shooting skills.
Ukraine Captured a Russian Position Using Only Robots, Drones — No Infantry, Zero Casualties
For the first time in the war, Ukraine seized an enemy fortification exclusively through unmanned systems, signaling a shift in how robotic technology is reshaping frontline…