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Visual Components launches new version of its factory simulation software

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Visual Components, a specialist in 3D manufacturing simulation and robot offline programming, has announced the release of Visual Components 5.1, a major advancement in factory simulation designed to enable manufacturers to manage the growing complexity of autonomous production environments.

The new release introduces highly accurate physics simulation and scalable robot orchestration capabilities, enabling manufacturers to simulate hundreds of autonomous mobile robots, automated guided vehicles, robots, products, and people operating simultaneously across full factory environments.

As factories evolve toward increasingly autonomous, connected, and intelligent systems, manufacturers must manage complex interactions between robots, mobile vehicles, products, material flows, control systems, and people across entire production environments. [Read more…] about Visual Components launches new version of its factory simulation software

Simulation tools in the ROS ecosystem: Testing and validating robots virtually

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Robots may operate in the physical world, but increasingly they are born, trained, tested, and refined in virtual ones.

Before a warehouse robot navigates its first aisle, before an autonomous vehicle drives its first mile, and before a humanoid robot takes its first step, there is a good chance it has already spent hundreds or even thousands of hours inside a simulator.

For robotics developers, simulation has become one of the most important tools in the development process. It allows engineers to test software, validate designs, train AI models, and identify failures before expensive hardware is ever powered on. [Read more…] about Simulation tools in the ROS ecosystem: Testing and validating robots virtually

RLWRLD and Nvidia launch DexBench to standardize humanoid robot dexterity

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RLWRLD, a physical AI company, in collaboration with Nvidia has launched an initiative to develop next-generation industry standards for humanoid robot AI.

RLWRLD will focus on three pillars: DexBench, a universal benchmark for evaluating dexterity performance; data standard for dexterous manipulation training; and deep integration with the open Nvidia Isaac Lab and Isaac Lab-Arena frameworks.

Dexterous manipulation – enabling humanoid robots to perform fine-grained tasks such as precision assembly, sorting, and packaging – has emerged as the decisive frontier in humanoid AI development. [Read more…] about RLWRLD and Nvidia launch DexBench to standardize humanoid robot dexterity

The Developer’s Cheat Code: Everything Built Into Autheo’s DevHub Out of the Box

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Every developer knows the tax. Before you write a single line of product logic, you spend days – sometimes weeks – stitching together a stack. A wallet provider here. An identity solution there. Cloud compute from one vendor, storage from another, an AI API from a third. By the time you’re ready to actually build, you’ve already burned your momentum on infrastructure.

DevHub, Autheo‘s native development environment, was built to eliminate that tax entirely.

This isn’t a comparison of blockchains. It’s a comparison of what developers actually get on day one – before they’ve written a single line of application code. [Read more…] about The Developer’s Cheat Code: Everything Built Into Autheo’s DevHub Out of the Box

Generalist AI raises $400 million to scale robot intelligence platform

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Generalist AI, a startup developing foundation models for robotics, has raised $400 million in new funding as it seeks to accelerate the development of what it calls “physical AGI” – artificial general intelligence capable of operating in the physical world through robots.

The funding round values the company at approximately $2 billion and brings its total capital raised to more than $500 million.

The round was led by Radical Ventures, with participation from 8VC, Union Square Ventures, Hanabi Capital and Norwest. Existing investors including Nvidia’s NVentures, Boldstart Ventures, Spark Capital, Bezos Expeditions and NFDG also participated. [Read more…] about Generalist AI raises $400 million to scale robot intelligence platform

Interview with Workr Robotics CEO Ken Macken: ‘Paying for automation by the hour’

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Industrial robotics is entering a new phase. Advances in artificial intelligence, large language models, and so-called embodied AI have sparked renewed excitement about robots that can understand, reason about, and interact with the physical world.

High-profile collaborations between companies such as Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics have fueled speculation that increasingly capable general-purpose robots may soon find their way onto factory floors.

But not everyone in the industry is convinced that these developments represent an immediate breakthrough for manufacturing. [Read more…] about Interview with Workr Robotics CEO Ken Macken: ‘Paying for automation by the hour’

Genesis AI launches simulation platform to accelerate robotics development

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Genesis AI has launched Genesis World 1.0, a new robotics simulation platform designed to dramatically reduce the time required to develop, test, and evaluate robotic AI systems.

The company says the platform can compress robotics evaluation cycles from days to minutes by enabling large-scale testing in photorealistic virtual environments rather than relying solely on physical robots.

According to Genesis AI, a robotics foundation model evaluation that would typically require nearly a week of continuous testing on real hardware can be completed in approximately 30 minutes using Genesis World 1.0 running on GPU infrastructure. [Read more…] about Genesis AI launches simulation platform to accelerate robotics development

Inbolt to launch vision-enabled robot programming at Automate event

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Inbolt, the robot intelligence company that turns digital twins into live robot control, is launching two new capabilities that complete the company’s AI vision model for robot guidance: Inbolt Robot Programming and an expanded Inbolt Robot Control. The launch pad is booth #1675 at Automate 2026 in Chicago, June 22-25.

Rudy Cohen, CEO and co-founder of Inbolt, says: “Robot deployment still takes weeks because the digital twin never matches the real factory floor, engineers hand-tune every trajectory during commissioning.

“With Robot Programming, the Vision Model, and Robot Control on a single platform, that gap closes; Engineers build the program from the CAD, our vision model locates the real part, and the robot executes the planned path.  [Read more…] about Inbolt to launch vision-enabled robot programming at Automate event

5 Best Audio to Video AI Generators for Modern Content Workflows

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The audio to video AI generator category has evolved into a core layer of modern content production systems, enabling users to transform spoken audio, voiceovers, and scripts into structured visual narratives.

Instead of relying on traditional editing workflows, these platforms automate scene generation, timing alignment, and visual selection, allowing content to be produced at scale across marketing, education, and social media environments.

In practice, an audio to video AI generator is used for repurposing podcasts, converting narration into short-form videos, and generating multilingual video content without filming. [Read more…] about 5 Best Audio to Video AI Generators for Modern Content Workflows

Software is ‘the biggest bottleneck to robotics innovation’, says BlackBerry QNX report

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QNX, a division of BlackBerry, has released a new research study, the Inside the Robot: Architecture Benchmark Report, examining how robotics development is changing as systems become more software‑driven, AI‑enabled, and increasingly deployed alongside humans at work and in daily life.

Based on a survey of 1,000 developers from around the world, the research reveals the most significant inhibitors to progress, the gap between system ambitions and current capabilities, and developers’ views on the industry’s future.

A new episode of QNX’s Code the Future podcast featuring Omdia chief analyst Lian Jye Su explores the themes and results in more detail. [Read more…] about Software is ‘the biggest bottleneck to robotics innovation’, says BlackBerry QNX report