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Today — October 25, 2026Oct 25, 2026

NVIDIA: the gap isn't edge, it's training. Jetson Thor and humanoids

NVIDIA Japan's robotics head says the Chinese and US advantage comes from model training, not edge. He also explains why a humanoid needs GPU and an AMR does not.

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NVIDIA: the gap isn't edge, it's training. Jetson Thor and humanoids

NVIDIA Japan's robotics head says the Chinese and US advantage comes from model training, not edge. He also explains why a humanoid needs GPU and an AMR does not.

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NEWSOct 25, 2026•~2 min•American Express

Amex wants to capture purchase intent before an AI agent buys

The Intent Intelligence Framework records the customer's purchase instruction and constraints, then issues a token the agent pays with instead of a…

October 24, 2026

NEWSOct 24, 2026•~2 min•Laplace Intelligence

Laplace Intelligence: AI agents hunt robot failures in simulation

An Ann Arbor startup tests robots and self-driving cars with AI agents inside a post-trained NVIDIA Cosmos. Other road users react, and corner cases…

NEWSOct 24, 2026•~2 min•Industrial Next

Industrial Next: retooling a production line in minutes, not weeks

Industrial Next's robotic stations learn tasks from simulation and demonstration, not scripts. The company reports over 99.9% accuracy and a sub-3.3…

NEWSOct 24, 2026•~2 min•Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind and Singapore: Gemma detects scams on the phone

A Gemma model fine-tuned on local scams runs entirely on the phone. A two-stage pipeline saves battery, and neither GovTech nor Google can access…

October 23, 2026

NEWSOct 23, 2026•~2 min•Character.AI

Character.AI files Chapter 11, Disney bids $20M for a license

Character.AI entered Chapter 11 and is seeking a buyer by December. Disney — a year after its cease-and-desist letter — is offering $20 million to…

October 22, 2026

NEWSOct 22, 2026•~2 min•AiMOGA

AiMOGA's Mobo: pre-orders open October 21, no specs disclosed

AiMOGA unveils the Mobo home humanoid in Wuhu on October 21 and opens global pre-orders — with no price, no specs and no delivery date.

NEWSOct 22, 2026•~2 min•EmbeddingGemma 2

An embedding model transcribes speech: an hour of audio in 12.6 s

An independent project trained a small "reader" on top of EmbeddingGemma 2's frozen audio encoder and got speech transcription 288× faster than real…

NEWSOct 22, 2026•~2 min•Apple

Apple pools idle Macs into a GPU cloud, cutting 10-hour queues to minutes

Minions pools the idle GPUs of company Macs into a distributed inference cloud. Queue time dropped from over ten hours to minutes, and Apple reports…

October 21, 2026

NEWSOct 21, 2026•~2 min•FF Nova

FF Nova: a $2,490 humanoid with 20 DoF, capped at 100 units

FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem and Faraday Future unveiled the $2,490 FF Nova and the $299 Nova Mini. The first batch of the larger humanoid is capped at…

NEWSOct 21, 2026•~2 min•Anthropic

Anthropic ditches Git: 30,000 merges a day forced it to build Scion

Anthropic replaced Git with its own system, Scion, in five months. Daily merges grew from 2,500 to over 30,000, and the checkout infrastructure…

NEWSOct 21, 2026•~2 min•Gemini 4 Argon

Gemini 4 Argon for robotics: 87% on ERQA, 56% to 75% on hardware

Google detailed Gemini 4 Argon's robotics applications. The model scored 87% on ERQA and lifted a physical robot's success rate from 56% to 75%,…

October 20, 2026

NEWSOct 20, 2026•~2 min•Hello Robot

Stretch 4 moves in with older adults for a three-year study

Hello Robot is putting Stretch 4 into the homes of people with mild cognitive impairment. A study running to May 2029, 60 participants and…

NEWSOct 20, 2026•~2 min•Flourish Robots

Flourish 1 at $3,555: a 1.5 kg payload and a task learned in an hour

Flourish Robots is selling a home robot for $3,555. Tasks are laid out in an app and shown through half an hour of teleoperation. The 1.5 kg payload…

October 19, 2026

NEWSOct 19, 2026•~2 min•MoveIt

Qualcomm buys PickNik, with MoveIt pledged to stay open and neutral

PickNik, the company behind MoveIt, is moving to Qualcomm. Two pledges come with it: the existing open-source licence and hardware neutrality. A…

NEWSOct 19, 2026•~2 min•Sharpa

Sharpa's trio: the D01 humanoid, W02 hand and AE01 data glove

Sharpa brought the D01 humanoid, the 21-DoF W02 hand and the AE01 data glove to IROS 2026. Together they are not a parts catalogue but a ready-made…

October 18, 2026

NEWSOct 18, 2026•~2 min•EPFL

ScaFi: 0.6, 1.1 and 2.9 metres from one robotic fish design

EPFL and NYU built a robotic fish scalable through a single parameter — the tail-rod diameter. The kinematics carried across all three sizes; the…

NEWSOct 18, 2026•~2 min•Dyna Robotics

Dyna 2.1 aims at whole shifts, measured by time between interventions

Dyna Robotics has shown a semi-humanoid on a wheeled base and pitched it around MTBI — mean time between human interventions. It claims 200 units an…

NEWSOct 18, 2026•~2 min•Clone Robotics

Clone shows a 41-second hand demo and promises Torso 4 in November

Clone Robotics showed a teleoperated Torso 3 hand — April hardware it is retiring — and set Torso 4 for November. The reason for the redesign is not…

October 17, 2026

NEWSOct 17, 2026•~2 min•Nucleus

Nucleus says its factory demo is 60% autonomous, 40% teleoperated

Nucleus released uncut footage of its robot working a factory floor and named the human share itself: 60/40. It did not say whether that covers time…

NEWSOct 17, 2026•~2 min•Exoskeleton

Wandercraft buys Ekso Bionics, merging two exoskeleton pioneers

Wandercraft has bought Ekso Bionics, putting four medical exoskeletons under one roof — two clinical, two personal. No price was disclosed, but the…

NEWSOct 17, 2026•~2 min•Galbot

Galbot prices ET1: three humanoid tiers from 79,000 yuan

Galbot has priced its ET1 biped at 79,000, 139,000 and 179,000 yuan. The tiers differ in compute, not looks — interaction-based learning is reserved…

October 16, 2026

NEWSOct 16, 2026•~2 min•Perseverance

NASA hands route planning to AI. Perseverance drove 456 m planner-free

JPL says Perseverance covered 210 and 246 metres on 8 and 10 December 2025 along a route set by Claude models. The rover's digital twin verified the…

NEWSOct 16, 2026•~2 min•Claude Opus 5.0

VISTA: Claude Opus 5.0 clears 25 ARC-AGI-3 games faster than people

The VISTA paper went up on arXiv on 1 October 2026. Lossless visual memory lifted Claude Opus 5.0's Relative Human Action Efficiency from 40.68 to…

NEWSOct 16, 2026•~2 min•SynthID

SynthID Bio: a watermark inside a protein that keeps it working

Google DeepMind presented SynthID Bio on 30 September 2026, watermarking protein sequences and predicted 3D structures. For folding, the signal is…

October 15, 2026

NEWSOct 15, 2026•~2 min•Gemini 4 Argon

Gemini 4 Argon: a million output tokens and 77.9% on DeepSWE

Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 4 Argon on 30 September 2026. The generation limit rises from 64,000 to one million tokens, and the model reaches…

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Today — October 25, 2026Oct 25, 2026

NVIDIA: the gap isn't edge, it's training. Jetson Thor and humanoids

NVIDIA: the gap isn't edge, it's training. Jetson Thor and humanoids