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AlphaFold Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves DeepMind for Anthropic
The 2024 Nobel laureate in chemistry and co-creator of AlphaFold announced his departure from Google DeepMind after nearly nine years. The same week Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer architecture, also left DeepMind for OpenAI.
Autonomous surface finishing as the key to U.S. defense manufacturing readiness
GrayMatter Robotics argues autonomous surface-finishing systems can offset the workforce crisis in U.S. defense manufacturing — the military missed aircraft readiness goals for 42 of 45 fleets and the Navy estimates a 174,000-worker shortfall.
USA: robotics industry grew 11% in 2025, IFR data shows
IFR data shows the US installed 38,000 industrial robots in 2025 — up 11% year-over-year. The food industry grew fastest (+30%), but the gap to China (295,000 installations) remains structural.
MindOn: one AI model controls humanoids and dual-arms without teleoperation
Chinese startup MindOne Robotics demonstrated a logistics system where the same AI model coordinates robots of different forms — humanoids and stationary arms — using only human-centric data, without teleoperation.
Google DeepMind publishes AI agent security roadmap
Google DeepMind published its AI Control Roadmap on June 18, 2026 — a framework defining how to systematically detect and block unwanted AI agent behaviors inside the company's infrastructure. The firm analyzed one million coding agent trajectories to build a real-time monitoring system grounded in production data.
Autonomique Deploys Semi-Humanoid Robots Into Canadian Tier 1 Production
Canadian startup Autonomique has moved from pilot to full production at Tier 1 supplier F&P Mfg., deploying a bi-manual wheeled robot with generalist-specialist AI. The company claims payback in 18 months — nearly half the industry standard.
Why a Humanoid Won the Half-Marathon: Motors and Gear Ratios
In April 2026, the Honor Lightning robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes 26 seconds — beating the human world record by 7 minutes. An IEEE Spectrum technical analysis explains that the result came not from magical algorithms, but from precise motor gear ratios and liquid cooling.
Faraday Future enters robotics: Futurist humanoid and FX Navi quadruped on one AI platform
Faraday Future unveiled the All-New Futurist humanoid, the FX Navi quadruped at $1,990, and an open developer platform for Embodied AI — the EV company best known for its supercar pivots into full-scale robotics.
Midjourney Medical: the AI image firm pivots to full-body ultrasound
Midjourney has unveiled Midjourney Medical — a full-body ultrasound scanner aiming to rival MRI. The first unit is set to open in a San Francisco spa before the end of 2027.
ENPIRE: AI coding agents replaced human researchers in robot training
Nvidia and Carnegie Mellon unveiled ENPIRE — a framework where teams of AI coding agents autonomously train robots for manipulation tasks, achieving 99% success without human oversight.
MIGHTY: MIT’s open-source drone trajectory planner beats commercial solutions
MIT and the University of Pennsylvania published MIGHTY — an open-source UAV trajectory planning system that is 15% faster than competing methods and runs entirely on the drone’s onboard hardware with no commercial license required.
First VLM in Orbit: Loft YAM-9 Satellite Runs Google DeepMind Gemma 3 to Find Objects Autonomously
In April 2026, Loft Orbital's YAM-9 satellite became the first spacecraft to run a vision-language model (VLM) in orbit. NASA JPL's NAVI-Orbital software ran Google DeepMind's Gemma 3 to classify satellite imagery from natural language queries without downloading data to Earth.