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FORT Robotics extends physical AI safety platform with Nvidia Halos

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FORT Robotics, the “Trust Layer” for physical AI, has announced joining the Nvidia Halos for Robotics ecosystem that’s bringing safety to autonomous robots.

FORT will demonstrate an agentic safety application built with the open source Nvidia Halos Outside-In Safety Blueprint this week at the Automate conference in Chicago and presenting in the Humanoid Robotics Pavilion with Nvidia on June 23rd.

The Nvidia Outside-In Safety Blueprint combined with the FORT Trust Layer extends robot perception beyond onboard sensors by using external infrastructure sensors and visual AI Agents to deliver real-time, safety-certifiable functional safety to maximize operational throughput. [Read more…] about FORT Robotics extends physical AI safety platform with Nvidia Halos

Intrinsic’s vision for physical AI: Building the software-defined factory

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For decades, industrial automation has largely followed the same formula. Production lines have become faster, robots have become more capable, and software has steadily improved, but the underlying model has remained relatively fixed: automation systems are engineered for specific tasks, making flexibility expensive and time-consuming.

That model is increasingly being challenged.

Manufacturers today are under pressure to produce a wider variety of products, switch between production runs more quickly, cope with labour shortages and integrate artificial intelligence into existing operations. [Read more…] about Intrinsic’s vision for physical AI: Building the software-defined factory

Siemens partners with Databricks and FFT to turn production data into scalable AI-driven insights

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Siemens has announced a new edge-to-cloud integration with Databricks, the Data and AI company, and long‑time automation partner FFT Produktionssysteme (FFT).

Together, the partners will connect production data directly to enterprise AI – without complex IoT middleware. This will help industrial customers transform their production data into actionable insights and scale industrial AI across global operations.

With the new integration, customers are able to stream contextualized shopfloor and plant data from Siemens Industrial Edge via the FFT DataBridge directly to the Databricks Platform, where it can be analyzed and used to train AI models centrally for implementation across global production networks. [Read more…] about Siemens partners with Databricks and FFT to turn production data into scalable AI-driven insights

RLWRLD launches open platform to benchmark dexterous robotic hands

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RLWRLD, a physical AI company with a proprietary robotics foundation model, RLDX-1, has announced the launch of “All Hands Up!”, an open web platform that provides technical reports and visualization tools based on the company’s firsthand experience operating a wide range of commercially available dexterous robot hands.

All Hands Up! is designed to analyze and share the real-world operating performance and design trade-offs of robotic hands that are difficult to assess through manufacturer specification sheets alone.

RLWRLD developed the platform based on operational data collected from real-world use, aiming to address a question repeatedly raised across research and industrial settings: “Which robotic hands perform effectively in real-world environments?” [Read more…] about RLWRLD launches open platform to benchmark dexterous robotic hands

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

Niantic Spatial adds USDZ export to Scaniverse to streamline robotics simulation workflows

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Niantic Spatial has launched USDZ export for its Scaniverse app, enabling robotics developers to convert real-world environments into simulation-ready digital twins for use with Nvidia Isaac Sim.

The new capability is designed to help address the long-standing “sim-to-real” gap in robotics, where systems trained in synthetic environments often struggle when deployed in complex, real-world settings.

Using Scaniverse, developers can now capture a real environment with a 360-degree camera and generate a USDZ file that combines a Gaussian splat with an automatically generated, aligned mesh. The resulting model can be imported directly into NVIDIA Isaac Sim for robot training and testing. [Read more…] about Niantic Spatial adds USDZ export to Scaniverse to streamline robotics simulation workflows

Robot.com to showcase autonomous advertising robots as official robotics partner of LEAP East

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Robot.com, the company putting autonomous robots to work in the real world, has been named the official robotics partner of LEAP East, bringing its fleet of autonomous robots to the show floor in Hong Kong.

The company will deploy R-kiwis in front of one of the most-watched technology audiences in the world, leveraging its R-ads platform to engage event attendees and pass out swag.

Co-founder and president Judah Longgrear will also be on-site for a speaking session titled “When AI Leaves the Screen”, detailing how physical intelligence is changing the way brands reach people in the real world. [Read more…] about Robot.com to showcase autonomous advertising robots as official robotics partner of LEAP East

Waabi says its AI driver transferred to Volvo autonomous truck without retraining

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Waabi says it has demonstrated what it describes as a major advance in autonomous driving by transferring its AI-powered virtual driver from one autonomous truck platform to another without requiring additional training, engineering or new data.

The company says its Waabi Driver software was integrated with the Volvo VNL Autonomous truck, developed in partnership with Volvo Autonomous Solutions, and was able to operate autonomously on highways and complex surface streets from its first deployment.

According to Waabi, the system achieved what is known as “zero-shot” generalization, meaning the AI driver transferred to an entirely different vehicle platform without requiring new real-world data, simulation data or fine-tuning. [Read more…] about Waabi says its AI driver transferred to Volvo autonomous truck without retraining

Ambi Robotics and Pickle Robot integrate AI-powered robots to automate inbound warehouse logistics

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Ambi Robotics and Pickle Robot Company have integrated their AI-powered robotic systems to automate one of the most labor-intensive parts of warehouse operations, creating an end-to-end inbound logistics solution that handles everything from trailer unloading to pallet stacking.

Developed in response to demand from Fortune 500 retailers and logistics providers, the combined system links Pickle Robot’s automated trailer-unloading technology with Ambi Robotics’ AmbiStack robotic palletizing platform, enabling a continuous flow of packages through warehouse receiving operations with minimal human intervention.

The companies say the integrated solution works with existing warehouse infrastructure, allowing operators to automate inbound processes without major facility redesigns. [Read more…] about Ambi Robotics and Pickle Robot integrate AI-powered robots to automate inbound warehouse logistics