Gemini Robotics 2.5 sorted parts with 96% success on Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid at Mercedes-Benz plants. Access is limited to industrial partners.
November 12, 2026 edition: Robotics sector, 1 storyRobotics: latest AI analysis
Robotics on AT Pulse covers machines in the physical world. The desk has published 28 stories tagged Robotics across 24 daily editions, from September 16, 2026 to November 12, 2026, citing 286 linked references. The most frequent original sources are TechCrunch AI, The Verge · AI, and Google DeepMind. Stories here most often overlap with Business, Models, and Agents.
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Ring brought autonomous patrol robots to homes and businesses with explicit operating limits. Analysts describe Ukraine's drone war as still run by small human crews rather than full autonomy.
November 11, 2026 edition: Robotics sector, 2 storiesNVIDIA combines simulation, world models and human video. Tau Robotics has paying customers fund teleoperated demonstrations. Both are aimed at the shortage of physical-world training data.
November 6, 2026 edition: Robotics sector, 2 storiesLATEST
9 of 28Newest Robotics stories.
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Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2.5 hits 96% parts-sorting success in Mercedes-Benz factory pilots
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2.5 is a vision-language-action model.
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Amazon's Ring launches Ring Robotics with an indoor Drone Cam and a $999.99 Rover Cam patrol robot for businesses
Ring has formed Ring Robotics and is launching two products: an indoor flying Drone Cam for homes and a wheeled Rover Cam for businesses.
Podcast · Robotics
Kofman and Stewart on Lex Fridman: Ukraine Has Its Best Ground Year Since 2023 as the Drone War Still Runs on Human Crews
Analysts Michael Kofman and Preston Stewart tell Lex Fridman that Ukraine's 2026 front-line performance is its strongest since mid-2023 while Russia's falters, and that the drone war remains intensely human-operated, with crews of two or three behind each FPV.
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Research system running an unreleased Anthropic model proves the Aaronson–Ambainis quantum conjecture, with a Lean-checked proof
Startup PSI says its research system, running a non-public Anthropic model, produced a Lean-verified proof of a quantum-query conjecture open since about 2008.
Business
SoftBank's credit risk hits four-year high as AI sell-off, Arm slump and China's ABB block pressure its OpenAI bet
SoftBank's credit risk hit a four-year high as its shares and bonds fell in an AI-led sell-off.
Robotics
Ai2 releases ToyBlocks, an open simulated block world whose simulation-trained robot stack ran on a real Franka arm
Ai2's ToyBlocks, the first of its FoundationWorlds simulations, trains a planner and controller only on generated tabletop-block data.
Video analysis · Robotics
NVIDIA releases Isaac Lab 3.0 and unveils Agile ONE SN reference humanoid at GTC Berlin
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA released Isaac Lab 3.0 and announced the Agile ONE SN reference humanoid.
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Tau Robotics' remotely piloted humanoids clean San Francisco homes and gather training data on each visit
Tau Robotics sends modified Unitree G1 humanoids, steered by remote human operators, to clean San Francisco homes at low prices, using each visit to gather demonstration data for future autonomous robots.
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China Bars SoftBank From Buying ABB Robotics' China Business, Disrupting $5.4 Billion Deal
China's foreign-investment security review has barred SoftBank from acquiring ABB Robotics' China operations, disrupting the structure of the $5.375bn deal for the whole division.
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19 moreEarlier Robotics stories.
- Warhound raises $200 million to clone military dogs as ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogsThe Guardian · AI
- Google DeepMind's Genie 4 world model adds real-time audio, live text steering and Gemini-guided planningTechCrunch AI
- NVIDIA Shows AI Agents Building Simulation Assets to Train Pollen Robotics' Microduck to WalkNVIDIA Generative AI
- Trump Spoke With Musk About Lifting SpaceX Speed Caps on Ukraine's Military Starlink TerminalsWSJ · Technology
- Eiliko robot maker Energize Lab pledges independent security review and pulls memory features after fleet-wide flaws are exposedThe Verge · AI
- SenseNova-led study finds GPT-6-Astra scores high in robot simulators but fails all real-world plug insertionshuggingface.co
- Retired Penn professor charged with disorderly conduct for blocking Uber Eats delivery robot in PhiladelphiaThe Verge · AI
- Google Research publishes three papers on agent-run wet labs, with aptamer hit rates climbing from 0% to 42.1% across design roundsGoogle Research
- Former Nvidia robotics marketer Amulya Vishwanath, now a VC, says robotics is in a 'Lego era' and not yet at its ChatGPT momentTechCrunch AI
- Google launches Gemini 4 Argon for robotics; it ranks third of five on Artificial Analysis's real-arm benchmarkGoogle DeepMind
- Researcher Accesses 13 Million Chats From Eiliko AI Robot Toys and Rewrites a Toy's Instructions RemotelyThe Verge · AI
- Dyna Robotics unveils Dyna-2, a robot world-action model pretrained on over a million hours of human videoLatent Space
- Odyssey opens free browser preview of Odyssey-3, a world model pitched for robots, cars and agent trainingr/AISEOInsider
- TechCrunch essay examines why people treat AI as human, drawing on Sherry Turkle's new book 'Artificial Intimacy'TechCrunch AI
- Anthropic's new usage policy bans needless cruelty toward Claude and lifts its blanket ban on campaign targetingTechCrunch AI
- Robot AI's 'unseen task' claims outpace the evidence as forecasts for home humanoids divergeMIT Technology Review · AI
- Gemini Robotics 2 controls whole humanoid bodies, but DeepMind's research lead says moving reliably to new robots is still unsolvedThe Cognitive Revolution
- World model startups draw major funding while keeping product plans and evaluations opaqueTechCrunch AI
- NVIDIA’s Cosmos 3 positions omnimodal world models as policy-verification infrastructure for physical AIMachine Learning Street Talk · podcast
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