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Grok 4.7: Two Index Points for 2.25x the Tokens
Grok 4.7 lifts its Artificial Analysis index score from 44 to 46 points but burns 2.25 times more output tokens than its predecessor. Its one clear advantage — price — vanished the day after launch.
Toyota Plans 400,000 Factory Robots, Trained by Veteran Workers
Toyota estimates that automating its factories will need 400,000 robots, with spending of a trillion yen a year from 2028. The wheeled ELEY is being taught by 18,000 experienced workers at 60 factories.
Psi-R2.5 Teaches a Robot From One Demo Instead of Fifty
PsiBot unveiled Psi-R2.5 — a model shown a manipulation task once rather than dozens of times. The company reversed its pipeline, generating human data from robot data rather than the other way round.
GPT-6 Astra Drives a Robot Arm — but Only on the Easy Task
GPT-6 Astra finished 19 of 20 block-moving runs against 8 for Claude Fable 5.1, using six times fewer tokens. On the precision task both score 2/20, and RoboDojo halted testing after equipment damage.
GPT-6 Sol and Luna: OpenAI Halves Its API Prices
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol ($2/$10 per million tokens) and Luna ($0.10/$0.50) — half the price of the 5.6 series. On AutomationBench, Sol beats Claude Opus 5 at one eleventh of the cost.
Faraday Future Enters Robotics With Nine Models From $9,990
Faraday Future announced nine robot configurations priced from $9,990 to $137,900. The specs point to Booster and AGIBOT hardware under FF's own badge, with FF supplying the software layer.
Claude Opus 5.5 Matches Fable 5.1 at 40% Lower Cost
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 — 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 against 55.8% for Fable 5.1, at 40% below Opus 5 pricing. Landing the same day as OpenAI’s models, it moved the contest onto price.
Zero-Copy in ROS 2: an AI Agent Moves a Node to CUDA Buffers
NVIDIA showed how an AI agent migrates a ROS 2 node to CUDA buffers. The rosidl::Buffer abstraction with a CUDA backend removes serialization and CPU copies at node boundaries. No benchmarks published.
Robros Puts Full-Body Teleoperation on Its IGRIS-C Humanoid
Korean startup Robros demonstrated real-time full-body teleoperation of its IGRIS-C humanoid. It reports 18 units sold out of 36 produced, plus nine paid supply agreements.
XPENG's IRON Recognizes Showroom Customers by Face and Voice
XPENG showed its IRON humanoid working as a car-showroom assistant. It localizes the speaker, switches languages and builds a customer profile from face and voiceprint. The clip is labeled an R&D test version.
Atlas Trains at Hyundai's Georgia Plant, 25,000 Units Planned
Boston Dynamics opened an Atlas training center inside Hyundai's Georgia plant, where the robots learn parts sequencing. Hyundai is targeting 25,000 Atlas units and a factory making 30,000 robots a year.
An LLM's Reward Subsystem Fits in 1% of Its Neurons
A probe on hidden states finds "value neurons". Zeroing 1% of them drops Qwen-2.5-7B on MATH500 from 75.2% to 20.3%.