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DEEP Robotics: a quadruped robot with AI for warehouse management
China’s DEEP Robotics showed its Lynx S10 quadruped paired with an AI foundation model: it inventories the warehouse, scans QR and RFID tags, and patrols the floor for fire and accidents.
Reimagine Robotics: robots that learn on the factory floor
A startup founded by four ex-Google DeepMind engineers left stealth. Its robots learn tasks directly from workers, no programmers required — cutting prototype build time from a day to 10 minutes.
Zhiyuan (AgiBot) preps a Hong Kong IPO and enters the factory phase
Zhiyuan (AgiBot) is targeting a Hong Kong listing at a 363–433 billion yuan valuation. It is deploying humanoids on an electronics line and building its own robot-control models.
MiniMax H3: an open video model aiming to be multimedia's DeepSeek
MiniMax unveiled H3, a multimodal generation model unifying text, image, video and audio, with open weights promised. The firm is aiming to become the "DeepSeek" of video generation.
Unitree warns US curbs could cap its growth ahead of IPO
Ahead of its Shanghai STAR Market debut, Unitree warned in its filing that new U.S. curbs on advanced foreign robots could cap its growth. International markets make up over 40% of sales, with the U.S. alone at 13–19.5% of revenue.
VLASH: MIT's method that lets robots think while they move
MIT researchers unveiled VLASH, a method that lets robots plan their next move while still executing the current one. The result is up to 11.8x lower reaction latency for VLA models, with no architecture changes and no extra compute.
Gemini Robotics ER 2: a high-level brain for robots
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2 — a reasoning model that plans multi-step tasks, analyzes video in real time and coordinates multiple robots, delegating motion to separate VLA models.
Zoox wins NHTSA exemption, launches paid robotaxis in Las Vegas
NHTSA granted Amazon-owned Zoox the first commercial exemption from eight federal safety standards for a vehicle with no steering wheel. Paid rides start in Las Vegas — as Waymo faces regulatory pressure.
OpenAI's Astra model cracks ten longstanding math problems
OpenAI says an internal model solved ten longstanding problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science for under $2,000 each, with proofs formalized in Lean 4.
1X's Børnich sees a "hard takeoff" in 3 years, details NEO
1X CEO Bernt Børnich predicts a robotics "hard takeoff" in three years and lays out NEO as an open platform with a four-tier data pyramid. The humanoid is set at $20,000 or $499 a month, shipping in 2026.
Gemini Robotics 2: Google DeepMind brings whole-body intelligence
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2 — three VLA models that control a humanoid's whole body and coordinate multiple robots. The ER 2 model tracks live video and plans tasks with sub-second latency.
Google: AI fixed more Chrome bugs in June than in the past two years
Google patched 1,072 security bugs in its June Chrome releases (149 and 150) — more than the previous 23 versions over two years. It credits internal AI tools, including Gemini models, that detect vulnerabilities automatically.