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Using AI Agents to Teach Robots Like Microduck to Walk in Simulation

Teaching a robot to navigate an obstacle course requires more than a walking policy. It must perceive its surroundings, maintain balance, and adjust its actions…

Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia

inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.

Benchmarking Model Compression Techniques Across Heterogeneous Edge Platforms: A Predictive Maintenance Use Case for Rotating Machinery

arXiv:2610.30228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To enable Industry 5.0, where autonomous systems are widely adopted and integrated with people to promote sustainable development in industries, it is imperative to adapt complex deep learning models…

RaSFNet: Ray-aligned and Scan-aware Fusion Network for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2610.31186v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is a fundamental component of 3D perception for autonomous driving and robotics. Projection-based methods map 3D point clouds into 2D representations for feature extraction…

Meet Mori, a Cute Robot Mushroom That Doesn’t Really Say (or Do) Anything

Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? Disguise them as cute home decor.

Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots

Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners that "your secrets are safe with me," but hackers…

NVIDIA Cosmos Opens New Tools to Train, Evaluate and Deploy World Models

To help developers rapidly build world models, which help physical AI systems understand and simulate the real world, NVIDIA has expanded the Cosmos platform with new training tools, simulation checkpoints and Cosmos Data Factory…

NVIDIA Transforms European Retail, From Digital Discovery to Physical Operations

European retailers are using open models and physical intelligence across use cases — from a commerce platform cutting inference costs by 90% to to a fulfillment center where collaboration of different robotic fleets is…

Let It Be Simple: One-Step Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606.05737v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: One-step generation from standard diffusion or Flow-Matching training is rarely effective for text-to-image or video generation without distillation or specialized one-step objectives. We find that VLA action generation behaves…

Train in Simulation, Deploy on a Real Robot: Microduck with Isaac Lab 3.0

Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile

Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile Well this is delightful: I released Battle Drones yesterday under an Apache 2.0 License and there's already a French language fork which reskins the game to take…

Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers

At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled their new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.