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Interview with Olo Robotics COO Eleanor Tang-Smith: Making robot programming accessible to everyone

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Robotics hardware has advanced rapidly in recent years. Autonomous mobile robots, quadrupeds, robotic arms, and even humanoid robots are becoming increasingly capable and commercially available. Yet for many organizations, one of the biggest barriers to adoption remains software.

Building robotic applications typically requires specialist expertise in platforms such as ROS 2 (Robot Operating System 2), the open-source framework that has become the de facto standard for modern robotics development.

While ROS 2 has helped accelerate robotics innovation across industries, it is still widely regarded as complex and difficult for newcomers to master. [Read more…] about Interview with Olo Robotics COO Eleanor Tang-Smith: Making robot programming accessible to everyone

Why robotics can’t advance without physical AI

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The next leap in robotics won’t come from faster processors or more sophisticated mechanical design. It will come from better data, specifically, from training environments that replicate how the physical world actually behaves.  [Read more…] about Why robotics can’t advance without physical AI

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

Lightwheel reports $100 million in Q1 orders for physical AI robotics infrastructure

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Lightwheel says it secured approximately $100 million in orders during the first quarter of 2026, reflecting what the company describes as a broader industry shift from robotics experimentation toward real-world deployment infrastructure.

Lightwheel is a robotics infrastructure company that develops simulation, synthetic data, evaluation, and deployment systems for training and scaling physical AI robots in real-world environments.

The company says the orders span simulation, synthetic data generation, evaluation systems, and deployment-oriented robotics infrastructure designed to support physical AI applications at industrial scale.

According to Lightwheel, the demand is being driven not simply by interest in robotics hardware or AI models, but by the growing need for systems capable of training, validating, and deploying robots reliably in real operating environments. [Read more…] about Lightwheel reports $100 million in Q1 orders for physical AI robotics infrastructure

How FEA Software Improves Structural Design Accuracy

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The FEA (finite element analysis) software market sits at $7.82 billion in 2026 and is projected to reach $14.72 billion by 2031. Structural analysis takes 55.83% of that volume.

Accuracy in steel structures, offshore platforms, and ship hulls has stopped being an academic question. It’s an everyday engineering reality.

This piece walks through why a numerical model often turns out accurate only on screen and how modern software closes the three main sources of FEA error: the mesh, material properties, and boundary conditions. [Read more…] about How FEA Software Improves Structural Design Accuracy

Fanuc partners with Nvidia to accelerate physical AI in industrial robotics

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Strategic collaboration combines Fanuc’s global robotics leadership with Nvidia AI computing and simulation platforms to deliver intelligent, adaptable automation for the factory of the future

Fanuc, the world’s leading supplier of industrial robots and factory automation systems, is collaborating with Nvidia to advance physical AI – a new paradigm that merges artificial intelligence with physical robotics to enable machines that see, reason, and act in dynamic environments.

Under this collaboration, Fanuc will leverage Nvidia AI infrastructure, including Nvidia Jetson edge modules, cloud/edge AI infrastructure, Nvidia Isaac Sim open robotic simulation framework and Nvidia Omniverse libraries, within its extensive robot portfolio and RoboGuide simulation software. [Read more…] about Fanuc partners with Nvidia to accelerate physical AI in industrial robotics

Siemens and Nvidia expand partnership to build industrial AI operating system

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Siemens and Nvidia have announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership to bring artificial intelligence into the real world.

Together, the companies aim to develop industrial and physical AI solutions that will bring AI-driven innovation to every industry and industrial workflow, as well as accelerate each others’ operations.

To support development, Nvidia will provide AI infrastructure, simulation libraries, models, frameworks and blueprints, while Siemens will commit hundreds of industrial AI experts and leading hardware and software. [Read more…] about Siemens and Nvidia expand partnership to build industrial AI operating system