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A3’s Automate 2026 breaks records as demand for robotics, AI and automation grows

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Automate, North America’s largest robotics and automation event, celebrated its most successful show to date, drawing more than 50,000 registrants and 1,230 exhibitors to McCormick Place in Chicago from June 22-25.

Hosted by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), Automate 2026 filled 425,000 square feet of show floor space with the latest technologies in robotics, artificial intelligence, machine vision, motion control and industrial automation.

The record-setting event reflected the continued growth of automation across industries as companies look for practical ways to improve productivity, address workforce challenges, strengthen supply chains and remain competitive. [Read more…] about A3’s Automate 2026 breaks records as demand for robotics, AI and automation grows

Agility Robotics to go public through $2.5 billion SPAC merger

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Agility Robotics has agreed to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp XI, in a deal that values the humanoid robotics developer at a pre-money equity value of $2.5 billion.

The transaction is expected to generate more than $620 million in gross proceeds, including approximately $200 million from a private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing led by Foxconn, alongside existing and new institutional investors.

Once the deal closes, the combined company is expected to operate as Agility and trade on a major North American stock exchange under the ticker symbol AGLT. [Read more…] about Agility Robotics to go public through $2.5 billion SPAC merger

Lumos Robotics tops global benchmark test for zero-shot embodied AI

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Lumos Robotics says its Prime R0 industrial embodied AI model has achieved the highest overall score on the latest MolmoSpaces leaderboard, outperforming larger models from competitors including Nvidia and research teams from the United States.

The Chinese robotics company said its 2.8-billion-parameter model ranked first across both single-arm fine manipulation and dual-arm collaboration tasks in the benchmark, which measures zero-shot embodied AI performance in previously unseen environments.

According to Lumos, Prime R0 surpassed models including Nvidia’s 16-billion-parameter Cosmos model as well as entries from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Princeton University, despite using less than one-sixth as many parameters. [Read more…] about Lumos Robotics tops global benchmark test for zero-shot embodied AI

Nvidia launches AI factory manager blueprint for autonomous manufacturing

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Nvidia has unveiled a new software blueprint designed to give manufacturers a centralized AI system capable of monitoring, coordinating, and optimizing factory operations in real time.

Announced at GTC Taipei during Computex, the Nvidia Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX) is a reference design for building what the company describes as an autonomous factory manager agent. The system is designed to connect machine data, quality systems, work instructions, robot fleets, and operational alerts into a single AI-driven decision layer.

The blueprint allows manufacturers to build factory manager agents capable of orchestrating specialized AI systems responsible for quality control, material transport, process compliance, worker safety, and equipment monitoring. [Read more…] about Nvidia launches AI factory manager blueprint for autonomous manufacturing

Nvidia unveils open humanoid robot platform for robotics research

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Nvidia has announced the Nvidia Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot, an open humanoid robot platform designed to accelerate research and development in physical AI and general-purpose robotics.

Unveiled at Nvidia GTC Taipei, the platform combines a Unitree H2 Plus humanoid robot, Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, Nvidia Jetson Thor onboard computing, and the company’s Isaac GR00T software stack into a single reference design.

The new platform aims to address one of the biggest challenges facing humanoid robotics researchers: the fragmented process of integrating hardware, collecting data, running simulations, training AI models, and deploying robot capabilities in the real world. [Read more…] about Nvidia unveils open humanoid robot platform for robotics research

Sharpa brings dexterous robot hands to Nvidia and Unitree humanoid reference design

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Sharpa has announced that its Wave tactile robot hands have been integrated into the Unitree H2 Plus humanoid robot reference design, making it the first dexterous humanoid platform built on Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T development framework to feature the company’s tactile manipulation technology.

The companies say the configuration is designed to help robotics developers and researchers accelerate the development of humanoid robot skills by providing a validated hardware and software platform that combines dexterous manipulation, tactile sensing, simulation, training, and deployment tools.

The move comes as interest in humanoid robots and physical AI continues to grow, with developers seeking ways to reduce the complexity of integrating hardware, collecting training data, running simulations, and deploying robot capabilities in real-world environments. [Read more…] about Sharpa brings dexterous robot hands to Nvidia and Unitree humanoid reference design

Nebius and Nvidia launch Physical AI Living Lab for European robotics startups

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Nebius, the AI cloud company, has announced the Physical AI Living Lab, a six-month program that equips British and European robotics startups with Nvidia’s physical AI development tools and Nebius’s AI cloud infrastructure. 

Physical AI depends on large-scale simulation, synthetic data, and accelerated compute that most early-stage robotics companies cannot assemble on their own.

The Physical AI Living Lab removes that barrier, putting the same class of tooling and compute used to build physical AI at scale into the hands of founders, so they can move from simulation to real-world deployment faster. [Read more…] about Nebius and Nvidia launch Physical AI Living Lab for European robotics startups

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

CVPR 2026 fields 16,000+ paper submissions on technical advances in AI

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The program committee of the 2026 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision research events, has released the details of this year’s technical program.

Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (CS) and the Computer Vision Foundation (CVF), CVPR 2026 drew a record number of paper submissions – 16,092, a 24 percent increase over 2025. Through a rigorous peer-review process, about one-quarter were accepted to the program, resulting in 4,089 paper presentations.

“CVPR submissions have more than doubled over the past five years, but the acceptance rate has remained highly competitive, consistently in the low-to-mid 20 percent range,” said Alexander G. Schwing, associate professor, electrical and computer engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, CVPR 2026 program co-chair. [Read more…] about CVPR 2026 fields 16,000+ paper submissions on technical advances in AI

CVPR 2026 to showcase next generation of embodied AI, robotics, and autonomous systems

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This year’s CVPR – Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition – will bring together more than 100 technology companies, AI developers, robotics firms, and autonomous systems specialists in Denver next month as the event highlights the latest advances in embodied AI, machine vision, robotics, and autonomous technologies.

Co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and the Computer Vision Foundation, the conference will run from June 3-7 at the Colorado Convention Center, with the exhibition floor open June 5-7. [Read more…] about CVPR 2026 to showcase next generation of embodied AI, robotics, and autonomous systems