Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — X Square Robot on Tuesday unveiled Wall-B, a new embodied AI foundation model designed for deployment in real-world homes, marking what the company described as a major step toward bringing general-purpose robots into daily family life. At a launch event themed “Born to Bot, Bot to Family,” the company also […]
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Insider Brief Accenture, working with SAP and Vodafone Procure & Connect, has deployed humanoid robots in a warehouse to evaluate how advanced robotics systems can improve efficiency, safety and decision-making in logistics operations The humanoid robots in the pilot run on Accenture’s “Robot Brain,” a system designed to let them work more naturally with people […]
Insider Brief A&K Robotics has raised CAD$8 million in a Series A round led by BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund and Vantage Futures, the venture arm of Vantage Group, as it looks to scale deployment of its autonomous passenger mobility robots in airports. “Air travel is chaotic enough — getting to your gate shouldn’t […]
Insider Brief: Neura Robotics and Amazon Web Services are partnering to develop AI-enabled robots that combine Neura’s platform with AWS’s cloud and AI infrastructure. According to the companies, the partnership looks to address a key problem in robotics development — limited real-world training data — by linking simulation, cloud infrastructure and operational environments to support […]
A humanoid robot’s record half-marathon run shows China’s speed in robotics.
At the second half marathon for humanoid robots in Beijing, Chinese machines posted dramatically faster times on Sunday compared to last year.
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Google’s AI enables robots to read gauges while inspecting industrial facilities.
Insider Brief Maximo, a solar robotics company incubated by AES, announced it has completed installation of 100 megawatts of utility-scale solar capacity at AES’ Bellefield complex. The company said the development reflects growing demand for automation in solar construction, where labor shortages, tighter timelines and cost pressures are driving interest in technologies that can accelerate […]